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Modernizing the Analytic Database with Cloudera Enterprise

Learn how Cloudera Enterprise provides a new kind of analytic database designed to tap into the full value of your data. As an adaptive, high-performance, analytic database, it opens up BI and exploratory analytics over more data—using the skills analysts already rely on—to derive instant value.


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The Data-Driven Enterprise Done Right

This guide contains the information you’ll need to understand and succeed with modern cloud data warehousing. It will start you on a path to transform your company’s data analytics with five key topics crucial to getting started.


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Use Self-Service Analytics to Build Strong Data Teams

If you want your business to be data-driven, you must first make an important decision about how to tap into your organization’s vast resources of raw data and how to turn this data into actionable business intelligence.


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2018 Top BI Trends

It can be hard to keep up with the rapidly changing business intelligence (BI) landscape. But it doesn't have to be.


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10 Ways to Transform Big Data into Big Value

Modern BI solutions can increase the value of big data exponentially by lowering the barrier to entry with user-friendly solutions.


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Embedded Analytics for Dummies Qlik Special Edition

This book outlines the factors that your organization should consider before rolling out embedded analytics.


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LNS Research: Quality 4.0 Impact and Strategy Handbook

This e-book gives manufacturers the tools to lead the Qual­ity 4.0 transformation—a transformation that raises traditional manufacturing to the next level. It teaches readers to use advanced technology, analytics and IIoT to strengthen the manufacturing process and bring it forward into a powerful digital age.


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Navigant: Charging Ahead with EV Analytics

This white paper from Navigant Research, sponsored by SAS and Intel, explores the analytics infrastructure that utilities need to prepare for and benefit from the growth of electric vehicles.


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Analytics Accelerates Monetization Opportunities for Connected Vehicle and Mobility Services

Learn how automakers and their partners are using IoT data and analytics to help them reshape business models, seize new sources of revenue, and develop inventive ways to better serve customers.


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IIA: IoT in Retail: Engaging the Connected Customer

Read this research summary from the International Institute for Analytics to get started. You’ll learn how to use analytics to gain advanced insight from the Internet of Things: tracking chips, in-store infrared traffic monitors, interactive kiosks and customer mobile devices, to name a few.


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Which Data Integration Solution Is Best for You?

Download the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools Report to find out!


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Bridging The IoT Perception Gap: Information vs. Operational Technology

The ability to gather data from sensors embedded throughout an enterprise can drive insights and operational efficiencies from the supply chain to the customer. But IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT) implementations require high degrees of IT/OT convergence—collaboration and integration between information technology and operational technology groups—to succeed.


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A Non-Geek's Guide to the Internet of Things

This A-to-Z guide includes 101 common terms related to the Internet of Things.


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Cloud Data Warehousing for Dummies

Download this e-book to discover how your organization can tap the power of massive amounts of data conveniently and affordably to enhance efficiency and transform raw data into valuable business intel.


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Eight Storage Requirements for AI and Machine Learning

Eight specific storage requirements of AI and ML applications and why they demand the data management capabilities supplied by enterprise object storage solutions.


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Accelerating SQL and BI Analytics

This white paper explores the features that make GPU databases ideal for BI and incorporates real-world use cases from actual customer implementations.


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Making Big Data Analytics Smarter with Cloudian and Cloudera

As data grows in volume, variety, and velocity, so does the capacity required for storage and archive as well as associated infrastructure and operating costs.


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Optimize Storage Economics and Data Management with Machine Learning

With unstructured data growing today at a dramatic rate, managing it requires a new approach—one that can automatically make intelligent decisions so IT does not have to do so manually.


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E-Book: Streaming Change Data Capture – A Foundation for Modern Data Architectures

Download this book to understand how change data capture (CDC) technology works, why CDC is needed, and what your peers have learned from their CDC implementations.


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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Extract Transform Load (ETL)

Avoid the unnecessary parts of ETL to maintain data integrity and achieve faster time to value for your analytics initiatives.


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U.S. Banking Update: Opportunities and Challenges for IT in 2018

This IDC Perspective describes the technology investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities of banks and credit unions in the United States in 2018.


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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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The EDW Lives On: The Beating Heart of the Data Lake

Finally, we can move beyond the conflict between data warehouse and data lake! It’s no longer one vs. the other but, rather, how these two concepts can complement one another for the benefit of both business and IT.


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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.