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TDWI White Paper Library

TDWI maintains this library of white papers as a resource for in-depth research and commentary about the big data, business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics industry. The content in this repository is crafted by TDWI's software and consulting partners. To find out how your company can promote its content in this library, click here.


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Balancing the Value of the Cloud Against Data Imperatives

The only way to bring order to this chaotic environment is to employ a comprehensive hybrid cloud strategy that provides data management capability across cloud, multicloud, and on-premises infrastructure.


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Data and Analytics Are the Keys to Banking's Future

Banks consider big data analytics a competitively differentiating technology.


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Using a Global Data Management Platform to Empower Effective Analytics Across Multicloud

In today’s hybrid and multicloud environments, forward-looking organizations are deploying global data management platforms that span hybrid cloud architectures.


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Data Governance 2.0: Uniting People and Information to Drive Real Business Results

This report explores a leading approach to data governance and the impact it can have on today’s most data-rich organizations.


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Information Empowerment for Your Evolving Data Ecosystem

The end-to-end information capabilities of IBM Information Server let you better understand data and cleanse, monitor, transform and deliver it. Information Server can uniquely support the flexibility, performance, and scalability required to succeed with projects of any size.


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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog Solution Brief

By leveraging the comprehensive capabilities in Information Governance Catalog, you are better able to align IT with your business goals.


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Case Study: Top U.S. Airline Boosts Real-time Customer Experience Across Channels with StreamAnalytix

This major U.S. airline chose StreamAnalytix in a bid to efficiently manage, analyze, and draw actionable real-time insight from its continuously growing and complex customer and operational data.


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Top Six Considerations for a Streaming Analytics Platform

Enterprises today need a streaming analytics platform that can filter, aggregate, enrich, analyze, and visualize high-velocity data from multiple disparate live data sources in any data format and unify this insight with data from batch sources.


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6 Myths of Moving from Traditional to Modern BI

In this e-book, we’ll explore common myths and misconceptions about moving from traditional to modern BI.


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A Gentle Introduction to Apache Spark

If you are a developer or data scientist interested in big data, learn why Spark may be the tool for you. Databricks is happy to present this e-book as a practical introduction to Spark.


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Cloudera in the Cloud: The Future of Cloud-based Analytics

Nik Rouda discusses how Cloudera complements popular cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, and offers the unified platform to organize, process, analyze, and store data at large scale...anywhere.


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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

The companies seeing the greatest value from IoT are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers.


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The Many Advantages of Cloudera Enterprise

Your data platform choice will ultimately determine the success of all your business and operational goals related to insights.


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The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis

This paper presents some points you should consider if you use, or plan to use, a spreadsheet to perform statistical analysis.


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R and SPSS Software: Everyone Wins

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the benefits of using the R programming language with IBM SPSS Statistics and Modeler software rather than simply trying to go it alone with R.


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The Power of IBM SPSS Statistics and R Together

Using IBM SPSS Statistics and R together makes the most of both worlds.


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The How's and Why's of Survey Research

Organizations today rely on survey research to gather much-needed business intelligence. This white paper discusses survey research as a seven-step process, detailing how to maximize your efforts every step of the way.


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Predictive Analytics in Customer Surveys: Bridge the Gap Between Data and Action

Customer surveys are an invaluable business tool for gauging customer sentiment and behavior. Using predictive analytics to analyze and act on survey data helps businesses design and execute activities that ultimately maximize performance results.


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Data Science is a Team Sport: Do You Have the Skills to Be A Team Player

The more data you have, the better the quality of your reports and strategic recommendations, right? Sure…if you can analyze that data intelligently and quickly, and make it actionable with valuable insights.


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From Business Insight to Business Action

Organizations often lack two critical capabilities when it comes to making the right decisions for the business: the ability to make accurate predictions about the future, and to then use those predicted insights in conjunction with organizational goals to identify the best possible actions they should take.


