Download this white paper to learn how Merkle and Cloudera help businesses build customer relationships through smarter marketing.
Download this white paper to learn why big data and Hadoop must become first-class citizens in the enterprise, accessible to the people and skills that already form the IT organization.
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Download this white paper for an exploration of seven technology innovations that can empower businesses to optimize the customer experience in today’s multichannel world.
Download this white paper for a discussion of the pros and cons of various types of embedded data stores and an understanding of WebFOCUS Hyperstage, a data store for users of Information Builders' WebFOCUS BI platform.
Download this white paper to learn about Information Builders’ solutions that can empower government agencies to tap into timely, vital citizen information from more than 300 sources both inside and outside the organization.
New technologies make the CIO's list of priorities longer each year. Download this white paper for a close look at the CIO's objectives and how data management and analytics play a part.
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Download this white paper to learn how Attivio data source discovery and integration accelerates business intelligence initiatives and delivers a true 360-degree view of your business.
Download this Attivio e-book to learn how to provide the business analysts at your organization with the right tools to easily and quickly find the data they need to create the best business insights.
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Learn how self-service business intelligence (BI) provides gunslinger decision makers with quick and efficient access to data without IT intervention.
Empower your organization's analytical detectives. Learn how the right tools improve the performance and decision making of business intelligence users.
Discover how collaborative data governance enables organizations to effectively manage IT bureaucracy and drive superior data discovery.
The goals of users and IT can sometimes appear to be at odds. Discover how collaborative data governance helps IT deliver better information, faster.
This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help enterprise architect
professionals select the right solution to support their data warehouse platform.
As the speed of business increases and more information becomes available in real time, applications that can produce actionable insights are becoming the new imperative for organizations to keep pace. This white paper explores the top seven must-have features in a real-time streaming application platform in order to help you choose a platform that meets the needs of your organization.
Is your data architecture up to the challenge of the big data era? Can it manage workload demands, handle hybrid cloud environments, and keep up with performance requirements? This white paper provides six reasons why changing your database can help you take advantage of data and analytics innovations.
In this white paper, learn more about how big data provides richer transactional data and how that data is captured and analyzed to meet tomorrow’s business needs.
Download this white paper for the eight practices to avoid when planning and designing a master data management and data governance program.
Download this white paper to learn about mobile business intelligence and the WebFOCUS BI platform.
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Download this white paper for answers to important questions about self-service analytics, along with real-world use cases for sharing enterprise information.
Download this white paper to learn how to support new growth strategies and drive new revenue using eight important BI and analytics technologies.
Download this white paper to learn how the shift to business-led self-service analytics is significantly reordering the vendor landscape of business intelligence and analytics platforms.
Download this white paper to learn how to jump-start your big data initiative using Talend Big Data.
The big data and Hadoop paradigm shift has changed and disrupted how we derive business value from data, but the data integration tool landscape has lagged behind. This white paper evaluates two leading data integration vendors, Talend and Informatica, and benchmarks their performance against key differentiators.
This white paper presents the results of a Talend-sponsored online shopping survey and the factors that drive customers to abandon their shopping carts.
In many organizations, users are disengaging from the corporate business intelligence (BI) initiative. BI leaders need to take the right steps to regain their trust. This white paper describes what those steps are, along with how to implement the remedies that will increase engagement once again.
Data governance is the formulation of policy to optimize, secure, and leverage information as an enterprise asset by aligning the objectives of multiple functions. Data governance programs have traditionally been focused on people and process. In this whitepaper, we will discuss how key data governance capabilities are enabled by Oracle Enterprise Metadata Manager (OEMM) and Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ). This paper will introduce specific examples of how to leverage OEMM and EDQ tools within a well-defined data governance process and will also provide specific technical examples of how to deploy these solutions on Oracle and Intel® based engineered systems.
This white paper discusses the concept of shared data scale-out clusters, as well as how they deliver continuous availability and why they are important for delivering scalable transaction processing support. It goes on to discuss the specific advantages offered by IBM's DB2 pureScale, which is designed to deliver the power of server scale-out architecture, enabling enterprises to affordably develop and manage transactional databases that can meet the requirements of a cloud-based world with rapid transaction data growth, in an affordable manner.
This white paper describes how organizations that achieved big data success and high rates of returns used inline analytics, managing the feedback and improvement process from the company as a whole.
