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White Papers Published by Neil Raden

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A New Approach toData Integration and Managementfor Business Intelligence A New Approach toData Integration and Managementfor Business Intelligence

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 166.48 kB
CertiveRealigning Data Warehouse Best Practices Based on Technological Advances and Lessons Learned.

Accelerating Analytics Success With On Demand Accelerating Analytics Success With On Demand

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 194.45 kB
Salesforce.comAn on-demand, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows IT organizations to maximize  innovation and output with their BI opportunities, while lowering downside IT burdens, in four key aspects

Ambient Business Intellegence: Pervasive Technology To Surround And Inform Ambient Business Intellegence: Pervasive Technology To Surround And Inform

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 156.42 kB
Next generation BI will advise and drive businesses with embedded analytics, real-time decision tools and vastly improved capabilities for people

An Analytics Manifesto An Analytics Manifesto

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 386.34 kB
SAPA new set of principles for analytics that enables vastly smarter business processes.

Analytics from the Start Analytics from the Start

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 416.79 kB
A close look at the need for and implementation issues for prediction in organizations

Application Semantics: The Starting Point for SOA Application Semantics: The Starting Point for SOA

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 238.5 kB
The promise of SOA is heightened agility powered by reuse and dynamic assembly of business processes, a necessary element for competing in faster, more open markets.

Back To Business: How Business Modeling Rationalizes Data Warehousing Back To Business: How Business Modeling Rationalizes Data Warehousing

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 198.32 kB
KalidoA model-driven approach to the entire process of data integration management, and information delivery including metadata, changes everything, especially the way stakeholders work with each other.

BI Is In the Details BI Is In the Details

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 202.23 kB
VerticaHow columnar technology leverages the latent value in SQL databases.

Brains Over Brawn: Six Steps to Smarter BI Brains Over Brawn: Six Steps to Smarter BI

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 986.58 kB
Six ideas for enabling your organization to leverage information more strategically in today’s technology and business environments.

Data Integration, What's Next? Data Integration, What's Next?

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 1.03 MB
Missing from today’s DI tools are two key capabilities that can reduce or even eliminate the slow work and redundancy – semantic rationalization and abstraction.

Decision Categorization Decision Categorization

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 764.7 kB
Examination and classification of various types of decisions and the appropriate technology to manage them

Dynamic Mixed Workloads: Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance Dynamic Mixed Workloads: Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 362.05 kB
As data warehouses are required to provided vastly greater volumes of data, with more diverse needs (queries), adoption of intelligent load managers is required

Enterprise Business Intellegence ROI Enterprise Business Intellegence ROI

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 182.02 kB
SAPA formal data warehouse methodology, comparing “Best of Breed” to single vendor offerings.

Enterprise Reporting Best Practices In A SAP Environment Enterprise Reporting Best Practices In A SAP Environment

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 246.54 kB
Business ObjectsBusiness Objects (via its acquisition of Crystal) provides access to SAP R/3 natively; a discussion of some shortcomings of ERP systems and remedies.

Exploring the Business Imperative Of Real-Time Analytics Exploring the Business Imperative Of Real-Time Analytics

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 329.84 kB
Teradata

Fast Analytics And Business Intelligence For Everyone: Best Practices For Deploying Collaborative BI Fast Analytics And Business Intelligence For Everyone: Best Practices For Deploying Collaborative BI

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 783.51 kB
Collaborative decision-making requires something different that the traditional deployment of packaged BI. People involved in decision-making need answers to their own questions, not just pre-determined ones.

Guided And Open-ended Analytics: Serving The Real Users Of Business Intelligence Guided And Open-ended Analytics: Serving The Real Users Of Business Intelligence

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 269.87 kB
Describes the use of these tools from a cognitive point of view, examines the differences between guided analytics and open-ended analytics and proposes some “best practices” for deployment and use.

Killing Time: Reducing Operational Latency Killing Time: Reducing Operational Latency

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 67.72 kB
ParAccelThe creation of time and the elimination of  latency in decision making

NextGen Software or Software for the NextGen? NextGen Software or Software for the NextGen?

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 229.86 kB
Informing business decisions with information and tools to visualize, present, manipulate and share information can no longer be constrained by existing development paradigms

Pervasive, Intellegent And Timely Pervasive, Intellegent And Timely

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 121.73 kB
CelequestBI software is not adequately addressing the analytical needs of today’s private and public sector organizations.

Questions to Ask a Data Warehouse Appliance Vendor Questions to Ask a Data Warehouse Appliance Vendor

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Date added: 01/06/2011
Filesize: 345.5 kB
Data warehouse appliance vendors have produced some questionable benchmarks derived from loose methodologies

Reporting Steps Up Reporting Steps Up

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 195.8 kB

ActuateThe convergence of operational and analytical reporting requirements are best met with an integrated architecture, a broad set of functionalities and robust data integration capabilities

Semantic Integration: Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data Semantic Integration: Tapping the Full Potential of Enterprise Data

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Date added: 06/02/2010
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Silver CreekThe growing externalization of business processes requires the discovery of meaning in data

Semantics for the People: The Emerging Role of Semantic Technology in the Enterprise Semantics for the People: The Emerging Role of Semantic Technology in the Enterprise

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 97.95 kB
MetatomixA primer on semantic technology; how it provides the ability to infer the meaning of data and determine its utility within context.

Shedding Light on Shadow IT: Is Excel Running Your Business? Shedding Light on Shadow IT: Is Excel Running Your Business?

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 242.32 kB
ProClarityThe existence of Shadow IT implies a failure on the part of IT to provide all of the services to meet their clients’ needs, and the problem is universal.

Solving The Load / Query Conundrum In A Dimensional Design Solving The Load / Query Conundrum In A Dimensional Design

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Date added: 06/02/2010
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DATAllegroA slightly technical piece on strategies for optimizing both load and query processing.

Spending Wisely on Analytics Spending Wisely on Analytics

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Filesize: 202.9 kB
TeradataMaking the Data Warehouse Investment Case to the CEO in a Challenging Economy.

Spending Wisely on Analytics Spending Wisely on Analytics

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Making the Data Warehouse Investment Case to the CEO in a Challenging Economy

Technology For Operational Decision Making Technology For Operational Decision Making

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Date added: 06/02/2010
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TeradataMulti-vendor sponsored paper on decision Management.

The Case For Master Data Services The Case For Master Data Services

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 753.6 kB
Initiate SystemsHow probabilistic data matching and other stochastic techniques can provide enterprise master data services.

The Case Of Business Modeling The Case Of Business Modeling

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 250.11 kB
ApplixBI drifted away from modeling tools for end-users; a description of modeling functions for people who do more than read reports

The Foundations of Analytics: Visualization, Interactivity and Utility The Foundations of Analytics: Visualization, Interactivity and Utility

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SpotfireWhat are the real requirements for interactive, collaborative, dynamic visualization tools?

The Managed Spreadsheet Enviroment The Managed Spreadsheet Enviroment

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 79.51 kB

ActuateHow to preserve the best and most useful features of spreadsheets while mitigating the risks and expense caused by unbridled Shadow IT

Unleashing Enterprise Business Intelligence in an Era of Affordable Computing Resources Unleashing Enterprise Business Intelligence in an Era of Affordable Computing Resources

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Date added: 06/02/2010
Filesize: 217.7 kB
NetezzaRequirements for a true analytical platform: database, analytical engine and application development environment.