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Seven Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today

With predictive analytics, the enterprise learns from its cumulative experience (data), and takes action to apply what's been learned.


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Foundational Methodology for Data Science

In the domain of data science, solving problems and answering questions through data analysis is standard practice. Often, data scientists construct a model to predict outcomes or discover underlying patterns, with the goal of gaining insights.


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Introducing Notebooks: A Power Tool for Data Scientists

Data exploration and analysis is a repetitive, iterative process, but in order to meet business demands, data scientists do not always have the luxury of long development cycles. What if data scientists could answer bigger and tougher questions faster?


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Honda Is Using IBM Watson to Drive Real Changes in Quality Assurance

Honda's process for gathering customer feedback about issues and classifying this information was extremely time consuming as individuals had to read and classify each message, which averages about 310,000 messages per month in Japan alone. So Honda worked with IBM to implement a cognitive solution using IBM Watson Explorer to help extract and classify the incoming feedback.


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Embrace Advanced Case Management Capabilities for a Seamless Customer Experience

Financial services firms are facing a new set of challenges and risks. In an increasingly global, mobile, and connected world, customers expect the companies with which they do business to leverage Big Data, analytics, mobile, cloud, and other technologies to improve the customer experience.


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Customer Centricity: Knowledge is Power in the Age of the Customer

This document outlines how best-in-class firms use efficient content processes to achieve higher levels of customer-centricity.


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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management—Business Content Services, Q2 2017

This report helps enterprise architecture (EA) professionals make the right choice when requirements are skewed to the needs of information workers who need to create, collaborate on, share, and find enterprise content.


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Putting An End to Content Chaos

IBM can help you access, analyze, and act on business content with proven industry-focused content management solutions. Smarter content for customer-centricity and productivity is just a click away.


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Moving From Enterprise Search to Cognitive Exploration

Leveraging technological advances such as deep search and exploration, advanced content analytics, and cognitive capabilities, IBM Watson Explorer provides a unified view of the information you need.


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IBM Watson Explorer

IBM Watson Explorer is a cognitive exploration solution that combines search and content analytics with unique cognitive computing capabilities to help users find and understand the information they need to work more efficiently and make better, more confident decisions.


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IBM Datacap Insight Edition

IBM is leading the way in cognitive computing with solutions such as IBM® Datacap Insight Edition. which, applies advanced imaging, text analytics, natural language processing and machine learning technologies to automatically find, extract and classify important information from complex and variable documents.


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IBM Big SQL

IBM® Big SQL enables users to query Hive and HBase data using ANSI-compliant SQL. Make better decisions fast with powerful SQL-on-Hadoop for big data analytics.


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Bridging to the Cloud: The Right Database Can Make the Difference

This paper outlines what readers should consider when making a strategic commitment to a database platform that will act as a bridge from legacy environments to the cloud.


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Successful Data Warehouse Approaches to Meet Today's Analytics Demands

Analytics usage trends are placing new demands on rigid data warehouses. What’s needed is hybrid data warehouse architecture that supports all deployment models.


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Adapting to the Cloud for New Data and Analytic Demands

In this white paper, IDC describes the current and emerging states of business analytics solution deployments. The demand trends, based on IDC's market research, are being addressed with an emerging new data management and analytics architecture that emphasizes a hybrid approach to these analytics technologies.


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Six Reasons to Upgrade Your Database

This e-book presents six reasons why you should consider a database change, including opinions from industry analysts and real-world customer experiences. Read on to learn more.


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Is Your Database Ready for the Cognitive Era?

Cognitive applications can learn and react to customer preferences, and then use that information to support capabilities such as confidence-weighted outcomes with data transparency, systematic learning and natural language processing. To make the most of these next-generation applications, you need a next-generation database.


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The Unrealized Promise of Analytics and How Data Governance Can Help

Explore the link between data governance and analytics, and discover why good data governance is essential to analytics success.


