Data Warehouse Architectures Reports

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Traditional business intelligence (BI) tools no longer cut it in the era of big data analytics as workloads and data requests continue to grow in complexity. Attend this exclusive webcast to learn the benefits of leveraging an integrated BI and data warehouse architecture to meet the increasingly-complex demands of the modern enterprise.

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 | Published: 18 Oct 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: When Lenovo needed a pre-configured software and hardware strategy for effective data analytics, they teamed up with Actian to deliver a power data mart appliance. Read this transcript to learn about the data warehousing and analytics tool they deployed that can run queries up to 27 times faster.

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 | Published: 28 Sep 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Most IT pros know that legacy architecture falls short when it comes to big data, but few know how to optimize it without incurring huge costs. Review this transcript to learn about an innovative database that can give you back control of your data without raising costs.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 27 Sep 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Most businesses today are optimizing their legacy data architecture in order to effectively support growing data volumes. Read this transcript to learn about the strategy Sheetz Inc. implemented that enabled them to reduce data loading time from 5 hours to 20 minutes, effortlessly process billions of rows of data, and more.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 | Published: 27 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: The survival of a business is directly related to how quickly they can make strategic decisions. This white paper explores an analytics accelerator that expedites complex queries, allowing you to respond quickly to changing conditions.

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: A recent IOUG survey discovered that while most organizations have a well-established data warehouse, acceptance within their companies is still limited. Inside this exclusive study, learn how companies can start taking more advantage of their data warehousing systems to successfully manage the growing amounts of “big data".

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 07 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide discusses how to effectively take advantage of business intelligence (BI) technologies in your organization by utilizing essential tactics. Discover the benefits of data warehousing appliance technologies and how to select the best one for your needs.

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 | Published: 28 Jun 2012

EGUIDE: With an influx of big data flooding businesses everywhere, the data warehousing landscape is changing rapidly. To learn more about the latest trends and advances in the big data management and data warehousing market, as well as steps you should take before investing in new technologies, review this expert e-guide now.

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 | Published: 27 Jun 2012

EGUIDE: What's different about Microsoft's latest release, SQL Server 2012, that has midsize companies considering it for their big data analytics and data warehousing needs? Read this expert e-guide to find out. Also, find tips on choosing between SQL Server's native backup compression and third-party tools.

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 | Published: 15 Jun 2012

EGUIDE: Are the new big data analytics and business intelligence (BI) features in SQL Server 2012 worth the cost of an upgrade for your organization? Is SQL Server's native backup compression or a third-party product best suited to your data warehousing needs? Read this e-guide to find expert advice on both of these questions.

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 | Published: 15 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to configure your SQL Server data warehousing system to support growing online analytical processing (OLAP) loads while lowering costs, easing management, and improving performance.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers up a comprehensive comparison of the Oracle Exadata and IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance, helping you decide which is the better fit for your business. Read this now and learn how they stack up in terms of online transaction processing (OLTP), query performance, simplicity of operation, value and more.

Posted: 30 May 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Data warehouse appliances have transformed the DW with a platform designed to deliver optimal price and performance with extreme simplicity. This paper outlines the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance and how it offers extreme time to value, agility and ability to grow with new workloads, cost reduction of ongoing maintenance and more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Read this expert tip guide from SearchBusinessAnalytics.com as BI luminary Wayne Eckerson and other experts, including Lyndsay Wise, delve into detail on the necessary facets involved in properly handling big data, such as preparing a data warehouse to effectively manage it by scaling up or scaling out.

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | Published: 23 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: This expert tip guide from SearchBusinessAnalytics.com is an excellent starting point on your quest to discover if you're equipped to handle the onslaught of big data. Take a few minutes to read this resource now and learn best practices to help you navigate the challenges associated with big data.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this E-Guide, readers will learn the challenges big data poses for traditional analytics approaches, and best practices for success with this still emerging discipline.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert E-Guide and learn how to gain a stronger understanding of your customers and business as well as how to excel in today’s competitive market with real-time business intelligence (BI).

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

EZINE: The second edition of BI Trends & Strategies, an e-zine offering advice on business intelligence (BI), analytics and data warehousing, explores whether or not it's the end of enterprise data warehouses as we know them, how to manage multiple business intelligence (BI) tools at once and the potential uses of data virtualization tools.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: 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.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior business intelligence (BI) faster, the characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling and how to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how the data warehouse, metadata and modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years — and what you need to do to leverage it for your business, the major components of DW 2.0 architectures, and key modeling and metadata management strategies for DW 2.0.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Oracle’s latest business intelligence (BI) software upgrade adds prebuilt integration with Oracle’s own TimesTen in-memory database, its OLAP platform and competing products from Microsoft and SAP. In this tip guide, readers will learn the latest on Oracle’s BI update and how it compares with other vendor solutions.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Traditional data warehouse infrastructure struggles to keep up with the expanding demand for a wide and changing variety of analytic workloads.  The result is growing frustration as end-users are forced to use sample data, aggregate data and even restricted in their access to information in standalone or enterprise data warehouses.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011