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May 28, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes reference configuration and sizing information for Oracle data warehouses on Sun servers for small, medium, and large solutions to meet business intelligence/data warehouse needs.
January 29, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper will review the trends that are driving the data warehouse towards real-time data requirements, examples of the business value, evaluation of data acquisition technologies, an overview of GoldenGate's technology solution for real-time data warehousing, and real-world examples of customers who have been leading the trend in this area.
October 2007 - (Free Research) 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.
December 2008 - (Free Research) The operations division in a large multibillion-dollar service company had significant challenges training its franchisees to overcome these challenges the company purchased and installed the SyberWorks Training Center with a 250-seat license.
June 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.
March 2008 - (Free Research) This paper will define what column-based relational databases do and how they do it, and where they have advantages (and disadvantages) compared to traditional approaches. This in turn will lead to a discussion of the sort of environments for which columns are best suited.
March 2007 - (Free Research) This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
January 2009 - (Free Research) In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.
December 2008 - (Free Research) In this brief, three top HR and talent development experts from Continental Automotive Systems, Vail Resorts Management Company, and ArvinMeritor share their insights on leadership training, giving three perspectives on development methods that work.
HEALTHsuite is an administrative claims processing system designed for health plans and other health care organizations. Rich in features and functions to support health plans of all sizes and types, HEALTHsuite supports all aspects of health care administration including HMO, Consumer Driven, Medicare, Medicaid and Federal Health Benefits.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Metadata is the essential blueprint for what data a company has, what it means and where they can get it. Without clear accessible metadata, an enterprise could have all the data they need to make sound decisions sitting on their servers and hard drives, and still end up making a best guess because they can't find that data or understand it.
January 2006 - (Free Research) In this white paper, explore how organizations are achieving strong returns on investment on their information technologie endeavors and investments by emphasizing user performance.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This technical brief explores the challenges of accessing and managing Oracle and non-Oracle data sources, then explains how Toad for Data Analysts provides the solution.
May 2009 - (Free Research) The importance of data quality initiatives has become abundantly clear to many of today's organizations. In this expert E-Guide, you will gain insight into the essential role data quality now plays in an organizational data strategy.
March 2009 - (Free Research) View this Webcast and complimentary Podcast to discover how you can become a faster, leaner, more agile business, by using business intelligence (BI) focused on 3 core strategies.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Business Intelligence is critical to running an effective business. Increase your BI efficiency by adopting best-in-class, easy-to-deploy data warehousing technologies. This webinar reviews how Talend, ParAccel, and Jaspersoft together provide a complete, afordable, end-to-end, world-class BI solution.
August 2008 - (Free Research) The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices-business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0-is providing solutions to those challenges.
August 2008 - (Free Research) The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices - business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0 - is providing solutions to those challenges.
March 2009 - (Free Research) With ITIL becoming more prevalent in the midmarket, important questions have arisen. What kind of training is necessary to implement ITIL? How does a midmarket company go about instituting such a framework? What is the return on investment? Find the answers to these questions and more in this guide.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This monograph by Philip Russom of TDWI examines the four requirements to increasing the maturity of data governance initiatives - and how these efforts can help companies effectively maintain and manage their mission-critical data.
TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines.