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MapReduce for the Business Analyst: Simplifying
Big Data Analytics for the Business

In this Webinar, you will learn:
  • Definitions of MapReduce and how these are changing
  • Business reasons, such as digital marketing optimization, for adopting MapReduce as part of your BI arsenal
  • The role MapReduce can play in your BI/DW technology stack
  • Real-world use cases of MapReduce for social network analysis, digital marketing optimization, and fraud detection and prevention
  • How you can leverage MapReduce code via SQL without writing such code from the ground up
 

On-Demand Webcasts and Podcasts

Webcast How A Retail Giant is making Big Gains with
Big Data Analytics

Learn how Barnes & Noble was able to easily and cost effectively leverage big data analytics to:
  • Make massive amounts of data available to its audience
  • Reduced analysis time from weeks to hours
  • Monitor every product line in its 2,000+ stores in real-time

Webcast Deep Data Exploration:
Find Patterns in Your Data More Quickly and Easily

Industry analyst Curt Monash joins Tableau Software and Aster Data to explain tricks of the trade for deep data exploration on diverse data types. He explains: The 6 things you can do with new analytic solutions; Example rich analytic applications within internet, media, retail and financial services industries; Investigative analytic techniques data scientists use to make sense from big, diverse data, and; Key considerations for making data exploration faster and easier.

Webcast Analytic Platforms: How New Data Management Technologies Enable New Analytics
Join Merv Adrian and Colin White of the BeyeNetwork to to learn how to: Choose the right solution and deployment approach; Understand the strengths and weaknesses of new and emerging vendors; and Develop and deploy based on your business needs and technology requirements.

Webcast Where's Waldo? Advanced Analytics for Location and Network Intelligence
Join Aster Data and Cobi Systems to learn how to improve: Network intelligence via graph analysis to understand connectivity among suspects, information propagation, and the flow of goods; Security analysis to prevent fraud, bot attacks, and other breaches; Geospatial analytics to quickly uncover details about regions and subsets within those communities; and Visual analytics to derive deeper insights more quickly.

Webcast Harnessing the Power of Cloud Infrastructure to Supercharge Analytics: Aster Data and Dell Solutions for High-Performance Analytics that Scale to Big Data
Learn how to: address the challenges of advanced analytics with a new approach and architecture that scales to big data; access the compute power you need with the flexibility and affordability of industry-standard servers; and build a massively-scalable, high performance, cost-effective solution with Aster Data's innovative software and Dell's optimized infrastructure.

Webcast See Your Business Like Never Before -
Build Powerful Analytic Applications with SQL-MapReduce

Join Aster Data and Fuzzy Logix to learn how to: Obtain immediate business value with pre-built graph, collaborative filtering, and text functions; Build rich analytic applications in hours using the powerful SQL-MapReduce framework; and Accelerate analytic application performance 8-10x by processing 100% of your analytics in-database with our analytics platform.

Webcast Cross-channel Attribution - Using SQL-MapReduce for Search and Social Marketing Analysis
Richard Zwicky, Founder and President of Eightfold Logic, shares his best practices for cross-channel online marketing analysis using the industry's first massive parallel processing database to deliver native MapReduce integration.

Webcast A Look Under the Hood - SQL-based Analytics at Internet Scale with MapReduce
Learn how to optimize your SQL-based applications with advanced analytics, massive parallel processing (MPP), and enabling technologies like SQL-MapReduce. Join independent analyst Rick van der Lans to hear how you can obtain faster and deeper analysis on an Internet scale using advanced in-database analytics.

Webcast All That Glitters is Not Gold -
Mixed Workload Management Myths Demystified

Some data warehouse vendors offer mixed workload management capabilities, but they tend to be extremely expensive, making it impossible to achieve investment and performance objectives simultaneously. Join Aster Data as we demystify the common myths associated with dynamic mixed workload management.

Webcast Filling the Knowledge Gap – Big Data and Rich Computation
The age of big data - terabytes of information within a company's information systems - has arrived. Companies running ERP, CRM and web solutions have been generating gigabytes of data for years. Add to that the data now available from user-generated content, mobile web, social networks, click stream and external data sets, and what was once large gigabytes of information has become large terabytes of information. With all this additional data at your fingertips, the business question becomes, how do we monetize this explosion in data?

Podcast "Game-Changing Architectural Advances Take Data Analytics to New Heights" BriefingsDirect podcast - mp3 or pdf transcript
James Kobielus, Senior Analyst with Forrester Research, and Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, EVP of Marketing for Aster Data, explain how to: push application logic into your data warehouse to speed data mining; support massive datasets for predictive analytics; and attain unprecedented price-performance ratios.

Webcast Mastering MapReduce Webinar Series, Session 2 - "Supercharging Customer/Data Analytics with MapReduce"
Industry analyst Curt Monash and MapReduce expert Jonathan Goldman explain how MapReduce enables advanced customer analytics and helps enterprises do fraud detection, graphing, sessionization and market basket analysis more effectively.

Webcast Mastering MapReduce Webinar Series, Session 1 -
“Big Data Reality: The Role of MapReduce in Big Data Management and Analysis"

Industry analyst Curt Monash explains the basics of MapReduce, key uses cases, and which industries and applications are heavily using MapReduce.

Webcast Big Data Analytics Comes of Age:
Unlock the Potential of Multistructured Data

IDC, Teradata and Aster Data explain how companies leverage relational and multi-structured data to maximize the profitability of data scientists and quantitative analysts. Join to learn:
  • The market forces driving the need for an information management platform that incorporates relational and multistructured data
  • Best practices among leading organizations for helping quantitative analysts compete on analytics
  • Example use cases where businesses harness big data for digital media optimization, social network and relationship analysis, fraud prevention, and applications from machine generated data
  • The value the combined Aster Data and Teradata can provide for analysis of your multistructured data (including relational data)
  • How to identify areas in your business where you can deliver increased value

The Best Insights Possible
Whitepaper: A New Approach for Large-Scale Data Management and Data Analysis
Podcast: Game-Changing Architectural Advances Take Data Analytics to New Heights
Forrester Report: In-Database Analytics: The Heart of the Predictive Enterprise