Research & Resources

• Best Practices Report | Accelerating the Path to Value with BI and Analytics

  This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on current experiences with realizing value from BI and analytics and how organizations can accelerate the path to higher value. more

• Best Practices Report | Data Lakes: Purposes, Practices, Patterns, and Platforms

  One of the more popular subjects in data modernization today is the addition of data lakes to many different ecosystems. This report defines data lake types and discusses emerging best practices, enabling technologies, and real-world use cases. more

• Best Practices Report | Data Science and Big Data: Enterprise Paths to Success

  Big data and data science can provide a significant path to value for organizations. Download this report for organizations’ experiences with and plans for big data and data science including both technology plans and organizational strategies. more

• TDWI Checklist Report | Six Strategies for Enabling Users to Advance Faster with BI and Analytics

  All organizations, no matter how big their budget, must overcome barriers in order to realize value from data faster. Those that have historically experienced centralized, IT-centric BI implementations must transition to flexible environments that embrace the increased use of self-service technologies. more

• TDWI Checklist Report | Using Hadoop for Data Warehouse Optimization

  Augmenting the conventional EDW design with Hadoop and Hive can help optimize your EDW by expanding usability, improving performance, improving results, and reducing overall costs. more

• TDWI Navigator Report | Predictive Analytics

  Predictive analytics is on the verge of widespread adoption. In this report, Fern Halper provides an overview of the state of the predictive analytics market, as well as an overview of the key product offerings helping organizations realize value from predictive analytics. more

• TDWI Checklist Report | Architecting a Hybrid Data Ecosystem

  When numerous diverse data platforms are integrated for multiple use cases, it is called a hybrid data ecosystem (HDE), a concept invented and popularized by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in 2012. An HDE provides options for rapidly diversifying data and its business use. Despite the extreme complexity and challenges, users are succeeding with HDEs. This TDWI Checklist Report drills into the data requirements of the HDE with a focus on the role of data virtualization. more

• TDWI Checklist Report | Speeding the Path to Visual, Easier-to-Use Business Analytics

  The growing adoption of cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is merging with easier-to-use business intelligence and analytics tools to allow more users to interact with and analyze data. This Checklist Report discusses seven recommendations to help organizations be successful sooner in enabling a data-driven culture through visual, easier-to-use business analytics. more

• TDWI E-Book | EDW Modernization: Becoming a Data-Driven Enterprise

  Read this e-book to find out what it means to be driven by data and what it takes to transition to such a culture. more

• TDWI Checklist Report | New Data Practices for a Single Customer View and Omnichannel Marketing

  Modern marketers are capturing success with an arsenal of advances in data management, software automation, and customer analytics that enable a single view of the customer. New sophisticated practices in omnichannel marketing leverage that view so marketers can serve burgeoning numbers of customers and channels. This Checklist Report drills into the data requirements of modern digital marketing, with a focus on the single customer view and omnichannel marketing. more

• TDWI Checklist Report | Rethinking Enterprise BI to Fit a Self-Service World

  Business intelligence (BI) is becoming increasingly democratized, and realizing value from BI tools is no longer limited to an exclusive group with technical expertise. This Checklist Report focuses on how organizations can revise and revitalize enterprise BI in the age of self-service technology. more