Analytic Applications Software Reports

INFORMATION CENTER: The IBM Analytics Solution Center in the Washington, DC area focuses on solving the business and mission problems of public sector agencies, and the U.S. Federal government through the use of analytics. Visit this center online and see how you too can gain access to useful information, industry experts, and technology to reach your mission goals.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

EBOOK: BI  and data analytics are pushing into health care, but the industry as a whole is still behind the adoption curve of other vertical markets. This e-book will give you the information you need to make the most of BI and data analytics. Read on to learn about BI trends in health care and how to take advantage of them to give you the upper hand.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 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

EBOOK: While recognizing the need for security is a positive step, many of these organizations are missing an opportunity to improve their operations by using the same tools. In this document you will find some tactics you can add to your security playbook to help make your employees more productive and to help improve your organization’s efficiency.

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Helps organizations visualize data on a map so they can easily determine relationships between data and geography.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Premiered: 07 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

WEBCAST: This Webinar in the Apply Business Analytics series will highlight the specific methods and unique data requirements needed to deal with advanced analytics so that you can effectively and efficiently uncover hidden relationships, anticipate the future and adapt to change.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Premiered: Jul 30, 2010

WEBCAST: This webcast will highlight the critical steps and practical tips to get started on your journey incorporating text-based insights for better decisions. Learn how the latest technologies can help you seamlessly leverage text-based content, improve efficiencies and ease staff resources to add a new dimension of insight to your business initiatives.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Premiered: Jul 30, 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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript explores two options for integrating analytic and Business Intelligence (BI) features into existing applications.  Discover the benefits and drawbacks of each approach, and learn why your organizational culture should factor into your software decision.

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 | Published: 14 Jun 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

WEBCAST: In this webcast, you’ll learn about a new generation of business intelligence (BI) solutions designed to take on reporting, analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding, planning, budgeting and forecasting projects while remaining affordable.

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 | Premiered: Jun 29, 2010, 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT)

EBOOK: BI and analytics tools can provide healthcare organizations with valuable insights for assessing and improving patient care and better controlling costs. This E-Book provides an overview of the BI and analytics issues facing healthcare organizations, as well as advice on how to best utilize the available technologies in healthcare.

Posted: 21 May 2010 | Published: 21 May 2010

WEBCAST: Though a great amount of valuable information lies within documents, e-mails, and other media, integrating this data into modern analytics applications is challenging. Join Sybase and Kapow on Tuesday, June 15th at 1:00 PM ET to learn how enterprises are motivated to deploy text analytics capabilities for its wide range of intelligence benefits.

Posted: 12 May 2010 | Premiered: Jun 15, 2010, 13:00 EDT (17:00 GMT)

ANALYST REPORT: Read this paper, which cites Gartner research, to learn how CIOs at midsize enterprises can overcome the four inhibitors to reliable business intelligence: people, politics, processes, and priorities.

Posted: 06 May 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

PRODUCT DEMO: This demonstration shows all the capabilities of the IBM Cognos 8 BI product. Demos are presented for all roles including employees, managers, BI professionals, business analysts, and system administrators.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Premiered: 17 Mar 2010

CASE STUDY: In an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009