Big data, combined with predictive modeling tools, increases the potential to improve business strategies and gain competitive advantage. This expert e-guide offers insight on the best practices of combining big data and predictive analytics. 

According to analysts, the greatest impediment to a successful predictive analytics project is creating a culture that values data-driven decision making and encourages people to have faith in the findings. In this e-guide, readers will learn more about overcoming these challenges and getting people to keep the faith in predictive analytics. 

This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs. 

This brief e-guide explores the notion that data quality issues are worse in real-time data integration applications versus batch-oriented techniques. In the form of two articles, this resource serves up options for real-time integration, touches on the concerns associated with it and outlines the proper steps required to address data quality. 

The construction of a data model is one of the more difficult tasks of software engineering and is often pivotal to the success or failure of a project. Many factors determine the effectiveness of a data model. In this white paper, industry expert Michael Blaha covers the Top 10 pitfalls to avoid - from both the strategy and detail perspective. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management. 

Businesses are experiencing a growing demand to move high volumes of data both internally and externally. File transfer protocol (FTP) servers are proliferating among individual departments and raising traffic levels with customers and suppliers. This white paper explains and explores the opportunity and benefits of FTP consolidation. 

This newly released Aberdeen Group Analyst Report Enhancing GRC through Effective Access Control details effective risk management techniques. 

This report provides mid-market organizations a framework for evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of business intelligence (BI) solutions. 

In this new Quest white paper, learn the five pillars of SharePoint governance, and how preparing for an ever-changing SharePoint environment ensures success. 

This white paper explores how virtualization has sparked a new wave of innovation in storage. It summarizes how the new generation of solutions can deliver higher IT efficiency, better resource and application management, stronger and more flexible data protection, and lower costs. 

Thinking of launching a data warehousing project? Learn how the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC), a leading biomedical research center, healthcare facility, and medical school, achieved end-to end automation of data integration and data loading processes from internal and external data sources to ensure consistent, accurate reporting.