Business Intelligence White Papers

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper offers insight into an option that capitalizes on predictive analytics, enabling your business to target, optimize and automate your customer-centric interactions. Read this now and learn from other successful companies 10 pivotal tips - including careful planning and setting goals - that will help you craft the perfect data mining plan.

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper outlines a social business cloud solution that provides integrated e-mail, social business capabilities and third-party applications, all delivered through cloud computing. Learn how it offers a security-rich environment that will allow your business to become a social butterfly in addition to reducing costs and complexity.

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to learn about a platform that offers end-to-end visibility while transactions are in process. Learn how a customizable, operational dashboard enables real-time visibility into the overall state of operations and transactions across disparate systems and applications.

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Data warehouse appliances have transformed the DW with a platform designed to deliver optimal price and performance with extreme simplicity. This paper outlines the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance and how it offers extreme time to value, agility and ability to grow with new workloads, cost reduction of ongoing maintenance and more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at one way of improving your analytics capabilities and gaining end-to-end visibility into the trends and behaviors of customers, services, and systems.

Posted: 04 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper uncovers how Splunk can be applied to a variety of business intelligence (BI) activities to allow your company real-time insight.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses how data virtualisation can allow better data access and improve business performance.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 02 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a software suite that easily shares business intelligence (BI) and customer relation ship management (CRM) data throughout your business, is designed to grow with you, and is customized to suit your specific needs.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: Capitalise on application development and deployment software today and take advantage of its easy-to-use graphical tools to model apps and then deploy them across several platforms. Read this brief yet informative paper now and learn how this software can reduce development costs and improve productivity, modernise existing 4GL apps and more.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this solution brief, discover how Tripwire IT security and compliance automation solutions provides the visibility, intelligence and automation of IT security controls needed to gain confidence in the protection of your data.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 24 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Your business' IT tools interact with many different facets of your business. While these tools are helpful for automating processes and streamlining business, they also need management. Read on to discover a way to monitor your business performance in conjunction with IT tools.

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 21 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: Sound business intelligence (BI) reporting can be invaluable in helping your business peers make the best decisions for your company. Ensuring error-free, end-to-end integration of data between processes distributed throughout your organization, however, can be challenging. Learn how scheduling and process automation technologies can help.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores cutting-ege developments in business analytics and how analyzing big data benefits your business. It also examines different types of big data workloads and how to optimize systems to handle different workloads and integrate them into a single infrastructure. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper examines multiple case studies that demonstrate how smarter computing - the idea of transforming IT to deliver breakthrough economics and support innovation - offers improved IT economics. The case studies inside cover different IT domains — optimized systems, federated data, cloud and new service delivery models.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Keeping up with a quickly expanding business is difficult if you do not have the right tools. Read on to learn how Cricket Communications handled its growing business' operations with an enterprise application, data and operational management system.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn a systematic approach to select software for your planning, budgeting and forecasting needs. Read how to combine today's best practices with leading-edge technology.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Improved business processes, powered by optimized technology, can help many companies significantly improve their profitability. Read this paper released by BPM Partners to see how a business can take advantage of new trends and tools for profitability.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this comprehensive white paper now to learn more about real-time business intelligence (BI) and the benefits of implementing agile BI into your current BI strategy.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Very few of today's companies have a reliable way to achieve the widest profitability margins consistent with other strategic objectives, largely because no one person or organization is responsible for it. Read this white paper to find out what Ventana Research recommends as part of an effective profitability management strategy.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011