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How to Become a Data Governance Expert

Download the e-book to learn everything you need to know to master the “must-have” skill of 2017.


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A Comprehensive Guide to the Data Catalog

Download this e-book to learn what a data catalog is, why you need it, and how to find the right one.


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Redefining Data Governance

Think you know data governance? Think again. Download the white paper to see why.


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The CDO's Complete Guide to Data Governance

Download this complete guide to get everything you need to start – or restart – your data governance program.


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2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions

Download your complimentary copy of the Gartner report to see where the market is headed and why Collibra is positioned in the Leader’s quadrant.


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Back to the Future: Reclaiming the Vision of Data Centralization

The obstacles that have long prevented companies from completing the centralization process can now be overcome with the right technical stack of tools and databases. In the modern world, the centralized repository can come to life in new ways to allow organizations to finally realize the dream of a single version of the truth.


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Cloud Data Warehouse Adoption Delivers Increased Agility and Reduces Operational Cost

Download this white paper to see how Hexaware developed a road map for building a highly scalable Cloud Data Warehouse that could be provisioned in a quicker time frame and handle high volumes of data processing.


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Governing GDPR Challenges with Enterprise Data Architecture

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will bring new accountability obligations, increased data protection rights for EU citizens, and restrictions on data flows across borders. In this whitepaper, Sultan Shiffa discusses how ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition can help organizations develop an enterprise data architecture with an eye toward GDPR compliance.


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Five Reasons You’re Not Getting the ROI You Expect from Your Cloud Data Warehouse Investment

This paper explores five key reasons why companies are struggling to get the results they want with their cloud database migrations and why it’s crucial for companies to invest in a tool that can fully leverage the power of the cloud.


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Buyers Guide to Choosing the Right Data Science Platform

Download this white paper to learn the twelve critical building blocks of an enterprise data science platform.


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6 Key Trends for IT Decision-Makers in 2017 and Beyond

This white paper identifies the opportunities and hazards related to 6 key trends in IT, including big data, intelligent algorithms and smart machines.


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Data Preparation Buyer's Guide

Download this guide to take the pain and frustration out of choosing a self-service data preparation solution and select the one that’s right for your business.


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Build a True Data Lake with a Cloud Data Warehouse

If you want to give your organization a data lake that’s deeper and broader than ever before, while maintaining essential control and governance, you can do so today.


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How Leading Enterprises Achieve Business Transformation with Talend and AWS

This handbook takes a deep dive into the IT architectures developed by three different enterprises for big data, real-time analytics, and ETL projects on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Talend.


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A 16 Step Data Governance Plan for GDPR Compliance

When GDPR takes effect in May 2018, data governance may become one of the most important elements of your data integration architecture.


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The Rise of the Data Marketplace: Data as a Service

Download this white paper to learn why we must learn to think about data as a service that is accessed, processed, analyzed, and reported by everyone who has a need for information.


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Accelerate Business Agility with Our AWS Redshift Services

Download this white paper to learn how Agilisium provides a comprehensive framework that enables seamless and risk-free migration to AWS Redshift.


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Driving Business Insights from Your Data

Download this e-book for insights, best practices, and key steps to leverage your company's data to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and drive new business opportunities.


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For the Fast and the Curious: Live the Data-Inspired Future

Download this white paper to learn why your organization should move to an innovation-driven business model and adopt a data-centric approach to meet the demands of the marketplace.


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The Information Revolution: What Are You Doing with Your Data?

This white paper describes how analytics solutions from OpenText can help your business derive more value from the Internet of Things.


Key Consideration for Business Intelligence Total Cost of Ownership

Download this white paper to learn how to reduce the total cost of business intelligence by adopting the right BI platform.


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Analytics Connects You to the Digital World

Download this white paper to learn why having an active analytics attitude, backed up with the right analytics and reporting solution, can help you work smarter and faster.


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Deep Learning: An AI Revolution Started for Courageous Enterprises

Download this white paper for a better understanding of deep learning.