Want to know why business intelligence (BI) applications succeed and BI tools fail? This white paper presents the six worst practices in BI and analytics, and helps you avoid them. You'll learn from the experiences of BI experts and information specialists and avoid mistakes such as Worst Practice #1: "Buying What Analysts Want instead of Considering the Needs of Others." It's a great guide to help you think through how to use BI to enable a culture where everyone is empowered to make better decisions.
As the manufacturing industry rebounds, executives must find new ways to meet increasing demand and complex regulations. This white paper, by the MPI Group, outlines three core strategies that manufacturers should implement to meet today's growing pressures: innovation, talent, and process improvement – and integrate robust information and insights to manage all three for greater profitability.
In this white paper, we show you various ways to unlock the value of enterprise data – including big data and open data – for generating new revenue, realizing significant cost savings, redefining the customer experience, and pretty much changing business as usual.
This white paper describes the cost savings and business benefits of DB2 with BLU Acceleration. In a commissioned study of BLU Acceleration in-memory technology at a financial services client, it increased ROI, eliminated the need to manage indexes, and improved query response time. This helped to manage IT staff workload and enabled the organization to respond quickly to regulatory requests.
This white paper discusses the importance of employing advanced data visualization as part of a broader enterprise reporting solution. It demonstrates how this approach will expand the scope of analytic capabilities to help organizations uncover insights and measure related outcomes.
Learn how to easily optimize your database for comprehensive performance and virtualization monitoring, along with advanced workload analytics.
Learn how you can improve database efficiency and get advanced workload analytics—all at a fraction of the impact of conventional methods.
"Establishing poor goals" and "measures that drive the wrong behavior" are just two of the top 10 measurement and planning mistakes detailed by Mark Graham Brown in this white paper. Brown also offers advice—based on real-world experience—on how government and non-profit organizations can avoid or correct these mistakes.
The insurance industry is facing intense competition, pricing pressure, and rising fraud. Download this white paper to learn how insurers can take advantage of new tools and strategies to streamline processes, increase capacity, and empower the claims adjuster to make accurate decisions that benefit customers.
Download this white paper to learn how health plans can help members choose the right provider for their specific needs by using a variety of data sources to rate hospitals on the quality of their services.
View operational and performance health of each application component from a single pane of glass. Download the white paper to learn how.
Don’t just react to performance issues in your database. Achieve proactivity for a more stable system. How? Download the white paper to find out.
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Download this white paper to learn how top companies are changing the way they function using MicroStrategy mobile apps.
Download this white paper to learn how MicroStrategy provides enterprises with a secure cloud environment built from the ground up with a base of Fortune 1000 customers and their data in mind.
This Gartner report leverages customer survey data and analyst opinion to evaluate vendors across a variety of key product capabilities. Download it to learn why MicroStrategy 10 is the top vendor.
Download this white paper to learn why business leaders are embracing a more distributed model of data-driven decision support.
Download this white paper for insightful research demonstrating how businesses with the most effective BI programs tend to have a significantly higher degree of distributed, self-service elements.
It’s hard to deny that big data is changing the world as we know it. Download this white paper for a discussion of the most useful aspects of big data.
Download this e-book to learn how you can take advantage of external data to contextualize your analysis.
Download this white paper to learn how OpenText Analytics and Reporting technology allows healthcare organizations to pull large amounts of information from multiple sources for comprehensive and predictive analysis, while ensuring the quality, security, and availability of data for better decision making and optimal patient care.
In 2015, dashboards, end-user self-service, advanced visualization, and data warehousing lead the list of technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence (fig. 10). As in our 2014 study, the data show ongoing focus on fundamental and traditional BI functionality. Operational integration and data discovery also represent fundamental BI focus; only after these do “newer” initiatives including data mining, embedded BI, mobile device support, and in-memory analysis begin to emerge. Complex event processing, Internet of Things, and cognitive BI are the lowest ranked priorities in 2015.
This white paper focuses on how to avoid the top five most common mistakes enterprises make when approaching big data integration initiatives. Understanding and fixing these mistakes will kick-start your big data integration project.
As traditional BI functionality (e.g., reporting and OLAP) becomes commoditized, buyers need to look for other differentiation, such as in the area of big data capabilities. BI on Hadoop; predictive, streaming, and text analytics; data exploration; and other features related to big data are now key strategic enterprise BI platform selection criteria.
Download this white paper to learn about Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service and how it automates, streamlines, and guides the process of data ingestion, preparation, enrichment, and governance without costly manual intervention.
Storytelling helps you transform your argument into a persuasive presentation. Download this e-book to learn the three key reasons why you need a story, not just data.
