WHITE PAPER - Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Databases | ERP | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Collaboration | Data Collection | Data Warehouses

WHITE PAPER - In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.
Posted: January 19, 2009 | Published: January 19, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Warehouses | Load Balancing | Memory | Parallel Processing | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Leading companies are placing more emphasis on inbound marketing and intelligent customer interactions as the means for building powerful customer relationships that boost profitable growth.
Posted: December 5, 2008 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Call Centers | Competition | CRM | CRM Analytics | Data Warehouses | Databases | Marketing | ROI

WHITE PAPER - Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: December 2, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Data Integration | Data Warehouses | IT Departments | OLAP

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains the different alternatives to open source data integration, and presents the visible and hidden costs of these alternatives, on several types of projects.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | CRM | Data Integration | Data Migration | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | ERP | ETL (Software)

WHITE PAPER - This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER - This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and more.
Posted: October 15, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | ETL (Software) | OLAP | Oracle (Product) | Query Tools | SQL

WHITE PAPER - Discover the 4 worst practices for business intelligence (BI) deployment and gain insight on how to overcome these pitfalls in order to tap into the power of BI. Learn how to achieve success with your departmental or enterprise-wide BI initiatives.
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Integration | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Knowledge Management