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TDWI is proud to maintain this library as a valuable resource for business intelligence and data warehousing professionals seeking to augment their knowledge of tools, solutions and industry best practices. The content in this repository is created by our many partners in the BI/DW hardware, software and consulting markets.


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What Works Volume 28 November 2009 White Papers


Deploying Business Intelligence on Sun Fire X4275 Servers

Deploying Business Intelligence on Sun Fire X4275 Servers

01/06/10

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. This paper describes the solution and recent performance testing, including optimizations that can help to enhance solution performance.


QlikView 9 for Business Answers: Making Organizations Smarter and More Productive than Ever

QlikView 9 for Business Answers: Making Organizations Smarter and More Productive than Ever

01/06/10

QlikView is simple to use and easy to learn. It’s designed for anyone and every part of your business. There are no complex interfaces, confusing screens or arcane commands and queries. Just point and click for all your business answers. QlikView’s unique, award-winning associative technology works the way your mind does. It provides one-click access to visually rich, interactive dashboards anyone can build quickly and modify easily. It’s a new rules approach that benefits business and power users alike.


“Excuse Me, Have We Met Before?” How Knowledge-Based Customer Recognition Helps You Really Know Your Customers

“Excuse Me, Have We Met Before?” How Knowledge-Based Customer Recognition Helps You Really Know Your Customers

01/06/10

For businesses and organizations of all kinds, customer and customer-value recognition -- the ability to recognize a customer and his or her value-type as accurately, quickly and thoroughly as possible in every interaction -- is vital to success. A CDI approach that utilizes a robust, evolving knowledge base can help your business recognize every customer, resulting in good profits, reduced costs, and satisfied consumers.


Evolving from Departmental Islands of BI to a Cohesive Enterprise BI Environment

Evolving from Departmental Islands of BI to a Cohesive Enterprise BI Environment

01/06/10

Enterprise BI environments help ensure a single version of the truth and a low long-term cost of ownership, while providing high performance, scalability, and rapid application development. However, achieving enterprise BI can take several months or years, and in the meantime, departments need access to fast, reliable BI. As a result, small departmental "islands" of BI surface throughout an organization, designed to satisfy immediate business needs. Although convenient, these applications lead to multiple versions of the truth and incur high costs of ownership. The solution, therefore, is to gradually consolidate departmental BI applications into a cohesive enterprise BI environment.


GIS and Business Intelligence: The Geographic Advantage

GIS and Business Intelligence: The Geographic Advantage

01/06/10

This white paper describes the purpose and benefits of both GIS and BI, the technological advancements that have fostered their integration, and the synergistic benefits of integrated applications that can benefit the entire organization without disrupting existing IT environments.


Optimizing DBMS Architectures for Next-Generation Data Warehousing

Optimizing DBMS Architectures for Next-Generation Data Warehousing

01/06/10

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware.


Open Source in the Business Intelligence Market

Open Source in the Business Intelligence Market

09/28/09

The paper presents results of a survey on the adoption and use of open source software to deliver reporting and analytic capabilities, covering all parts of the stack from the database to end-user delivery. It is written for business and technical managers who are responsible for delivering reporting, business intelligence or analytics, whether embedded in applications, web sites or as part of a BI or data warehouse program.