Analytic Applications Software Research
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What we learned from data marts and consolidation
Sponsored by: IBMWhat IBM learned about the trade-offs between data marts, data warehouses and consolidation.
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Sybase® Market Liquidity Analysis
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyA full market perspective is difficult because of fragmented liquidity. Many securities are traded on more than one exchange or alternative trading venue. Knowing when, where and how to trade can be a challenge, and it’s getting harder all the time as the markets evolve.
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SAP Whitepaper: SAP In-Memory Computing Technology: Changing the Way Business Intelligence Is Managed
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.This white paper details how in-memory computing changes the way organizations can operate and gain value from their business intelligence (BI). Particularly, discover how this method can bring together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications.
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Analytic Architectures: Approaches to Supporting Analytics Users and Workloads
Sponsored by: BeyeNETWORKIn this report written by Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research for TechTarget, Wayne proposes that there are four main types of intelligences designed to turn data into information and information into insights and action: business intelligence (BI), analytic intelligence, continuous intelligence and content intelligence. Read on to learn more.
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g - New Features Overview
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationIn this podcast, you'll hear from Matt Bedin, Director for BI Product Management for Oracle, about the many new features and enhancements in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE 11g) that will excite both end-users and IT managers.
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An Introduction to Analytical MDM: master data management for BI data
Sponsored by: DataFlux CorporationIn this eBook, IT, BI and data management professionals will get an overview of analytical MDM and learn how to develop and manage a successful program for mastering their BI data. Get insight and advice on analytical MDM’s potential benefits, challenges to watch out for and combining it with operational MDM for a full enterprise approach.
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Intelligent Health Care: Strategies for getting the most out of your business intelligence systems
Sponsored by: Perceptive SoftwareThe Goal of clinical decision support (CDS) - a Business Intelligence tool specific to health care - is to give physicians and nurses the granular information they need to make treatment decisions at the time they need it. Read this paper and learn how to develop a data analytics system that works for your health care environment.
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IBM Cognos Express: Essential BI and Planning for Midsize Companies
Sponsored by: IBMRead about IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies, delivering essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting & forecasting in one affordable solution.
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What’s New with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1
Sponsored by: IBMSee what's new in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 that makes it possible to connect everyone in your organization with the insight, analytics and information they need to make better, faster, smarter decisions.
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New Promise of BI
Sponsored by: IBMLearn how Cognos Business Intelligence lets you access virtually any data source, regardless of platform, and provide detailed, understandable views of the data to all users, regardless of location.
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E-Book: Best Practices for Buying Business Intelligence Technology
Sponsored by: IBMThe BI market offers a dizzying array of technology options. From collecting organizational requirements, writing RFPs, conducting evaluations and running proof of concept projects, there is a lot involved in BI purchases. Read on to get straightforward advice from industry analysts and expert practitioners.
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Comcast’s cable advertising division empowers their 1,500 associate sales force with an Alteryx intranet market analysis and advertising and support application
Sponsored by: Alteryx, Inc.Comcast Spotlight wanted all of its sales professionals to have immediate access to user-defined market analyses, without having to involve a trained research analyst. Alteryx designed a web-based solution, SpotKnowledge, which enabled increased functionality, accuracy, and faster turn-around times on analysis and reporting.
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E-Book: Getting the Most Out of Your BI Investment in SAP Environments
Sponsored by: IBMIn this e-book, readers will get an overview of SAP’s BI strategy, and get advice on what to do about BEx, BW, and more to develop long-term BI strategies of their own. Read on to learn how to get the most out of your BI investment in SAP environment.
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E-Book: Business Intelligence Best Practices and Strategies in SAP Environments
Sponsored by: IBMAs companies look to get more value from their SAP application investments, BI is hot. But for SAP customers, it’s also a confusing area. In the e-book, readers will learn best practices for forming a BI strategy in SAP environments, including whether to stick with BEx and what to do with BW.
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E-Book: Key Trends in Business Intelligence
Sponsored by: IBMIn this handbook for project managers, get advice and insight for making your BI project run smoothly. Find out more about the best practices that can make or break a project – and hear more from experts and experienced practitioners with real world experience. Both business and IT professionals can benefit from this information.
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Deliver Business Insight Faster: The IBM Smart Analytics System on IBM System x Servers Running Intel Xeon Processors
Sponsored by: IBM and IntelThis paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.
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E-Book: Developing a Business Analytics Strategy: Key Considerations and Expert Advice
Sponsored by: IBMBusiness analytics offers a host of promised benefits – from improved operational efficiency to increased sales to a better understanding of customers. But developing a strategy and structure to deploy business analytics successfully can be challenging. Read on to learn more about developing a successful, scalable business analytics strategy.
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Delivering OLAP Analytics with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis product demo illustrates the processes and benefits inherent in a BI solution that provides a common, unified environment that combines OLAP and relational-style analysis for a faster and more in-depth decision process.
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E-Book: Building Effective Dashboards and Scorecards
Sponsored by: IBMIn this e-book, learn advanced strategies for creating actionable, interactive and user-friendly dashboards that will help your organization track KPIs. Learn how to get started with dashboards, find out what a dashboard is and what it is not. Discover how to create different dashboards to meet the needs of various departments and more.
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E-Book: Data Warehousing Technology Trends
Sponsored by: HP IncTechnological innovations are rapidly changing data warehouse architectures and providing the potential for substantial performance improvements. Read this e-book to get an update on the most important trends in data warehousing, including appliance technology, columnar databases, in-database analytics and more.
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IBM GBS BAO Thought Leadership: Breaking away with Business Analytics & Optimization Research Report
Sponsored by: IBMIn top - performing organizations, analytics has replaced intuition in predicting and acting upon real-time information. Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.
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Analytics Solution Center (ASC) Website
Sponsored by: IBMThe IBM Analytics Solution Center in the Washington, DC area focuses on solving the business and mission problems of public sector agencies, and the U.S. Federal government through the use of analytics. Visit this center online and see how you too can gain access to useful information, industry experts, and technology to reach your mission goals.
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E-Book: Business Intelligence (BI) Trends in Health Care
Sponsored by: SASBI and data analytics are pushing into health care, but the industry as a whole is still behind the adoption curve of other vertical markets. This e-book will give you the information you need to make the most of BI and data analytics. Read on to learn about BI trends in health care and how to take advantage of them to give you the upper hand.
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Turning Customer Data into Analytical Marketing Fuel: How to Use Analytically Driven Customer Insight for Extraordinary Competitive Advantage
Sponsored by: SASBusinesses that fail to strategically leverage analytically driven customer insight will gradually become obsolete over time. This paper takes a closer look at why – and explains what you can do to evolve your marketing organization’s ability to turn data into customer insight, and insight into competitive advantage.
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Sybase IQ , A Competitive Analysis
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyThis paper, intended for both IT and operational management, explores a series of high-level best practices for analytics and data warehousing based on Sybase’s experience with successful implementations. Suggestions are provided in three categories: performance, cost control, and ease-of-deployment with each dimension broken down into sub-topics.