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CMOs and CIOS: How to Use Big Data and Analytics to Your Advantage
sponsored by IIS Technology
WHITE PAPER: Find out how your organization's CMOs and CIOs can use big data and analytics to their advantage.
Posted: 16 May 2014 | Published: 16 May 2014

IIS Technology

Reinventing Business Intelligence for a Modern Data World
sponsored by Looker
WHITE PAPER: Find out how you can extract the full value from your analytic database with one modern data analytic tool – which gives you access to the data you need the moment you need it.
Posted: 14 May 2014 | Published: 28 Feb 2014

Looker

Top Five Big Data Tactics Used By CMOs To Drive Results
sponsored by IIS Technology
WHITE PAPER: Uncover 5 big data tactics the CMOs use to fuel better business results.
Posted: 14 May 2014 | Published: 14 May 2014

IIS Technology

Combatting Advanced Threats with Endpoint Security Intelligence
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Advanced security threats are exploding worldwide and the sophistication of these attacks is higher than ever. How can organizations stay ahead of these advanced threats? This white paper discusses how to combat advanced security threats by adopting an integrated, intelligent and automated approach to endpoint security.
Posted: 13 May 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2014

IBM

Performance and Cost Advantages of Business Intelligence and Analytics for POWER8
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource features a business intelligence (BI) system that offers high-performance tracking, storing, examination, analysis, and reporting capabilities to help improve enterprise decision-making.
Posted: 12 May 2014 | Published: 30 Apr 2014

IBM

Top Six Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: How to Avoid Failure and Ensure BI Success
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: The following white paper outlines the top 6 worst practices that most businesses are guilty of doing. Learn how you can easily avoid these common mistakes and start moving towards a far more effective business intelligence initiative.
Posted: 08 May 2014 | Published: 08 May 2014

Information Builders

Five Best Practices for Maximizing Big Data ROI
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive e-paper to uncover 5 best practices for maximizing big data ROI, and find out what's driving more organizations to take an interest in big data.
Posted: 06 May 2014 | Published: 28 Feb 2014

IBM

SAS Visual Analytics – Driving higher data value and business performance
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: The following white paper explores how data visualization can deliver quicker understanding of what's happening in your data more so than you can with traditional analytics. Learn how interactive data exploration allows for higher data value, improved employee productivity, and much more.
Posted: 05 May 2014 | Published: 05 May 2014

SAS

The Technology of the Business Data Lake
sponsored by Pivotal
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses an approach other than enterprise data warehouses (EDWs) to meet organizations reporting and operational needs.
Posted: 05 May 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

Pivotal

Intelligent Solutions: Creating a Sustainable, Easy to Maintain BI Environment
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The following white paper explores the process on how to build a simpler BI environment that still supports necessary business requirements without the headaches. Learn about the technology to make this easier, the strategies to use, and more.
Posted: 02 May 2014 | Published: 02 May 2014

IBM

Analytics: A Catalyst for Connected Health
sponsored by Actian Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Access the following white paper to explore the primary causes of monetary loss the healthcare industry today. Learn how big data analytics offers a solution that can create customized care at a lower cost, dramatically improve disease prevention, reduce hospital readmission, and more.
Posted: 01 May 2014 | Published: 01 May 2014

Actian Corporation

Providence Health & Services is Reacting to Threats Five Times Faster
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This case study features Providence Health & Services experience with a managed security services provider that offered reliable and efficient security management.
Posted: 25 Apr 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

Symantec Corporation

Cisco Cloud Web Security: Single Interface for Global Control
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This resource features a cloud Web security solution that offers unique features to help you gain clear visibility and complete control over today's more expansive networks.
Posted: 23 Apr 2014 | Published: 28 Feb 2014

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Use Analytics to Innovate and Lead in Today's Banking Environment
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Banks are bringing together big data projects, transactional processing, data warehousing and analytic tooling. Find out how IBM DB2 for z/OS and DB2 Analytics Accelerator in an IBM zEnterprise environment can help.
Posted: 22 Apr 2014 | Published: 31 Mar 2014

IBM

Why insurers need smarter analytics
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Insurance providers, such Unipol Group, Primerica, Unum Group, and Swiss Re, are using a smarter analytics approach to be more customer-centric, predict and control costs better, understand and monitor dynamic risk, and enhance decisions to be more agile in the marketplace—learn how in the following white paper.
Posted: 18 Apr 2014 | Published: 18 Apr 2014

IBM

Are You Ready for Analytics 3.0?
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: Join analytics pioneer Tom Davenport in the following Q&A as he explores the evolving state of analytics. Learn what you can do to prepare for analytics 3.0, how you can get there, and which tools and supporting roles you need to make it all happen.
Posted: 17 Apr 2014 | Published: 17 Apr 2014

SAS

Why Smarter Business Begins With Better Reporting Tools
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the current state of BI reporting, significant trends shaping the industry, and ways in which one BI solution satisfies challenging requirements in demanding, heterogeneous environments.
Posted: 16 Apr 2014 | Published: 16 Apr 2014

IBM

Technology Evaluation Centers - Product Analysis Report: IBM Cognos and SPSS Solutions
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The following white paper explores the importance of business intelligence and predictive analytics within the decision management infrastructure. Also uncover a solution to consider, user success stories, and more.
Posted: 15 Apr 2014 | Published: 15 Apr 2014

IBM

Turning Insight Into Action: The Journey to Social Media Intelligence
sponsored by Hootsuite
WHITE PAPER: Social media is rife with valuable information about your customers, your brand, and your competitors that can help you generate sales, foster better customer relationships, and improve marketing campaigns. But those benefits are only achievable if you know how to properly transform social media data into actual insight.
Posted: 11 Apr 2014 | Published: 11 Apr 2014

Hootsuite

Modernize your database management system for big data
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: At the heart of any successful big data initiative is a database management system (DBMS) that utilizes advanced technologies to deliver high performance, versatility, and scalability without breaking the bank.
Posted: 09 Apr 2014 | Published: 08 Apr 2014

IBM

Considerations for Maximising Analytic Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: If you're looking to invest in a business analytics platform, access this comprehensive white paper from Bloor Research comparing the performance of four top analytics tools (combined with underlying database management systems).
Posted: 07 Apr 2014 | Published: 30 Sep 2013

IBM

Top 5 questions to ask before deciding on an optimisation solution
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Access the following white paper to uncover the top 5 questions to ask when evaluating optimization solutions. Learn what makes a system trustworthy, how systems should react, why a solution needs to be able to translate business problems into analytics, and more.
Posted: 07 Apr 2014 | Published: 07 Apr 2014

IBM

Actian's Big Data 2.0 Customer Successes
sponsored by Actian Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how businesses big and small are navigating the challenges of a big data 2.0 world, and explains how predictive analytics can turn big data into business value.
Posted: 04 Apr 2014 | Published: 04 Apr 2014

Actian Corporation

How to use dataflow to improve analytics and alleviate the 5 latencies
sponsored by Actian Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Consult the following white paper to uncover the top 5 latencies in the analytics process and what you can do to overcome them. Also included are technology recommendations, tips, and, strategies that can make your analytics solution as efficient as it needs to be.
Posted: 04 Apr 2014 | Published: 04 Apr 2014

Actian Corporation

Application Performance for Oil and Gas Seismic Analysis
sponsored by Dot Hill Systems Corp.
WHITE PAPER: The reference solution combines Dot Hill storage solutions, Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre, and Mellanox Infiniband to deliver a highly scalable and high performance infrastructure for oil exploration computing platforms, as well as other HPC applications.
Posted: 04 Apr 2014 | Published: 14 Mar 2014

Dot Hill Systems Corp.