Analytic Applications Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: As businesses embrace the digital revolution, they're rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what’s newly possible for competitive differentiation. This report is designed to provide senior executives with analysis and insight on how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation.

Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 17 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Using a Visual Data Analytics Platform to Monitor and Manage Positions/Exposures in Real-Time Firms that engage in financial trading are exposed to counterparty risk (i.e., credit risk), market risk, and operational risk.

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn nine essentials to online opinion marketing.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: A full market perspective is difficult because of fragmented liquidity. Many securities are traded on more than one exchange or alternative trading venue. Knowing when, where and how to trade can be a challenge, and it’s getting harder all the time as the markets evolve.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how in-memory computing changes the way organizations can operate and gain value from their business intelligence (BI). Particularly, discover how this method can bring together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Cognos Business Intelligence lets you access virtually any data source, regardless of platform, and provide detailed, understandable views of the data to all users, regardless of location.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In top - performing organizations, analytics has replaced intuition in predicting and acting upon real-time information. Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Businesses that fail to strategically leverage analytically driven customer insight will gradually become obsolete over time. This paper takes a closer look at why – and explains what you can do to evolve your marketing organization’s ability to turn data into customer insight, and insight into competitive advantage.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper, intended for both IT and operational management, explores a series of high-level best practices for analytics and data warehousing based on Sybase’s experience with successful implementations. Suggestions are provided in three categories: performance, cost control, and ease-of-deployment with each dimension broken down into sub-topics.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: An estimated 80% of enterprise-relevant information resides in text and unstructured forms. Text analytics transforms text into data for BI, data mining, and predictive analytics. This paper reviews business benefits and technical challenges related to taming text. It also introduces text technologies and surveys noteworthy business applications.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology, which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. Sybase CEP provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and deliver more analytic modules over time.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT leaders, tasked to satisfy the needs of their own business units while satisfying the changing needs of all other business units, face a wide variety of challenges. This white paper identifies the key issues that must be addressed and provides a clear strategy for solving them. Read on to learn more about SAS® Business Analytics for IT leaders.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 06 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read To SaaS or Not to SaaS: Make Your Digital Measurement Count by Eric Peterson to choose wisely.

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Let it be stated plainly: Business analytics are the key to achieving these challenging objectives. Our world generated more data in 2009 than in the previous recorded history of mankind. A good deal of this data can be converted into useful information and competitive advantage – by applying the right analytics.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: What exactly is business analytics and how can it help? Business analytics is, simply put, the application of analytical techniques to resolve business issues. It provides organizations with a framework for decision making, helping organizations solve complex business problems and more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how combining a high performance batch programming and execution model with a high performance analytical database provides significant business benefits for a number of different types of applications.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place,  built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, including its motivation for use, value and future. It also describes Mentor Graphics’ FloEFD CFD analysis solution that is designed to provide product designers and engineers with direct access to CFD techniques directly in their design (CAD) environment.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 10 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Visual representations are a fundamental component of human learning and understanding. To study the impact of data visualization, we must first look to the past and see how our ways of shaping and representing data have changed over time. This paper traces the history of visual representation, from cave drawings to the computer revolution.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Visual analytics is the process of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Its becoming the fastest way for people to explore and understand Business Intelligence data of any size. This paper will introduce you to the seven essential elements of true visual analytics applications.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte." Myths and misconceptions create their own risks and need to be debunked. This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and provides some protective "hard hats" for data miners.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009