Download this white paper to learn about IBM's new business intelligence (BI) solution, IBM Cognos Analytics, which bridges the divide between ad hoc, exploratory analytics and IT-driven traditional BI.
As the demands of IT service delivery are shifting toward bimodal capabilities, business intelligence leaders must introduce increased agility into the business analytics delivery process to maximize business. Download this white paper to learn the key steps to achieving agility.
Download this white paper to learn about OpenText Information Hub (iHub), a scalable analytics server platform that enables IT to design, deploy, and display secure interactive analytic applications, reports, and dashboards fed by multiple data sources.
Download this white paper to learn how iTAC Software AG has implemented the OpenText Information Hub (iHub) to integrate business intelligence and analytics software into its enterprise manufacturing system.
Download this white paper to learn how Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Big Data Option offers customers enterprise-scale big data integration.
Modern companies understand the benefits of sharing information across departments. Download this e-book to learn how you can best report your BI insights.
Predictive capacity leads to better financial results, but companies often get stuck at descriptive analytics because most predictive solutions are expensive and require months of training and a team of experts to squeeze value out of data.
Download this e-book to learn the five steps to creating a visually persuasive dashboard.
Download this e-book to learn how Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service can turn your complex business data sets into meaningful information.
Download this white paper to gain key insight into building streaming data capacity, and learn about Zoomdata’s strength as a visual streaming-data analytics solution.
One of the leading pediatric healthcare facilities in the United States knows children are not just small adults. They need specialized diagnosis, treatment, equipment, and support. Most importantly, they require doctors, nurses, and specialists who understand these differences. This national children's hospital relies on a big data platform to better understand its patients, their conditions, and the quality of care they receive in support of its mission: to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Big data is a big topic, but many organizations are not realizing its true value. Download this e-book to learn the truth about three big data myths.
Nearly every organization uses analytics, but many are not realizing the full potential they can deliver to their organization. This e-book shares 10 proven best practices based on Qlik's 20 years of service to over 34,000 customers. You’ll learn valuable tips for making your analytics project a success.
Download this e-book to learn how your organization can make the transformation from maintaining data governance to enabling governed discovery.
Download this white paper to learn how Intel and Cloudera are helping an auto insurance company individualize customer rates by analyzing driver data from vehicles.
BI leaders often focus solely on license metrics when comparing BI platform vendor and analytic tool costs, even though it makes up only a small portion of overall cost of ownership. In this report, Garter compares total three-year BIPOC and its components across vendors, vendor types and deployment sizes.
Download this e-book and learn eight tips for designing modern data visualizations.
It’s a well-known fact that information technology is changing. But amidst all this change, one thing remains the same: business intelligence and analytics continue to be a priority for businesses. Read our e-book to understand how five key trends are affecting business intelligence today, and how IT’s role needs to shift to meet the changing demands of its users.
Download this white paper to get a look under the covers of popular data discovery tools from three leading suppliers.
Download this white paper to learn about open source and commercial SQL engines for Hadoop, so you can choose the best option for your enterprise’s needs.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report is an ideal way to understand what the market looks like for the year ahead. As Gartner explains: “The establishment of an updated modern BI and analytics platform definition for this year’s Magic Quadrant has significantly transformed the Leaders quadrant relative to its composition in previous years.” Get your complimentary copy of Gartner’s report for in-depth analysis of where BI is headed in 2016, who the major vendors are, and why Qlik is positioned in the Leaders quadrant for the sixth consecutive year.
Download this white paper to learn which vendors offer the best data warehouse and data management solutions for analytics.
Business intelligence and analytics leaders must re-evaluate and evolve the capabilities of their teams to ensure that they can leverage bimodal work practices to engage, communicate, and adapt to new developments in business analytics, including diagnostic and predictive analytics
Markerstudy Group, a leading UK-based general insurance company, serves over 1.75 million customers. The fast-growing company with a strong culture for innovation was established in 2001 to provide insurance solutions, primarily through a network of over 3,000 brokers and intermediaries. Generating annual revenues of over £1.4 billion, the company specializes in commercial and personal auto including niche sectors such as young drivers, high performance cars, taxis, and fleet insurance.
Key to Markerstudy's success in a highly competitive market was its use of a big data analytics platform which allowed the company to provide better service at the point of quote, achieve cost savings, and inform pricing and product development decisions with greater ease and speed.
Download this e-book to learn how to tell a compelling story with charts and graphs.
