Reporting and Business Intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics AX
[ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2008-The Microsoft Dynamics AX Reporting and BI Framework comprises tools and services to enable the implementation, integration, deployment, and use of business performance management features in Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions. The framework is a model driven Microsoft platform integrated solution that will continue to evolve in future releases of the product to support richer scenarios and advances in the Microsoft Reporting and BI platform technologies upon which it is built. The goal of this white ....
Introducing the GLIMMIX Procedure for Generalized Linear Mixed Models
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-This paper describes a new SAS/STAT procedure for fitting models to non-normal or normal data with connection or no constant variability. PROC GLIMMIX extends the SAS mixed model tools in a number of ways. Applications of the GLIMMIX procedure include estimating trends in disease rates, modeling counts or proportions over time in a clinical trial, predicting probability of occurrence in time series and spatial data, and joint modeling of correlated binary and continuous data. This ....
New Features in Oracle Text with Oracle Database 11g Release 1
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-Oracle Text is the leading text searching, retrieval and management system to be integrated into a database environment. With Oracle Database 11g Release 1, Oracle Text introduces new features which aim to keep it in the leading position. These new features may be grouped into four target areas Performance, Minimization of application downtime, Internationalization, Ease of Maintenance. These new features are grouped into four target areas i.e. performance, minimization of application downtime, internationalization and ease ....
Consolidating HP Serviceguard for Linux and Oracle RAC 10g Clusters
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-Many customers have built highly available Oracle database environments on Linux using the ""Single instance"" version of Oracle and HP Serviceguard for Linux protecting both the database and application layers. With Oracle 10g Real Application Cluster, database scalability as well as high availability are built into the clustered product. Oracle states that the Oracle 10g R1 replaces ""the need to purchase, install, configure, and support third-party cluster software"". This paper provides a set of guidelines ....
DB2 9 HADR: Build a Standby Database Using SnapMirror and Create a Read/Write Copy of the Standby Using FlexClone
[ Source: NetApp ]
January 2008-The DB2 HADR feature provides immense data protection from both partial and full site failures. In case of failure, the standby database can be made available to clients across the network until the primary database is repaired and returned to service. Recovery may include recovery from corruption, natural disaster at the source site, accidental deletion, sabotage, etc. In the event of disaster, all applications traffic is rerouted to the standby database at the disaster recovery ....
Business Process Lifecycle Management For Telecommunications
[ Source: Savvion ]
January 2008-The stages in the lifecycle of a Telecommunications business process are articulation, automation, execution, measurement, and optimization. It is important to have tightly integrated, role-specific process tools at every stage for the end-to-end management of process lifecycle. Savvion BusinessManager is the only BPM solution on the market that addresses all phases of the process lifecycle. With sophisticated tools for collaborative process modeling and simulation, design, extensive integration functionality, scalable execution servers, and a comprehensive real-time ....
Semantics, Metadata and Identifying Master Data
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-One of the most challenging aspects of a Master Data Management (MDM) is defining what constitutes ""Master data."" Master data may be found across the application environment, but it’s up to the business analyst or data steward to determine which data to include in the final repository. This white paper helps the reader to learn the keys to locating and understanding relationships between data elements. The paper discusses methods to leverage metadata in the MDM ....
Data and Text Mining the Electronic Medical Record to Improve Care and to Lower Costs
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-The introduction of the electronic medical record allows for the examination of cost and quality in healthcare. Large numbers of patient records can now be examined in a hospital or private practice setting, and patients can be tracked longitudinally through the healthcare system. In the past, data mining techniques have rarely been used to examine the totality of patient records; matched cohorts have been preferred to examine specific hypotheses. This paper will examine physician decision-making ....
Using SAS to Implement Proportional Odds Ratio Model for Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Tests
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-The paper published by SAS Institute describes how to use SAS system to implement the Proportional Odds Ratio (POR) model (Siadaty 2004). POR is used to pool results of several studies together in a meta-analysis of diagnostic tests. The briefly introduce the POR model. This paper focuses on how to use SAS/STAT on Windows to fit the model for a real example, and estimate the discrimination accuracy of competing tests. It shows some useful graphics ....
