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

Download this white paper for six simple yet highly effective steps for preventing and fixing bad data.


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Five Things to Focus On For Faster MDM Results

Download this white paper to find out what every successful master data management initiative needs.


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Real-World Strategies for Big Data

Download this white paper for an exploration of the technical challenges that hinder big data success and what you need to succeed.


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Data Quality Maturity Model and Why We Need It

How do you achieve true data quality? Become proactive.


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Predictive Maintenance in Government

Learn how advanced technologies enable proactive management of machines, equipment, and other assets.


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Where the EHR Stops and Analytics Begins

Should healthcare organizations rely on electronic health record (EHR) vendors for enterprise data management, reporting, and analytics solutions?


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Data Governance in Healthcare

This white paper highlights advanced data mastering solutions supporting enterprise-scale data governance within hospitals and health networks.


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Driving Better Business Performance With a Practical Data Strategy

This paper will help you define a data strategy of your own, tailored to your organization, based on key considerations derived from our experience with tens of thousands of customers.


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Leveraging IBM Z and the z/Architecture with the IBM zIIP Specialty Engine for Mainframe FOCUS and WebFOCUS

Mainframe FOCUS leverages the system z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) engine.


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Why IT Professionals Choose Tableau for Modern BI and Analytics

This paper is written for IT and business intelligence decision makers to understand what differentiates Tableau from other analytics solutions in the market.


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The Modern Approach to Business Intelligence

This report outlines seven key attributes of the modern approach to business intelligence that will help you quickly see, understand, and share analytics.


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The Road Forward: A Roadmap for Scaling Self-Service Analytics

Self-service analytics can yield huge business and employee dividends while protecting data assets and providing the “best” source of truth out to the enterprise. New approaches demand a new methodology.


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Data Governance for Self-Service Analytics

Let’s consider the risk of data in transit—and hatch a plan for it.


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Delphix for CCPA

Achieving compliance with California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a multifaceted undertaking that requires organization-wide collaboration to address policies, technologies, and human practices associated with the management of personal data.


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Transforming Business Through Extreme Performance

Reforming daily operations by radically rethinking traditional data warehouse and database processing approaches can lead to competitive differentiation, better innovation, and cost efficiencies.


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2018 Enterprise Analytics Benchmark Report

The first Oracle Enterprise Analytics Benchmark Report offers a look at what business leaders need to know to optimize their analytics solutions for maximizing business performance.


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The Enterprise AI Promise: Path to Value

This study examines Enterprise Readiness for AI through interviews with representatives from businesses across EMEA and from a wide range of industry sectors.


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Statistics and Machine Learning at Scale: New Technologies Apply Machine Learning to Big Data

This paper introduces key machine learning concepts and describes solutions that enable data scientists and other analytical professionals to perform machine learning at scale.


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Making Sense of AI

This e-book explores the current boundaries of AI, as well as the many ways that modern AI applications can enable us to make better, faster decisions.


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Artificial Intelligence for Executives: Integrating AI into Your Analytical Strategy

This paper outlines the SAS approach to AI and explains key concepts.


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TDWI Advanced Analytics: Moving Toward AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing

In this TDWI Best Practices Report, author Fern Halper explores how organizations are integrating these innovation advancements into their operations.


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Breaking through Netezza End-of-Life

The move by IBM to discontinue support for the Netezza product line has IBM customers facing a hard choice.


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Redefine Your Analytics Journey with Self-Service Data Discovery and Interactive Predictive Analytics

Five steps to getting more value from your data and analytics investments.


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Out in the Open with Analytics

Download this e-book to learn how businesses in multiple industries are integrating disparate code and information to deploy models and deliver critical results with analytics.


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SAS in the Open Ecosystem: An Open Analytics Platform Extends Open Source Technologies with Governance and Scalability

How a unifying platform can bring together diverse data and analytics to drive measurable value for your organization.


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TDWI Best Practices Report: Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics for Action

This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on how organizations can and are operationalizing analytics to derive business value.


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International Institute for Analytics: Text Analytics: Unlocking the Value of Unstructured Data

Find out what text analytics can do for an organization and the top three things people need to know when adopting text analytics.


