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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.


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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Optimize Customer Experience Metrics with 12 AI-Enabled Use Cases

Research from Forrester shows 12 AI-enabled use cases to help you prioritize CX investments for increased business impact.


Lead with Data: How to Drive Data Literacy in the Enterprise

Without data literacy, leaders can’t thrive in today’s analytics economy nor can they drive any sort of cultural change toward leading with data across their organizations. Get key insights and frameworks on building a blueprint to driving data literacy in your organization.


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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.


Developing a Data Literate Workforce

We're committed to creating a data-literate world that can transform business and improve society. As part of that vision, we want to share our six-step approach to developing a dynamic data literacy program across your organization.


IDC PlanScape: Data Intelligence Software for Data Governance

When you’re using analytics to transform your organization, data governance is essential—but lock-down is a problem. How can you strike a balance between accessibility and trust? With data intelligence software, which helps you take a holistic approach that combines technology and organizational processes.


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The Forrester Wave: Multimodal Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions, Q3 2018

In this evaluation of multimodal predictive analytics and machine learning (PAML) providers, Forrester Research identified the 13 most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them.


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Forbes Insights: Is Your Data Center Holding You Back?

Successfully managing a data center today requires operators to implement infrastructures that integrate with cloud, modern protection, AI, and automation.


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White Paper: 8 Essential Checklists for Managing Analytic Data Pipelines

Failing to take a holistic approach to your data pipeline may cause you to make critical business decisions based on inaccurate data.


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The Language of Data Infrastructure Modernization

In this book, we look at the key trends driving the modernization of data infrastructure.


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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage (OBS) 2018

In this IDC MarketScape, IDC assesses the present commercial OBS supplier landscape.


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Intelligent Data Governance for Dummies

Data growth will continue for the foreseeable future. Thus, the need to intelligently govern data will only increase


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Datasheet: Pentaho Big Data Integration Analytics

From Hadoop and Spark to NoSQL and analytics databases, Pentaho allows you to turn big data into big insights.


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White Paper: InfoGov in a World of Increased Data Regulation

Companies today are asked to manage the dual challenge of exponential data growth and increased regulation or face fines and long-term damage to their brands.


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E-Book: Leveraging Hadoop in Analytic Data Pipelines

While everyone has a slightly different definition of big data, Hadoop is usually the first technology that comes to mind in big data discussions.


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The Machine Learning Primer

With all of the attention on machine learning, many are seeking a better understanding of this hot topic and the benefits that it could provide to their organizations. Machine learning—as well as deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing—are driving innovations in identifying images, personalizing customer experiences, navigating self-driving cars, and much more.


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White Paper: Performance Scalability Overview

When selecting a business analytics platform, it is critical to assess the underlying architecture of the platform.


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How Do Recommendation Systems Know What You Might Like?

If you’ve ever shopped on Amazon, Pandora, or Netflix, you’ve experienced recommendation systems in action. Learn how these sophisticated systems analyze historical buying behavior and make recommendations in real time, while you’re shopping.


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Metadata: Meet the Challenges of Unstructured Data Management

Next-generation storage systems leverage the power of metadata to better identify, utilize, protect, and control unstructured business data.


Top BI Trends 2019: The Dawn of Postmodern Analytics

Data is at a crossroads. Massive corporations are consolidating our data while many of us advocate for transparency and access for all. It’s time to embrace postmodern analytics for even better performance, deeper insights, and broader participation.


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Technical Validation: Hybrid Multi-cloud Artificial Intelligence: IBM Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning

ESG recently completed testing of IBM Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning, which are designed to enable organizations to accelerate the value they can extract from AI more easily.


Fueling Digital Transformation with Data: Four Approaches that Get You There Faster

If you want to compete in the digital world, you have to find ways to reinvent every aspect of your business. To do that, you need an analytics strategy that gives everyone in your workforce the power to make game-changing discoveries.


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A Business Guide to Modern Predictive Analytics

In business, foresight is everything. This guide will help you navigate the modern predictive analytics landscape.


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E-Book: Unlock Big Data Value

Download this e-book to discover the right path to big data success for your business.


