Data Warehouses White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Technical white paper covering the impact of XML on data warehousing and how to deliver new levels of business analysis and bring users closer to their data.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The IBM Smart Analytics System helps accelerate the delivery of insights for faster, smarter action; helps lower the cost of deriving more value from enterprise information; and features a modular architecture that enables organizations to easily add capacity and adapt to changing business needs. Check out this paper now to learn more.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 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: Learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses challenges with trusted data in enterprises and recommends solutions through a data warehousing implementation scenario. The paper also discusses the capabilities of InfoSphere Foundation Tools and provides proof points through customer scenarios on the productivity, acceleration and risk reduction benefits.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Ray Wang of The Altimeter Group explores the IT and business criteria organizations must consider when planning their next BI deployment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and more.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Exadata Smart Flash Cache is the fundamental technology of the Sun Oracle Database Machine Full Rack that enables the processing of up to 1 million random I/O operations per second (IOPS), and the scanning of data within Exadata storage at up to 50 GB/second. Read this paper for more.

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

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: Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression enables the highest levels of data compression and provides enterprises with tremendous cost-savings and performance improvements due to reduced I/O. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on configuring Oracle GoldenGate to run on Sun Oracle Database Machine. Sun Oracle Database Machine can act as the source database, as the target database, or in some cases as both source and target databases for GoldenGate processing.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will describe how Change Data Capture (CDC), a specialized function of data integration, can optimize value in both analytical and operational systems within a data-driven environment. Continue reading this paper to learn more about these ten tips for CDC and learn how to maximize data integration value in analytic operational systems.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 04 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

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: Today, data warehousing and business intelligence are mission-critical functions for organizations of all types and sizes. IBM System z supports the entire data warehousing cycle, along with business intelligence software to deliver a total solution infrastruc­ture. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

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: 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 white paper addresses the business reasons to move to real-time data warehousing and describes the common data integration approaches, with an emphasis on using real-time CDC capabilities and Oracle’s data integration offerings in that area -- including Oracle GoldenGate 11g and Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition 11g.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 02 Aug 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: Learn about the importance of having a data quality strategy and setting the overall goals. The six factors of data are also explained in detail and how to tie it together for implementation.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Jul 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