Data Mining White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data qualitty and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses: What is an industry model? What is the value of industry models? Considerations for building or buying data models IBM Industry Models—business and technical blueprints Reducing time to value with IBM Industry Models

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn the benefits of advanced data mining, including a greater return on investment. It offers practical guidance for incorporating additional data types and sources, expanding the scope of data mining projects and deploying results more effectively throughout your organization.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss how organizations using an Information Agenda can greatly improve their organizations' ability to identify and manage risk, meet regulatory requirements, speed new products and services to market and enhance customer service.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: An estimated 80% of enterprise-relevant information resides in text and unstructured forms. Text analytics transforms text into data for BI, data mining, and predictive analytics. This paper reviews business benefits and technical challenges related to taming text. It also introduces text technologies and surveys noteworthy business applications.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Whether or not analytics should become an integral part of an organization’s planning and decision-making seems to be beyond question However, at what level, for what purpose and how to go about deploying analytics are questions that each organization needs to answer for itself. These questions are the focus of this paper.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer extends the reach of BI to all your users. Read on to learn how with immediate insight into critical data, information workers can intuitively explore business information quickly and independently, enabling a better-informed workforce that makes sound and timely decisions.

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) launched a research program in April 2009 to determine the attitudes and opinions of C-level executives with regard to the use and value of business analytics. This paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 07 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: In the following paper, we briefly describe, and illustrate from examples, what we believe are the “Top 10” mistakes of data mining, in terms of frequency and seriousness. Most are basic, though a few are subtle. All have, when undetected, left analysts worse off than if they’d never looked at their data.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 07 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy-to-use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 21 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte." Myths and misconceptions create their own risks and need to be debunked. This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and provides some protective "hard hats" for data miners.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools. Learn how CRM is the catalyst to transform organizations, empower employees and capitalize on new market opportunities.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: A CRM system is only as good as the data within. Learn how a business information resource will help improve data relevancy, accuracy and timelines, which are directly correlated to client acquisition and retention.

Posted: 02 Jan 2007 | Published: 13 Feb 2006