Anatomy of an Archiving Project [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- What are the basic principles for planning a successful archiving project? What are the benefits? Companies worldwide are affirming the value of enterprise data management and database archiving as a best practice. The benefits include managing data growth, retiring or consolidating applications and supporting compliance initiatives to satisfy data retention and e discovery requirements. Learn about the seven basic principles that can make ...

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Thinking outside the data warehouse eBook [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions. It is 20 pages, fully interactive and covers IBM?s overall Warehousing portfolio of offerings, inclusive of: • IBM Smart Analytics System • IBM Netezza family of appliances • InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7.3 • Informix Time Series • InfoSphere Warehouse Packs & Industry Models

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Using BD for Smarter Decision Making Analytist Report [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- This paper, by Colin White, BI research, looks at new developments in business analytics and discusses the benefits analyzing big data bring to the business. It also examines different types of big data workloads and offers suggestions on how to optimize systems to handle different workloads and integrate them into a single infrastructure for making smarter and faster business decisions.

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In-Memory Analytics for Big Data [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- This paper describes the SAS® LASR™ Analytic Server - a new breed of distributed in-memory analytic architecture for the next generation of high-performance analytics. SAS LASR Analytic Server's unmatched performance and scalability provide the ability to answer questions that previously were computationally infeasible. It enables users to explore data and analyze a variety of big data problems, including areas such as risk management, customer intelligence, revenue optimization, and assortment and merchandise ...

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TDWI Monograph Series: Seven Keys to High-Performance Data Management for Advanced Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- Advanced analytics should not live in a world separate from BI systems. Where BI systems provide the most value through dashboards, reports and tracking of performance metrics, advanced analytics can offer highly complementary technology. To get the most out of advanced analytics, organizations need to include high-performance computing in their data management practices and technology deployments. High-performance computing can enable organizations to overcome performance bottlenecks and other challenges that ...

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SAS® High-Performance Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- Faster results and high-impact outcomes enable organizations to think of scenarios that were never before possible. Instant results allow these smarter organizations to take advantage of market changes well before their competitors do. This paper introduces SAS High-Performance Analytics, and explains how this new offering from SAS, and partners EMC Greenplum and Teradata, offers game-changing benefits to businesses. All analysts know that creating ...

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Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- At 2.6 quintillion bytes of data being created annually, 90 percent of all the data in the world has been created in the past two years. While this unprecedented increase in information is presenting challenges for many companies, others are successfully using it to drive their businesses toward higher profits. This white paper gives one example after another of how the latest advances in analytics are turning big data into competitive advantage. <br&...

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The Analytical SMB [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- More data. More users. Less time. These three business pains are pervasive no matter what your company's size. However, latest research from the Aberdeen Group confirms that the well-planned and executed use of business analytics can provide significant value in combating these challenges for small and midsize companies. From boosting process efficiency and recognizing opportunities sooner to improving timely decision making, the measurable benefits are worth the investment. Those SMBs with a strong analytical strategy ...

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Turning Strategy and Innovation into Success - Driving revenue and profit growth for healthcare product portfolios [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- Every day, life sciences companies' such as those in the medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields' gamble with their futures, making bets big and small and risking "currency" in the form of their strategic direction, their processes for innovating and the success of their product portfolios. This white paper describes how to connect all areas of your enterprise to help create the right strategies to deliver the ...

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IBM Intelligent Transportation: Provides citywide traffic visibility to help alleviate congestion and rapidly respond to incidents [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- Transportation is the vital means of connecting people, goods and services. The smooth operation of a transportation system can not only determine the level of economic activity and output of cities but also have a dramatic effect on the quality of life for citizens and commuters. But with today's shrinking city budgets, there is often no funding available to rebuild or expand aging public transportation infrastructures. In larger cities, ...

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