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.
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.
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.
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.
Download this white paper to learn how big data analytics can help your organization increase revenue, reduce operating costs, and avoid debilitating losses.
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.
Download this white paper for a discussion of the pros and cons of open and embedded analytics.
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.
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.
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.
Download this white paper to learn how MicroStrategy solutions are transforming how federal agencies can work.
Download this white paper to discover how MicroStrategy analytics, mobile capabilities, and multifactor security features can increase productivity and help local governments to run more effective programs.
Download this white paper to discover the ten characteristics a solution must have to be considered a true modern analytics platform.
Download this white paper for an exploration of how enterprises will leverage digital transformation to improve customer experience and engagement.
Download this new eBook to learn how your organization can benefit from adopting data warehousing built for the cloud.
Download this white paper for an evaluation of several relational databases either built for the cloud or with significant cloud-related development in their latest releases.
The ability to quickly, efficiently, and inexpensively analyze data has never been more important. This report highlights the benefits of using Etleap and Zoomdata to extract, transform, load, and analyze all types of data with Amazon Redshift.
By and large, BI experts are conditioned to accept dashboards as the de facto mechanism for consuming insights. However, general business users often require another environment, which has given birth to the data-driven application.
With the increased availability and lowered cost of scalable parallel computing, application execution no longer throttles performance, but data movement does. This paper considers the advantages of moving analytics to where the data lives.
Download this white paper for a summary of expert opinion on where business intelligence is headed in 2017.
Download this white paper to understand how enterprises are slowly but steadily moving to the cloud by prioritizing hosted computing and cloud data storage, building technical expertise, and recruiting employees with cloud experience.
Download this white paper to understand how the market will demand platforms that help data custodians govern and secure big data, while empowering end users to analyze that data.
Download this white paper to learn how predictive maintenance enables organizations to effectively predict when and how an asset might fail.
Download this white paper to learn how a self-serve data hub has helped a major company generate detailed insights around customer behavior.
Download this white paper to learn how a mining company optimizes production with an IIoT analytics platform powered by Cloudera and Microsoft.
Download this white paper to learn how a cybersecurity platform, powered by Cloudera, delivers new capabilities.
Download this white paper to learn how to rein in the Wild West of data science and make it a core enterprise capability.
Download this white paper for findings from the 2016 EMA/9sight Big Data End-User Survey, which looks at various trends associated with big data.
This report explores key trends in the popularization of Hadoop and strategies being employed to manage data lakes and make them more accessible.
Stop wasting time on manual data preparation! See how automating manual tasks ensures rapid data analysis. Get your copy of this e-book today!
Download this white paper to understand the shortcomings of traditional approaches to data preparation, such as data warehouses and data lakes, and explore the power of connected data.
This report from 451 Research explains how the rebranding of BigInsights in 2015 is helping IBM earn the respect of the Hadoop community.
Download this white paper to learn how your sales teams can benefit from five critical sales operations apps run on the MicroStrategy platform.
Download this white paper to learn how BOARD provides everything an enterprise needs to manage corporate planning processes.
Download this white paper to learn how the “analytics factory” breaks down the barriers between IT and business and automates the mundane, iterative tasks of model building.
Transformative enterprises around the world are leveraging data to bring exciting innovations to market. Download this white paper to learn why your organization should plan for a data-inspired future.
Download this white paper to learn how to quickly turn data into insights and actions by efficiently integrating accurate predictive models into the production systems that drive your automated decisions.
Download this white paper to learn how Princeton HealthCare System achieves real-time integration, interoperability, and data access across its accountable care organization network.
Download this white paper to learn how a leading heavy equipment manufacturer automates the long tail of suppliers using Liaison’s cloud integration platform.
Download this white paper for five steps to getting more value from your data and analytical investments.
Download this white paper for seven practical tips for getting started with data visualization.
The data landscape is changing dramatically. Download this white paper to learn how to extend your legacy middleware to support your organization’s digital transformation.
Download this white paper to learn how a team of SAS modelers created and determined a champion model to predict customer churn.
Download this white paper for key considerations for evaluating what should come next for your organization’s cloud integration and data management operations.
Download this white paper to learn why Liaison ALLOY Platform’s unique and thoughtful approach to cloud integration outperforms the developer productivity tools of iPaaS.
Download this white paper to learn how your company can take full advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) with key IoT-enabled applications.
Download this white paper for a global survey focusing on companies that have deployed big data, their best practices, and their intentions.
Download this white paper for a look at how data modeling is continuing to play a key role in new technology innovations, such as big data, by adapting and redefining its role to survive and sustain momentum.
