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TDWI Best Practices Reports

TDWI’s Best Practices Reports are designed to educate technical and business professionals about new business intelligence technologies, concepts, or approaches that address a significant problem or issue. Research for the Best Practices Reports is conducted via interviews with industry experts and leading-edge user companies, and is supplemented by a survey of business intelligence professionals.


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

March 29, 2017

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.


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

December 21, 2016

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.


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Best Practices Report | BI, Analytics, and the Cloud: Strategies for Business Agility

October 3, 2016

The cloud is becoming a mature platform for data management, integration, business intelligence (BI), and analytics. Download this report for an examination of organizations’ experiences with and plans for cloud BI and analytics, new cloud models, and what organizations should consider when moving to the cloud.


Best Practices Report | Improving Data Preparation for Business Analytics

July 1, 2016

Business users want the power of analytics—but analytics can only be as good as the data. Download this report for an examination of experiences with data preparation, a discussion of goals and objectives, and a look at important technology trends reshaping data preparation processes. Learn how your organization can reduce the time it takes to prepare data and help users realize insights from data faster.


Best Practices Report | Data Warehouse Modernization in the Age of Big Data Analytics

March 22, 2016

No matter the vintage or sophistication of your organization’s data warehouse (DW), it probably needs to be modernized. Download this report for a presentation of the many issues and categories of DW modernization, plus the strategies, methods, and enabling technologies that lead to success.


Best Practices Report | Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for Action

December 21, 2015

Download this report for recommendations and best practices for successfully operationalizing analytics in your organization to derive business value.


Best Practices Report | Emerging Technologies For Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Warehousing

October 1, 2015

Download this report to learn about the emerging technologies and methods (ETMs) that apply to business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing. Discover how ETMs can support innovation in business processes, customer management, competitiveness, IT best practices, and the business leverage of data.


Best Practices Report | Visual Analytics for Making Smarter Decisions Faster

July 11, 2015

Download this report to examine how visual analytics fits with this and other important goals and trends that are enabling organizations to realize higher value from their data.


Best Practices Report | Hadoop for the Enterprise

April 1, 2015

This report accelerates users’ understanding of the many new products, technologies, and best practices that have emerged recently around Hadoop. It will also help readers map newly available options to real-world use cases, with a focus on mainstream enterprise uses, while respecting tried-and-true IT practices and delivering maximum business value.


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