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IDC Best Practices Case Study: How Ferrari North America is Delivering Pervasive Business Intelligence with Limited Staff and Limited Budget
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IDC Best Practices Case Study: How Ferrari North America is Delivering Pervasive Business Intelligence with Limited Staff and Limited Budget
Read IDCs findings about how Ferrari North America (NA) is expanding business intelligence (BI) use and analytics to help improve decision-making - all while tightly controlling costs. This case study uncovers the business drivers, challenges and solutions at Ferrari as they sought to deliver high-value BI on a budget and help speed and improve decision-making.
IDC White Paper - Talend Uses Open Source to Deliver Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Enterprise Data Integration
This IDC White Paper sponsored by Talend discusses the data integration market, examines the approach taken by Talend and shows how the combination of Talend's technical approach and its open source licensing overcomes key barriers to adoption of data integration. Talend's product line, which is positioned to offer scalable, incremental enterprise data integration with components that are easy for nontechnical staff to use, breaks the mold for open source, and its success could shake up the software business.
Real-Time Data Integration - Using Change Data Capture Technology with Microsoft SSIS
Yesterdays data is no longer sufficient to run a business. Real-time data integration keeps your business responsive and agile in a world where the demand for information immediacy is growing. Getting the most out of the data you already have and being able to deliver it in a timely manner can be tough. Change data capture (CDC) provides a solution. This white paper from Attunity introduces the need for CDC, typical use cases and describes the ideal CDC solution for your business.
The ROI of Data Governance - A Revenue Generation Perspective
Concentrating on increasing revenue necessarily means paying attention to metrics such as return on investment (ROI). This white paper from Gwen Thomas of the Data Governance Institute provides a practical guide for determining ROI for data governance, data quality, metadata, master data or other data-related programs, projects or ongoing processes.
Data Quality and Identity Resolution
The market for identity resolution processes evolved from simple search-and-match functionality for customer service, fraud detection and security screening processes to today's highly accurate, high-performance, real-time, cross-language search and match services across multiple application. This paper describes how identity resolution complements and extends the application of data quality and data integration processes into business applications.
Old Problem, New Solution
Software as a service (SaaS) has revolutionized business intelligence (BI), allowing executives and managers to get the information they need in the blink of an eye, without having to rely on IT or be constrained by a complicated data infrastructure. Companies should look for SaaS BI vendors who deliver end-user self-sufficiency, high quality visualizations and a high degree of interactivity to answer ever-changing questions. This white paper explores how executives can leverage SaaS BI to do, test, then do better, using BI to take action as opposed to merely analyze.
Financial Services Firm gains ROI in SOA Adoption
Yesterdays data is no longer sufficient to run a business. Real-time data integration keeps your business responsive and agile in a world where the demand for information immediacy is growing. Getting the most out of the data you already have and being able to deliver it in a timely manner can be tough. Change data capture (CDC) provides a solution. This white paper from Attunity introduces the need for CDC, typical use cases and describes the ideal CDC solution for your business.
Ten Tips for Selecting a Data Integration Tool Total Cost of Ownership Really Matters
Todays data integration is expensive. Does it need to be? This paper examines the promise of current data integration tools and assesses how well they are fulfilling todays needs. It focuses on the key requirements for the future, the new data integration tools available and whether they are more adept for todays faster moving businesses, resulting in lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Enterprise Data Mashups: Data Integration for Structured, Unstructured and Web
This Denodo white paper features customer case studies to demonstrate how to get integrated and real-time views (mashups) of your critical business information from across a broad spectrum of disparate enterprise data (structured, Web 2.0 and unstructured) both within and outside your enterprise with Denodos Enterprise Data Mashup technology. Denodos Data Mashup product, Denodo platform, allows organizations to combine and query data sources in ways that were not possible before.
Data Governance: An Approach to Effective Data Management
To manage complex data management scenarios and develop and protect data as an enterprise asset, organizations need a robust and comprehensive data governance program in place. In this paper, Sanjay Kumar explains how an effective data governance program adds value to an organization by enabling the management of data as an enterprise asset as well as dealing with data and process complexities.
Making Open Source BI Viable for the Enterprise
In this white paper, learn how to choose the right open source business intelligence (BI) solution for your company.
BI is a compelling application for an enterprise database, and now its increasingly available in the form of cost-saving open source appliances and solutions. This informative third-party white paper shows how companies like yours can take full advantage of open source BI, by providing guidance on what to look for. Topics include:
Flexibility: Subscription model versus proprietary lock-in and the importance of extensibility;
Requirements: Reliability, availability, support and functionality; and
Myths concerning enterprise-readiness, functionality and TCO.
Timely, Trusted Data Unlocks the Door to Governance, Risk and Compliance
How much do you trust the data? What happens if you use outdated information? Do you have complete visibility and insight into your business activities? Download this White Paper today for the answers to these questions and to explore how Informatica can help your organization to manage governance, risk and compliance with complete and trusted information. With advice and knowledge from real-world customer success stories, this white paper will help you to understand how to reduce the cost of producing timely and trusted data for governance, risk and compliance while improving business efficiency.
Timely, Trusted Data Unlocks the Door to Governance, Risk and Compliance
This White Paper will help you to understand how to reduce the cost of producing timely and trusted data for governance, risk and compliance while improving business efficiency.
Maximize Business Value with Right-Time Information Using Data Services
Download this white paper to discover how you can maximize business agility with right-time information to increase competitive advantage, improve compliance as well as reduce cost, complexity and risk.
Nucleus ROI Case Study: DataDirect Shadow Aids Financial Services Firm in SOA Adoption
A global financial services firm deployed DataDirect Shadow and its mainframe Web services technology at the early stages of its service-oriented architecture adoption. This strategy enabled the company to leverage existing mainframe assets, while increasing developer productivity and the ability to deliver new applications to customers.



