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Big Data: Why Transaction Data Is Mission Critical to Success

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.


The 8 Worst Practices in Master Data Management and How to Avoid Them

Download this white paper for the eight practices to avoid when planning and designing a master data management and data governance program.


Mobile Business Intelligence 101: Proven Strategies and Use Cases

Download this white paper to learn about mobile business intelligence and the WebFOCUS BI platform.


The Real Cost of Bad Data: Six Simple Steps to Address Data Quality Issues

Download this white paper for six highly effective steps for fixing your bad data.


Reinventing Self-Service for Wide-Scale Adoption of Analytics

Download this white paper for answers to important questions about self-service analytics, along with real-world use cases for sharing enterprise information.


Eight Ways to Generate New Revenue with Business Intelligence and Analytics

Download this white paper to learn how to support new growth strategies and drive new revenue using eight important BI and analytics technologies.


Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

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.


Modern Data Architecture with Apache Hadoop: Talend Big Data

Download this white paper to learn how to jump-start your big data initiative using Talend Big Data.


Hadoop Integration Benchmark: Product Profile and Evaluation - Talend and Informatica

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.


Talend Sponsored Retail Survey on: Shopping Basket Abandonment

This white paper presents the results of a Talend-sponsored online shopping survey and the factors that drive customers to abandon their shopping carts.


How to Re-engage Users with the Corporate BI Initiative

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 with Oracle

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.


Affordable, Scalable, Reliable OLTP in a Cloud and Big Data World: IBM DB2 pureScale

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.


Follow the Money: Big Data ROI and Inline Analytics

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.


Top Six Worst Practices in Business Intelligence

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.


Bridging the Gap in Manufacturing

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.


Data Monetization Strategies: How to Make Money and Save Money with Data and Analytics

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.


The Total Economic Impact of IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration

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.


A New Generation of Business Analytics: Beyond BI and Data Discovery Tools

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.


Optimize Your Databases Using Foglight for Oracle's Performance Investigator (PI)

Learn how to easily optimize your database for comprehensive performance and virtualization monitoring, along with advanced workload analytics.


Accelerate Database Efficiency with SQL Performance Investigator (PI)

Learn how you can improve database efficiency and get advanced workload analytics—all at a fraction of the impact of conventional methods.


Top 10 Measurement and Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

"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.


Handling Claims in an Increasingly Digital World: A New Era of P&C Claims Management

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.


Provider Quality Assessment Tool Helps Patients Choose the Right Hospital

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.


Proactive Performance Management for Enterprise Databases

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.


Resolving the Database Performance Blame Game

View operational and performance health of each application component from a single pane of glass. Download the white paper to learn how.


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Key Methods for Managing Complex Database Environments

Discover the key methods to ensure your database stack is operating at optimal levels of performance and availability. Download the white paper today.


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10 Reasons Big Data Is Important Today

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.


Customer Use Cases: Mobile Business Intelligence and the Best Industry Apps

Download this white paper to learn how top companies are changing the way they function using MicroStrategy mobile apps.


Business Intelligence in the Cloud White Paper

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.


Gartner Critical Capabilities for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

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.


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Decisions, Decisions: How Leading Firms Are Arming Frontline Executives with Data-Driven Insights

Download this white paper to learn why business leaders are embracing a more distributed model of data-driven decision support.


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Analytical Enablement: How Leaders Harness Distributed Business Intelligence to Drive Breakthrough Results

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.


Bring Your Own Data

Download this e-book to learn how you can take advantage of external data to contextualize your analysis.


OpenText Analytics for Healthcare: Improve Efficiency and Quality and Deliver Better Healthcare Services

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.


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Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study

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.


The Five Most Common Big Data Integration Mistakes to Avoid

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.


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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q1 2015

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.


Big Data Preparation Cloud Service (BDP)

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.


3 Reasons Why You Need a Story, Not Just Data

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.


IBM Cognos Analytics: A Bridge across the Analytic Chasm

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.


OpenText Information Hub (iHub): Increase the Value of Your Applications with Embedded Analytics

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.


How to Be Agile with Business Analytics

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.


Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Advanced Big Data Option

Download this white paper to learn how Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Big Data Option offers customers enterprise-scale big data integration.


Software Provider Better Leverages Big Data for Manufacturing Needs

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.


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Move from Rear-View to Future Analytics

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.


5 Ways of Reporting Your BI Insights

Modern companies understand the benefits of sharing information across departments. Download this e-book to learn how you can best report your BI insights.


Beyond Excel: 5 Steps to a Visually Persuasive Dashboard

Download this e-book to learn the five steps to creating a visually persuasive dashboard.