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White Papers and Research

Operational Data Integration for the Real-Time Enterprise: Business Agility in a Constantly Changing World

Does your organization have access to timely, accurate and relevant information to accelerate business responsiveness and mitigate risks? Organizations perform best when they are most agile in their response to the many business conditions impacting today’s enterprise. Any disruption to the flow of information in an enterprise can directly impact the top and bottom line. Download this white paper and learn from customer scenarios and industry leaders how to use operational data integration to become a real-time enterprise and achieve operational.

How Small to Midsized Organizations Can Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Reporting

Learn how you can lower your TCO for SME reporting. You will see how you can save time, empower end users and utilize a solution that has flexible licensing options and pricing – suitable for any budget and user. Business Objects, an SAP company introduces Crystal Reports Server 2008.

Roundup of Business Intelligence and Information Management Research, 1Q08

Gartner's business intelligence and information management role spans five IT-led initiatives. This document highlights the key issues addressed by Gartner research on these initiatives in 2008 and lists research and toolkits aimed at IT leaders.

Achieving Best Practices for Corporate Performance

Financial services institutions can gain and keep competitive advantage and customer loyalty through achieving new levels of operational excellence across their business units. To do so, they will need to gather and mine customer data more effectively. This paper describes how enterprise intelligence processes and technologies can unite business and technical teams toward this common goal.

Right-Time Information for Governance, Risk and Compliance

Download this Bloor Research white paper to learn about the importance of right-time information relating to GRC, the costs involved in not having information when you need it and the platform requirements that can provision the high-quality data required, in the right format and in the right time.

Turning Customer Interactions into Money

The sheer wealth of information about today’s customers that can applied toward anticipated behavior is staggering. A new white paper from Peppers & Rogers Group and SPSS will show you how to use data and the insight gained from it, to predict customer behavior. You’ll learn how to leverage this predictive knowledge to drive changes in customer behavior and increase enterprise profitability.

Protecting Microsoft Exchange

While it was once a convenient way for employees to communicate internally, today email systems like Microsoft Exchange are tightly integrated with other business applications and are one of the primary methods for communicating with current and prospective customers. Protecting Exchange against costly downtime has become a top priority for more IT departments. So how do you ensure that your Exchange environment is always protected? When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business-critical data and applications.

Data Integration: OEM Strategy and Competitive Edge

When charting product development strategy, ISVs can’t afford to waste time or resource. They must focus on differentiators, while leveraging off-the-shelf technology for the rest. In the case of data integration, the answer is clear: ISVs can rapidly build their value proposition, accelerate time to market, and protect competitive edge incorporating data integration technology that is already available. In this whitepaper, learn how to best approach a buy versus build decision.

Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies and Implementation Examples

As open source shifts into the mainstream, it becomes more and more pervasive in the information system, and many organizations are adopting open source solutions for increasingly mission-critical uses. Discover, through a series of case studies and real-life implementation stories, the high-performance and reliability of open source data integration.

Your SOA Could Be DOA Without MDM

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) can deliver benefits like faster, smarter application development. But to realize the power of SOA, an organization must effectively manage the information that SOA applications depend on. That’s why organizations are increasingly implementing a comprehensive master data management (MDM) solution as part of their SOA strategy.

To V or Not To V: Business Intelligence Gets Virtual

Managing critical business data has never been easy, and it's getting more difficult as organizations increasingly need to access and combine growing volumes of data from inside the enterprise and even from external sources. The solution for many enterprises is a virtual approach. It may be virtual - but it provides real results! In this white paper, Claudia Imhoff outlines how virtual data marts and operational data stores can provide real-time information across operational and historical data. Read about companies that have made the switch to virtual and are reaping the benefits.

Predictive Analytics: Extending the Value of Your Data Warehouse

This report is designed for the business or technical manager who oversees a business intelligence environment and seeks validation on the best practices and pitfalls of implementing predictive analytics. Research for this report is based on a TDWI survey, as well as interviews with BI and analytics practitioners, consultants and solution providers.
Learn how to apply five recommendations that should enable any organization to implement predictive analytics with a confident measure of success.

Gartner and PivotLink Make Recommendations for On-Demand Business Intelligence

Staying on top of changes to your business is critical. But many companies struggle because their key information is caught up in spreadsheets or traditional business intelligence systems.

Gartner and PivotLink have teamed to explore the impact on-demand business intelligence is having on the business landscape, and to provide a set of recommendations for those planning to upgrade their business intelligence and reporting.

Download this informative white paper today!

Six Ways to Strengthen your Existing Security Infrastructure

To mitigate risk and manage security, organizations must be able to measure the effectiveness of the people, policies, processes and products securing applications and data. By gaining transparency into risk and security status with rapid, flexible security assessments, organizations can rapidly improve risk management. Assessments should deliver a risk-relevant view of the IT infrastructure, enabling you to track progress towards policy compliance targets. This white paper describes a new technology for conducting rapid, flexible assessments.

Modeling Unstructured Data: An Independent Perspective

Managing data and metadata becomes increasingly challenging when unstructured data is added to the mix. Download this white paper written by DM Review columnist Steve Hoberman and learn from his practical examples.
• Why you need to model structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
• How impact analysis brings value to metadata management.
• How you can benefit from modeling unstructured data.



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