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Prepare Your Data: Ingest, Transform, Enrich, and Publish in the Cloud

Download this e-book to learn how Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service can turn your complex business data sets into meaningful information.


Streaming Data: Why It Makes Sense and How to Work with It

Download this white paper to gain key insight into building streaming data capacity, and learn about Zoomdata’s strength as a visual streaming-data analytics solution.


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National Children's Hospital Applies Enriched Data Analysis to Improve Pediatric Care and Outcomes

One of the leading pediatric healthcare facilities in the United States knows children are not just small adults. They need specialized diagnosis, treatment, equipment, and support. Most importantly, they require doctors, nurses, and specialists who understand these differences. This national children's hospital relies on a big data platform to better understand its patients, their conditions, and the quality of care they receive in support of its mission: to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.


3 Big Data Myths, Busted

Big data is a big topic, but many organizations are not realizing its true value. Download this e-book to learn the truth about three big data myths.


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10 Secrets to Winning with Analytics

Nearly every organization uses analytics, but many are not realizing the full potential they can deliver to their organization. This e-book shares 10 proven best practices based on Qlik's 20 years of service to over 34,000 customers. You’ll learn valuable tips for making your analytics project a success.


The Emergence of Governed Discovery

Download this e-book to learn how your organization can make the transformation from maintaining data governance to enabling governed discovery.


Intel and Cloudera Use Telematics and Analytics to Personalize Auto Insurance Coverage

Download this white paper to learn how Intel and Cloudera are helping an auto insurance company individualize customer rates by analyzing driver data from vehicles.


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Survey Analysis: Customers Rate Their Business Intelligence Platform Ownership Cost

BI leaders often focus solely on license metrics when comparing BI platform vendor and analytic tool costs, even though it makes up only a small portion of overall cost of ownership. In this report, Garter compares total three-year BIPOC and its components across vendors, vendor types and deployment sizes.


Open-Ended Design: 8 Tips for Creating Modern Data Visualizations

Download this e-book and learn eight tips for designing modern data visualizations.


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5 Trends That are Reshaping Information Technology (IT)

It’s a well-known fact that information technology is changing. But amidst all this change, one thing remains the same: business intelligence and analytics continue to be a priority for businesses. Read our e-book to understand how five key trends are affecting business intelligence today, and how IT’s role needs to shift to meet the changing demands of its users.


Making Smarter Decisions for Data Discovery Solutions: Evaluating 3 Options

Download this white paper to get a look under the covers of popular data discovery tools from three leading suppliers.


SQL-for-Hadoop: 14 Capable Solutions Reviewed

Download this white paper to learn about open source and commercial SQL engines for Hadoop, so you can choose the best option for your enterprise’s needs.


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2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report is an ideal way to understand what the market looks like for the year ahead. As Gartner explains: “The establishment of an updated modern BI and analytics platform definition for this year’s Magic Quadrant has significantly transformed the Leaders quadrant relative to its composition in previous years.” Get your complimentary copy of Gartner’s report for in-depth analysis of where BI is headed in 2016, who the major vendors are, and why Qlik is positioned in the Leaders quadrant for the sixth consecutive year.


Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics

Download this white paper to learn which vendors offer the best data warehouse and data management solutions for analytics.


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Business Intelligence Teams Need to Change with the Times

Business intelligence and analytics leaders must re-evaluate and evolve the capabilities of their teams to ensure that they can leverage bimodal work practices to engage, communicate, and adapt to new developments in business analytics, including diagnostic and predictive analytics


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Markerstudy, Ltd. Case Study

Markerstudy Group, a leading UK-based general insurance company, serves over 1.75 million customers. The fast-growing company with a strong culture for innovation was established in 2001 to provide insurance solutions, primarily through a network of over 3,000 brokers and intermediaries. Generating annual revenues of over £1.4 billion, the company specializes in commercial and personal auto including niche sectors such as young drivers, high performance cars, taxis, and fleet insurance. Key to Markerstudy's success in a highly competitive market was its use of a big data analytics platform which allowed the company to provide better service at the point of quote, achieve cost savings, and inform pricing and product development decisions with greater ease and speed.


5 Data Visualization Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

Download this e-book to learn how to tell a compelling story with charts and graphs.


A Future-Proof Architecture for Streaming Data Analytics

This white paper explores "future-proofing" strategies to leverage the steady flow of new real-time streaming data analytics platforms. It defines a thoughtful approach to capitalize on the window of opportunity to benefit from the power of real-time decision making now, while still being able to move to new and emerging technologies as they become enterprise ready.


Statistica: The Great Analytics Migration

See how analytics inform your approach to people, processes, and technologies to drive platform migration success. Get the white paper today.


The Mobile First Approach to Business Intelligence

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.


Breaking Big: When Big Data Goes Bad

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.


Implementing a Data Integration Strategy for Legacy Modernization

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.


Eight Styles of Data Integration

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.


Analytical Evangelists: Preaching the Gospel of Data-Driven Insight

Discover how analytical evangelists build progressive, adaptable organizations and drive collaboration across all levels and functions of business.


9 Reasons to Partner with Information Builders

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.


Embedding Business Analytics to Improve Your Application's Value Proposition

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.


No More Red Tape: Collaborative Governance for Data Discovery

Discover how collaborative data governance allows IT to fulfill its business data duties while continuously improving users’ data discovery experience.


How Big Data Can Lie

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.


Using Data Replication to Upgrade Your Oracle Database with Minimal Downtime and Risk

Learn how the proven process outlined in this white paper can help you overcome migration challenges and successfully upgrade to Oracle Database 12c.


Big Data Analytics in Action

Learn how to incorporate big data analytics to drive more effective strategies and decision-making for your organization. Read the white paper today.


The Power of Master Data in a Big Data World

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.


From Data to Decisions: How Top Healthcare Organizaions Are Developing an Analytics-Driven Culture

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.


Data Discovery in the Enterprise

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.


The Convergence of Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence

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.


Data-Driven Decisions: Business Intelligence vs. Visual Intelligence

Explore your business intelligence (BI) resources and learn how to turn your BI data into visual intelligence. By taking information out of rows and columns and visualizing your data, you will be able to easily spot trends and make analyses in real time. Discover what you’ve been missing in this informational white paper.