Delivering actionable insights is a holy grail for analytical leaders, but Ken Rudin, Director of Analytics at Facebook, believes that generating insights is not enough. The goal is to change the business for the better. Tune into this Webcast to learn from Rudin and host Wayne Eckerson as they discuss how to organize, measure, and manage analysts to maximize business impact. 

The analytics development process involves a wide range of requirements, any one of which can prove challenging. First you identify the best sources, then secure access; then there's transforming, mixing, mashing and moving the data to an analytic sandbox. All this occurs before you can build the analytic models. Increasingly, innovative organizations are using data virtualization as a faster path to analytic sandboxes, thus expediting business impact. Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran analyst and practitioner Rick Sherman of Athena IT Solutions, who will explain how advances in data virtualization have opened up new ways of designing, building and maintaining analytic sandboxes. 

The rising tide of analytical demands puts pressure on data managers to deliver information within ever-tightening windows. For many use cases, waiting a day for a data warehouse to refresh is not fast enough. This is the realm of real-time data distribution: replicating key sets of data to feed analysts and business users in far-flung corners of the enterprise. Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Robin Bloor explain how data flows are changing rapidly these days, due to a number of technological advances, but also because of a growing awareness of efficient information architectures