Learn how self-service business intelligence (BI) provides gunslinger decision makers with quick and efficient access to data without IT intervention.
Empower your organization's analytical detectives. Learn how the right tools improve the performance and decision making of business intelligence users.
Discover how collaborative data governance enables organizations to effectively manage IT bureaucracy and drive superior 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.
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.
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.
"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.
View operational and performance health of each application component from a single pane of glass. Download the white paper to learn how.
Discover the key methods to ensure your database stack is operating at optimal levels of performance and availability. Download the white paper today.
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.
Discover how analytical evangelists build progressive, adaptable organizations and drive collaboration across all levels and functions of business.
This paper outlines the nine critical technology capabilities for a game-changing business intelligence (BI) application: SaaS, extensibility, social analytics, location intelligence, predictive analytics, performance management, data quality and master data management, data integration, and big data. Information Builders establishes impactful relationships with leading organizations to help customers differentiate themselves using these capabilities.
Interest in transforming data from business applications into actionable information has created a resounding explosion in offerings for business analytics. The amount of data generated and captured across multiple sources can be overwhelming. New analytical capabilities capitalize on your big data as well as data stemming from a wide array of applications, including sales, inventory, marketing, loyalty, Web, finance, mobile, sensors, and other systems. Incorporating market-leading analytics into your application helps you improve your value proposition and drive new revenue while letting your development staff focus on your core functionality.
Big data is about more than just storing massive volumes of information. It also creates tremendous opportunities by leveraging predictive analytics. This paper highlights how combining advanced analytical solutions, such as predictive analytics—with data integration and integrity technologies—can facilitate successful analytics and decision management in big data scenarios.
Discover how collaborative data governance allows IT to fulfill its business data duties while continuously improving users’ data discovery experience.
In this white paper, we’ll provide insight that will help organizations apply the "mobile first" strategy to their business intelligence (BI) implementations. Learn about key considerations for creating reporting and analysis environments for mobile devices, such as small screen sizes, device and delivery preferences, and varying connectivity and bandwidth constraints. We’ll also introduce "InfoApps," which are intuitive, visually compelling, and easy-to-use apps that allow mobile users to immediately discover the answers to numerous mission-critical business questions.
Sometimes, big data can go bad. In this white paper, we discuss why big data environments are at a greater risk for data quality problems. We’ll also highlight the importance of implementing effective and broad-reaching data quality management in big data scenarios, and share solutions and best practices for doing so.
Federal agencies must enhance productivity and cost efficiency while boosting transparency, accountability, and performance. This paper lays out key data integration requirements needed to enable successful legacy modernization while lowering operational costs and risk. It also provides a summary of some integration solutions deployed within the federal government and the benefits derived.
There are many ways to integrate and access vital data. This paper highlights eight proven integration strategies and uses real-world examples to demonstrate the high-value, high-return data access options that are currently available. It explores data warehouses, as well as other methods for making relevant, timely information available to your business users, systems, and processes.
Learn how the proven process outlined in this white paper can help you overcome migration challenges and successfully upgrade to Oracle Database 12c.
Learn how to incorporate big data analytics to drive more effective strategies and decision-making for your organization. Read the white paper today.
To frame big data analytics, you need to identify the purpose of the project, connections to existing data, and the context for the analysis. Master data establishes the context and connections that are absent from most big data analytics. In this white paper, you'll learn how master data management (MDM) and its companion, data governance, can also improve data quality and provide other enhancements to your big data analytics initiative.
This research report, sponsored by Beacon Partners and Information Builders, summarizes insights and opinions from a recent roundtable discussion convened in New York City. The panelists, comprising a cross section of prestigious healthcare organizations, hammered home a truth: Business intelligence is not just a marker of what we are doing and how we are doing it. It is also a conduit to shared information, analytic insights, and collaborative decision making for business and clinical initiatives at both operational and strategic levels. BI is both the starting gun and the path to a victory lap. Download the report now to learn more.
This white paper explores what it means to “visualize responsibly” by addressing five key questions you should ask to avoid the pitfalls and limitations of most data discovery tools: Can you empower all decision makers, not just a select few? Are rogue dashboards creating more questions than answers? How do you ensure data integrity and prevent flawed insights? What costs are associated with in-memory limitations? Can you add advanced analytical capabilities with ease? We’ll outline the criteria for data visualization success and provide key features of the technology required to achieve it. Case studies demonstrate how leading organizations are leveraging self-service analytics to help everyone make better, fact-based decisions.
Combined, business intelligence and enterprise search can serve as a key enabler of optimized operational performance, providing decision makers with a single simplified point of access to the broadest range of data and content that offers insight into data and information that had not previously been possible.