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BI projects play key role in improving business and IT alignment

December 2012, Volume 1, Issue 12

Issue Highlights

- Mind the gap: Better IT-business alignment needed
- Bridging IT-business divide a two-way street; BI projects can help
- With 'big data' out of the box, maintaining order is a must
- Social media analytics tools offer customer insights, but care needed

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- BI Trends + Strategies Issue 11
  Nov. 2012, Volume 1, Issue 11 Includes:
  - Successful data stewardship framework needs solid plan, firm focus
  - Data visualizations get more advanced -- and more complicated
  - Visualizing data forces BI teams to take a deep look at corporate info
  - Information delivery snags create big data analytics bottleneck
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- How a powerful business analytics strategy can raise ethical issues
  Issue 10, October 2012 Includes:
  - Textual data becomes new frontier for BI applications
  - Power, reach of analytics pose new ethical dilemmas
  - BI competency center brings coordination -- but with complications
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- What predictive analytics pros don't do
  Issue 9, September 2012 Includes:
  - Business intelligence manager bears burden as myths curb BI success
  - Top five things business intelligence and analytics pros overlook
  - Why execs should heed need for data governance
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- Benefits of using a data sandbox
  Issue 8, August 2012 Includes:
  - Misconceptions holding back use of data integration tools
  - Data sandboxes help analysts dig deep into corporate info
  - Fight the fears threatening the rise of data visualization
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- Collaborative BI sets stage for collective user action
  Issue 7, July 2012 Includes:
  - Mission impossible? Data governance process takes on 'big data'
  - Collaborative business intelligence brings users together on BI
  - Location intelligence finds its way into BI processes
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- Data warehouses must learn new tricks in Big Data era
  Issue 6, June 2012 Includes:
  - Riding herd on Excel BI use isn't easy, but it's necessary
  - Universities need push to develop analytical talent
  - Data warehouses must learn new tricks in 'big data' era
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- The biggest obstacles of data science
  Issue 5 May 2012 Includes:
  - BI benefits in reach for SMBs, but some effort required
  - Faster data delivery livens BI performance, user satisfaction
  - Split personalities put data scientists in play
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- New strategies for avoiding the dreaded data silo
  Issue 4 April 2012 Includes:
  - Data silos in big data analytics: Now you see them, now you don't?
  - Mobile BI tools on move at leading-edge organizations
  - Performance management gap: Goals versus realities
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- New BI demands pushing data architecture limits
  Issue 3 March 2012 Includes:
  - Reliable BI data requires collaborative approach
  - New BI demands pushing data architecture limits
  - Hadoop connector software hitches DBs to 'big data' clusters
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- Enterprise data warehouse not dead yet
  Issue 2 February 2012 Includes:
  - Data warehouse lives on: Big data best practices include ties to EDWs
  - Data virtualization tools: Are they right for you?
  - Managing multiple BI tools doesn't have to be so hard
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- Big Data: Separating the hype from the reality
  Issue 1 January 2012 Includes:
  - The hype vs. the reality of big data
  - Applying agile methods to data warehouse projects
  - Copper keeper: Advanced data visualization helps curtail copper thefts
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