TDWI Articles

Kick-Start Your Data Governance Program

Many companies aren't seeing the full benefits of their data governance program. What contributes to an ineffective governance program, and how can it be revived?

Data Digest: Big Data Pitfalls, Customer Data Integration, Data Retention Tips

Today learn about the blunders many enterprises make with big data, improving your customer data with more integration, and choosing the right amount of data to store.

The State of the Analytics Market Is Healthy -- For Upstart Vendors, That Is

According to a new IDC report, demand for business analytics software -- particularly advanced or predictive analytics -- is growing at a healthy clip. Demand for traditional query and reporting technologies is relatively flat.

Data Digest: Securing the Cloud, Understanding Data Lake Pitfalls, Choosing Self-Service BI Tools

Tactics and advice for securing cloud data, problems with data lakes, and myths about self-service BI tools.

Microsoft's Power BI Is Surprisingly Excel-Friendly

Since it introduced Power BI publisher for Excel, Microsoft has been working to enhance it with new features and to fix bugs highlighted by users.

Data Stories: Exploring Everyday Life

These three interactive visualizations allow you to make your own discoveries about people’s relationship with food, the impact of where we live, and baby-naming trends.

Balancing Privacy and Profit in Customer Analytics

Collecting customer data has provided benefits to both consumers and businesses, but there are costs to using personal data. What are the trade-offs between personal data privacy and customer analytics?

Data Digest: Shadow IT and Biased Algorithms

Today learn why users turn to shadow IT solutions and why trusting blindly in data analytics may perpetuate biases.

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