Community Forum Webinars
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Community Forum Webinars
How to Handle Nasty, Gnarly, and Pernicious Data Quality Issues
June 26, 2025 at 01:00 pm EST
There are data quality issues where the cause and remedy are obvious. For instance, users are fat-fingering data entry tasks so you need to implement a drop-down selection list. Or ETL loads are misfiring so you need to industrialize ETL monitoring. Or key metrics yield conflicting results so you need a standardized definition and calculation.
Then, there are other data quality issues that are just.... nasty. The cause is not obvious - it might be a combination of outdated systems, poor internal processes, or synchronization issues with external providers. It might take an army of people to track down root causes and build new processes and validations to improve data quality and consistency.
In this webinar, our consultants will explore how to deal with the nastiest, gnarliest, and most pernicious data quality issues. And we'll tackle your use cases and do some real-time problem-solving! So bring your worst data nightmares and let's have some fun!
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Data, Digital Twins and the Road to AI Transformation
May 29, 2025 at 01:00 pm EST
AI in all its forms promises to transform virtually every business process. Yet for every example of success there are multiple cases of failure. As a data community we recognize the importance of serving high quality and well-structured data to these transformations. However, as business process and analytics become increasingly mingled in the AI journey, this is not enough. Our models need to become “digital twins” of our organization.
This webinar will provide the case for building a digital twin, and a step-by-step approach to implement then at the center of your transformation.
You Will Learn:
● The definition of a digital twin
● How digital twins fit into the AI journey
● Techniques for building and modeling a digital twin using data and process
● Digital twin tools
● Digital twin use cases
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Optimizing Power BI Performance and Utilization
May 15, 2025 at 01:00 pm EST
Too many companies struggle to ensure adequate Power BI performance and optimize usage. If you're in this camp, tune in to this webinar to hear our consultants describe how to make effective use of Power BI, improve performance, and avoid costly upgrades.
Based on real client experiences, our consultants will present a methodology for analyzing the root causes of Power BI performance issues and steps you can take to optimize Power BI resources and licensing.
This Webinar Will Cover:
● Workspace design and management
● DAX and SQL techniques
● Power BI applications
● Semantic models
● Change management
● System resource utilization
● Power BI service vs desktop
● Self-service practices
● Golden datasets
● Aggregate tables
● And more...
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The Cold, Hard Reality of Selling Data: 7 Pitfalls You Need to Avoid
April 30, 2025 at 01:00 pm EST
Many business and data executives salivate with the idea of monetizing data. Most see the volumes of transactional data as an underutilized and expensive corporate asset that could make millions of dollars or more a year, easing corporate budgets and strengthening bottom lines.
Although a few companies make tens or hundreds of millions of dollars selling corporate data sets, most do not. The journey to monetizing data is not a quick or easy one. There are many challenges and pitfalls along the way that executives need to address before they have a realistic chance of profiting from this traditional back-office asset.
In this webinar, Wayne Eckerson and Michael Hejtmanek explore the top pitfalls organizations face when attempting to monetize data, drawing on practical experience and real-world examples.
You will learn how to overcome these 7 pitfalls:
Assuming your data is valuable — without proof
Thinking your data is ‘ready’ when it’s not
Underestimating internal resistance
Overlooking legal, privacy or compliance risks until it’s too late
Building the wrong product — one that’s interesting, but not useful
Failing to treat data like a real product
Treating monetization as a one-off project, not an ongoing process
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The State of Data Quality in 2025
March 27, 2025 at 01:00 pm EST
It's been more than three decades since organizations began building data warehouses to improve reporting, analysis, and decision making. And ever since those early days, poor quality data has hampered these initiatives. It seems the state of data quality has changed little from the early years to today.
This webinar will review findings from a recent report on the state of data quality in 2025. It will discuss the most common data quality problems, the causes of those problems, the cost of poor quality data, the remedies companies today use to address data quality issues, and criteria for evaluating data quality tools.
You will also see how companies are using one data quality tool to get a handle on their data quality issues. Tune in to learn about the state of data quality and what your organization can do to address this perennial problem.
You Will Learn:
● The most common data quality problems
● The causes of those problems
● The cost of poor quality data
● Criteria for evaluating data quality tools
● A quick demo of one data quality tool