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Oracle Solaris and Oracle SPARC T4 Servers— Engineered Together for Enterprise Cloud Deployments
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Oracle Solaris and the SPARC T4 processor can help you manage your costs for existing infrastructures or for new enterprise cloud infrastructure design. Discover how Solaris works cohesively with SPARC T4 systems and other Oracle software to enable a handful of cloud-ready solutions.
Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

A smarter approach to CRM: An IBM perspective
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With instant access to information, customers expect a purchase experience that matches the ease and speed of the information-gathering experience. Read this white paper, created in collaboration with Frost & Sullivan, to see how a customer relationship management (CRM) solution can help you respond on the customers' terms.
Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

IBM

Oracle Data Mining 11g Release 2 Competing on In-Database Analytics
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers an overview of Oracle Data Mining, detailing how you can build predictive models to better target customers, develop detailed customer profiles and detect and prevent fraud. Read on and learn how this data mining tool eliminates data extraction and movement, delivers the lowest TCO compared to traditional vendors and more.
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Data Mining 11g Release 2 Mining Star Schemas: A Telco Churn Case Study
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper, based on the CACS and intended for users of the Oracle Data Miner, highlights the telco churn case study using Oracle Data Miner and explains the case study workflow methodology. Read this now and learn about preparing a database scheme and importing a pre-made Oracle Data Miner workflow.
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

Boost Government Revenues Without a Tax Increase
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: SAP analytics solutions can help today's government agencies overcome the many challenges associated with tax discovery. Read on to learn how SAP's public sector software solutions can benefit government agencies by improving performance, reducing costs and streamlining service delivery.
Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Get a Better Handle on Unspent Funds
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper details SAP's range of public sector solutions, designed specifically to assist government agencies in proactively monitoring their current and future spending. Learn how to get a better handle on unspent funds such as unliquidated obligations (ULOs) by drilling into layers of data to create accurate reports and projections in real time.
Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

SAP America, Inc.

SUMMARY RESULTS FROM THE BI SURVEY 10
sponsored by MicroStrategy
WHITE PAPER: Following nine other surveys, the BI Survey 10 analyzed the platforms of six of the largest BI vendors and asked 2,961 organizations across 80 countries many of the same questions as previous years. Read this now and learn how organizations view certain aspects of their BI tools, such as response time, performance, business benefits and more.
Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

MicroStrategy

Increasing the efficiency of case file coordination in social services
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Social service agencies are experiencing challenges with manual processes. Advanced case management strategies are being implemented to streamline these processes and foster greater insight, collaboration and decision-making capabilities. This white paper explains how one such solution allows you automate these processes to elevate processing.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

IBM

Advanced case management solutions for smarter decision making in banking
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Financial institutions are under pressure to make better decisions. Real-time decisions depend on access to information and the technology available to analyze it. This paper outlines an option that aggregates all of the content from across the entire organization to enable a holistic view of each case, reduce risk and support accurate decisions.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

IBM

Advanced Case Management for Smarter Energy and Utilities
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to gain an approach to unifying utility company's information, processes and people to gain a 360-degree view of contracts, work orders and so much more, effectively enabling employees to make better-informed decisions which then reduce costs and elevate efficiency. Learn how case management can make your business smarter.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 23 Oct 2010

IBM

Business Analytics – Pushing Towards Relevance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper details the current state of business analytics, revealing why it's not as pervasive as one may think. Read this now and learn some best practices that will help CIOs spearhead their company's BI initiatives to make better use of data for a competitive advantage.
Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 04 May 2012

IBM

Gartner-A step-by-step approach to successful Business Intelligence
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Decision-making is buoyed by strong business intelligence (BI). For small to midsize businesses (SMBs), formulating an approach to BI can be a challenge. Incremental steps are pivotal for SMBs, according to this paper featuring insight from Gartner. Read this and learn why starting with the basic before evolving deeper is the proven path.
Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Published: 19 Apr 2012

IBM

What’s in YOUR Architecture?
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: Read this brief yet insightful paper now to learn about the basic components of information architecture, including master data management and data quality, and learn how Sybase can enable your company to integrate all of these aspects into a complete and holistic information architecture.
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

Sybase, an SAP company

Business Oriented Information Architecture
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines an information architecture (IA) and why it is useful in determining everything from the robustness of IT projects to testing business process scenarios to see if they satisfy the wide-ranging needs of your business. Read this now to learn more about IA, including its basic design, how to start your program and more.
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

Sybase, an SAP company

Sybase PowerDesigner for information architecture
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.  
Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

Sybase, an SAP company

Building a Better Data Dictionary with PowerDesigner®
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: Data dictionaries are a great tool to help in your quest to derive meaning and insight from your data, allowing you to standardize context and definitions to gain consistency and reusability, and propel this quality data into strategic decision-making and business plans. This brief paper outlines the specs and benefits of data dictionaries.
Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

Sybase, an SAP company

Oracle: Big Data for the Enterprise
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle offers the broadest and most integrated portfolio of products to help you acquire and organize these diverse data types and analyze them alongside your existing data to find new insights and capitalize on hidden relationships. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

Oracle Corporation

Hardest Problems in Data Management
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to enable a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed foundation for data management that runs dynamically across the many-machine, many-core, memory-based computing topologies that today's organizations are assembling from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds.
Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

VMware, Inc.

Accelerating the Speed of Intelligence for Fast and Flexible Forecasting
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

SAP America, Inc.

New Possibilities for Your Business with the World’s Fastest Database Machine
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper now and learn how Oracle Exadata Database Machine addresses the needs of today’s businesses with extreme performance for enterprise data warehousing, online transaction processing (OLTP) and mixed workloads.
Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

Oracle Corporation

Data Warehousing 2.0- Modeling and Metadata Strategies for Next Generation Architectures
sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how the data warehouse, metadata and modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years — and what you need to do to leverage it for your business, the major components of DW 2.0 architectures, and key modeling and metadata management strategies for DW 2.0.
Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

Business Analytics – Pushing Toward Relevance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy.
Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

IBM

Leading Interactive Games Designer Accelerates Business Intelligence Program
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage.
Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Exadata Storage Server X2-2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing (DQP) by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.
Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

Oracle Corporation