ASSESSMENT TOOL - Take this self-assessment quiz to understand how optimized, simple and flexible your solution is today and learn what next steps are recommended to establish a warehouse solution that can easily grow with your demands.
Posted: January 7, 2009 | Published: January 7, 2009


Topics:  Data Warehouses

VIDEOCAST - IBM DB2 Warehouse is a dynamic, integrated data warehousing solution that delivers all the functions required to deploy, maintain, and evolve an intelligent data warehouse.
Posted: January 7, 2009 | Premiered: January 7, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Data Integration | Data Profiling | Data Warehouses | Master Data Management | Metadata

WHITE PAPER - The study focuses on the relationship between information and decision-making obtained from interviews with a number of organizations.
Posted: January 7, 2009 | Published: January 7, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Data Warehouses | Marketing | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Learn how to create a roadmap for a truly dynamic warehousing infrastructure, and move ahead of your competition with your business intelligence system.
Posted: January 7, 2009 | Published: January 7, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Data Integration | Data Profiling | Data Warehouses | Master Data Management | Metadata

EGUIDE - This E-Guide brings you up-to-date on new energy performance metrics to compare a server's power consumption with its performance.
Posted: December 31, 2008 | Published: December 29, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Warehouses | Server Virtualization | SOA | Web Services

PODCAST - Listen to this Podcast to explore best practices for supercharging business intelligence and performance management efforts with your SAP investment.
Posted: December 16, 2008 | Premiered: December 16, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | CRM Analytics | Customer Data Integration | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Knowledge Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and data warehousing for organizations building competitive advantage through analytics.
Posted: December 9, 2008 | Published: December 9, 2008


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Backups | Business Intelligence | Data Warehouses | Enterprise | ERP | OLTP | SQL

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives.
Posted: December 9, 2008 | Published: December 9, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Hardware | Network Performance | Sales | SAN

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:  Call Centers | Competition | CRM | Data Warehouses | Databases | Marketing | ROI

DATA SHEET - The Sun Fire x4540 storage server, the first open storage server, integrates industry-standard compute and storage components in an open architecture and runs the Solaris OS and Solaris ZFS.
Posted: December 4, 2008 | Published: December 4, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Intelligence | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Management | Data Warehouses | SAN | Server Management | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - Data compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.
Posted: December 3, 2008 | Published: December 3, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Operational Support Systems | SQL | Storage Infrastructure | TCO

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 outlines how Oracle Exadata can deliver outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for data warehousing applications by leveraging a massively parallel architecture to enable a dynamic storage grid for Oracle Database 11g deployments.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Data Warehouses | Oracle (Product) | SQL | Storage Capacity | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

PODCAST - With Larry Ellison's OpenWorld 2008 announcement of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine, Oracle is revolutionizing high performance data warehousing.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Premiered: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Data Visualization Software | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Performance Management | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Ocarina Optimizer and Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile.
Posted: November 13, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Warehouses | NAS | SAN | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives