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Getting Value from Hadoop: Build, Bridge, or Buy

Hadoop plays an important role in the big data architecture in many organizations. Big data analytics platforms provide a faster path to prove business value and eliminate risk that can upend your big data initiatives.


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Evolving Your Analytics with Big Data

Big data analytics allows you to answer a new generation of questions to become an agile business, and it allows your BI and analytics team to deliver more insights to your organization.


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Data Preparation for Modern BI: Common Design Patterns

If you want to be successful in mining big data for insights that will move the needle for your business, then the data you’re analyzing needs to be clean, organized, detailed, and well-understood.


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Avnet, Inc.: Serving Up Insight to Customers Faster Than Ever with Data Analytics and Warehousing in the Cloud

Download this white paper to learn how Avnet, Inc., takes advantage of the powerful data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities of cloud-based IBM dashDB.


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Harvard Research Group Assessment: IBM dashDB

Download this white paper for Harvard Research Group's assessment of IBM dashDB, a family of cloud-based data warehouse and database solutions for analytics and transaction processing.


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Ovum Enterprise Case Study: Understanding Customer Viewership and Behavior Across Platforms

Adapting to the expectations and changing buying behaviors of customers is becoming a Herculean task, requiring both business and technology transformation. Download this white paper for a case study on achieving a complete view of the customer with a scalable cloud database and analytics.


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IBM dashDB Local: Using a Software-Defined Environment in a Private Cloud to Enable Hybrid Data Warehousing

Download this white paper to learn about architecting a hybrid data warehouse that ultimately lowers the cost of analytics, enables unprecedented flexibility, and delivers deeper insights.


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Analyze JSON Data for 360-Degree Customer Insights

Download this white paper to learn how IBM Cloudant and IBM dashDB enable semistructured NoSQL data forms to be efficiently incorporated into business processes and quickly converted into actionable insights.


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Jibes Anticipates 30 Percent Jump in Revenue from Cloud-based Analytics

IBM Bluemix speeds analytics time-to-insight by up to 75 percent while minimizing a client’s investment.


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Rapid Insight with Results: Harnessing Analytics in the Cloud

Today's evolved cloud-based environments allow for acceleration in the process of converting raw data into consumable insight, ultimately paving the way for enhanced business decisions.


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IBM DataWorks Solution Brief

In order to stay on top of new data demands and remain competitive, enterprises must find ways to transform line of business professionals into skilled data workers, taking some of the burden off of IT.


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The Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016

Download this white paper for an evaluation of leading big-data Hadoop cloud solution vendors to find the right one for your enterprise.


Setting Your Data in Motion: Why Fluidity Is the Goal to Mastering MDM

Let Your Data Flow! Learn why fluidity is the key to mastering MDM. 5 best practices for setting your data in motion.


Mastering MDM: Lessons from B2B Leaders in Managing Data

Mastering MDM: Real-World Lessons in Managing Data. Best practices for building an A+ framework for MDM.


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7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data

Download this white paper to learn seven new ways to achieve success with big data.


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Big Data Analytics: Assessing the Revolution in Big Data and Business Analytics (10 Best Practice Recommendations)

Download this e-book for 10 recommendations for big data analytics best practices from Ventana Research.


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The Guide to Big Data Analytics

Download this e-book to learn how your company can use big data to generate more revenue and savings.


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Big Data Analytics Buyer's Guide

Download this guide to learn what's important when it comes to selecting a big data analytics platform.


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Using Big Data Analytics to Understand Customer Journeys and Drive Revenue

Download this e-book to discover how companies are using big data to understand their customer data across channels.


Making Analytics Part of Your Product: 5 Keys to Success

Download this e-book to how learn how embedding the right analytics technology should help differentiate and strengthen your organization's customer value proposition in the market.


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5 Reasons to Move Your BI to the Cloud

Download this white paper for a closer look at the benefits of cloud BI and how you can get started today.


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IBM dashDB: Enterprise MPP Service

IBM dashDB Enterprise MPP is a high performance, massively scalable cloud data warehouse service, fully managed by IBM. It enables simple and speedy information management, analytics, and business intelligence operations in the cloud.


