WHITE PAPER - This paper describes reference configuration and sizing information for Oracle data warehouses on Sun servers for small, medium, and large solutions to meet business intelligence/data warehouse needs.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: May 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | 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 - Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: March 31, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Data Governance | Data Warehouses | Retail Trade Industry | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Data Warehouses | Operational Metrics (Systems) | SAP (Product) | SMBs | Software as a Service

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 - 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 - This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Information Management | Information Technology End Users | IT Infrastructure | Productivity | Query Tools | Reporting Software | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: June 30, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Intelligence | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Financial Industry Organizations | Financial Metrics | Globalization

WHITE PAPER - Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Warehouses | Databases | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: July 15, 2009


Topics:  Data Warehouses | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases | Oracle (Product) | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Warehouses | Partnerships | Reporting Software | ROI | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product) | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - EIM is the effort and practice of reaching across all data and application silos embedded in the organization's operating infrastructure; then binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - There's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other information isolated and managed by independent teams using their own set of management tools.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Resource Management | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Interoperability | Master Data Management | Unstructured Data

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