Business Intelligence White Papers
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07/29/10
All employees in your organization are responsible for making sound decisions, and they must base their decisions on relevant and timely information. When your users encounter difficulties accessing and using key business data, it can have a lasting impact.
Sponsored By SAP
07/29/10
Think about how we explore areas of interest with Google. Start with an inquiry. Get results. Gain insights, ideas, and perspective. Explore some more, this time asking new or more pointed and probing questions. There's great value to be gleaned from this.
Sponsored By SAP
06/08/10
Get the latest on business intelligence and how midsize companies can put it to use for competitive advantage. No longer the province of global giants, business intelligence is now both accessible and affordable even for nontechnical people who can use it to improve overall performance.
Sponsored By SAP
08/24/10
This newly released white paper, "Benefits of Automating Data Warehousing," shows how automation can keep queries and reports accurate while speeding up their delivery. Download your copy today and learn:
- How to handle more operations in less time, by cutting lag time and automating key steps like pre-extraction processes, nightly failure notifications, complex recovery sequences, even report running and distribution
-How to prevent data errors by cutting down on hand-coding, ensuring properly ordered execution sequences, and keeping complex, uneditable scripts out of the loop
- The 6 pivotal steps in the overall data collection/distribution process, and why they shouldn't be overlooked if you want data warehousing to succeed
Sponsored By UC4 Software
08/10/10
Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin are both promoted as strong platforms for data warehousing projects, although Oracle also promotes Exadata for online transaction processing (OLTP). Yet OLTP and data warehousing applications differ significantly in their functional and performance requirements. This white paper outlines the different requirements of OLTP and data warehousing applications, and then compares Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin in terms of their query performance, simplicity of deployment, cost of ownership, and value creation for customers.
Sponsored By Netezza
07/29/10
When 19 of 20 people agree on a strategic initiative, odds are it's powerful stuff. That's the case with information management, according to this recent Forbes Insights study of more than 200 business and IT executives.
Sponsored By SAP
07/29/10
This paper traces the history of visual representation, from early cave drawings through the computer revolution and the launch of Tableau. We discuss some of the pioneers in data research and show how their work helped to revolutionize visualization techniques.
Sponsored By Tableau Software
07/29/10
Visual analytics is becoming the fastest way for people to explore and understand data of any size. This definitive guide will help you select a visual analytics, or data visualization, software application.
Sponsored By Tableau Software