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.
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.
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.
December 21, 2015
Download this report for recommendations and best practices for successfully operationalizing analytics in your organization to derive business value.
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.
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.
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.
December 18, 2014
This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on how organizations can and do use next-generation analytics. It provides in-depth analysis of current strategies and future trends for next-generation analytics across both organizational and technical dimensions, including organizational culture, infrastructure, data, and processes. It examines both the analytics and infrastructure necessary for next-generation analytics. This report offers recommendations and best practices for implementing analytics in an organization.
September 22, 2014
Download this report to learn about the many available technologies and practices for real-time data, BI, and analytics, plus how they enable fast-paced business processes and yield a wide range of
organizational advantages.
June 25, 2014
Download this report to learn how business-side leadership can step up to ensure that chaos does not reign in the era of less direct IT involvement, and provide direction for the adoption of new technologies and practices for the betterment of the enterprise as a whole.