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Data Management
Enterprise Performance Management
Global competition, investor scrutiny and new regulations are forcing managers to rethink how they systematically monitor and manage performance leading to a high level of interest in performance management. Enterprise performance management is littered with its fair share of acronyms - CPM, BPM, EPM, FPM - all striving to exemplify the benefits of an effective planning process that results in improved visibility, more accurate information and better, faster decision making. Basically, driving smarter business.
Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner
This paper discusses the selection of an offshore partner and the role played by the partner in projects involving a migration towards service oriented architecture.
Impact of US Back-Office Conversion Initiative
Impact of US Back-Office Conversion Initiative,launched in March 2007, enables the conversion of checks into ACH debits at the point of sale (POS) and over-the-counter (in-person) remittance.
HP Business Intelligence Solutions
The purpose of this white paper is to introduce you to the HP Reference Configurations for Oracle 10g Data Warehousing (RC)
Building a Tangible ROI for Data Quality
The this white paper discusses the key concept for building a business case or ROI, the relationship between your data and the business process(es), the relationship between those processes and business results. IT identifies three primary areas for business impact.
Methodology for Enterprise Data Quality and Data Governance
Trillium Software recommends tackling data quality issues that can be directly tied to tangible business benefits and growing this solution out, over time.
Reducing Churn in the Prepaid Segment in the Telecom Industry
Mobile service providers have traditionally focused bulk of their churn management and retention efforts on the post-paid customer segment. Prepaid has at best been an afterthought from a CRM perspective.
However, service providers now need to re-assess their prepaid strategies as the prepaid segment is the fastest growing segment worldwide, and churn in this segment, especially of high-value customers will hurt profitability.
Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
WinterCorp analyzes IBM's DB2 Warehouse and how it addresses twin challenges facing enterprises today: improving the value derived from the torrents of information processed every day, while lowering costs at the same time. Read this paper to learn how to reduce query response time from hours to seconds, support real-time data warehousing, optimize your storage and lower operating costs.
Data Warehousing Buyer's Guide
Unlock the potential of data with the right data warehouse. solution Are you evaluating data warehousing solutions or taking another look at your installed warehouse? This new Buyer's Guide can help you work through your options. The guide examines criteria to help select the right data warehouse that is flexible, optimized, and can grow easily and affordably to meet your current and future needs.
Harnessing the Power of Master Data
This white paper can be used to enable one's understanding of master data management (MDM). Topics covered include: the need for MDM, detailed description of MDM and service-oriented architectures, building best practices for an MDM strategy, what to look for in an MDM solution and what IBM MDM solutions can offer.
Leveraging Information for Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Think differently about information. Information is not just stored in your customer databases, file systems, content management systems or applications (e.g., ERP, CRM and SCM). Information resides in many different repositories including custom applications, emails, digital images and reports. You need to make sure you are leveraging all your relevant information no matter where it originated, no matter what its format and no matter where it resides to help your organization innovate, compete, provide service and grow. You need to understand the value of your information and to recognize and act on the importance of information quality. This white paper explains how to think differently about information, think differently about what it means to have a business solution, think differently about your overall IT environment, and how to meet the challenges of leveraging information.
Best Practices for High Data Quality in an SAP Environment
This white paper presents an overview of best practices gleaned from years of IBM teams working closely with customers deploying SAP to overcome data integration challenges and boost data quality. By producing high-quality data for new SAP deployments, instance consolidations or major upgrades, IBM Information Server can help dramatically improve the effectiveness of SAP applications and boost user adoption of those systems.
Data Mining Tools for Analytics Applications in Retail
This document is intended to serve as reference for users looking to understand both the theoretical (statistical) aspects of the data mining tools discussed as well as to see how these tools can be applied to a real-life retail business problem.
Enterprise Risk Intelligence
A Business Analyst at Satyam discusses the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) concept, the implementation challenges with Basel II ERM Framework and some of the recent trends in this space which have a potential to transform ERM.
Virtualization - The Way Ahead
This white paper provides an overview of “Virtualization” as a concept, and the technologies which are offered, to make the virtualization a “global reality”. It also discusses the approach by which virtualization can be leveraged to improve business performance in the field of Computer Science.
