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Avoiding the Compliance Trap for Travel and Expenses

whitepaper Organizations weighing Travel and Expenses (T&E) automation should look beyond the value of streamlining the process to solutions that include analytic and reporting features that enforce compliance controls and provide audit evidence while...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build -- Oracle's Pre-built Analytic Applications Versus Building a Custom Warehouse

whitepaper This Business Intelligence Consulting Group whitepaper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, Siebel, or...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[14 May 2008]

The Data Quality Business Case: Projecting Return on Investment

whitepaper The need for high quality data permeates most information-centric programs, whether they depend on transactional, operational, or analytic applications. This white paper outlines the importance of maintaining data integrity, describes the data...

Tags: data visualization, data quality, quality improvement, high quality

[16 Apr 2008]

The Data Center Vision: Making Sense of the Data

whitepaper The Center will develop the infrastructure, recommend the standards and build the prototype applications that enable the interoperation of data and analytic models within and across enterprises. The Data Center at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Tags: data center

[12 Apr 2008]

MySQL Helps EraGen Biosciences Deliver Powerful Analytic Tools for Genome Research

whitepaper EraGen Biosciences is a Madison, Wisconsin-based life science company that designs, develops and commercializes products and technologies that accelerate the drug discovery process, advance molecular diagnostics and enable functional proteomics.

Tags: database management, enable, amounts, timely

[10 Apr 2008]

The Waiting Time Distribution for a TDMA Model With a Finite Buffer

whitepaper This paper obtains detailed analytic formulas for the density and probability distribution of the waiting time in a TDMA model with a finite buffer. A recursive scheme, obtained by a matrix analytic derivation, allows for the highly efficient...

Tags: tdma - cdma, analytic, scheme, distribution

[10 Apr 2008]

Successful Business Intelligence Starts With a Data Warehouse Foundation

whitepaper It concludes with a discussion of how a data warehouse and ODS infrastructure can be implemented quickly and inexpensively with the new generation of software packages referred to as Analytic Applications.

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, business intelligence, intelligence, warehouse

[10 Apr 2008]

How to Forecast and Preempt Al-Qaeda's Catastrophic Terrorist Warfare

whitepaper Security and risk assessment professionals must always adopt proactive measures to anticipate, defend against, and preempt new types of terrorist threats. Moreover, one should not expect past trends to necessarily reveal future attack patterns...

Tags: network security, attacks, terrorist, assessment

[10 Apr 2008]

Backing Up SAS Content in Your SAS9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform

whitepaper This paper focuses on considerations for developing a content backup strategy for the SAS9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform - including content from SAS Data Integration Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server, and analytic products such as SAS...

Tags: back-up

[03 Apr 2008]

Benefits of Payments Business Intelligence

whitepaper A payments data warehouse with business intelligence and analytic reports provides the visibility necessary to make the best payment business decisions. Imagine having the insight to make the right decisions on payment fees, consolidation and...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[28 Mar 2008]

Transform Customer Data Into Profit: Discover New Sources of Value Through Analytic Insight Across Your Marketing, Sales and Service Organizations

whitepaper Marketing groups were first to embrace predictive analytics, for cross-selling, campaign management, interaction management, customer acquisition and customer loyalty programs. Other functional groups are gradually discovering the value of...

Tags: data mining - analysis

[19 Mar 2008]

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer With the OLAP Option

whitepaper Included as part of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, OracleBI Discoverer complements the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, which extends the analytic capabilities of the Oracle database to include a logical dimensional model...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[19 Mar 2008]

The Green Revolution in Data Warehousing: The Power, Cooling and Footprint Advantages of the Netezza Analytic Appliance

whitepaper The Netezza Performance Server (NPS) analytic appliance redefines energy efficiency in data warehousing, while providing cost-effective query performance beyond the reach of other systems. This paper examines the power crisis in the data center...

Tags: data mining - analysis

[11 Mar 2008]

Streaming Analytics With the Netezza Performance Server Appliance: Bringing Appliance Simplicity to Advanced Analytics

whitepaper As the pioneer in appliances for analytic processing, Netezza recognized years ago that operating at streaming speeds can be game-changing for data-intensive companies. This paper examines how the Netezza family of appliances is uniquely suited for...

Tags: application servers

[11 Mar 2008]

The Netezza FAST Engines Framework: A Powerful Framework for High-Performance Analytics

whitepaper Netezza's AMPP (Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing) system architecture, the best combination of MPP and SMP, provides orders of magnitude performance improvements without the complexity, tuning, indexing and aggregations necessary in other...

Tags: file and network servers

[11 Mar 2008]

Virtualization: Concepts, Applications, and Performance Modeling

whitepaper This paper explains the basics of system virtualization and addresses performance issues related to modeling virtualized systems using analytic performance models. Virtualization was invented more than thirty years ago to allow large expensive main...

Tags: server consolidation

[29 Feb 2008]

Web-Based Solution Enables Better Decision-Making, Productivity for the Oregon Department of Education

whitepaper The solution enables better decision-making by education officials and legislators; allows the education department to refocus 20 percent of its education finance staff to other analytic activities; provides more comprehensive data in half the...

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003

[20 Feb 2008]

Watch out - here comes Generation Virtual

News Gartner suggests customer data, business intelligence and analytic tools will also develop to allow companies to better understand their customers. Companies using CRM technology will need to change their approach as traditional ways of selling...

Tags: crm, sell, web 2.0, gartner

[20 Feb 2008]

A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications

whitepaper The multi-tier implementation has become the industry standard for developing scalable client-server enterprise applications. Since these applications are performance sensitive, effective models for dynamic resource provisioning and for delivering...

Tags: application development

[14 Feb 2008]

Data Mining and Privacy: a Conflict in the Making?

whitepaper The concerns that people have over the collection of this data will naturally extend to any analytic capabilities applied to the data. Privacy. It? s a loaded issue. In recent years privacy concerns have taken on a more significant role in American...

Tags: privacy issues, privacy, society, role

[16 Jan 2008]

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