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Data in Every Employee's Hands: Harvard Business Review Webinar Summary

In the Harvard Business Review webinar summary, Dr. Tom Redman explains that to derive the maximum benefit from data assets, employees throughout the organization must build data skills.


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Success in Embedded BI

Information Builders helps customers achieve success with embedded business intelligence (BI) by offering a powerful platform that keeps BI and analytics capabilities up-to-date with minimal cost, risk, and time.


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Advanced Analytics with Tableau

In this paper we will explore how Tableau can help with all stages of an analytics project.


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Four Ways Finance Creates Value with Visual Analytics

Every day millions of finance professionals extract data from different platforms and reporting systems into spreadsheets to ask and answer thousands of questions. The primary hardship with this ingrained manual routine is, of course, time.


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Find Fraud Quickly: 4 Steps To Data Insight

Instead of letting nefarious characters own these concepts, use them to identify and fight back against fraud.


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5 Ways to Maximize Your Salesforce Data

Salesforce is one of the most widely used customer relationship management tools in business today, and the data collected with it is vital to decision making throughout every sales organization. Utilize these 5 tips for boosting your pipeline with Salesforce data.


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The Marketing Analytics Evolution

With new marketing channels and technologies popping up every day, marketers must adapt and evolve their analytics strategies, skills, and solutions to survive.


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Excel and Tableau: A Beautiful Partnership

While Excel comes equipped with many features that help you get started with data, Tableau takes your analysis to the next level with flexible and responsive analytics.


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5 Things Your Spreadsheets Can’t Do

For many, Excel is the go-to analysis tool of choice. But as useful as it can be, it just can’t do it all.


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Why Visual Analytics?

Data exploration usually starts with a question. But the answer to that question doesn’t need to be the end of the journey.


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2018 Next-Generation Data Deployment Strategies Report

Data enables many types of business opportunities unimaginable even a few years ago—from predictive analytics to artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things. There are a variety of tools, platforms, and frameworks now available to enterprises to better manage their data.


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BI Evaluation Guide

Not all BI platforms are created equal—and to succeed in the digital era, you need an analytics solution that gives your business every possible route to transformation. In this guide, you’ll learn which capabilities to look for, which features to prioritize, and all the right questions to ask.


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Deep Dive: Data Warehouse Automation

The invention of data warehouse automation (DWA) as a technology category was inevitable. And it was invented in a real sense: the first DWA tools evolved to address gaps in the development, deployment, and maintenance of data warehouse systems. But just as the role of the data warehouse has changed, so, too, has that of the DWA tool sets that evolved to support it.


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Visual Analytics for Dummies

Visual analytics can be the key to transforming your business. But how do you make the leap from data to decision-making? Learn how in three short chapters and 10 key data analytics takeaways. See how a modern data analytics platform is different and how it can provide exciting—and unexpected—insights for your business. Download the Dummies Guide to uncover the power of smarter insight.


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How to Craft Your Data Warehouse POC

In this eBook, you’ll learn why the standard apples-to-apples comparison falls short when you’re looking to upgrade your data warehouse.


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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.


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Embedded Analytics

This brief white paper, by leading industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), provides advice on using embedded analytics to provide better strategic planning, increased visibility across your organization, and quicker time to value.


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Building a Cloud Analytics Stack

The data landscape is quickly changing as companies say goodbye to legacy solutions in favor of a more modern, cloud-based approach to business intelligence (BI) and analytics. Forty-one percent of companies are considering a move to cloud-based analytics in the next year as they look to cut costs, improve efficiency, and enable better decision making at every level of business.


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Refactoring Analytics for the Cloud

Organizations are charging ahead with investments in cloud and analytics to deliver agility, scalability, and cost savings. With computing power advancements and continuous growth of data, the cloud provides the elastic workloads and flexibility required for modern business. However, the environment of flexibility and choice that the cloud provides also creates complexity and challenges.


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6 Steps: Getting Ready for CCPA

Here we present some suggestions for ensuring that your organization is prepared for implementing auditable and reportable compliance with the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (CCPA), one of the newest regulations for data protection.


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Is Your Infrastructure Agile Enough To Support Data Center Modernization?

The only way to meet today’s challenges is to modernize your data center because older architectures simply can’t keep pace with the rate of change.