While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

This HP/Microsoft white paper explains how their fast track data warehouse architecture can help you make the decision for hardware selection and configuration. HP and Microsoft working collaboratively can help you obtain the information to successfully integrate your data warehouse. 

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. 

This tool offers you a better understanding of your organization’s ability to manage growing volumes of information. It only takes a few minutes to answer these questions and receive your score. Try it now. 

This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions. 

You can consolidate all data warehousing and analytical processing using Oracle Exadata. With its integrated analytics, there are no more slow data loads and everything is run off your data warehouse, no matter how much data you have. Watch this video and learn how to get up-to-date information faster while managing all of it in one place. 

This IDC white paper makes the case that BI and data warehousing technologies are vital components of a decision support solution and complement each other well. Also revealed here are the benefits and requirements of BI and data warehousing solutions and how HP and Microsoft technology have joined forces to tackle these requirements. 

This white paper presents two case studies that illustrate how Oracle Exadata increased storage capacity for data warehouses by 150%, reduced operational and database running costs by 50% and on average improved database query performance by 10 times. 

Organizational trust in data may be the single largest barrier to business intelligence (BI) success in the health care industry today. Access this resource to learn how an automated enterprise job scheduler and automated process optimization tools can ensure that your data is accurate and consistent. 

The goal of this paper is to describe best practices for deploying Decision Support System (DSS) or Data Warehousing (DW) solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 using Dell EqualLogic storage. Download now and learn more. 

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. 

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.