Data Management Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data qualitty and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses: What is an industry model? What is the value of industry models? Considerations for building or buying data models IBM Industry Models—business and technical blueprints Reducing time to value with IBM Industry Models

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: 2-page briefs are available for 6 key industries detailing how IBM Smart Analytics System helps address specific business challenges. A 4-page horizontal overview is also available to use across industries.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: A new survey of 581 members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), sponsored by Oracle Corporation, finds that managing data growth is a priority for many companies, but smarter responses are needed to address the challenge. Get all the details by downloading this paper.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This brief by Gihan Perera, founder of First Step Communications, provides 10 practical tips for keeping control of your online meetings.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 29 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: Insurance agents across the country are saving time, saving money and writing more business using AppReader: The automated form conversion solution that allows applications to upload instantly to carrier systems, regardless of agency management system. Read on and find how how AppReader can benefit your business.

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the key role that SAP users play in enabling their organizations to improve processes, and discusses how their expertise is lost in some of the traditional approaches companies use to try to improve processes. Learn an alternative “user-centric” approach that will enable companies to measurably improve their processes.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how you can take control of your content with an integrated, end-to-end archiving approach for email and files and Increase the business value of your data while driving down the costs and complexity of the infrastructure all while staying compliant with legal and business mandates.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

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: This paper explains how Intel and IBM have been working for years to create systems that change the economics of x86 computing. One of the results of that collaboration is a platform for clustered, distributed systems that delivers unprecedented flexibility and scalability.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will provide best practice configuration guidelines for using latest storage and server technology (Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology storage devices along with Oracle's Sun servers) to optimize such simulation management solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM is applying its expertise, global scope, and creativity to build the information backbone of twenty-first-century industries and public institutions. Continue reading to learn the benefits that a smart archive strategy can provide for your organization.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 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: Choosing the right operating system and pairing it with the right hardware matters to your customers and business. Read this white paper to learn about the significant technical, administrative, and cost benefits of upgrading from Solaris 8 or 9 to Oracle Solaris 10.

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression enables the highest levels of data compression and provides enterprises with tremendous cost-savings and performance improvements due to reduced I/O. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Reference data is the lifeblood of an organization but inconsistencies can lead to inefficient processes and inaccurate analytics. Master reference data makes operational data more accurate, simplifies synchronization and migration projects and improves MDM effectiveness. Learn some key considerations for creating a reference data master.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Geocoding determines location by linking longitude and latitude coordinates with street address data. By identifying your best customers’ location and defining how to reach them most effectively you possess the ultimate decision making tool. Utilize the power of location intelligence to know the location of your customers, partners and competitors.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper describes in detail the new features and capabilities offered in the ODI 11g data integration platform.

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 | Published: 25 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: Proper master data management (MDM) is very valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics. However, master data projects are often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. This paper explains why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010