Intel IT offers guidelines for achieving quick returns and long term value with Intel vPro technology based on our experience in the first year of a multi-year deployment program. 

Business Intelligence and analytics remain top priorities for organizations seeking to increase revenues and cut costs, but these systems often require a data warehouse to feed them correct and relevant information. This E-Book provides detailed expert advice on how to evaluate, select and prepare your organization for a data warehouse appliance. 

Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions. 

Northern Storage Suite delivers financial returns in three ways: by improving utilization of existing resources, by reducing the pace of hardware investment and by reducing the need for administrative intervention in data management. This paper provides details on these three benefits and how this storage solution can benefit your organization. 

Composed of Sun hardware systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit your data requirements and budget -- and ease deployment. 

This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and more. 

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Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in their company. 

This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process. 

Decision-making by companies has enormous room to improve both in terms of efficiency and quality; it will have to for companies to keep pace in an increasingly competitive global business environment. 

Gain access to accurate information and visibility across your small to mid-sized company from efficient integrated IT systems - and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. 

It isn't always easy to know when to upgrade to the latest hardware or software release. In the case of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, there are many compelling reasons to make the move, including: Enhanced business intelligence; improved business continuity features; better performance and better management capabilities. 

This brochure shows how you can be a superhero by making WebSphere MQ the messaging backbone for your SOA, creating a common connection for the free flow of information.