Data Warehouse Architectures White Papers

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: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

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: Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to discover powerful, self-service business intelligence (BI) that helps you locate, evaluate, and use your crucial business information while minimizing the operational cost.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies a shift in corporate thinking about the value of trusted information to the organization and outlines reasons why this shift is occurring. It explores common information integration challenges and outlines a list of key characteristics needed for an effective information integration solution.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the challenges, solutions and importance of data management consolidation within an organization.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how Data Mart consolidation is an effective tool for saving money when dealing with large volumes of data.

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: In today's challenging economy, cutting costs while achieving more is critical to success. Discover how to easily connect your cloud-based applications with each other and with your on-premise applications – in just days, without burdening specialist resources or resorting to custom programming.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 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: Often times Business Intelligence (BI) projects miss the mark with their business users because the proper documenting of required data and related business rules is not executed. This paper looks at fast-tracking data warehousing and BI projects using data modeling.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: According to recent estimates, enterprise digital content will double in growth every year for the next 10 years. Access this exclusive resource to discover the key elements to designing and implementing a customized and integrated cloud storage solution.

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 13 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: IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying IBM InfoSphere Information Server. Read on to learn the findings of this study and find out what the total economic impact of IBM Infosphere Information Server.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This brief by Gihan Perera, founder of First Step Communications, provides 10 practical tips for keeping control of your online meetings.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 29 Jan 2013

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: 29 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the disruptions to SAP’s roadmap after the acquisition of BOBJ, and discusses various scenarios in which customers might decide to stay with SAP BOBJ for its BI strategy, and also when it might be best to use a third-party BI platform to leverage their SAP investments. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data growth is one of the most significant challenges – and opportunities - facing organizations today. Those that learn to leverage the explosion of important new information sources can gain dramatic competitive advantage as others lag.

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 | Published: 24 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: At the core of any BI should be the ability to align business needs with the data infrastructure supporting them. This is almost impossible to do without a data model. Yet many BI implementers do not understand the need for these design components. This paper will examine the major benefits that data models have on BI environments.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As organizations continue to employ larger data warehouses, the need for performance will continue to outpace the capabilities of traditional relational databases. This paper explores the data explosion and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost needed to gain the performance edge.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This performance white paper illustrates the efficiencies of deploying SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault MD1000 storage arrays

Posted: 05 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault storage.

Posted: 05 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007