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Data Discovery and Governance: Benefits, Challenges, and Guidelines

Download this white paper for highlights on the benefits of data governance for data discovery and self-service analytics environments.


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10 Companies Share 30+ Best Practices for Creating Smart Analytics Products

In search of best practices for creating successful analytics products, Birst interviewed 10 companies across different industries. Download this e-book for the most valuable takeaways from the interviews.


Managing Data Warehouse Off-Loading with Big Data

Managing Data Warehouse Off-Loading with Big Data is the definitive guide to implementing a data warehouse off-loading pattern with data virtualization. Download it today.


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Critical Capabilities for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

The business intelligence (BI) market has shifted to more user-driven, agile development of visual, interactive dashboards with data from a broader range of sources. This white paper finds that data and analytics leaders should augment or upgrade traditional BI platforms to modern platforms that improve business value and speed time to insight.


Reinventing Self-Service for Wide-Scale Adoption of Analytics

Download this white paper to learn how self-service analytics can meet the needs of different user communities at your organization.


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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

Download this report for a survey of the current landscape for data integration tools and the top players in the field.


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Modernize Your Supply Chain with Smart, Connected Analytics

Download this white paper to learn how modern supply chain analytics will facilitate collaboration beyond the four walls of your business and across the entire ecosystem of partners and suppliers.


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Embrace Self-Service Data Preparation Tools for Agility, but Govern to Avoid Data Chaos

Download this white paper to learn why BI leaders who embrace self-service data preparation capabilities will have a competitive advantage over organizations that insist on centralized ETL alone.


The Forrester Wave: Cloud Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2015

This white paper describes Forrester’s 16-criteria evaluation of cloud business intelligence platform vendors, which identified the 15 most significant vendors in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Their research uncovered a market in which Birst is one of the three leading vendors.


Governance in the Age of Data Discovery: Delivering Trust and Transparency at Business Speed

This white paper describes how companies evaluating business intelligence solutions must look for modern architectures that support transparent governance at business speed and deliver a unified view of data without sacrificing end-user autonomy.


Monetizing the Data Exhaust: Top 10 Industries with Data Monetization Opportunities

Download this white paper for a look at the top 10 industries that can monetize the value of their data. This is a collection of use cases that show examples of monetizable data, the value and beneficiaries of this data, and the business applications that can be created around it.


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Fulfilling the Promise of Data Lakes: Data Virtualization Addresses the Challenges of Big Data

Download this white paper to learn how data virtualization provides a way to access data from separate systems, making it appear as if the data were in a single data lake.


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Benchmark Your BI Environment for Continuous Improvement

Download this white paper to measure and assess the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization's business intelligence environment.


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7 Leading Companies That Transformed Their Business with Analytics

Download this white paper to learn how seven companies transformed their business by using data analytics, along with the analytics applications they implemented.


Denodo Platform 6.0: An In-Depth Review

Download this white paper for an in-depth review of the Denodo Platform 6.0 and its key features, which offer significant breakthroughs in data virtualization technology.


Data Virtualization Usage Patterns for Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Architectures

Today’s users demand reports with better business insights, more information sources, real-time data, and more self-service—and they want these delivered more quickly, making it hard for BI professionals to meet such expectations. This white paper outlines how the use of data virtualization can help BI professionals to accomplish these goals.


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Data Warehousing in the Cloud

Download this Checklist Report to learn best practices for data warehousing in the cloud.


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Forrester Consulting - Data Refinement: Facilitating the Data-Driven Organization

Download this white paper to understand the right way to embrace data refinement and turn your organization's raw data into actionable information.


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Why Cloud Is the Future of Data Warehousing

Download this white paper to learn how IBM dashDB transforms the traditional data warehouse with a hybrid architecture that provides all the flexibility and scalability of the cloud while ensuring security.


