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TDWI White Paper Library

TDWI maintains this library of white papers as a resource for in-depth research and commentary about the big data, business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics industry. The content in this repository is crafted by TDWI's software and consulting partners. To find out how your company can promote its content in this library, click here.


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Analytical Enablement: How Leaders Harness Distributed Business Intelligence to Drive Breakthrough Results

January 1, 2016

Download this white paper for insightful research demonstrating how businesses with the most effective BI programs tend to have a significantly higher degree of distributed, self-service elements.


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10 Reasons Big Data Is Important Today

January 1, 2016

It’s hard to deny that big data is changing the world as we know it. Download this white paper for a discussion of the most useful aspects of big data.


Bring Your Own Data

January 1, 2016

Download this e-book to learn how you can take advantage of external data to contextualize your analysis.


OpenText Analytics for Healthcare: Improve Efficiency and Quality and Deliver Better Healthcare Services

January 1, 2016

Download this white paper to learn how OpenText Analytics and Reporting technology allows healthcare organizations to pull large amounts of information from multiple sources for comprehensive and predictive analysis, while ensuring the quality, security, and availability of data for better decision making and optimal patient care.


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Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study

January 1, 2016

In 2015, dashboards, end-user self-service, advanced visualization, and data warehousing lead the list of technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence (fig. 10). As in our 2014 study, the data show ongoing focus on fundamental and traditional BI functionality. Operational integration and data discovery also represent fundamental BI focus; only after these do “newer” initiatives including data mining, embedded BI, mobile device support, and in-memory analysis begin to emerge. Complex event processing, Internet of Things, and cognitive BI are the lowest ranked priorities in 2015.


The Five Most Common Big Data Integration Mistakes to Avoid

January 1, 2016

This white paper focuses on how to avoid the top five most common mistakes enterprises make when approaching big data integration initiatives. Understanding and fixing these mistakes will kick-start your big data integration project.


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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q1 2015

January 1, 2016

As traditional BI functionality (e.g., reporting and OLAP) becomes commoditized, buyers need to look for other differentiation, such as in the area of big data capabilities. BI on Hadoop; predictive, streaming, and text analytics; data exploration; and other features related to big data are now key strategic enterprise BI platform selection criteria.


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