Business Intelligent Best Practices: Delivering Real & Expected Value
by Bhupinder Ahuja
The success of any technology depends on how simple and easy it is to use. With BI getting out of the confines of PhDs and analysts, and getting into the realm of everyday business users, this dictum is more important than ever.

From Data to Decisions to Profit
by Piyush Govil
By linking product sales with service sales companies are able to deliver advanced networking solutions and successfully translate insights into a dashboard.

Product Information Management: Business and Technology Trends
Independent research study into business and technology trends around Product Information Management and delivers useful insight into the needs, practices, and challenges faced by companies implementing PIM or any form of product data integration.

Protecting Data Assets: Data Security on DATAllegro Data Warehouse Appliances
by Jesse M. Fountain
Find out what security factors you should consider when evaluating data warehouse appliances; understand the comprehensive and integrated solution that DATAllegro has implemented for all aspects of data warehouse security.

The CIO’s Guide to Taking Data Asset Metrics to the Boardroom
by Lowell Fryman
It’s never too early – or too late – to begin treating data as a valuable asset to your organization.

Planning for Business Resilience
by Bill Hammond
Your guide to the hot technologies and trends to keep you ahead of business demands today and tomorrow.

Joins and Aggregates Are Critical for Achieving Faster Data Retrieval in a Dimensional Data Warehouse
The process of preparing data for a dimensional data warehouse can be significantly reduced by the effective use of aggregation and join processing, performed by a tool optimized for fast sequential processing.

Speeding ETL and Processing in Data Warehouses
Today’s real-time business world demands the capability to process ever-increasing volumes of data at lightning speed. This white paper describes how DMExpress speeds long-running ETL processes so that applications finish faster saving you time and money.

Realizing Master Data Management
An organization's master data may well be its most valuable set of assets. Learn why companies want master data management, how to achieve it and what is required.

A Practical Guide to Managing BI and DW Deployments with Actionage Usage Metrics
Leverage actionable data usage and query performance metrics to improve query performance, increase service levels and productivity and reduce data management costs.

Usage Analytics as an Operational Standard for Enterprise BI and DW Management
Discussing often overlooked operational and informational challenges facing enterprise BI and DW professionals.

Top-10 Reporting Tool Essentials for SAP R/3
by Geoffry C. Houze
An overview of SAP R/3 reporting tools as well as examination of the general reporting opportunities SAP R/3 clients have before them.

Enterprise Information Management: Tentative Past, Promising Future
by Alan Simon
This white paper explains why EIM is finally becoming a reality.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence
A framework for measuring the benefits of business intelligence solutions.

Implementing A Business Intelligence Strategy
Explaining why standardizing business intelligence is critical.

DataFlux Version 7 Technology: The Convergence of Data Quality and Data Integration
Elements of data quality and data integration are fused to build a unified view of the enterprise. DataFlux Data Quality Integration Solution helps turn disparate data into useful information.

Enterprise Data Management Maturity Model
This paper explores the issues of building better data by maximizing people, processes and technology to achieve effective data management policies.

Using Master Reference Data Management to Unify Your Business
by David Loshin
This white paper examines how companies assign and improve value to enterprise information using master data management strategies – an excellent resource for people wondering how to manage and aggregate data.

SAND/DNA for SAP BI
Helping Meet the Challenge of Enterprise-Wide Data Explosion.

The Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time: Making it a Reality
A look at the unique way in which truly successful organizations view technology. With this best practice in mind, you will discover how you can achieve effective enterprise information delivery and data ETL at a small cost.

Process - Driven Delivery: Adaptive Implementation of OMM and SDD
ExtraQuest has attained a mature model for service delivery by balancing the positive elements of OMM and SDD.

Simplified Data Access for the Enterprise
EasyAsk explores why "search" or "query" by themselves fall short of delivering true enterprise data access and Business Intelligence (BI).

Data Search and Discovery: Search Meets Reporting
Do users in your organization require immediate access to data? Did you know that there are tools that combine search and reporting in one? Learn the 5 drivers for combining data search and ad-hoc query in this analyst report from Patricia Seybold Group.

Simplified Data Access for ISVs
Embedding data search and query into business applications provides immediate, self-service data access to non-technical business users providing a compelling differentiator for your solution while allowing your software to be more widely adopted.

Third Generation ETL: Delivering the Best Performance
by Yves de Montcheuil, Christopher Dupupet
The process of selecting an ETL (extract, load, transfer) software solution is typically a complex one, during which many features need to be evaluated. This Sunopsis white paper presents the different generations of ETL tools and their architecture.

SQL is the DNA of Data Movement
by Joe Celko
We have been transferring data with tools for a long time now. This white Sunopsis paper discusses the history of data movement, how SQL can be used extremely efficiently for ETL processes. Actual performance data is also presented and discussed.

Is ETL Becoming Obsolete?
This Sunopsis white paper discusses the key issues with ETL tools today, and how an "E-LT" architecture combined with a "business-rules-driven" approach is better.

A Global Vision for Unified Integration
by Alain Dumas
This Sunopsis white paper discusses the key issues with integration architectures, and presents a global vision for unified integration - an architecture that provides fast and reliable integration with an optimized return on investment.

Kalido Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management
by Cliff Longman
Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management (DWLM) is a new discipline for the creation and ongoing management of a data warehouse throughout its operational life. DWLM delivers enterprise-scale data warehouses that adapt efficiently to change.

Managing Master Data with KALIDO® 8
by Andrew Davis, Andrew Ellicott
Enabling business people to collaboratively define, consolidate, manage and authorize master data - without needing to modify the operational (ERP, CRM, SCM, et al) and analytical systems, from across which master data is sourced.

Putting Quality Process in Place to Exploit Technology
by Larry P. English
This paper discusses the issue of corporate information quality in the context of a fusion of technology and organizational processes.

Sybase IQ An evaluation by Bloor Research
by Philip Howard
Column-based databases effectively provide self-tuning capabilities.

Effective Database Marketing
Managing your customer information is the key to managing your customer relationships.

Accelerating Past the Business Intelligence Slow Down
Metapa explores the exceeding enterprise requirements in today's business intelligence systems.

Data Management
by Jonathan G. Geiger, Claudia Imhoff
Why your organization must understand and achieve it.