SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Storage | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Customer Loyalty | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | OLAP

VIDEO - Leveraging vast engineering and field experience architecting and implementing data warehouses with the Oracle Database, Sun created a set of data warehouse solutions to help IT managers quickly select a configuration, thus reducing the risk and deployment times for data warehouse solutions.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Premiered: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | High Availability | IT Managers | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: July 15, 2009


Topics:  Data Warehouses | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases | Oracle (Product) | SQL | SQL Server

WEBCAST - Bill Jacobs, Director of Technical Marketing, Sybase IQ, discusses the elements and attributes of Sybase IQ that make it a very economical choice for your business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing activity. The features in the latest release are highlighted, along with the base characteristics of Sybase IQ.
Posted: August 31, 2009 | Premiered: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Classification | Data Collection | Data Quality | Data Visualization | Data Warehouses | Reporting Software

DATA SHEET - As the use of tactical and data mart solutions expands toward strategic and enterprise data warehouse use, Analytic Appliances offer customers a lower total cost of ownership, reduced maintenance and high performance to address business analytics on growing data volumes.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Data Collection | Data Visualization | Data Warehouses | Query Tools

PRESENTATION - This paper compares the total cost of ownership (TCO) of both systems, and compares all the features of both systems to find out which one comes out on top. Read this paper to learn how Sybase IQ is considered to be a smarter way to deliver high-performance enterprise analytics without blowing your budget.
Posted: August 13, 2009 | Published: August 13, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Mining | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Oracle (Product) | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how Bloor Research determined that Sybase 15 will provide substantially better performance at lower cost than traditional approaches for analytics, reporting, and data warehousing environments.
Posted: August 13, 2009 | Published: August 13, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Mining Software | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Reporting Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more.
Posted: August 6, 2009 | Published: July 7, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | UNIX

ANALYST REPORT - This report by Mark Madsen will explain what data integration is, and especially the difference between Operational Data Integration and Analytic Data Integration. It highlights the benefits of open source for data integration, and provides a series of recommendations to make the integration job easier, repeatable and more productive.
Posted: July 28, 2009 | Published: January 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Open Source | Open Source Software | Server Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions.
Posted: July 28, 2009 | Published: June 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Open Source | Open Source Software | Open Systems Standards

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems.
Posted: June 24, 2009 | Published: June 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Customer Data Management | Data Center Construction | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Management | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Oracle (Product)

IT BRIEFING - A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management | Document Management | Enterprise Search Software

WHITE PAPER - There's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other information isolated and managed by independent teams using their own set of management tools.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Resource Management | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Interoperability | Master Data Management | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. This white paper from Business Objects, explores the growth trend of unstructured data and examines the many benefits of unstructured data analysis.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Visualization | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Decision Support Databases | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Knowledge Management | Unstructured Data