Data Warehouse Architectures

WHITE PAPER: This white paper from Semphonic president, Gary Angel, explains the challenges of warehousing Web analytics data and its limitations for marketing purposes, especially if real-time personalization is the aim. He then looks at Celebrus Technologies—a system which assists with building a digital measurement infrastructure.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior business intelligence (BI) faster, the characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling and how to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

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: 26 Jan 2012

VIDEO: This brief video provides an overview of the Oracle Database Appliance - a fully integrated, high availability database solution capable of supporting a wide range of in-house and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing applications.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 25 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this case study, read about Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Services Group, and how they turned to LiteSpeed for backups that run four times faster while increasing performance. Then, see how LiteSpeed reduced the size of their SAP database backups, allowing them to leverage their current storage hardware. Read this case study today.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores an in-memory computing platform comprised of SAP software components and optimized hardware, designed to improve business intelligence without impacting back-end applications or databases.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study explains how one company decided on a reporting solution that enabled them to accommodate more data without sacrificing performance. Learn more about SAP Hana and obtain detailed guidelines for successful implementation.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: For SMBs, business intelligence is a critical technology initiative that allows them to gain competitive advantages and improve business responsiveness with limited costs. Access this white paper to learn the five crucial steps for delivering optimal BI in your organization.

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 | Published: 13 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC Event Flash presents the highlights of the Oracle OpenWorld event held in Beijing on December 13-15, 2010. It explores the comparison to Apple that Oracle's integrated software/hardware, performance focus and higher price point are eliciting. The paper also discusses Oracle's role in the current and future market.

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011

PODCAST: This podcast reaveals how employing a data warehousing and analytical appliance can provide the speed and functionality to enable CIOs and their teams to create value from big data.

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 | Premiered: 15 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses a smarter approach to advanced analytics.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Validated by leading analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, data virtualization is considered a “must have” in every enterprise’s data integration portfolio. This white paper discusses the five most frequently deployed data virtualization usage patterns.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: This HP/Microsoft white paper explains how their fast track data warehouse architecture can help you make the decision for hardware selection and configuration. HP and Microsoft working collaboratively can help you obtain the information to successfully integrate your data warehouse.

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 | Published: 22 Apr 2011

VIDEO: Douglas Miller, Director of Global Database Development and Operations at R.L. Polk, a leader in automotive intelligence and marketing solutions, discusses the benefits of Oracle Exadata’s efficient use of storage.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Premiered: 18 Feb 2011

DATA SHEET: Exadata is Oracle’s fastest growing new product. Much of the growth of Exadata has come at the expense of specialized data warehouse appliance vendors. These vendors have published competitive comparisons to Exadata. Continue reading the learn more.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchSQLServer.com provides insight into what it takes to implement a business intelligence plan for your company. Find out how to avoid common pitfalls by starting small and considering prepackaged solutions.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 15 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines different considerations for separating decision support systems (DSS) from Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments and touches upon technical procedures for achieving the same, as well as examines data warehouse solutions, different storage topologies, storage interface optimizations and much more.

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 08 Oct 2010