Analytic Applications Software Research
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Text Analytics in the BI Ecosystem
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyAn estimated 80% of enterprise-relevant information resides in text and unstructured forms. Text analytics transforms text into data for BI, data mining, and predictive analytics. This paper reviews business benefits and technical challenges related to taming text. It also introduces text technologies and surveys noteworthy business applications.
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Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology for Continuous Intelligence
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyThis paper discusses the Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology, which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. Sybase CEP provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and deliver more analytic modules over time.
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E-Book: Driving Profitability through Information Security
Sponsored by: Tableau SoftwareWhile recognizing the need for security is a positive step, many of these organizations are missing an opportunity to improve their operations by using the same tools. In this document you will find some tactics you can add to your security playbook to help make your employees more productive and to help improve your organization’s efficiency.
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MapInfo Professional v10.5
Sponsored by: Pitney Bowes Business InsightHelps organizations visualize data on a map so they can easily determine relationships between data and geography.
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SAS® Business Analytics for IT Leaders
Sponsored by: SASIT leaders, tasked to satisfy the needs of their own business units while satisfying the changing needs of all other business units, face a wide variety of challenges. This white paper identifies the key issues that must be addressed and provides a clear strategy for solving them. Read on to learn more about SAS® Business Analytics for IT leaders.
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To SaaS or Not to SaaS: Making Your Digital Measurement Count
Sponsored by: Unica Corporation - An IBM CompanyRead To SaaS or Not to SaaS: Make Your Digital Measurement Count by Eric Peterson to choose wisely.
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Analytical Data Prep 101 Webinar
Sponsored by: SASThis Webinar in the Apply Business Analytics series will highlight the specific methods and unique data requirements needed to deal with advanced analytics so that you can effectively and efficiently uncover hidden relationships, anticipate the future and adapt to change.
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2010 Applying Business Analytics Webinar- Text Analytics 101
Sponsored by: SASThis webcast will highlight the critical steps and practical tips to get started on your journey incorporating text-based insights for better decisions. Learn how the latest technologies can help you seamlessly leverage text-based content, improve efficiencies and ease staff resources to add a new dimension of insight to your business initiatives.
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The Impact of Business Analytics on Performance and Profitability
Sponsored by: SASLet it be stated plainly: Business analytics are the key to achieving these challenging objectives. Our world generated more data in 2009 than in the previous recorded history of mankind. A good deal of this data can be converted into useful information and competitive advantage – by applying the right analytics.
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Business Analytics: Helping You Put an Informed Foot Forward
Sponsored by: SASWhat exactly is business analytics and how can it help? Business analytics is, simply put, the application of analytical techniques to resolve business issues. It provides organizations with a framework for decision making, helping organizations solve complex business problems and more.
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Ovum Technology Review of Vertica’s Analytic Database
Sponsored by: Vertica SystemsColumn-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.
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New Paradigms for High Performance Analytical Computing
Sponsored by: Vertica SystemsRead this paper to learn how combining a high performance batch programming and execution model with a high performance analytical database provides significant business benefits for a number of different types of applications.
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How Pink OTC Markets Cuts Reporting Time and Operating Costs with a Market Data Warehouse Built on Vertica and Syncsort
Sponsored by: Vertica SystemsLearn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place, built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.
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Presentation Transcript: The Buy Versus Build Dilemma
Sponsored by: Tableau SoftwareThis transcript explores two options for integrating analytic and Business Intelligence (BI) features into existing applications. Discover the benefits and drawbacks of each approach, and learn why your organizational culture should factor into your software decision.
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CFD for Mechanical Design Engineers: “A Paradigm Shift for Better Design”
Sponsored by: Mentor GraphicsThis paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, including its motivation for use, value and future. It also describes Mentor Graphics’ FloEFD CFD analysis solution that is designed to provide product designers and engineers with direct access to CFD techniques directly in their design (CAD) environment.
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BI Without a Data Warehouse? An Effective Strategy for Midsize Companies
Sponsored by: IBMIn this webcast, you’ll learn about a new generation of business intelligence (BI) solutions designed to take on reporting, analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding, planning, budgeting and forecasting projects while remaining affordable.
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E-Book: Optimizing BI and Analytics in Healthcare
Sponsored by: Tableau SoftwareBI and analytics tools can provide healthcare organizations with valuable insights for assessing and improving patient care and better controlling costs. This E-Book provides an overview of the BI and analytics issues facing healthcare organizations, as well as advice on how to best utilize the available technologies in healthcare.
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The Critical Role of Text Analytics in the BI Ecosystem
Sponsored by: Sybase, an SAP companyThough a great amount of valuable information lies within documents, e-mails, and other media, integrating this data into modern analytics applications is challenging. Join Sybase and Kapow on Tuesday, June 15th at 1:00 PM ET to learn how enterprises are motivated to deploy text analytics capabilities for its wide range of intelligence benefits.
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Overcome the Four IT Inhibitors to BI Success in Midsize Companies-- Featuring Research from Gartner
Sponsored by: IBMRead this paper, which cites Gartner research, to learn how CIOs at midsize enterprises can overcome the four inhibitors to reliable business intelligence: people, politics, processes, and priorities.
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IBM Cognos 8 BI Demonstration
Sponsored by: IBMThis demonstration shows all the capabilities of the IBM Cognos 8 BI product. Demos are presented for all roles including employees, managers, BI professionals, business analysts, and system administrators.
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Metro Atlanta YMCA Better Aligns its Mission, Member Engagement, and Marketing Communications Activities Using Birst
Sponsored by: BirstIn an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst.
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Oracle Financial Analytics
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationOracle Financial Analytics provides organizations with better visibility into factors that drive revenues and shareholder value. Oracle BI Applications are powerful, pre-built solutions that enable organizations to implement more quickly, with less risk and at a fraction of the cost required to build traditional business intelligence solutions.
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SharePoint E-zine Volume 12: SharePoint Taxonomies That Stand the Test of Time
Sponsored by: TechTarget Search Windows ServerIn this month's issue, learn ways to accommodate permanent departments and business functions as well as ad hoc collaboration when building out your SharePoint taxonomies.
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Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development
Sponsored by: IBMTrade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
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Designing Great Visualizations
Sponsored by: Tableau SoftwareVisual representations are a fundamental component of human learning and understanding. To study the impact of data visualization, we must first look to the past and see how our ways of shaping and representing data have changed over time. This paper traces the history of visual representation, from cave drawings to the computer revolution.
