In this white paper IDC highlights the latest research about the evidence of the competitive differentiation to be gained from investment in BI and data warehousing. The paper highlights the need to view BI and data warehousing technologies as complementary components of a decision support solution. 

This TDWI Checklist Report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications. 

In this e-book, SearchDataManagement.com editor, Mark Brunelli, discusses the ins-and-outs of developing a solid MDM plan for ensuring accurate and consistent data across all your company's systems. Read on to learn best practices, tips and advice from experts on how to structure and manage a MDM program 

This white paper highlights the new Master Data Services feature. This enhancement allows an organization to create a Master Data Hub that provides a “single source of truth” for the enterprise’s numerous data entities and hierarchies. 

<p>Before you can get started with your private cloud project, you must first virtualize and consolidate your application environment. This case study discusses how one company navigated the virtualization and cloud processes and describes the architecture that assisted them in the process.</p> 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is an excellent tool to help you navigate the complexity of your app environment. Read this e-book, 'APM for Dummies,' to learn why it is such a pivotal concept, how it can help predict and prevent disruptions and what you can do to implement it in your organization. Also discover specific use cases for APM. 

This brief guide demonstrates sets out to prove why organizations' concerns surrounding the arrival of voluminous amounts of data sets, the inclusion of many more users and the addition of variable data types are vastly over exaggerated. It also offers vast insight on how companies have extended analytics deep into their operations. 

This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition. 

This brief white paper outlines the different capabilities and properties of MySQL and Oracle GoldenGate, including real-time data warehousing, real-time reporting, OLTP query offloading and more. 

Barcoding, also known as Automatic Identification (Auto ID), is a method of encoding information into a machine-readable pattern of predefined bar and space patterns that can be quickly and accurately read by a scanner and a computer. Read this white paper to learn how to incorporate barcoding into your everyday. 

IT analyst with Bloor Research in the U.K., Philip Howard, provides a comprehensive comparision of IBM and Oracle systems for data warehousing. 

Read this white paper for a discussion of the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy.