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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Transferring Best Practice Analytics from Experts to Everyone
Learn how TIBCO Spotfire guided analytics can capture and spread best practices for analysis and decision-making and how IT departments can benefit from a standard analytics platform.

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.

Secrets to a Successful Business Intelligence Implementation
BI success is hampered by the disparity of user needs, data access, latency, resources & complexities -- learn why over 50% of BI programs fail & how to ensure program success.

Closing the Management Information Gap with Operational BI
Ventana Research discusses how to address the needs and challenges of sharing data across silos and domain expertise with Operational BI, to provide the right information to the right people, when and how they need it.

Operational Business Intelligence: A Process-Aligned Collaborative Environment
IDC Analysts detail how operational BI differs from traditional BI in supporting decision making, discuss misconceptions and shortcomings of traditional BI, and outline requirements for an effective operational BI solution.

The ‘Easy Mart’ Approach for Scaling Up your Reporting
Having a ready source of information optimized for analysis and reporting is the preference of every IT manager and business user. Read about a solution that quickly provides the scalability and performance you need.

12 Essential BI Features that Deliver Immediate Value to your Applications
Want to add more power and overall impact to your business applications? Read About 12 essential BI features that can reduce development time and increase user adoption all at the same time.

The Next Generation of BI
The focus, of BI 2.0, is on people, empowering users to express their creativity, allowing them to freely access information and produce something meaningful from it while focusing on information sharing, communication and collaboration. Find out how you

Increase Productivity and Lower Costs by Implementing a Unified BI Platform
A Unified BI platform opens the door for any business user to access, analyze and share business information across the organization. Find out how you can reduce costs by simplifying your IT portfolio while increasing productivity.

Unified Business Performance Management and the Application of Predictive Analytics
OutlookSoft explores BPM and the application of predictive analytics for optimal planning, reporting, analysis and decision-making.

Essential Ingredients for an Effective Business Performance Management Solution
OutlookSoft explores an optimal BPM Strategy.

BPM and the 'Big Three'
OutlookSoft explores planning, budgeting and forecasting for sucess.

Integrating Medical Data
by Bill Inmon
Medical and healthcare data has always been troublesome when it comes to integration and analysis.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Data Quality In The Corporate Information Factory
by Bill Inmon
Companies with the most complete, accurate and reliable information will retain and gain market share.