Database Management Reports

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a four-step approach to overcoming the key challenges of an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 upgrade. According to 152 surveyed IT managers, the top issues they'd like to see addressed are: cost and effort estimation, cost justification and impact analysis.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to shed excess code and redundant customizations for faster and more efficient Oracle E-Business Suite upgrades.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

EBOOK: Learn how easy it is to get started on DB2 application development. This e-book includes topics such as using DB2 Express-C, writing SQL statements, working with open-source tools and more. This is part of a full e-kit designed for fast, easy DB2 learning.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn how your queries can significantly benefit from an E-Business Suite (EBS) upgrade, and find out how to successfully migrate your reporting solutions from EBS 11i to Release 12.

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Premiered: Feb 29, 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide will examine the challenges big data poses for traditional analytics approaches and insight from TDWI attendees on their feedback on the big data phenomenon.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This e-tip analyzes Oracle Database bottlenecks and what IT and database administrators can do if performance lags.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This e-guide focuses on the impact of infrastructure on database performance.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to gain a detailed understanding of how Cisco and Oracle have collaborated to deliver integrated, enterprise-class NoSQL solutions that offer exceptional agility, availability, scalability and manageability. Learn how it provides the infrastructure for the quick deployment of scalable and effective big-data solutions.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

EZINE: Before committing to a public or private cloud architecture, evaluate the benefits and especially the tradeoffs associated with each. Also in this issue, determine what needs are most important when planning your virtual applications, and find out how to monitor the performance of applications in the cloud.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the costs and compression, automation, workload management, and optimization capabilities of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) versus Oracle Database 11g. It also emphasizes the importance of performance management tooling as a means of lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about how to improve your IT investments for better business.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This research report details the most recent versions and developments surrounding Sybase IQ and offers key findings for which prospective users should be aware. It also delves into the details of its latest release, version 15.4, including its architecture, query performance, indexes, in-database analytics and more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges the x86 processor trend, demonstrating that modern mainframe technology represents a scale-up option to the current racks filled with blades. It looks at the way organizations can benefit in terms of improved agility, increased reliability and cost savings by consolidating Oracle databases onto IBM’s zEnterprise.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

EBOOK: With support for IBM DB2 for z/OS Version 8 retiring in April 2012, customers will have the option to skip a level and upgrade straight to DB2 10. This e-book is designed to help customers decide whether they are a good candidate to make this leap and provides best practices for planning an effective migration strategy.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Read this white paper to discover product features and expert advice on whether to upgrade to the newest versions of SQL Server: 2008 R2 and Denali.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the value of the huge volumes of data generated by today's Web-oriented, virtualized, real-time applications. Read this paper to learn how to meet increasing demands for immediate information with the modern data management products of the VMware vFabric platform.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: SQL Server performance is highly dependent on how you configure your server's storage subsystems. With that in mind, this e-guide dives into a benefit/cost comparison of the increasingly popular solid-state drive (SSD) trend and explains some of the top mistakes people make when purchasing hardware for SQL Server.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: As availability for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i premier support is quickly running out, many organizations are contemplating an an upgrade to release 12. However, the headaches associated with an upgrade are sparking hesitation in many businesses. This guide offers expert suggestions for making an Oracle upgrade less challenging.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Premier support for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i is quickly coming to a close. Businesses should be anticipating an upgrade to release 12, but the challenges associated with moving their data are weighing heavy on their minds. In this guide, find strategies and tips for easing the transition to the latest release of E-Business Suite.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Don’t let your business intelligence (BI) system slow down your return on investment (ROI) or decrease the value of your information. Read this presentation transcript now to learn about a new system that will accelerate your BI processing.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, find out how to optimize SQL Server with the right choices for hardware, storage devices, and virtualization. Inside, find articles on: what not to do when purchasing hardware; if solid-state storage devices are worth the cost; hardware and risk considerations for an inevitable virtualization initiative.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Find out how to overcome the business intelligence initiative challenge of low-quality data in this expert e-guide with strategies such as translation matrix entries and historical data scrubbing.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discuses the benefits of consolidating data and retiring (or decommissioning) redundant or older systems to improve overall operational management costs.

Posted: 22 Dec 2011 | Published: 22 Dec 2011

TRIAL SOFTWARE: IBM Data Studio provides an integrated, modular environment for productive administration of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, and collaborative database development tools for DB2, Informix, Oracle, and Sybase. View this page to get an overview of its components and download a trial of Data Studio with a free database, DB2 Express-C.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 20 Dec 2011

TRIAL SOFTWARE: IBM InfoSphere Data Architect is a collaborative data design solution to help you discover, model, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data assets. It supports dimensional modeling. This page contains more information about the product and access to a 30-day trial.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 20 Dec 2011