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While TDWI conferences always cover the full spectrum of business intelligence and data warehousing, the conference in Orlando will also include courses throughout the week that broaden your knowledge, skill, and ability in the following areas:
Emerging Technologies
We have all been hearing the buzz—cloud computing, text mining, virtualization, open source, cool BI, Web 2.0, social media, visualization ... but what do they really mean for business intelligence and data warehousing? These courses are designed to show how these technologies work, how you can deploy them, and the benefits they can bring to your organization.
BI Essentials
Strengthen your understanding of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). These courses are designed to take you from basic BI/DW concepts and principles to expanded essentials such as data modeling and metrics. New and returning students will find that these courses provide the building blocks that are the keys to understanding the rest of this dynamic field of information technology.
Business Analytics
Optimize business performance with the right analytics for your audience. In the field of business intelligence, understanding how people perceive and process information is a must. This conference delivers a series of “systems thinking” courses as well as several popular analytics courses on dashboards, visualization, metrics, statistical modeling, and data mining. Bring this knowledge back and make analytics work for your organization.
Developing the Agile Business Intelligence Environment
The ability to be adaptable and agile as you grow your BI/DW environments is key to success and profitability as you move forward. Agile development promotes a specific set of techniques using iterative development for rapid delivery of systems with a minimum of rework and risk. In fact, the agile concept applies to many facets of your BI/DW environment, from team structure, project management, system design, development, and analytics techniques. Several courses at this conference are aimed to help you realize your agile potential.
Data Management
Data is the cornerstone of a business intelligence system, and the management of it can be very complex. Learn how to model, integrate, store, govern, and improve the quality of this most precious asset.
Data Modeling
Data that is organized and optimally stored in the warehouse needs thoughtful design to adeptly fulfill business needs. Business analysts taking these courses will be better prepared to work with their technical counterparts, and developers taking these courses will be able to ask the right questions to determine how to design and implement the best data structures.