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Techfocus SQL Server 2008 Migration: Evaluate the Value of a SQL Server Upgrade
sponsored by SHI
 | White Paper: | Posted: 24 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 23 Nov 2009 | |
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SQL Server 2008 has many compelling features, but not all of them are necessary. See what's a good fit for your enterprise and what can wait.
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Enabling Software and SaaS Vendors to Gain Competitive Advantage: Partnering with SAP for Business Intelligence and Analytics to Achieve Rapid ROI
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 16 Nov 2009 | |
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On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!
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The Total Economic Impact Of DMExpress
sponsored by Syncsort
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 25 Aug 2008 | |
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The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of DMExpress on their organizations. Forrester’s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis.
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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.
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Deploying Business Intelligence on Sun Fire X4275 Servers
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.
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Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 30 Jun 2008 | |
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Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
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Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses
sponsored by Syncsort
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 12 Oct 2009 | |
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For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.
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Beyond Survival: Thriving Through the Turbulence: BI in the Retail Industry
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 31 Mar 2009 | |
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Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
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Value-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Environment with Business Intelligence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 30 Sep 2008 | |
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Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.
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Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth
sponsored by Syncsort
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 12 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.
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Using Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL™ Database With Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 29 Apr 2009 | |
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This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.
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The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for Competitive Advantage
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 06 Oct 2008 | |
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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.
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Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.
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Sun Reference Configurations for Oracle Data Warehouses
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Sep 2009 | |
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Sun and Oracle Optimized Data Warehousing Solutions combine the Oracle Database with industry-leading Sun servers, Sun StorageTek arrays, and the Solaris OS. These solutions include both the Oracle Optimized Reference Configurations for Sun and Oracle Optimized Warehouses for Sun. Read on to learn more.
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SQL Server 2008 - 10-20Terabyte Data Warehousing
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Nov 2008 | |
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This white paper documents the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault storage. Using the knowledge gained through joint development this white paper illustrates the cost-effective performance of Dell Solutions for SQL Server 2008.
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