INFORMATION CENTER:
The IBM Analytics Solution Center in the Washington, DC area focuses on solving the business and mission problems of public sector agencies, and the U.S. Federal government through the use of analytics. Visit this center online and see how you too can gain access to useful information, industry experts, and technology to reach your mission goals.
EBOOK:
This e-book explores the value of BI, including its return on investment, the pros and cons of purchasing versus custom-building a BI application and how recent trends are changing the BI landscape.
WHITE PAPER:
System upgrades and other IT changes can have a negative impact on business intelligence report content, but testing thousands of reports can be tedious and time-consuming. This resource introduces a utility that relieves the burden by automating the testing process.
CASE STUDY:
A department of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sought to improve its data analysis and operational management processes. They implemented a management solution based on Microsoft BI technologies and gained more insight into its data and has automated reporting processes, which reduced laboratory result turnaround times by 50 percent.
CASE STUDY:
In this case study, discover how Peet's Coffee & Tea leveraged a unified business management technology to overcome the challenges of a legacy business management system.
WHITE PAPER:
Discover the new Red Hat Satellite 5.6 capabilities and features that provide administrators with the means to efficiently manage their systems, lowering per-system deployment and management costs.
WEBCAST:
This Q&A video is an in-depth look at Pentaho's BI 4 Enterprise Edition, a user-driven BI system. Watch to learn about the latest features including: interactive reporting, data discovery capabilities, and new user interface.
WHITE PAPER:
The process of verifying that business intelligence report content has not been adversely affected following a change in the IT environment can be time-consuming and tedious. This resource introduces a utility that automates the testing process – read on to learn more.
EZINE:
With all the excitement around new gadgets in the upcoming release of SQL Server, code-named Denali, it’s easy to forget how much Microsoft played up features in its current version. SQL Server Insider did some digging around in SQL Server 2008 R2 and found some hits, some misses and a whole lot of plans for the near future.
WHITE PAPER:
This paper, intended for both IT and operational management, explores a series of high-level best practices for analytics and data warehousing based on Sybase’s experience with successful implementations. Suggestions are provided in three categories: performance, cost control, and ease-of-deployment with each dimension broken down into sub-topics.