It's time for part two in the Applying Business Analytics webinar series! This session will focus on "Analytical Data Prep 101" and how to better equip your data warehouse (and more). It is designed for business analysts, data professionals and warehouse managers. My colleague, Ericka Wilcher and the experts she is working with (Mark Madsen, Ken Hausman & Scott Chastain) were prompted by the success of The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) Checklist Report, "Data Requirements for Advanced Analytics," to create this May 19th live webinar. It will highlight the specific approaches and unique data requirements needed to deal with analytics.

So join us next Wednesday and discover how to fully capitalize on the power of advanced analytics by adapting your data integration, data quality and data modeling approaches accordingly. During the one-hour session, you will learn how to:

• Distinguish between data warehouses, data marts and analytic databases, and determine which architecture best suits their organizational needs.
• Map the appropriate data prep method to the analytic method chosen. (Examples to be provided.)
• Determine the appropriate time to cleanse and enhance their analytic data.

You are welcome to register online to join the analytic data prep webinar. We look forward to hearing what you think. In fact, you can tweet your thoughts on the webinar series using #abaws.