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The Great Divide: Bridging Structured and Unstructured Data
Aug. 21 @ 4 ET
Live Webcast
Data and context - that's the ultimate combination. Uniting those two is the goal of today's information managers as they seek to connect the world of traditional business intelligence to the ocean of Big Data. The question of how begs answers, but the big issues of when and exactly where are dominating the dialogue in the world's most cutting-edge companies. Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran database analyst John O'Brien as he explains how certain information architectures have advantages over others.
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Staying Ahead of the Curve: Solving Analytic Complexity
Aug. 14 @ 4 ET
Live Webcast
One size will never fit all in the complex world of information management. In fact, the variety of information systems in use continues to expand across all kinds of areas: data-producing applications, data-processing apps, and the downstream tools used for reporting and analytics. How can data-savvy organizations stay ahead of the curve? Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates, who will explain how effective use of standard data models can solve the complexity of increasingly heterogeneous information architectures. |
| Cloudera's Latest Release Aims to Broaden Hadoop's Appeal
by Alec Foege
As makers of the best-known commercial software for the open-source Hadoop platform, Cloudera first branded itself as the corporate America's most-accessible option for linking thousands of servers to analyze petabytes of data. Now with last week's announcement of its fourth-generation release - which includes an enhanced open-source distribution of Hadoop, CDH4, and an improved integrated software package, Cloudera Enterprise 4.0 - the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company hopes to spread the word beyond early adopters to the mainstream.
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 Visual Data Discovery: More Than a Pretty Face?
by Cindi Howson
Visual data discovery seems to be all the rage this year with new products and high-growth companies. What's driving this interest - the pretty pictures or the self-service? And will this new category of tools finally take business intelligence (BI) mainstream or are we simply trading spreadsheet chaos for another kind of chaos?
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TDWI: Sept. 16 - 21
Attend the TDWI World Conference in Boston, where you will gain business intelligence and data warehousing knowledge you can apply immediately, interact with experienced instructors, and network with hundreds of peers. Register by August 17 and save up to $300. Use priority code BOS21.
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