A Data Warehouse is a computer system designed for archiving and analyzing an organization's historical data, such as sales, salaries, or other information from day-to-day operations. Normally, an organization summarizes and copies information from its operational systems to the data warehouse on a regular schedule, such as every night or every weekend; after that, management can perform complex queries and analysis on the information without slowing down the operational systems.
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Master Data Management Projects in Practice - An Information Difference Research Study
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Master Data Management (MDM) has received growing attention recently as an essential component of information management alongside data governance and data quality. More and more, organizations are turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of business intelligence with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. Increasing regulatory requirements and the recent financial crisis have ensured that Master Data Management is increasingly finding its way onto the business agenda. Information Difference conducted a survey of both end-user organizations and systems integrators aimed at gaining deeper insight into MDM implementations and their success factors. This report summarizes and analyzes the results of that survey, and presents practical recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM. It also contains some enlightening findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects.
Open Source Master Data Management: The Time is Right
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Many organizations consider high quality master data as a key strategy for accomplishing corporate objectives. Proper master data management (MDM) is indeed extremely valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics, however, master data projects are often politically challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. MDM is a natural extension to data integration and data quality. Open source MDM introduces a new, more accessible approach. It reduces implementation complexity, time to value and cost. In fact, as in many other markets, open source helps organizations overcomes obstacles and realize their goals. This White Paper provides an explanation of why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.
Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies & Implementation Examples (Vol. 3)
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Over the past few years, commercial open source vendors have been providing a real alternative to proprietary players. In the data integration space, enterprise grade open source solutions are adopted by many organizations for their data integration and data quality projects. These organizations span all industries, all continents, and all company sizes. More importantly, their projects range from ETL for business intelligence to operational data, data quality, master data management, etc. This third volume of Practical Open Source Data Integration: Case Studies & Implementation Examples presents selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits.
High Performance for Integrating Massive Data Volumes
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Processing very large data sets provides unique constraints, especially when time windows available for this processing are shrinking. This Technical White Paper presents a variety of technologies that are available for accelerating the processing of large data volumes, including massive parallelization, optimized data-set-mode processing based on Map Reduce, grid deployment, and load balancing.
The Business Value of Business Intelligence
published by SAP on Jan 21, 2010
The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consultings experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies.
Today Top Imperatives for Preventing Data Loss
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis Systems is a software company unilaterally focused on data governance. Our software solutions deliver on the ten imperatives for protecting unstructured data by showing exactly who has access to its, how individuals are using their permissions and who should have their access revoked.
Get More IT Resources - 10 Things You Can Do Today
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis DatAdvantage automates these 10 IT must do's. DatAdvantage delivers the visibility and automated auditing you need to determine who can access your unstructured data, who is accessing it and who should have access.
The Business Case for Data Governance
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis DatAdvantage provides an innovative new way to tackle data governance, by correlating Active Directory users and groups with the file systems and folders that they access.
3 Tips for Faster File System Auditing
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
How do you know who can access a folder with sensitive data in it? Who authorized a user to have access permission to a file and how? If a key file was deleted, how would you know it happened, or who did it? How do you make sure that the right people have access to your data? Download the whitepaper to find out how Varonis solutions answers these questions.
3 Steps to Faster Data Migrations and Consolidations
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis is uniquely able to identify the data owners and data users for unstructured data on file servers and NAS devices. It does this through comprehensive data access auditing that has no performance impact on storage servers.
The Top 10 Reasons for Choosing Open Source Data Integration
published by Talend on Sep 09, 2009
Are you trying to understand your options for data integration?
Workflow vs. Application Automation Tools: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
published by UC4 Software on Jul 22, 2009
This document will show that workflow and application automation are similar, but that there are important distinctions, and that ultimately they serve different purposes. The document concludes by making the argument that your ultimate goal should be full automation. Learn more today!
With a Print Management Strategy: Cut Expenses Without Negatively Impacting Productivity
published by Xerox on Dec 02, 2009
This paper presents the importance of a Print Management Strategy. Current economic, environmental, productivity and IT department impacts are explored. Benefits of implementing a print management strategy are itemized.
SAP is No Longer Just for the Fortune 500
published by SAP BusinessObjects on Nov 03, 2009
Learn everything you need to know about Business Intelligence, sponsored by SAP. The combining of SAP and BusinessObjects has revolutionized Business Intelligence! SAP BusinessObjects has over 20% market share in the overall enterprise software space, and that only continues to grow and prosper over time. Watch this exclusive interview with George Mathew, VP and General Manager of SAP BusinessObjects and learn everything you need to know about Business Intelligence, what its capable of and where it's going from the leaders of the pack!
