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. 

With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. This white paper from Business Objects, explores the growth trend of unstructured data and examines the many benefits of unstructured data analysis. 

Find out how Investlink used SAP BusinessObjects tools to enable third-party administrators who work with investment advisors and plan sponsors to build and change statements on an ad hoc basis. 

Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, most storage administrators need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses to survive the economic downturn. Download this tutorial to learn more about tiered storage. 

Find out how Acxiom, specializing in providing customer and information management solutions for companies around the world, uses SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to transform consumer data into actionable BI. 

Assessing your organization's challenges, abilities and assets will help to determine if deploying a cloud-based data backup strategy is a better alternative than relying on an on-site data backup and recovery strategy. This tutorial spells out what you need to consider when trying deciding if cloud backup is right for your organization. 

This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP. 

The following KnowledgeStorm Webinar focuses on Enterprise Spam filtering and how to combat spam. Featuring expert commentary from Nucleus Research analyst Shruti Yadav, the Webinar offers advice to organizations grappling with the growing problem of spam. Duration- 60 minutes. 

Find out how Picis incorporated business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis technology from SAP BusinessObjects in the development of the Picis CareSuite family of products. You'll also learn how they comprise best practice applications for automating and documenting their business and clinical processes in their acute care departments. 

This document focuses on each level of security, starting at the server level and working our way down to database objects such as Server Security, Database Security, Schema Security and Object Security. 

Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization. 

In this transcript of the "Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services" webcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats. 

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a newer language but has been the focus of much attention from business and IT. As business processes grow more complex, BPMN provides a structured way to organize them. But it is important to know the basics before selecting a BPMN solution.