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July 9, 2010

Summer School

I almost gave this entry the title “Back to School,” but as a kid I always hated it when, seemingly right around the Fourth of July, the stores all started up their back-to-school promotions.

“Too Soon!” I would invariably lament. “Can’t this wait a few weeks?”

Much more timely is the recent introduction of The Analytics Performance Series, a Sybase-sponsored certification program offered via Beye UNIVERSITY. This four-part program provides an overview of analytics performance from both a business and technical perspective. Organizations increasingly rely on their analytics infrastructures to power rapid and complex decisions, to track performance in real time, and to monitor risks and opportunities. With so much riding on the analytics infrastructure, analytics performance becomes critical.

To deliver the courses, we put together a Dream Team of BI and Analytics experts to step participants through a better understanding of the crucial role that analytics performance plays in today’s business. Here’s a quick description of the four courses that make up the certification series:

Part One: The Warning Signs Claudia Imhoff lays out the Seven Early Warning Signs that your analytics infrastructure is not ready for current or future business challenges.

Part Two: High Performance Analytics Architectures David Loshin explores typical architectural paradigms for high performance analytics databases, looking at the types of reporting and analytics usage scenarios and then considering architectural suitability of the different approaches to those usage scenarios.

Part Three: Performance Advances In Analytics Seth Grimes discusses new technologies and capabilities that businesses are using to take their analytics to the next level: in-database analytics, text-analytics, and web-enabled analytics.

Part 4: Four-Phase Approach to Analytics Claudia Imhoff discusses the attributes that a company that utilizes analytics effectively has. She also steps through the four-phase approach to analytics maturity.

The Analytics Performance Series is aimed at everyone involved in managing analytics environments, as well as the business users of these environments. Anyone who is responsible for, or who relies upon, analytics performance will gain a better understanding of what is at stake and how to move forward.

And surely that’s worth taking a summer class (or four.)

Posted by Sybase IQ at July 9, 2010 10:21 PM