Analytic Applications Software Reports

RESOURCE: What IBM learned about the trade-offs between data marts, data warehouses and consolidation.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: A full market perspective is difficult because of fragmented liquidity. Many securities are traded on more than one exchange or alternative trading venue. Knowing when, where and how to trade can be a challenge, and it’s getting harder all the time as the markets evolve.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how in-memory computing changes the way organizations can operate and gain value from their business intelligence (BI). Particularly, discover how this method can bring together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

ANALYST REPORT: In this report written by Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research for TechTarget, Wayne proposes that there are four main types of intelligences designed to turn data into information and information into insights and action: business intelligence (BI), analytic intelligence, continuous intelligence and content intelligence. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

PODCAST: In this podcast, you'll hear from Matt Bedin, Director for BI Product Management for Oracle, about the many new features and enhancements in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE 11g) that will excite both end-users and IT managers.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 23, 2011

EBOOK: In this eBook, IT, BI and data management professionals will get an overview of analytical MDM and learn how to develop and manage a successful program for mastering their BI data. Get insight and advice on analytical MDM’s potential benefits, challenges to watch out for and combining it with operational MDM for a full enterprise approach.

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

EBOOK: The Goal of clinical decision support (CDS) - a Business Intelligence tool specific to health care - is to give physicians and nurses the granular information they need to make treatment decisions at the time they need it. Read this paper and learn how to develop a data analytics system that works for your health care environment.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

DATA SHEET: Read about IBM Cognos® Express is the first and only integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies, delivering essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting & forecasting in one affordable solution.

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 | Published: 17 Feb 2011

PRODUCT DEMO: See what's new in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 that makes it possible to connect everyone in your organization with the insight, analytics and information they need to make better, faster, smarter decisions.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Premiered: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Cognos Business Intelligence lets you access virtually any data source, regardless of platform, and provide detailed, understandable views of the data to all users, regardless of location.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

EBOOK: The BI market offers a dizzying array of technology options. From collecting organizational requirements, writing RFPs, conducting evaluations and running proof of concept projects, there is a lot involved in BI purchases. Read on to get straightforward advice from industry analysts and expert practitioners.

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 | Published: 13 Jan 2011

CASE STUDY: Comcast Spotlight wanted all of its sales professionals to have immediate access to user-defined market analyses, without having to involve a trained research analyst. Alteryx designed a web-based solution, SpotKnowledge, which enabled increased functionality, accuracy, and faster turn-around times on analysis and reporting.

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 | Published: 11 Jan 2011

EBOOK: In this e-book, readers will get an overview of SAP’s BI strategy, and get advice on what to do about BEx, BW, and more to develop long-term BI strategies of their own. Read on to learn how to get the most out of your BI investment in SAP environment.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

EBOOK: As companies look to get more value from their SAP application investments, BI is hot. But for SAP customers, it’s also a confusing area. In the e-book, readers will learn best practices for forming a BI strategy in SAP environments, including whether to stick with BEx and what to do with BW.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

EBOOK: In this handbook for project managers, get advice and insight for making your BI project run smoothly. Find out more about the best practices that can make or break a project – and hear more from experts and experienced practitioners with real world experience. Both business and IT professionals can benefit from this information.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

EBOOK: Business analytics offers a host of promised benefits – from improved operational efficiency to increased sales to a better understanding of customers. But developing a strategy and structure to deploy business analytics successfully can be challenging.  Read on to learn more about developing a successful, scalable business analytics strategy.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

PRODUCT DEMO: This product demo illustrates the processes and benefits inherent in a BI solution that provides a common, unified environment that combines OLAP and relational-style analysis for a faster and more in-depth decision process.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Premiered: 16 Dec 2010

EBOOK: In this e-book, learn advanced strategies for creating actionable, interactive and user-friendly dashboards that will help your organization track KPIs. Learn how to get started with dashboards, find out what a dashboard is and what it is not. Discover how to create different dashboards to meet the needs of various departments and more.

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2010

EBOOK: Technological innovations are rapidly changing data warehouse architectures and providing the potential for substantial performance improvements. Read this e-book to get an update on the most important trends in data warehousing, including appliance technology, columnar databases, in-database analytics and more.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In top - performing organizations, analytics has replaced intuition in predicting and acting upon real-time information. Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

INFORMATION CENTER: The IBM Analytics Solution Center in the Washington, DC area focuses on solving the business and mission problems of public sector agencies, and the U.S. Federal government through the use of analytics. Visit this center online and see how you too can gain access to useful information, industry experts, and technology to reach your mission goals.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

EBOOK: BI  and data analytics are pushing into health care, but the industry as a whole is still behind the adoption curve of other vertical markets. This e-book will give you the information you need to make the most of BI and data analytics. Read on to learn about BI trends in health care and how to take advantage of them to give you the upper hand.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Businesses that fail to strategically leverage analytically driven customer insight will gradually become obsolete over time. This paper takes a closer look at why – and explains what you can do to evolve your marketing organization’s ability to turn data into customer insight, and insight into competitive advantage.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper, intended for both IT and operational management, explores a series of high-level best practices for analytics and data warehousing based on Sybase’s experience with successful implementations. Suggestions are provided in three categories: performance, cost control, and ease-of-deployment with each dimension broken down into sub-topics.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010