The Vertica Analytic Database – Introducing a New Era in DBMS
As businesses become more analytical to gain competitive advantage and comply with new regulations, they are changing the demands placed on data warehouses and driving demand for new query-intensive database applications.

The Vertica Database: Rethinking Data Warehouse Architecture
In today's market, leveraging information in data warehouses is increasingly critical to business success. At the same time, enterprises face the challenge to deliver higher business intelligence value at lower cost.

Fusion Centers: Turning Data into Actionable Intelligence
This paper describes best practices in achieving effective data integration, meeting federal standards for data integration, leveraging existing technology tools, and creating an infrastructure that supports your Fusion Center’s mission.

The Three (Best Kept) Secrets to Data Integration Success
by Jim Gallo, James Paat
This white paper focuses on three important candidates for automation and acceleration that, if done properly, can assist in overcoming barriers businesses face while delivering strategic data integration initiatives.

The Virtual Prototyping Warehouse
This white paper outlines the concept of virtual prototyping as a method to reduce the risk of data sharing projects.

Data Warehousing, Next-Generation Business Intelligence and the Evolution of Data Quality
by David Loshin
David Loshin explains how embedding data quality services directly into applications can help meet key challenges involving: unstructured data; globalization; the explosion of raw data and the need for real-time synchronization between data sources.

Driving Performance and Lowering TCO in the Analytical Environment
by Bill Inmon
The paper discusses the importance of analytical performance in today's BI environment. The paper also explains a new database technology from Kognitio that can accelerate the data analytics process and help to reduce the total cost of analytical operatio

Supporting pervasive BI with new technology
by Claudia Imhoff
This paper discusses how business intelligence is in more demand that ever. The paper also discusses the emergence of new data analytics and data warehousing technology that is set to help organizations provide more access to intelligence and insight usin

Model Driven Data Warehousing
This white paper is intended for people who want to understand how the design and implementation of data warehouses and data marts can be improved dramatically by using model driven methods and tools.

Brains Over Brawn: Six Steps to Smarter BI
by Neil Raden
Driven by changes in the business environment and the relentless pressures of technology and competition, BI now has to solve a whole new set of problems.

Data Warehouse Best Practices: An Implementation Framework
by Evan Levy
Data warehousing implementation projects can end up highly complex and costly if you’re not careful. This paper provides fundamental best practices that can mean the difference between another legacy system and a business solution.

DB2 Warehouse Performance Monitoring and Optimization
by Santosh Chitakki, Paulo Pereira
This paper discusses IBM's solution to manage the complete lifecycle of BI and data warehousing with comprehensive monitoring and optimization.

The Green Revolution in Data Warehousing
The power, cooling and footprint advantages of the Netezza analytic appliance.

Large Scale Use of the Netezza Performance Server® System – Prepared by Winter Corporation
Winter Corporation reports the findings of its interviews with three large Netezza customers who validate large scale implementations of Netezza’s appliance.

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.

Using Grid Technology to Build and Hub-and-Spoke Data Warehouse Architecture
by Stuart Frost
Learn how you can leverage the high performance and low cost of data marts while keeping centralized control of your data using DATAllegro’s new grid-enabled data warehouse appliances.

The Next Generation of Data Warehouse Appliances
by Lori Nichols
Understand the benefits of standards-based data warehouse appliances over their proprietary counterparts and learn how you can benefit from the market disruption caused by data warehouse appliances.

Index-Light MPP Data Warehousing
by Curt A. Monash, Ph.D.
Learn how index-light MPP data warehouse appliances beat their index-heavy SMP counterparts on key criteria such as performance, reliability and cost.

Netezza Performance Server® Data Warehouse Appliance: An Architectural Comparison
This Netezza white paper compares the architecture of the Netezza Performance Server (NPS®) appliances to other data warehouse technologies used today.

Function Point Analysis Applied at Data Warehousing
by Liesbeth Smits
This white paper describes a counting guideline for the use of a general Function Point Analysis to determine the realization costs of a data warehouse project from sources till reports in an existing data warehouse.

Extending the Scalability of Your SQL Server BI Investment
Companies looking to enhance their SQL Server BI performance and scalability are no longer limited to selecting between increasingly expensive platform upgrades or an even more expensive platform migration.

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.

Knowing Sooner Rather Than Later: Cost Analysis of Low-Latency Data in Enterprise Data Warehousing
by Jack Garzella, Richard Hackathorn
The study explores five typical architectures for acquiring real-time data from transaction systems and estimates the cost factors for each.

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.

BusinessObjects Rapid Marts for SAP R/3®
Driving organizational performance with strategic business intelligence.

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.

Real-Time Data Warehousing
Transactional data management technology enables operational and active data warehouses for improved business intelligence.

Data Warehouse Appliances
The next step in managing and delivering data.

MPP database for Business Intelligence
In this paper, Kognitio describes the fundamental differences and advantages of a MPP database architecture over index-based databases.

Lowering the TCO of Data Warehousing
This paper from Kognitio asks the question that if Gordon Moore's law of performance improvement and cost reduction applies to processing power, why hasn't it worked for data warehousing?

Virtual Data Appliances
This paper explains how organisations can build a high-performance data warehouse using industry standard x86 architecture and Kognitio WX2.

7 myths about Data Warehouse Appliances
There has been a lot of talk lately about Data Warehouse Appliances, but are they all what they are cracked up to be? This paper from Kognitio uncovers some of the truths that should also be revealed.

