TDWI Articles

Take an Inventory of Your Data Assets

Do you know what data you have available? Are you making the most of it? These guidelines for a data inventory can help answer these questions.

The Case for Operationalizing Self-Service Data Prep

Imagine empowering more of your employees by using self-service data prep tools to address both exploratory use cases and operational use cases.

Managing Customer Data for Analytics (Fourth in a Series)

Customer analytics can help you optimize business processes, but first you must assess how you are managing your customer data.

The Logic of Disintermediation and the End of ETL as We’ve Known It

Big data platforms such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Spark are usurping the central role of the ETL engine that is at the heart of data integration.

Learning to Lose Control

Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.

Big Data Management Comes of Age

Several start-ups market products designed to address the lack of data management features for big data platforms. For example, Diyotta provides a scalable architecture for big data integration including old-world enterprise amenities such as metadata management.

How to Increase Your BI Program's Value (Part 1 of 2)

Why your data must be trusted, useful, integrated, and governed.

Data Digest: Solving the ETL Crisis, Analytics Downfall, Data Quality and Marketing

Limitations of ETL and how to get around them, plus big data project failure due to miscommunication among employees and how bad data quality prevents good marketing automation.

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