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Despite criticism of application development methodology over the years, some fundamental problems haven’t been addressed successfully. This paper examines a new direction supported by the IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools. These tools provide a coordinated approach well-suited to the special needs of contemporary information-centric development.
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Technological innovations are rapidly changing data warehouse architectures and providing the potential for substantial performance improvements. Read this e-book to get an update on the most important trends in data warehousing, including appliance technology, columnar databases, in-database analytics and more.
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Sound business intelligence (BI) reporting can be invaluable in helping your business peers make the best decisions for your company. Ensuring error-free, end-to-end integration of data between processes distributed throughout your organization, however, can be challenging. Learn how scheduling and process automation technologies can help.
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In today's challenging economy, cutting costs while achieving more is critical to success. Discover how to easily connect your cloud-based applications with each other and with your on-premise applications – in just days, without burdening specialist resources or resorting to custom programming.
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This e-book, penned by business intelligence expert Wayne Eckerson, will explain how big data -- the combination of Hadoop and analytical databases -- is transforming the business intelligence industry.
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This guide offers expert advice to help you get started with offloading your EDW to Hadoop. Follow these 5 steps to overcome some of the biggest challenges & learn best practices for freeing up your EDW to do the work it was meant to do: provide the insights you need through high-performance analytics and fast user queries.
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This paper examines five frequently encountered BI and ETL process management painpoints, which can affect the accuracy and timeliness of vital enterprise data delivery, and how each of these painpoints can be successfully managed using process automation technology.
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Learn how to put an end to the ETL vs. ELT debate once and for all and take a smarter approach to a high-performance ETL solution that overcomes the limitations of both SQL coding and conventional data integration tools.
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Proper master data management (MDM) is very valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics. However, master data projects are often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. This paper explains why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.