Data Mining Reports

EGUIDE: Despite its idiosyncrasies and lack of user-friendliness, the Apache Hadoop framework offers real advantages for organizations tackling big data challenges and real-time analytics. Access this e-guide for answers to FAQs for BI professionals seeking to leverage the benefits of this niche technology as part of their big data analytics initiatives.

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 | Published: 17 Dec 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, IT analyst Tony Iams, SVP, Ideas International, delves deeper into the scale up vs. scale out debate. Learn about the growing popularity of scaling out options, such as massively parallel processing (MPP) and distributed computing approaches.

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 | Published: 11 Dec 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript, you'll read how Shahid Shah, one of the healthcare industry's foremost analysts and technology experts, recommends aligning your hospital's IT strategy to integrate BI data at the point of care to support clinical decisions.

Posted: 07 Dec 2012 | Published: 07 Dec 2012

EGUIDE: This E-Guide examines key big data challenges and offers real-world strategies and advice for dealing with big data. In addition, examine typical pitfalls you may encounter during the data warehousing process.

Posted: 07 Dec 2012 | Published: 07 Dec 2012

EGUIDE: Effective data stewardship is trickier than it seems, and is often hard to document and measure.This expert guide reviews the key tenets of planning and designing successful data stewardship programs. Read on to learn about 5 common pitfalls and concerns that organizations have to overcome.

Posted: 07 Dec 2012 | Published: 07 Dec 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Many companies are finding that legacy business intelligence (BI) tools are hindering their ability to obtain the real-time insight needed to remain competitive in today's market. Read this transcript to learn how one company overcame this challenge by implementing a BI tool that reduced their reporting development time from months to days.

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 | Published: 27 Nov 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explains the growth in unstructured and machine-generated data, and addresses the fact that database technology has not been able to keep up. Learn how web analytics tools don't always work and about emerging technologies created to deal with aspects of big data.

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Meeting the demands for instant access to business data is something most of IT today struggles with. Read this transcript to discover how one company overcame this challenge with an analytical database capable of analyzing large data sets and learn how it simplified their database admin and provided the real-time data access they needed.

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 | Published: 28 Nov 2012

EGUIDE: Location intelligence can provide your business with unprecedented insight into customer behavior, market trends, and more -- so why don't more organizations include location features in their overall BI applications? Read on to learn the benefits of integrating location intelligence with BI and get 7 expert steps for getting started.

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 | Published: 28 Nov 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In the UK, Smart Meters are going to generate enormous amounts of information- managing all the data and making sense of it is going to be a huge challenge for the energy companies.Access this presentation transcript to examine what this will mean in practice for the energy companies and how they are approaching such a challenging project.

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 | Published: 26 Nov 2012

EGUIDE: Access this E-guide to examine the important role of quality booster of a data steward. Learn the multiple hurdles to get over along the path to effective data stewardship. And discover how once you get over those hurdles, a well-executed data stewardship program can offer you clean, accurate and consistent data across your organization.

Posted: 21 Nov 2012 | Published: 21 Nov 2012

EGUIDE: Big data has quickly become the most talked-about trend is the business intelligence and analytics markets to-date – but, as many organizations are discovering, gaining insight from big data is easier said than done. Read this e-guide to get expert advice on big data analytics including 7 worst practices to avoid.

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 | Published: 19 Nov 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: According to expert analysts, 80% of data is unstructured and without the right platform, this data is essentially unusable to businesses. Read this transcript to discover how the right architecture and strategy can enable you to unlock the true value of big data.

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 | Published: 29 Oct 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Traditional business intelligence (BI) tools no longer cut it in the era of big data analytics as workloads and data requests continue to grow in complexity. Attend this exclusive webcast to learn the benefits of leveraging an integrated BI and data warehouse architecture to meet the increasingly-complex demands of the modern enterprise.

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 | Published: 18 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Big data presents businesses with some significant challenges, but the biggest complaint amongst executives is their inability to quickly access the data they need for analytics. To alleviate this, savvy companies are using in-memory computing and gaining the ability to process more data faster and with greater efficiency. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 | Published: 08 Oct 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: It's estimated that most businesses only analyze 1-5% of their data for business intelligence (BI) – causing missed opportunities for improving business processes. Review this transcript to learn why BI is paramount for today's enterprises, why traditional approaches are falling short, the importance of agility in BI applications, and much more.

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 | Published: 28 Sep 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: When Lenovo needed a pre-configured software and hardware strategy for effective data analytics, they teamed up with Actian to deliver a power data mart appliance. Read this transcript to learn about the data warehousing and analytics tool they deployed that can run queries up to 27 times faster.

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 | Published: 28 Sep 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript provides insight on how a variety of technologies are changing the manner in which analytics are done. Find out which tools you can use to keep up and learn how to leverage vector processing to expedite even the most complex queries when compared to traditional columnar or relational databases.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 27 Sep 2012

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: Check out this short white paper to see how you can bring your archives up to speed so that you can reduce costs, ensure you're in compliance, and make backup and recovery a breeze.

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the relationship between developments in the way the legal profession locates, identifies and recovers today's new breed of digital evidence, and the ever-growing amounts of data organizations are expected to store. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: What have you done to prepare for the volume, velocity and variety of big data? Today's data explosion has forced companies to re-assess their capabilities for managing the full spectrum of big data challenges. Read this paper to learn why a big data platform could hold the answer to optimizing big data management to maximize business insight.

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 | Published: 14 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on finding the value within big data and offers advice for delivering deeper insight to decision-makers and management. Also, discover how leading companies are benefiting from the recent emergence of MapReduce and real-time analytics.

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 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