Radiant Advisors and The Bloor Group present Modern Data Platforms, an on-site educational event designed to enable attendees to leverage significant advancements in data management technologies, computing hardware, and BI capabilities. This series introduces the framework and methodologies for modernizing data warehouses into data platforms that combine the latest data integration and analytic databases. LEARN MORE

What a difference a day can make! When Amazon announced their new RedShift offering - a data warehouse in the cloud - the entire industry of information management changed. The most notable disruption? Price. At a whopping $1,000 per year for a terabyte, RedShift achieved a price-point improvement that amounts to at least two orders of magnitude, if not three when compared to its top-tier competitors. But pricing is just one change; there's also the entire process by which data warehousing is done. Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Claudia Imhoff explain why a new cloud-based reality for data warehousing significantly changes the game for business intelligence and analytics.

Attend the TDWI Chicago Conference, May 5-10, learn about technologies and practices that can dramatically reduce or even eliminate delays in turning raw information into essential insight. You will learn how to employ big data analytics to become a data-driven, proactive, and predictive organization. LEARN MORE

 Today's business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DW) platforms are highly adapted to their environments; however, they are less suited to use outside of these environments. The same might be said for big data platforms, too. The DW and big data: Two platforms, two very different purposes, two agendas - seemingly on a collision course. It isn't so much a question of which platform vision will triumph, but of how two such different visions can be reconciled. READ MORE