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Data Protection: Downtime is Money

In this paper, we examine the hidden costs for modern data protection and recovery operations.


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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence In a Brave New World

Machine learning in the last few decades has given way to an AI revolution. As the amount of data produced continues to scale, use of algorithms enables faster computational understanding to create new opportunities for innovation. From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, the possibilities for these developing technologies are endless.


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Modern Data Protection: Putting an End to Downtime with Hitachi Vantara

IT must efficiently meet modern data protection service levels as organizations undergo transformation and modernization efforts.


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White Paper: Blueprints for Big Data Success

Read about big data use cases generating business results for companies today and emerging use cases expected in the near future.


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AI Momentum, Maturity & Models for Success

For quite some time, AI has had an allure for improving processes, raising productivity and making both top- and bottom-line impacts on organizations. Advances in data and analytics have enabled early adopters of AI globally across industries to grow beyond experiments and quick hits and provide examples for paths to success with AI.


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Build a Data Governance Strategy for the New Digital Era

With the right technology in place, data governance can drive enormous business value and support digital transformation.


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How to Maximize the Impact of Your Analytics

Implementing an analytics platform has shown great promise in growing the strategic value of analytics and in fostering innovation.


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Amplify Business Analytics with Your Operational Data, CDC, and a Real-Time Data Lake

With a few clever steps in technology architecture, organizations can deliver timely, essential data to business analysts, BI teams, and data scientists.


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Building Your Data and Analytics Strategy

This e-book is full of resources to help you launch successful data analytics projects, improve data prep, and go beyond conventional data governance.


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MIT SMR: Data, Analytics & AI: How Trust Delivers Value

The annual Data and Analytics Global Executive Study with MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how 2,400 global business leaders make decisions based on analytics insights.


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CIO Perspective: Tech Views from Top IT Leaders

In this e-book, you’ll meet fellow CIOs and technology innovators, and you’ll see how organizations of all sizes encounter many of the same daily challenges.


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DataOps: Industrializing Data and Analytics

For large organizations with big development teams, DataOps is an antidote to many of the woes that beset IT and development organizations


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The Secret of IT Success? Enabling Choice and Control

In today’s crowded analytics marketplace, who can you trust? What’s needed to deliver on the promise of transforming data into real value?


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Best Practices Report | BI and Analytics in the Age of AI and Big Data

This TDWI Best Practices Report focuses on the emerging world of BI and analytics in the age of AI and big data. The research explores organizations’ satisfaction with current technologies and the issues driving interest in newer solutions that enable organizations to exploit advances in AI and big data.


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7 Ways Finance Teams Are Driving ROI with Tableau

Here are seven ways leading Finance departments are driving return on investment with Tableau.


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How to Build a Modern Data Architecture with Legacy Data

Explore these four steps to learn how to build a modern data architecture with legacy data today.


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Mainframe to Cloud: Design Once, Deploy Anywhere in a Hybrid World

Learn about the benefits of design once, deploy anywhere systems and explore three real-world examples of how organizations today are leveraging mainframe data in the cloud.


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Making Flow Happen: How to Build Dashboards That Persuade, Inform and Engage

In data visualization, flow is crucial. Your audience should smoothly absorb and use the information in a dashboard without distractions or turbulence. Lack of flow means lack of communication, which means failure.


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Marketing Accountability: A CEO Blueprint

Despite years of vetting and advances in media measurement, analytics, models and attribution, Forbes research—with over 800 CMOs and 50 subject matter experts—revealed that most CMOs still struggle to quantify and communicate the value marketing creates to their leadership, peers and partners.


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Data Catalog: Creating a Single Source of Reference

The machine learning data catalog has emerged as a key technology enabler for a "single source of reference" -- one place for anyone within the organization to find curated data, understand how that data has been used and why it was created, and trust that it is right for the analysis at hand, whether they are a data scientist, an analyst, or even a casual business consumer of data.


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Actian Vector Benchmarks: Cloud Benchmarking Summary Report

Summary report on a series of benchmarks to determine the relative performance of the Actian Vector in-memory second generation columnar analytics database.


