As change continues to sweep across the data management industry, many organizations are looking for ways to prepare their systems and personnel for an unpredictable future. Forces such as Big Data and Cloud Computing are creating new opportunities and significant challenges for a world filled with legacy systems. Information architectures are fundamentally changing, and that's good news for companies that can take advantage of recent innovations. Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Robin Bloor, who will explain why the Information Oriented Architecture provides a stable roadmap for companies.

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: Identifying the best sources, then securing access; then 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.