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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Redefining Data Governance

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


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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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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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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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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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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.


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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.


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.