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Data Management
Pragmatic Approach to Compliance Data Collation
Informatica - Handling Variable Length Files Using XML
Putting Metadata to Work to Achieve the Goals of Data Governance
Enterprise Information Management - Insights and Strategies into the Direction of EIM
Automated Analysis Technology
PCI DSS made easy
This white paper examines the requirements to adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the implications of non-compliance and how effective event log management and network vulnerability management can help achieve compliance.
The Data Model Quickstep: PowerDesigner in Action
This data model quickstep methodology is useful in the design and development of custom database solutions.
How Data Works
This white paper examines how data is structured and characteristics such as the data model depth, the data volumes and the data complexity.
Is Your Data Warehouse an Asset or a Liability?
ProfitBase 2007 ensures that your DW stays synchronized with your business' information requirements because it is quickly and easily reconfigured.
Data Fusion and Discovery Solution
By storing many years of data and performing search and complex analysis, customers can get a complete, real-time and historical view of their business, regardless of the data type and source.
Best Practices in Data Management
This white paper discusses the various components required for successful data management to support the goal of a ERM environment and explores their cumulative benefits as part of a unified structure.
Data Warehouse Documentation Roadmap
This paper describes the templates, tools and source documents used by Data Management & Warehousing.
Mashups: Understanding Mashup Building Platforms for Business Applications
This white paper gives a brief overview of the application mashup space and discusses the future value of mashups in business and enterprise environments.
HP Thin Client Computing
Recent years have seen big changes in the financial services industry driven by a number of factors—customer demand for higher service levels, the impact of deregulation, changes in employment patterns, and the ever-increasing scrutiny for good governance amongst them. In turn, these factors have had a major impact on the performance requirements of the underpinning IT infrastructures.
Migrating from ERwin® to PowerDesigner®
This white paper explains how to import a model built with ERwin into PowerDesigner with limited loss of metadata.
Managing Data as a Corporate Asset: Three Action Steps Toward Successful Data Governance
This white paper provides some concrete guidance on how your organization can get started with data governance or improve existing data governance efforts.
At the Crossroads: Adding Reporting to Applications
Today’s providers of enterprise software are faced with satisfying the information requirements of user populations that grow larger and more demanding every day. This white paper outlines the reporting technologies available and describes which reporting development path makes the most sense given the customer’s specific integration and deployment environment.
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.
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.
