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 ....
How to Install and Configure Oracle Drive With Oracle Portal
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-This paper from Oracle describes how to install and configure Oracle Drive for use in an Oracle Application Server Portal (Oracle Portal) environment. Oracle Drive is a powerful WebDAV client. It maps the Oracle Portal Repository as a drive and allows to perform desktop authoring and publishing, as well as portal specific metadata attribution, directly from the Windows desktop.
Improving Performance of BMC Remedy EIE Integrations to BMC Atrium CMDB
[ Source: BMC Software ]
January 2008-This white paper by BMC Software describes about improving performance of BMC Remedy EIE Integrations to BMC Atrium CMDB. The paper has offered suggestions on how to accelerate the transfer of data into BMC Atrium CMDB using BMC Remedy EIE. Some are general recommendations applicable to all databases, and some are specific to Oracle databases.
Monitoring Data Quality Performance Using Data Quality Metrics
[ Source: Informatica ]
January 2008-This paper from Informatica explains the importance of high quality data requires constant vigilance. But by introducing data quality monitoring and reporting policies and protocols, the decisions to acquire and integrate data quality technology become much simpler. Since the events and changes that allow flawed data to be introduced into an environment are not unique, and data flaws are constantly being introduced, to ensure that data issues do not negatively impact application and operations: formalize ....
DSS Performance in Oracle Database 11g
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-For many successful enterprises, data warehouse applications drive business initiatives and generate revenue opportunities. Data warehouse and Decision Support Systems (DSS) have become so mission critical that system performance directly impacts the bottom line. This white paper published by Oracle introduces new performance features and enhancements in Oracle Database 11g for data warehouses and Decision Support Systems (DSS). The performance gains of Oracle Database 11g over Oracle Database 10g Release 2 are demonstrated via detailed ....
BMC Remedy IT Service Management 7.0 Concepts
[ Source: BMC Software ]
January 2008-This white paper from BMC Software describes the concepts underlying the BMC Remedy IT Service Management applications and gives best practices for establishing IT service and support using BMC Remedy IT Service Management to manage data about one’s IT environment. BMC Remedy asset management helps to align asset portfolios to business needs, lower software license costs and compliance risk, avoid over and under purchasing of hardware and software and reduce leasing costs and penalties. ITSM ....
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 ....
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BIDW): Transform Raw Data Into Business Results
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-This paper from Sun Microsystems briefly explains what Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BIDW) systems are, how they transform raw data into useful information and the major trends driving businesses need for BIDW systems today. The paper describes key user requirements for successful BIDW solutions and the infrastructure and technology Sun offers that empower organizations to build cost-effective BIDW solutions. In addition, the paper highlights Sun’s leadership in providing world-class BIDW implementations and Sun’s unique ....
Getting Started On Your Employee Performance Management Initiative: Five Questions Every HR Pro Should Answer
[ Source: SumTotal Systems ]
January 2008-Why should any organization implement an Employee Performance Management (EPM) system? Ultimately, a well-functioning and appropriately-used EPM can deliver real, bottom-line business results. However, those results don’t come overnight. A talent management strategy usually starts at the tactical level, as Bersin & Associates found in their Performance Management 2006 study: Organizations tend to focus on automating their employee appraisal process first, before moving into more complex, more strategic talent management initiatives such as goal management ....
SAS Enterprise Guide - Getting the Job Done
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008-Enterprise Guide is a relatively new front-end Windows client that provides a point-and-click interface to access and analyze the data. Both longtime users of SAS as well as new users to SAS often don’t know where to begin with Enterprise Guide. Longtime users are accustomed to typing all of their code into the Program Editor window and hitting the Submit key. New users are puzzled about how to get started and how to ’make something ....
Semantic Discord and Data (Dis)Integration
[ Source: expressor software corporation ]
February 2008-
As business requirements continue to accelerate, the ability of existing data integration technologies to solve those requirements lags appreciably behind. In an effort to address this issue, vendors have been frantically retooling their platforms and/or buying "complementary technologies" to help them stay afloat. Unfortunately, these incremental improvements and bolt-on solutions have not been successful in resolving the core problem. What is needed is a fundamental shift in the way that data integration projects are approached. ....
A Case for Assessing Your Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) Readiness: Driving Competitive Advantage Through Increased EDW Maturity
[ Source: Athena IT Solutions ]
January 2008-
Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) has never been more important for creating a competitive advantage in business. This common foundation provides all the data the enterprise needs, across applications and divisions, with accuracy, clarity, and trust. This white paper of Athena IT Solutions discusses why businesses are turning to enterprise data warehousing, the issues it helps mitigate, the business solutions it provides, and the technology enablers that one should seek in EDW. It also provides a ....
Improve Your Vision and Expand Your Mind with Visual Analytics
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
April 2009-
Learn why data visualization is important to overcome the limits of short term memory, and how it can result in finding what’s meaningful in your data and then making sense of it.
You will learn how visual analysis can allow you to:
• Identify what’s meaningful in the data in ways that your eyes can see and brain can understand
• Keep focused on what’s important and not be distracted by ....
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, 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 ....
Are You Giving Metadata Management The Right Attention?
[ Source: Tallan ]
June 2009-
Metadata Management is a critical but often ignored component in a successful data warehouse implementation. It is a path to establishing common understanding between the business and IT, but not often well understood by either side of the organization. Costs attributable to poor metadata management are often hidden in project development inefficiencies, mistakes made from incorrect assumptions about data, and analysis hours spent doing redundant research. The following illustrative study illustrates how recognizing metadata management ....
Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management Strategy, Theory Of Constraints
[ Source: Hitachi Consulting ]
May 2008-
Business Intelligence is more of and art than a science. In exploits of science one knows exactly what to expect in the end. In exploits of art one knows the end but the end could be different for different people with different experience, maturity, methodology, and technology. Business intelligence is more of an art than a science because everyone knows what they need in the end but how they achieve the end result depends ....
Real Application Testing with Oracle Database 11g
[ Source: Oracle ]
December 2008-
The change assurance features of Oracle Database 11g are grabbing the attention of many enterprises that want to minimize service disruptions when rolling out new applications or code updates. By lowering cost and reducing risks via reliable test workloads and SQL analysis, Real Application Testing from Oracle Database 11g lets IT organizations deploy with confidence.
Oracle Application Express Overview 3.1
[ Source: Oracle ]
December 2008-
Oracle Application Express, a feature of Oracle Database 11g, combines rapid Web application development with the power of the Oracle Database. Understand the benefits, architecture and features of Oracle Application Express and how it can help you quickly develop Web-deployed reporting and data entry applications on consolidated data in an Oracle Database.
Business Intelligence Requirements for IT: What every IT Manager Should Know about Users’ Real Need for BI
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-
In today’s marketplace, the half-life of BI is typically shorter than the life of the project needed for its implementation. This means that companies are getting a continual negative return on their BI investment. It is time to approach the problem from a new direction and empower the business owners and knowledge workers to quickly and easily find the answers to their questions.
This whitepaper will address the following questions:
• What ....
Massive But Agile: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse
[ Source: Aster Data Systems ]
August 2009-
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to expand the scale, scope, and deployment roles for their enterprise data warehouse (EDW) investments. Today’s most demanding EDW environments support petabytes of aggregated data, trillions of records, thousands of concurrent users and queries, complex mixed-query workloads, subsecond latencies, and continuous, high-volume data loading. Information managers are adopting EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing the agility to optimize this critical infrastructure to ....
The Great Build vs. Buy Debate
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2009-
Pre-built analytic applications have nearly all have failed to deliver, as vendors have often left data warehousing out of the application mix. Building a true data warehouse against a complex operational system takes time and money. Oracle has made the necessary data warehousing investment to create a business intelligence tool that can deliver faster deployment, a lower TCO, and an assured business value.
Best Practices For A Data Warehouse On Oracle Database 11g
[ Source: Oracle ]
October 2009-
Businesses demand more information sooner and are delivering analytics from their enterprise data warehouse to an ever-widening set of users and applications. To keep up with this increase in demand, the EDW must be near real-time and be highly available. Get a set of best practices and "how-to" examples for deploying a data warehouse on Oracle Database 11g and leveraging its best-of-breed functionality.
Beyond Reporting: Requirements for Large-Scale Analytics
[ Source: Aster Data Systems ]
September 2009-
Are you one of those organizations that is eager to move beyond the delivery of basic reporting capabilities?
Do you want to empower business analysts—who sit at the intersection of data, process, and math—to create data-driven applications that deliver bottom-line insights from massive volumes of data?
To apply analytics against large volumes of data, organizations need a purpose-built analytics platform that runs on a massively parallel processing environment and supports custom-built analytical programs ....
Massive But Agile: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse
[ Source: Aster Data Systems ]
August 2009-
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to expand the scale, scope, and deployment roles for their enterprise data warehouse (EDW) investments. Today’s most demanding EDW environments support petabytes of aggregated data, trillions of records, thousands of concurrent users and queries, complex mixed-query workloads, subsecond latencies, and continuous, high-volume data loading. Information managers are adopting EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing the agility to optimize this critical infrastructure to ....
Business Intelligence For Manufacturing
[ Source: MAIA Intelligence ]
July 2009-
With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, manufacturing is never easy. Use of BI can significantly improve both the performance and power of manufacturing reporting. BI is very effective for all types of manufacturing, be it process, discrete, or automotive. BI can close the “fact gap” by improving the availability and delivery of actionable data with minimal IT involvement. Manufacturers should carefully consider using BI as a cost-effective way to improve operations. BI for ....
Are You Giving Metadata Management The Right Attention?
[ Source: Tallan ]
June 2009-
Metadata Management is a critical but often ignored component in a successful data warehouse implementation. It is a path to establishing common understanding between the business and IT, but not often well understood by either side of the organization. Costs attributable to poor metadata management are often hidden in project development inefficiencies, mistakes made from incorrect assumptions about data, and analysis hours spent doing redundant research. The following illustrative study illustrates how recognizing metadata management ....
Improve Your Vision and Expand Your Mind with Visual Analytics
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
April 2009-
Learn why data visualization is important to overcome the limits of short term memory, and how it can result in finding what’s meaningful in your data and then making sense of it.
You will learn how visual analysis can allow you to:
• Identify what’s meaningful in the data in ways that your eyes can see and brain can understand
• Keep focused on what’s important and not be distracted by ....
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, 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 ....
Data Mart Consolidation and Business Intelligence Standardization: Getting the Most Value Out of Information
[ Source: SAP Business Objects ]
March 2009-
The competitive value of data that is accurate and accessible to all its stakeholders (customers, business partners, vendors, and others) is critical to strategic success.
Utilizing cross functional enterprise data lies at the core of this strategy.
Organizations can gain a cross-functional view of data and realize greater business value through the consolidation of data marts, operational data stores and other information sources, combined with the standardization of business intelligence (BI) tools ....
Best Practices for Deploying Collaborative BI
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-
This paper will show you how to navigate around the usual hurdles to deliver collaborative BI that works and will discuss:
Enterprise Packages: Where Are They Headed?
This shift in the development and usage of business applications in large corporations began in the 1990s when enterprise packages arrived on the scene....
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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