Data Warehouse… Done: Automatic for and by the business
December 2015 Sponsored by QOSQO / quipu. Download pdf Offering three principles and practices by which business can support data warehouse automation projects. […]
Toward frictionless data discovery: IBM Fluid Query eases the way
September 2015 Sponsored by IBM Corp. Download pdf How the problems of multi-source data discovery as experienced by a typical business analyst today can be addressed by introducing an integrated information platform—a modern, high-level architecture—that includes data virtualization. […]
Insights Across the Hybrid Enterprise: Big Data 2015
April 2015 Multiple sponsors Download pdf The third EMA / 9sight Big Data Survey was conducted in late 2014, with the results published in April 2015. Beyond Big Data itself, the survey also addressed the concepts of data lake, data driven and the Internet of Things, providing a comprehensive view of the state of thinking [...]
BI, Built to Order, On-demand: Automating data warehouse delivery
January 2015 Sponsored by WhereScape Download pdf Three key ways in which data warehouse automation changes the design, development and ongoing maintenance of data warehouses and marts. First, how automation addresses the old conundrum of delivering consistent, quality data in the timeframe demanded by modern business needs. Second, how streamlining the overall process provides a [...]
The Emergent Operational/Informational World: An examination of the emerging importance of HTAP
November 2014 Sponsored by NuoDB Inc. Download pdf We explain how and why the current layered DW architecture developed and examine why today’s business imperatives of speedy decision making and data driven action taking demand a new operational/informational approach. This environment, also called HTAP (hybrid transaction/analytical processing), needs a combination of in-memory operation and novel [...]
Data warehouse automation for Banking and Financial Services: Driving speed and agility with Kalido
October 2014 Sponsored by Kalido Inc. Download pdf This paper examines four use-case-based business needs in banks and financial institutions that demand increasing speed, agility and business-IT collaboration in today’s market conditions. In each of these areas–reporting, risk management, customer profitability and responsive decision making–we examine the business challenges, prior and current implementation problems, and [...]
Putting Data in Business Context: The Value and Virtue of a Business Directory
September 2014 Sponsored by Cisco Download pdf In this paper, we explore the evolution of metadata to context-setting information and describe the Business Directory in which it is stored, managed and made available to business users. We propose the adaptive decision cycle as a model to bridge from discovery and exploration to production and governance. [...]
Analytics–adaptive, accelerated, and available: Real value delivered through IBM Business Analytics
June 2014 Sponsored by International Business Machines Download pdf By describing seven real customer implementations across four industries, this paper steps beyond marketing hype around analytics and provides compelling evidence of what it can deliver in actual implementations. To differing degrees, these implementations show triple-A characteristics required of analytics today to create business value: adaptive [...]
Demystifying big data analytics
April 2014 Compliments of Platfora Inc. Download pdf Big data analytics is an essential tool in understanding and driving today’s combined online and physical business world. However, there exists considerable confusion about how traditional business data (e.g. POS, inventory, shipping, etc.) can be combined with modern digital data sources. Add the reality of a still [...]
Untangling the Internet of Things: Driving Value with Treasure Data
February 2014 Sponsored by Treasure Data Inc. Download pdf Although much of the popular market attention has focused on the devices on the Internet of Things, the real monetary value emerges from the business’ ability to effectively use the data they generate and on IT’s skill at capturing, storing and managing it. This paper explores [...]