Current Practices in Active Data Warehousing: An Update
by Richard Hackathorn
An update from Richard’s 2002 study, including interviews with DW managers from: a large internet company, SUPERVALU Inc. and UnumProvident Corp.

Creating and Using Taxonomies to Enhance Enterprise Search
EasyAsk automatically defines a taxonomy that can be manually modeled to meet an organization's business and information-finding needs.

Questions to Ask a Data Warehouse Appliance Vendor
by Neil Raden
Guidance for evaluating benchmarks and interpreting market messaging.

Enterprise Business Intelligence
by Claudia Imhoff
Better competitive advantage, stronger customer relationships and more efficient operations are just a few of the major benefits from integrating BI into your operations.

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

Netezza Data Warehouse Appliances Lowers Complexity
This paper compares the complexity of traditional data warehouse systems with the unprecedented simplicity of the Netezza appliance.

Answers at the Speed of Thought: Breaking the Latency Barrier
This Netezza white paper will discuss how the Netezza Performance Server® data warehouse appliance virtually eliminates latency issues.

The Truth About Data Warehouse Appliances
by Philip Howard
This paper discusses a number of data warehouse appliance myths that have been put about by established vendors.

Removing the Data Archive Bottleneck
by Joshua Greenbaum
SAND/DNA for SAP Business Information Warehouse.

Scaling SQL Server™ to Enterprise Level Business Intelligence Performance
This paper examines the full range of SQL Server data warehouse scalability and performance options, including the innovative PARACCEL Massively Parallel Processing approach.

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.

Business Modeling - A New Paradigm for Enterprise Data Warehouse Design
by Bruce Ottmann
This white paper explains the business modeling concept, how it is used to drive the creation and operation of enterprise data warehouses, and how it compares with other data warehouse design approaches, including third-normal form and star schema.

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.

Turning Data into Decisions: MIS DecisionWare and SAP BW
MIS front ends enhance SAP software through top-down planning, modeling, simulation, tailored reports and sophisticated business analyses supported by data mining techniques.

Closing the Loop - Improving Corporate Performance with MIS DecisionWare and Microsoft SQL Server.
MIS DecisionWare and the Microsoft platform work together to improve data quality, simplify information access and streamline business processes.

Customer Data Integration Implementations
by Anurag Wadehra
Why all implementation styles are not created equal.

QueryEdge: Accelerating the Creation of Business Value
The Winter Corporation explores the challenge of creating business value from large data warehouses.

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

The Business Case for Data Warehouse Appliances
by Jill Dyché
While data warehouses originally solved a problem that had only been addressed with custom programming – namely the access of business information for the purpose of analysis – they are nevertheless a challenge to acquire and maintain.

A Fresh Look at Data Warehouse Technology
by William McKnight
Introducing the Data Warehouse Appliance.

Market Shifts and Data Warehouse Appliances
by Richard Hackathorn
Every Successful Technology Sows the Seeds of its Own Demise.

Categorizing Data Warehouse Performance Technology
by Sid Adelman
It’s easy to become confused about the vast array of data warehouse performance technology. This article will attempt to clarify some of the confusion.

Bolt-On Strategies for Improving Data Warehouse Performance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
Every IT Organization with a successful data warehouse will eventually find itself considering how to improve query performance. A new less disruptive and less costly alternative is to employ a bolt-on capable hardware and software solution.

Solving the Load/Query Conundrum in Dimensional Design
by Neil Raden
The solutions and approaches to resolving the load/query conundrum.

New Technologies for Top CIO Challenges
by John Ladley
CIOs face shifting priorities and business issues every year. The list of challenges gets longer and longer. Data warehouse appliances have added another effective tool to the many components that are available to CIOs.

Data Warehousing: New Requirements Lead to New Approaches
by Richard Winter
Data warehouse appliances emerge.

Sarbanes-Oxley – What were the Legislators Thinking?
by Claudia Imhoff
Surviving the impact of compliance on your data warehouse.

A New Perspective on Data Warehouse Architectures
by Evan Levy
The emergence of important new appliance technologies promises new efficiencies and economies of scale that couldn’t be envisioned five years ago when Unix servers were all the rage.

Data Warehouse Mistakes to Avoid
by Larry P. English
Ten Mistakes to Avoid if Your Data Warehouse is to Deliver Quality Information.

Information Lifecycle Management For The Operational Data Store
by Bill Inmon
Managing the conflicting goals of better performance and operational compliance.

Information Lifecycle Management for Data Warehousing: Matching Technology to Reality
by Bill Inmon
An introduction to SAND searchable archive.

Information Lifecycle Management for Data Warehousing: Taming the Tera-Flation
SAND Technologies explores the inflated size of the typical data warehouse and its' negatively affecting ability to provide the expected levels of performance and service.

Winning Strategy Delivers Value and Reduces Total Cost of Ownership
by Mark Albala, Glenn Peipert
Most companies don't receive the maximum benefits from business intelligence and data warehouse initiatives.

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

Applying Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence to Insurance
by Sriram Krishnan
Proper use of Data Warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) can give the insurance sector a number of advantages like easy data acquisition, cost reduction in information delivery and a lot more.

Knightsbridge Measures the value of BI and DW Initiatives
Understanding and quantifying each initiative's cost and benefits is necessary to make an informed decision. Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing are no exception to this rule.

Overcoming Data Warehousing Challenges with Appliance Technology
by Kim Stanick
Appliance technology can dramatically enhance data warehouse environments to overcome existing scalability challenges.