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The Fluid Data Layer: The Future of Data Management

Download this e-book for an exploration of a new approach to making data available and accessible when and where it’s needed most: the fluid data layer.


Data Engineering with Apache Hadoop: Highlights from the Cloudera Engineering Blog

Download this white paper for selected posts from the Cloudera Engineering Blog about key concepts pertaining to building and maintaining analytics data infrastructure on a Hadoop-powered enterprise data hub.


Apache Impala (Incubating): Analytic Database for Apache Hadoop

Apache Impala provides high-performance, low-latency SQL queries on data stored in popular Apache Hadoop file formats. Download this white paper for featured blog posts from the Cloudera Engineering Blog about key Impala concepts, performance, and best practices.


Handling Hadoop Together: Dell | Cloudera | Intel

Dell, Cloudera, and Intel team to deliver an easy to consume modern data architecture.


Securing Sensitive Data: How to Navigate the New World of Compliance

This paper describes five best practices for achieving the latest compliance standards based on work done between MasterCard and the Hadoop market leader, Cloudera. The urgent need for partnerships to embrace data usage and security is detailed as well as the importance of achieving the latest compliance standards to use data responsibly, with a flexible, future-proof platform, to defend against potential security breaches.


mBank: A Modernized Data Architecture Drives Business Value In Banking

See how Cloudera provided mBank with a modern architecture for storing, processing, and analysis for all its data, enabling new methods of data utilization to improve competitiveness, and support more efficient use of the company’s existing IT infrastructure.


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Big Data Review 2015: A Detailed Investigation into the Maturing of Big Data Analytics

2015 was the year that Big Data went from being something that a few bigger organizations were doing to being something that a majority of organizations were either doing or at the very least actively considering. The maturing of cloud-based Big Data services has made Big Data analytics a feasible reality for organizations of all sizes. The benefits of Big Data are more widely understood – driven by the increasing numbers of case studies available. Vendors of Big Data software and services have become better at explaining exactly how their solutions benefit businesses. The Computing Big Data Review 2015 summarizes the results of a comprehensive research program undertaken by Computing during the first quarter of 2015.


The Enterprise Data Hub in Financial Services: Three Customer Case Studies

Download this white paper to learn how Cloudera is helping financial services firms address their big data challenges today and downstream.


Merkle Delivers Connected Consumer Recognition with Its Enterprise Data Hub

Download this white paper to learn how Merkle and Cloudera help businesses build customer relationships through smarter marketing.


Big Data Must Become a First-Class Citizen in the Enterprise

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.


Performance Management without Biases

Download this white paper to learn how Information Builders' Performance Management Framework facilitates the effective, efficient management of both financial and operational performance across an entire enterprise.


Seven Ways to Improve the Customer Experience with BI and Analytics

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.


Can Your Business Intelligence Environment Handle Data Growth?

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.


Achieving a Single View of the Citizen with Information Management

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.


Location, Location, Location: Finding, Understanding, and Using the Geography in Your Data

Download this white paper for an understanding of location analytics and how it makes geospatial information easier to interpret, understand, and retain.


The CIO's Top Three Priorities in 2015

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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Accelerate Data Discovery

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.


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Empower Your Analytics with All Your Enterprise Information: Agile BI Requires Self-Service Data Discovery

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.


Charting the Path to Digital Maturity in the Supply Chain

Download this Gartner report to learn how to ready your organization's supply chain to fully support digital business.


Analytical Gunslingers: The Quick and the Dead

Learn how self-service business intelligence (BI) provides gunslinger decision makers with quick and efficient access to data without IT intervention.


Analytical Detectives: Solving Data Mysteries

Empower your organization's analytical detectives. Learn how the right tools improve the performance and decision making of business intelligence users.


Four Reasons to Diminish the Bureaucracy around Data Discovery

Discover how collaborative data governance enables organizations to effectively manage IT bureaucracy and drive superior data discovery.


Collaborative Data Governance: Peeling the Red Tape off 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.


The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data Warehouse, Q4 2015

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.


7 Essential Elements in a Real-Time Streaming Analytics 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.


Six Reasons to Upgrade Your Database

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.