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Graphs for Laughs
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Exciting Updates from Creative Computing for 2012!!
Happy New Year to one and all! We’re excited to have the CCI newsletter back up and running for the first time in over a year. There have been many exciting developments since our last newsletter and we have many exciting things on our plate in 2012. So allow us to touch on the highlights!
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If you’re not doing Text Analytics, Why not?
Mastering new challenges in text analytics
by A White Paper by IBM Corporation
One of the very hottest areas of growth in the area of Business Analytics is Text Analytics. This exciting, relatively new, analytics area moves the focus, or perhaps expands the focus, outside traditional structured data analysis. When you consider that the vast majority of data which we now have access to is unstructured data (and a large percentage of that is text)...Read More to Download the White Paper
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IBM Cognos Analytics and Cloud Computing:
Best Practices for Deploying Cognos Business Intelligence to the IBM Cloud
by Stephan Jou, Jhingran, William Lee, Thanh Pham, Biraj Saha
This book introduces cloud computing, workloads in cloud computing, analytics as a service, and its implementation using Cognos Software and provides guidance and considerations for your cloud solution, such as...
(Read more to Download the book or to follow the IBM developerWorks Blog)
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The BI Year in Review
http://mjfb-books.blogspot.com/2012/01/bi-year-in-...
by Marcus Borba
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) published in December a retrospective called The BI Year in Review. The retrospective, written by Stephen Swoyer, is a well-detailed article about what happened in BI area in 2011.
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Trends in smarter business analytics
by James Taylor
Don Campbell, CTO Of IBM’s Business Intelligence group, spoke about smarter business analytics at the September 2011 Computerworld BI & Analytics Perspectives conference. He sees four focus areas – improving customer understanding, optimizing real-time decisions, better enterprise visibility and improved collaboration--all underpinned by managed, trusted data.
Companies face three big challenges around business analytics:
- A lack of understanding of how to use analytics
- A lack of management bandwidth
- A lack of skills
Companies are also changing how they see analytics, focusing on more advanced and forward-looking analytics and less on management reporting.
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Can companies truly control and police Social Media at the workplace?
by Nari Kannan
Some companies have been trying, but unsuccessfully so, to police the use of social media at work. Does it really work? On the other hand, they do pose some risks to the company if employees use them with or without their permission at work.
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IBM Cognos Roadshow
Boston:
 Dinner on 4/16/12
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Dinner on 4/9/12
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Smarter Analytics Live 2012 events will be free of charge for IBM customers and prospect attendees. We’ll be hosting a finance executive dinner along with our full-day seminar. This is a great Opportunity to Connect with IBM Cognos, Clarity, Open Pages and SPSS Customers and Prospects...
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SAS Event: Register Today
SAS Global Forum 2012
April 22-25
Orlando, FL
Early Bird Registration is now open!
Don't miss your opportunity to network with thousands of SAS professionals worldwide and attend hands-on workshops, demonstrations, and more than 300 paper presentations to enhance your SAS skills!
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IBM Information on Demand Conference 2012
October 21-25, 2012
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas NV
Register wth Creative Computing and SAVE on your Registration fees. We'll show you how ... just watch our Newsletter and emails which will be sent out in July.
Did you miss the 2011 conference? Visit IBM's site to see what you missed!
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How-To Operationalize Business Analytics
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Business analytics is maturing – and so is its role in forward-thinking organizations. Watch this webinar to get suggestions on how to...
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