Analytical Applications White Papers

This white paper from Bluewolf looks at the Operational and cost benefits of implementing a remote DBA system.

Find out how to recognize the signs your company needs a business intelligence solution and what you should look for in a vendor. Learn more about BI components and approaches to implementing a solution to improve your company's efficiency and effectiveness.

Learn how best-in-class companies access information faster to improve key business performance metrics.

Companies are becoming more analytically mature and are developing greater analytical capabilities. Many companies are also creating a context for analytics, with analytical cultures and processes. When companies compete based on analytics, analytics is having a positive bottom-line impact.

This white paper, the first in a sequence, addresses the question, "who, specifically, are those right groups and right people?" on several different levels. It also highlights underlying principles that, properly applied, lead to solid answers to the "who" questions for a wide variety of scenarios.

This solution brief explains how Fidelity Information Services (FIS) executives realized that they needed an analytics database solution that could keep up with additional fraud complexity as well as much larger sets of data to improve detection rates.

This white paper outlines these challenges and provides a clear path to providing the accelerated insight needed to perform in today's complicated business environment to reduce risk, stop fraud and increase profits.

Case Management And the Implications in the Government industry.

Case Management and the Implications in the Healthcare industry.

To support increasing demands, healthcare organizations need to improve their agility between processes and people through improved information sharing

Case Management and the Implications in these Energy and Utilities Industries.

Case Management And the Implications in the Financial Services Industry.

This solution brief explains how Fidelity Information Services (FIS) executives realized that they needed an analytics database solution that could keep up with additional fraud complexity as well as much larger sets of data to improve detection rates.

View this online demo to uncover how IBM Business Analytics is helping retailers to better connect with customers and create advantage.

Read this white paper to leverage business intelligence, performance management and predictive analytics to increase revenue and improve operations.

Read this article from the Harvard Business Review to learn how to find the best opportunities to apply analytics in your organization and more!

Read this Harvard Business Review article to learn how smart organizations are improving decision-making by identifying and prioritizing decisions; examining factors involved in each decision; designing roles, processes, systems and behaviors to improve decisions; and institutionalizing the new approach through training, refined data analysis, and outcome assessment.

Learn how decision management optimizes and automates high-volume decisions to create successful outcomes.

Learning from the past is one thing, but when real competitive advantage happens you get it right the first time.

This white paper outlines these challenges and provides a clear path to providing the accelerated insight needed to perform in today's complicated business environment to reduce risk, stop fraud and increase profits.

This report describes a research project that investigated how organizations are attempting to improve specific decisions.

This research program is an online survey of C-level executives at leading large and midsize companies who are members of the BusinessWeek Market Advisory Board, an online panel of 20,000+ business leaders and executives.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

Improving your company's efficiency and effectiveness, no matter its size. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.