This white paper explores "future-proofing" strategies to leverage the steady flow of new real-time streaming data analytics platforms. It defines a thoughtful approach to capitalize on the window of opportunity to benefit from the power of real-time decision making now, while still being able to move to new and emerging technologies as they become enterprise ready.
See how analytics inform your approach to people, processes, and technologies to drive platform migration success. Get the white paper today.
In this white paper, we’ll provide insight that will help organizations apply the "mobile first" strategy to their business intelligence (BI) implementations. Learn about key considerations for creating reporting and analysis environments for mobile devices, such as small screen sizes, device and delivery preferences, and varying connectivity and bandwidth constraints. We’ll also introduce "InfoApps," which are intuitive, visually compelling, and easy-to-use apps that allow mobile users to immediately discover the answers to numerous mission-critical business questions.
Sometimes, big data can go bad. In this white paper, we discuss why big data environments are at a greater risk for data quality problems. We’ll also highlight the importance of implementing effective and broad-reaching data quality management in big data scenarios, and share solutions and best practices for doing so.
Federal agencies must enhance productivity and cost efficiency while boosting transparency, accountability, and performance. This paper lays out key data integration requirements needed to enable successful legacy modernization while lowering operational costs and risk. It also provides a summary of some integration solutions deployed within the federal government and the benefits derived.
There are many ways to integrate and access vital data. This paper highlights eight proven integration strategies and uses real-world examples to demonstrate the high-value, high-return data access options that are currently available. It explores data warehouses, as well as other methods for making relevant, timely information available to your business users, systems, and processes.
Discover how analytical evangelists build progressive, adaptable organizations and drive collaboration across all levels and functions of business.
This paper outlines the nine critical technology capabilities for a game-changing business intelligence (BI) application: SaaS, extensibility, social analytics, location intelligence, predictive analytics, performance management, data quality and master data management, data integration, and big data. Information Builders establishes impactful relationships with leading organizations to help customers differentiate themselves using these capabilities.
Interest in transforming data from business applications into actionable information has created a resounding explosion in offerings for business analytics. The amount of data generated and captured across multiple sources can be overwhelming. New analytical capabilities capitalize on your big data as well as data stemming from a wide array of applications, including sales, inventory, marketing, loyalty, Web, finance, mobile, sensors, and other systems. Incorporating market-leading analytics into your application helps you improve your value proposition and drive new revenue while letting your development staff focus on your core functionality.
Discover how collaborative data governance allows IT to fulfill its business data duties while continuously improving users’ data discovery experience.
Learn how the proven process outlined in this white paper can help you overcome migration challenges and successfully upgrade to Oracle Database 12c.
Big data is about more than just storing massive volumes of information. It also creates tremendous opportunities by leveraging predictive analytics. This paper highlights how combining advanced analytical solutions, such as predictive analytics—with data integration and integrity technologies—can facilitate successful analytics and decision management in big data scenarios.
Learn how to incorporate big data analytics to drive more effective strategies and decision-making for your organization. Read the white paper today.
To frame big data analytics, you need to identify the purpose of the project, connections to existing data, and the context for the analysis. Master data establishes the context and connections that are absent from most big data analytics. In this white paper, you'll learn how master data management (MDM) and its companion, data governance, can also improve data quality and provide other enhancements to your big data analytics initiative.
This research report, sponsored by Beacon Partners and Information Builders, summarizes insights and opinions from a recent roundtable discussion convened in New York City. The panelists, comprising a cross section of prestigious healthcare organizations, hammered home a truth: Business intelligence is not just a marker of what we are doing and how we are doing it. It is also a conduit to shared information, analytic insights, and collaborative decision making for business and clinical initiatives at both operational and strategic levels. BI is both the starting gun and the path to a victory lap. Download the report now to learn more.
This white paper explores what it means to “visualize responsibly” by addressing five key questions you should ask to avoid the pitfalls and limitations of most data discovery tools: Can you empower all decision makers, not just a select few? Are rogue dashboards creating more questions than answers? How do you ensure data integrity and prevent flawed insights? What costs are associated with in-memory limitations? Can you add advanced analytical capabilities with ease? We’ll outline the criteria for data visualization success and provide key features of the technology required to achieve it. Case studies demonstrate how leading organizations are leveraging self-service analytics to help everyone make better, fact-based decisions.
Combined, business intelligence and enterprise search can serve as a key enabler of optimized operational performance, providing decision makers with a single simplified point of access to the broadest range of data and content that offers insight into data and information that had not previously been possible.