AIX Performance With NFS, iSCSI, and FCP Using an Oracle Database on NetApp Storage
[ Source: NetApp ]
January 2008-This technical report from Network Appliance, provides performance-tuning recommendations and performance comparisons for running Oracle Databases over NFS, FCP and iSCSI on Network Appliance Filers in an AIX 5L 5.2 and a forthcoming AIX 5.3 ML-03 environment. An OLTP workload using an Oracle 10.1.0.2.0 Database was used for this comparison. A primary result of this study indicates that AIX 5.3 ML-03 with NFS provides OLTP performance comparable to iSCSI and FCP. This result was achieved ....
A New Strategy of Model Building in PROC LOGISTIC With Automatic Variable Selection, Validation, Shrinkage and Model Averaging
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-
This paper is a further development of the work wherein the researchers proposed an approach to model building for prediction based on the combination of stepwise logistic regression, information criteria, and the best subset selection. The approach inherited some strong features of the three components mentioned, in particular it helped to avoid the agonizing process of choosing the ""Right"" critical p-value in stepwise regression. At the same time automatic selection procedures are often criticized severely ....
GAP Analysis: The Case for Data Services
[ Source: JBoss ]
May 2008-
Data services gather and integrate data from many different sources in real time, bridging gaps to create consolidated information views while hiding data source complexity from applications. A data service approach makes data access and integration scalable by streamlining development and maintenance, whether applications speak Web services, SQL, or both.
This white paper is a GAP Analysis for the case of Data Services. It reviews the need for data services, anatomy of a ....
Emerging Security Threats Demand Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring
[ Source: FireScope ]
January 2008-
A multi-billion dollar cyber crime industry is changing the security landscape. Targeted external and internal attacks that steal intellectual property, customer data, and money are on the rise - impacting corporations’ bottom lines and their reputations with customers. Malicious code is entering the environment more rapidly than patches can be deployed and through avenues that network perimeter monitoring can’t detect. Today’s targeted security threats evade detection by single-point security solutions and traditional network monitoring. This ....
Data Visualization Tools Help Traders Achieve Best Execution in Today’s Ultra-Fast Moving Markets
[ Source: Panopticon Software ]
May 2008-
Security traders today face two major challenges: the markets in which they operate have become highly complex and ultra-fast, while at the same time the fiduciary duty of best execution is viewed more seriously than ever. Wayne Wagner explains how data visualization applications help traders achieve best execution by informing them of developing situations quickly enough to prevent sub-standard executions. Advanced data visualization software platforms have emerged in recent years as solutions ....
Considering Third-Generation Discovery: Two Approaches For Evaluating eDiscovery Offerings
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
December 2008-
With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Even though more and more vendors are providing pricing comparison tools that can help in considering their offerings, there continues to be a need for comparison frameworks to help electronic discovery professionals systematically evaluate offerings beyond pricing and through the lens of additional factors to include capability, delivery ....
Sustainable Government: Five Ways ECM Can Help You To Be Lean, Clean, And Green
[ Source: Optical Image Technology - DocFinity ]
April 2009-
Government has a tremendous responsibility to lead by example. Nowhere is this truer than in its efforts to lead the way with sustainable business. This article shows how government agencies can operate their agencies in efficiently, be environmentally proactive, save money, and improve constituent services by managing documents and work digitally with ECM.
How To Unleash Data Potential In Times Of Credit Crunch
[ Source: Rajat Sharma ]
March 2009-
In the wake of the current credit crunch, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision of ....
Three Blind Men and an Elephant- The Power of Dashboards
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-
Stephen Few, Principal of Perceptual Edge, reveals how dashboards make it easy to shift from one perspective to another while exploring and analyzing data, and pursuing every question that arises during the process.
Business people struggle every day to make sense of data, stumbling blindly, touching only small parts of the information, and coming away with a narrowed comprehension.
In this paper you'll learn how dashboards increase data comprehension through:
• Greater ....
Burt's Bees Builds Sales With SOLYS Demand Data Solution
[ Source: LumiData ]
August 2009-
This case study outlines the challenges of assessing demand data in a timely fashion. The paper shows how the SOLYS demand data solution has helped Burt's Bees Target team save time, increase volume, improve supply chain management, optimize promotions, and improve internal and external communication.
Next Generation Information Visualization
[ Source: Centrifuge Systems ]
June 2008-
The analysis problem today is very significant. Analysts of all types are overwhelmed with data which continues to grow at alarming rates. Traditional business intelligence tools are not able to satisfy the analysts need to interactively explore the data. As a result, these tools and current data visualization products are too hard to use, too static (they lack interactivity), too disconnected from the immediate needs of business users and too isolated. Interactive, visual exploration and ....