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Maximizing Your Data Lake with a Cloud or Hybrid Approach

Download this white paper to learn how your organization can benefit from a data lake maintained in a cloud or hybrid infrastructure.


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Hadoop-Enabled Analytics: Don't Ignore the Elephant in the Room

Download this white paper to learn about Hadoop's business-friendly benefits.


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Five Key Capabilities Surrounding a Top-Notch Hadoop Environment

Download this white paper to learn how Hadoop can be a catalyst for an enhanced and well-rounded data strategy.


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The Hybrid Data Warehouse: Fluid, Flexible, and Formidable

Download this white paper to explore hybrid data warehouses that exploit the potential of cutting-edge technologies.


Architecting a Platform for Big Data Analytics (2nd ed.)

Download this white paper to learn about IBM's cloud and on-premises big data analytics offerings, such as IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop; IBM integration with Apache Spark; and Big SQL and Fluid Query, which simplify access to traditional data warehouses and Hadoop.


Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics

The market for data warehouse and data management solutions for analytics is demanding broad solutions. Download this Gartner Magic Quadrant report to find the right vendor for your needs.


Just the Facts: Four Critical Concepts for Planning the Logical Data Warehouse

If your first-generation warehouse is constraining your business, it may be time to consider a logical data warehouse solution. This white paper describes the four key facts you need to know to help you evaluate and choose the right solution.


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How to Scale Business Intelligence with Hadoop-Based Platforms

Download this new vendor-neutral assessment to learn key barriers to feeding the growing appetite for data insight across organizations—and how to overcome them at the scale that only a native big data architecture makes possible.


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The Forrester Wave: Native Hadoop BI Platforms (Q3 2016)

The future of scalable enterprise software and applications is tightly bound with Hadoop. Download this white paper for a comparison of six vendors vying for business intelligence’s Hadoop future across 22 critieria.


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Cloudera Cerner Case Study: Saving Lives with Big Data Analytics That Predict Patient Conditions

Download this white paper to learn how a healthcare IT company is using big data and analytics to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery while improving patient outcomes.


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Cloudera Enterprise: The Industry Standard for a Complete Data-in-Motion Solution

Download this white paper to learn how your organization can benefit from Cloudera’s secure data-in-motion solution for the ingestion, processing, and serving of your data.


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Modern BI and the AWS Data Lake: Engaging Data to Unlock Valuable and Rapid Business Insight

Download this e-book to learn about the value of migrating to an AWS data lake and the rationale for a modern BI solution such as Zoomdata to drive analysis and visualize data.


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Best Practices for a Successful Big Data Journey

Download this white paper to learn how big data analytics can help your organization increase revenue, reduce operating costs, and avoid debilitating losses.


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Top Five High-Impact Use Cases for Big Data Analytics

Download this e-book to learn how to use big data to grow your business and gain a competitive edge.


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Beyond BI: What Is a Big Data Analytics Problem?

Download this e-book for a clear understanding of the value big data analytics offers over traditional business intelligence.


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Building a Large Scale, Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection System - Part 1: Design Principles

This white paper, part one in a three-part series, covers the design principles of creating an anomaly detection system. It explores various types of machine learning techniques, along with the main design principles that affect how that learning takes place.


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Open vs. Embedded Analytics: Decision Criteria for Cloud ISVs

Download this white paper for a discussion of the pros and cons of open and embedded analytics.


Digital Transformation of Telecommunications

Download this white paper to learn how powerful analytics can fine-tune service offerings, optimize network operations, reduce customer turnover, and improve capacity planning at telecommunications companies.


Digital Transformation of Higher Education

Download this white paper to learn how institutions of higher education are using MicroStrategy’s enterprise solutions to transform recruitment, promote student achievement, and drive financial planning.


Five Ways Mobile Apps Are Driving the Store of the Future

Download this white paper to learn how leading retailers are embracing mobile technology to enhance the customer experience, drive sales, boost customer loyalty, and achieve operational efficiencies.


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