Data Mining White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper details the current state of business analytics, revealing why it's not as pervasive as one may think. Read this now and learn some best practices that will help CIOs spearhead their company's BI initiatives to make better use of data for a competitive advantage.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 04 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Decision-making is buoyed by strong business intelligence (BI). For small to midsize businesses (SMBs), formulating an approach to BI can be a challenge. Incremental steps are pivotal for SMBs, according to this paper featuring insight from Gartner. Read this and learn why starting with the basic before evolving deeper is the proven path.

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Published: 19 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines an information architecture (IA) and why it is useful in determining everything from the robustness of IT projects to testing business process scenarios to see if they satisfy the wide-ranging needs of your business. Read this now to learn more about IA, including its basic design, how to start your program and more.

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

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: 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 examines features and benefits of a unified application management structure that can give you real-time data access, custom dashboards, performance metrics and more.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 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 material examines how your company can get better, faster access to information and improve business decision-making and transactions with data virtualization.

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: Read this white paper to learn more on the best practices that will enable your company to transform its budgeting and planning cycle.

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: 19 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: 19 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing (DQP) by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers greater detail on 3 key findings, plus 5 recommendations about implementing a successful information retention and eDiscovery program.

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 | Published: 17 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details why building in business process management, information management and SOA governance across the enterprise is critical to SOA success. It also presents real-world examples of IBM customers that have done so and are now reaping the benefits of SOA, including service reuse, business agility and business transformation.

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This overview examines the power of Speech Analytics technology to extend resources and expand knowledge.

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how pervasive data-generating technologies are now available and examines the growing need to mine emerging applications for competitive advantage.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover proven strategies in data mining for cost-effective customer acquisition and retention.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The data warehouse DBMS market is undergoing a transformation, including many acquisitions, as vendors adapt data warehouses to support the modern business intelligence and analytic workload requirements of users. This document compares 16 vendors, including IBM & Netezza, to help customers find the right one for their needs.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the performance and scalability potential of InfoSphere DataStage 8.1 based on a benchmark test simulating a data warehouse scenario. The benchmark is designed to use the profiled situation to provide insight about how InfoSphere DataStage addresses customers' key FAQs when designing their information integration architecture.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business issues that drive organizations to consider a real-time change data capture solution to optimize ETL processes. This helps alleviate batch windows to enable the delivery of timely, trusted information to the business.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011