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Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how DB2 can help you meet the demands of business intelligence by reducing query response time from hours to seconds, supporting real time data warehousing, and optimizing your storage while lowering operating costs.
Posted: 28 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

IBM

Comprehensive Data Warehousing & BI Solution with Oracle Database 11g
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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: 15 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

Oracle Corporation

Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes
sponsored by SAS
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

SAS

Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

IBM

Guide: Enterprise Security Reporter for SharePoint
sponsored by ScriptLogic Corporation
WHITE PAPER: With more and more sensitive data moving from file servers to SharePoint sites, it's important to keep a close eye on what users can access documents, what users have permissions to change the SharePoint sites, and what documents are getting modified.
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

ScriptLogic Corporation

How Pink OTC Markets Cuts Reporting Time and Operating Costs with a Market Data Warehouse Built on Vertica and Syncsort
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place,  built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

Vertica Systems

Sybase IQ , A Competitive Analysis
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
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

Sybase, an SAP company

Query Offloading for Improved Performance and Better Resource Utilization
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses on the use of a log-based, real-time change data capture (CDC) solution to enable real-time reporting using a low overhead solution that minimizes the impact on IT infrastructure.
Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Published: 04 Jan 2010

Oracle Corporation

Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs, and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper will explain why reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical.
Posted: 31 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

Sybase, an SAP company

Ovum Technology Review of Vertica’s Analytic Database
sponsored by Vertica Systems
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

Vertica Systems