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Data Catalogs in the Enterprise Driving Value Over Technology

The crushing problem of managing data in an increasingly complex, hybrid, distributed world is too great for even highly-skilled analysts and scientists to handle alone.


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Compare Top Embedded Business Intelligence Product Vendors: Based On the G2 Crowd Embedded Business Intelligence Product Comparison User Satisfaction Ratings

In this whitepaper, we’ll look at what ratings from G2 Crowd really mean and highlight some critical factors when choosing your embedded business intelligence solution.


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Delivering Analytics-as-a-Service

A guide to picking the right data warehouse infrastructure for analytics service providers


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Actian Vector: The Revolutionary High Performance Analytics Database

Actian Vector is relational database software for data analytics. This paper explains why Actian Vector achieves extremely fast performance for typical data warehouse and data mart workloads.


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10 Steps to Jumpstart Your Integration Projects

This e-book lays out essential steps to take and things to consider when beginning an integration project.


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Enterprise Data Marketplaces: Enabling a Data-Driven Culture

To learn how organizations are creating enterprise data marketplaces, overcoming their IT challenges, driving key strategies forward and realizing business value, download this eBook!


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Accelerating the Analytic Timeline with Real-Time Operational Analytics

One approach for real-time operational analytics is to leverage hybrid operational and analytic databases by combining operational and analytical workloads.


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How to Future-Proof Your Data to Make It More Valuable with Emergent Technologies

Download this white paper to learn how you can access and trust all your data in the face of changing technology.


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5 Key Reasons to Consider a Hybrid Integration Platform

This white paper explains why you need a hybrid integration platform to address integration challenges in a cloud-first world.


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Sisense Versus Alternatives: Comparing Embedded Analytics Solutions

Armed with the knowledge of what each embedded solution can do for your product, you will be able to make the best decision for your business.


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Advanced Data Lineage: The #1 Key to Removing the Chaos in Modern Analytical Environments

This paper focuses on an important component of metadata, advanced data lineage. We discuss the many use cases for data lineage and stress the characteristics one should look for in mature data lineage technologies.


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Harvard Business Review: The Risks and Rewards of AI

Exploring the rise of artificial intelligence, Harvard Business Review has published a collection of articles assessing the opportunities and pitfalls that could evolve.


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Consuming Data Productively

Download this white paper to learn the beneficial features of a well-implemented data catalog.


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Success in Operational BI

Information Builders supports operational BI by allowing thousands of internal and external users to access and analyze operational data.


The Changing World of Data Warehousing: Data Integration's Central Role in Transforming Information into an Enterprise Asset

When enterprise information flows quickly to different consumers within an organiza­tion, the business ecosystem thrives. This white paper describes how organizations must take a closer look at data integration and create channels for information to flow quickly to business decision makers.


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Governing Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting

Download this white paper to learn how IBM InfoSphere Information Server can help banks keep up with the ever-changing regulatory landscape while also driving business value.


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Modern MDM: The Hub of Enterprise Data Excellence

This report explores a best-in-class approach to MDM that not only centralizes the management of data but also creates more fluidity in its distribution, supports more oversight of its accessibility, and generates more business value from its usage.


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Achieving a Unified Governance Strategy

Effective data governance has become a driving factor for businesses seeking to garner the most value out of their data. This paper is intended to help those seeking to benefit from the transformation of data governance.


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IBM Pathways for GDPR readiness

If your organization carries out business in the European Union, your life is about to become a lot more complicated starting in May 2018. IBM is positioned to help you develop strategies to address the challenges of the GDPR.


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The Journey to Value: Creating a sustainable, governed data asset for GDPR and beyond

With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new balance will be created between commercial interests and consumer rights around personal and sensitive data. Download this white paper for key steps to consider as you develop your GDPR readiness program.


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Analytical Data Infrastructure Market Study: Wisdom of Crowds Series

Download this excerpt from Dresner's Analytics Data Infrastructure Market Report to see how users' priorities are shifting in their data analytics purchasing decisions.


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10 Ways to Transform Big Data Analytics into Big Value

Big data can produce a lot of value, but only if you know how to claim it. This white paper gives you ten ways to turn big data analytics into do just that.


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