Crimes Of Financial Passion - A Fraud Special Report
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
September 2009-
This special report addresses best practices for combating fraud with analytics. The report also includes several case studies showing how leading financial institutions are receiving rapid returns on anti-fraud technology.
Topics include: analyzing social networks to identify crime rings; improving customer service with anti-fraud technology; keeping tabs on internal fraud risks; and results from top banks worldwide.
Benefits Of CRM Interactive Workflows
[ Source: SURADO CRM ]
November 2005-
This six-page document introduces Interactive Workflows, and details how using Surado CRM Interactive Workflows can possibly increase efficiency, standardize processes, reduce costs, and increase return on investment.
Burt's Bees Builds Sales With SOLYS Demand Data Solution
[ Source: LumiData ]
August 2009-
This case study outlines the challenges of assessing demand data in a timely fashion. The paper shows how the SOLYS demand data solution has helped Burt's Bees Target team save time, increase volume, improve supply chain management, optimize promotions, and improve internal and external communication.
Decision Support System And Data Mining
[ Source: NECHCLST ]
July 2009-
Decision support systems enable business and organizational decision-making activities in a more balanced way. With the evolving nature of information and data, it is challenging to extract key information from the large data set, which is most valuable during decision-making. In order to develop systems for digging down the data storehouse, data mining techniques are useful at the very core of such systems. This paper explores the role of data mining in decision support systems ....
Sustainable Government: Five Ways ECM Can Help You To Be Lean, Clean, And Green
[ Source: Optical Image Technology - DocFinity ]
April 2009-
Government has a tremendous responsibility to lead by example. Nowhere is this truer than in its efforts to lead the way with sustainable business. This article shows how government agencies can operate their agencies in efficiently, be environmentally proactive, save money, and improve constituent services by managing documents and work digitally with ECM.
Voice of the Customer: Text Analytics for the Responsive Enterprise
[ Source: Alta Plana Corporation ]
July 2008-
Text analytics helps insurance company business users discern and capture the Voice of the Customer from online media such as blogs, forum postings and news articles; from email, chat interactions and contact-center dialogues; and from surveys and other mechanisms for collecting customer feedback: from the totality of enterprise information sources. This research report presents a technical and business background for Voice of the Customer text analytics as well as the results of a survey ....
Time, Risk, And Cost In Electroinc Discovery
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
February 2009-
Balancing time, risk, and cost in the conduct of electronic discovery continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by legal professionals today. Technology advances, laws which further define electronically stored information (ESI), and current economic conditions all serve to increase both the importance and complexity of meeting this challenge of balance. How does one best approach the conduct of the key electronic discovery tasks of evaluating (analytics), processing, and reviewing ESI in preparation ....
Conceptual Search in Electronic Discovery
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
January 2009-
According to the Radicati Group, the average business mailbox contains 4.3 GB of potentially discoverable ESI. The burden of dealing with that volume is obvious. Automated tools to help identify responsive and privileged documents are being used more and more as the only viable way to manage these massive volumes of information. Electronic Discovery professionals have been looking for ways to limit the number of documents that need to be reviewed, because review is usually ....
Considering Third-Generation Discovery: Two Approaches For Evaluating eDiscovery Offerings
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
December 2008-
With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Even though more and more vendors are providing pricing comparison tools that can help in considering their offerings, there continues to be a need for comparison frameworks to help electronic discovery professionals systematically evaluate offerings beyond pricing and through the lens of additional factors to include capability, delivery ....
Three Blind Men and an Elephant- The Power of Dashboards
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-
Stephen Few, Principal of Perceptual Edge, reveals how dashboards make it easy to shift from one perspective to another while exploring and analyzing data, and pursuing every question that arises during the process.
Business people struggle every day to make sense of data, stumbling blindly, touching only small parts of the information, and coming away with a narrowed comprehension.
In this paper you'll learn how dashboards increase data comprehension through:
• Greater ....
Harnessing Value and Controlling Casually Created Content
Take control of your content using an ECM shared services approach which IBM calls Business Content Services. IBM Business Content Services helps control...
Impact Business Performance with BPM
To maximize your chances for success, you need the ability to continually optimize, streamline and align business processes to meet changing business needs for greater performance. Business process management (BPM) from IBM can help.
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