Data Quality White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Ensuring your data is secure and trustworthy is paramount to harnessing the power of big data, but it's also a difficult task when you've got such a large volume and variety of information coming into the business. Unfortunately, traditional methods of governing and correcting often aren't applicable to big data -- so what can you do?

Posted: 24 Dec 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Healthcare organizations have not been immune to the impact of big data – but what do these growing data volumes mean for information governance? This resource explores big data integration and governance from the standpoint of three case studies.

Posted: 19 Dec 2013 | Published: 19 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the roles that information integration and governance play in today's big data world, and offers key recommendations to help you realize the full value of your information and improve business outcomes.

Posted: 17 Dec 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: Successfully managing big data requires more than just analytics -- you need to reduce the cost of managing data while also lowering the risk involved in organizing and protecting it. This resource offers an in-depth exploration of three key objectives to help you efficiently manage data throughout the lifecycle.

Posted: 13 Dec 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: If your organization is gathering massive amounts of data at a speed faster than you can process it, you're in need of a well-defined approach to store, analyze, and leverage this information. By focusing on master data management (MDM), you can more easily make sense of the large volumes of data available to you.

Posted: 13 Dec 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this rapid, explosive age of big data, smart data integration solutions are truly key in modern businesses. This white paper offers a wealth of information about a best-of-breed data integration platform focused on fast bulk data movement and handling complex data transformations.

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this insightful resource, discover how you can significantly improve business performance and decision-making with an information optimization strategy, and ensure your company makes the most of every last piece of data available.

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the access management challenge, especially as it relates to clouds, and offers best practices for overcoming the challenges involved with managing your users in both public and private clouds.

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 | Published: 13 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: This e-book explores how forward-looking organizations like yours are using extremely rapid, highly effective analysis of data to change the way they make decisions – enabling them to predict shifts in business and proactively adjust for better business outcomes.

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: To improve the performance of data warehouse queries while minimizing manual tuning, DBAs can turn to the IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator. Access this white paper to learn more about how fast response time generates quick answers, quick insights, and an agile business.

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document provides utilities with an understanding of specific challenges faced by CIOs and provides information technology (IT) decision makers with a view to the use of time series databases in getting to scale.

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: To realize the full potential of smart meters, utility companies and their partners need a data management solution designed to reduce data load times, decrease storage capacity needs, and improve query performance for time series data.

Posted: 27 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this valuable guide you'll learn how to move your business forward through the use of a sound information management strategy. And to build upon this, discover how you can advance your information strategy and accelerate the discovery of key business insights through the use of various big data technologies.

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this informative resource, access a Q and A with the Director of Information Lifecycle Governance for IBM Worldwide, Sylvan H. Morley III, as he discusses the impact of big data on modern organizations, and gives advice on overcoming challenges to information lifecycle management.

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 | Published: 03 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: To extract the most value from data, you need to sort through structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources - and that isn't easy. In this resource, discover how a data exploration tool enables you to improve access to information across your enterprise, and easily visualize and integrate big data for more efficient analytics.

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 | Published: 12 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to Hadoop, the technology most often associated with big data, why is it so popular? Does it actually live up to the vendor hype? Check out this informative resource to get the real guidance you need to figure out where Hadoop fits into your organization, and how you can leverage it to extract the most from your big data.

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Big data analytics can help you understand the current state of your business, track customer behavior, and take advantage of new opportunities. This comprehensive TDWI best practices report gives you in-depth insights into all the important aspects of big data analytics, so that you have a solid foundation for implementing an analytics plan.

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this informative white paper to learn the ins and outs of Mongo DB, an open-source document-based database, and discover best practices for setup, configuration, scaling, data backup, and more.

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

WHITE PAPER: Today's information landscape includes a variety of data sources and unlike forms of data inundating your business every second. Turn to this resource to learn about how data virtualization can make disparate data sources appear as if they are in one place, so that you can easily access your information and make better, faster business decisions.

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: Data is a critical asset to the competitiveness of your organization, yet only 27% of people in a recent study said their companies do a better job using information than their competitors. Read this study by the Economist Intelligence Unit to find best practices about developing data initiatives to gain a competitive advantage.

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 | Published: 13 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines Oracle's approach to overpricing one part of a database solution to compensate for another part, leading to a much higher total cost of ownership (TCO). Read this now to learn more about the evolution of TCO, Oracle's pricing strategy, IBM's pricing strategy and so much more.

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 | Published: 21 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the results of a survey conducted amongst more than 1,100 executives across nine industries in 64 countries on their ability to capture data, share insights and take actions based on what they learn. Read this now to discover how other companies are harnessing and handling their data and learn how you can follow a similar path.

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 | Published: 08 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the why organizations need to become social businesses today. Read on to learn how your business can become social through crafting the right blueprint relying on networks, social and real-time collaboration, mobility and integration, how to deepen your customer relationships and the benefits associated with it, and much more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines a system that includes industry-leading capabilities at the infrastructure management level. Read on to discover how this option offers the potential to transform the server, storage and network infrastructures that support SAP enterprise environments and allows organizations to extend common management services to non-SAP apps.

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the ideal platform for cloud computing, one that delivers 100% virtualization, shared storage, dynamic resource provisioning, the highest levels of security, multitier applications, high scalability, robust service management tools and constant availability.

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 | Published: 13 Jul 2011