How Can This Interview Save Your Company Money!
published by SAP BusinessObjects on Nov 03, 2009
FASTER ROI through SAP applications, 3 minute video. Watch this Exclusive Interview with family-owned company Ateeco, Inc., at their Pennsylvania office, as they discuss the implementation of SAP into their corporations. From their reservations about cost and applicability to their company, to their successful implementation, to the proven results SAP has demonstrated to their business, learn about the questions they had and the answers they found. This exclusive interview is a must see for any business professional looking to take their business to the next level! This 3 minute video will show you how to save your company time and money through SAP applications! Take 3 minutes to find out how!
IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers
published by HP on Oct 21, 2009
Most organizations faced with budget challenges put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives, such as extending server life cycles and extending software licenses. This paper demonstrates that such a buy and hold strategy actually adds costs to the datacenter. In fact, refreshing server infrastructure on pace with newer technology (e.g., every two years) can reduce six-year server costs by 33% compared with buying and holding servers for those six years.
Technology Brief: Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with Intel® Xeon® processors
published by HP on Oct 21, 2009
An HP ProLiant c-Class server blade is a complete server that slides into an HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. Three different c-Class enclosures are available to meet the needs of large or small IT environments: . The HP BladeSystem c7000 rack enclosure is 10U high and holds up to 16 ProLiant c-Class server blades. . The HP BladeSystem c3000 rack enclosure is 6U high and holds up to 8 ProLiant c-Class server blades. . The HP BladeSystem c3000 tower enclosure is designed with casters for sites without racks. It holds up to 8 ProLiant c-Class server blades inserted vertically. For a complete briefing on these technologies, download this informative whitepaper from HP.
Clipper Group Report: HP Provides Enhanced Options for Data Center
published by HP on Oct 21, 2009
HP already announced a wide variety of servers based upon Intel's newest architecture, the Xeon 5500 Series Processor. They have now followed that up with the first announcement of support for Six-Core AMD OpteronT Processors. To learn more about how HP can reduce the TCO of your data center with scalable, energy-efficient options that can consolidate and virtualize your environment, read this brief report from the Clipper Group.
No More Tiers: Reduce Storage Costs with an Age-in-Place Strategy
published by Nexsan ITWP on Oct 16, 2009
As mid-size enterprises find themselves strapped for time, money and management resources, they have to find ways of doing more with less. Age-in-Place is a data management strategy that means no more tiers - the easiest and most cost effective way to manage the life-cycle of your data.
MAID 2.0: Energy Savings without Performance Compromise
published by Nexsan ITWP on Oct 16, 2009
Not all Green Storage is created equal. There are business benefits to aligning the most energy efficient storage to meet different data and application requirements. All storage vendors are claiming some form of "green" or some power, cooling and floor space savings. This industry trends and perspectives brief looks at a category of storage to support secondary and near-line or off-line data needs, comparing performance with energy savings, to enable you to be the judge of who is the "greenest" of them all.
Data warehousing with DB2 family for IBM System z customers (293)
published by IBM on Oct 14, 2009
Discover the unique support for data warehousing and business intelligence offered by the IBM DB2 portfolio. This white paper shows how an IBM System z server, integrated with the IBM DB2 family of solutions, can help you meet requirements for data warehousing and business intelligence.
Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
published by Oracle Corp. on Sep 29, 2009
Businesses now demand more information, they want it sooner, and they are delivering more analytics to an ever-widening set of users and applications. The sizes of data warehouses are growing exponentially and more business processes are becoming automated, while more data is collected on more granular levels. This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.
Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine
published by Oracle Corp. on Sep 29, 2009
Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all their applications onto one common infrastructure. Whether supporting OLTP, DW or mixed workloads, a common infrastructure delivers the efficiencies and reusability the data center needs - and provides the reality of cloud computing in-house. This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.
Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
published by Oracle Corp. on Sep 29, 2009
The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by protecting data at the source - the databases in which it resides. Historically most organizations have relied on network perimeter and application level security to restrict access to sensitive data, leaving their databases and the sensitive information inside exposed.
Managing the Tidal Wave of Data Tivoli Storage Management
published by IBM on Sep 10, 2009
With ever-increasing data growth worldwide, organizations must find smarter ways to store and manage their massive volumes of data. Learn how IBM® Tivoli® Storage Management software solutions help to maximize your current storage environment and reduce operational and capital costs while improving service and managing risks.
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