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. 

<p>Application portfolio management (APM) can help your organization in its quest to trim unwanted applications and modernize its portfolio. Read this paper now and learn about the need for an APM solution, including examples on how it can help your business optimize its IT investments.</p> 

This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking. 

Find out on May 31st at 12:30 p.m. EDT how to leverage native PL/SQL support and the SQL compatibility features of the all new IBM DB2 10. The IBM architect for these highly successful features will present the current set of capabilities and recent enhancements. There also will be code level customer examples, customer results and more. 

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. 

Check out the new Exadata e-book packed with the latest real-world examples, insights, and tips for IT professionals. This interactive e-book experience features customer success stories and video interviews, analyst commentary, a 3-D demo, and more. Download the e-book today. 

<p>Access this video to learn one professional services firm’s approach to converged infrastructure. Discover proven strategies to modernize your infrastructure and realize benefits like increased agility, improved application response time and more.</p> 

This report from KPMG, packed with case studies, looks at the drivers for innovation in e-health. 

The objective of this paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, is to provide insight into what issues are unique to data migration projects and to offer advice on how to best approach them. 

This brief fact sheet explains the "Do's and Don'ts" of data quality initiatives. 

In just a half hour, we can show you how the web-based QuickBase from Intuit offers a refreshingly powerful, flexible and affordable solution for busy teams to better manage projects, information and processes. 

This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more.