Analytical Applications

Companies are becoming more analytically mature and are developing greater analytical capabilities. Many companies are also creating a context for analytics, with analytical cultures and processes. When companies compete based on analytics, analytics is having a positive bottom-line impact.

This report describes a research project that investigated how organizations are attempting to improve specific decisions.

This research program is an online survey of C-level executives at leading large and midsize companies who are members of the BusinessWeek Market Advisory Board, an online panel of 20,000+ business leaders and executives.

Planning mistakes can propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and a compromised system. These troubles can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow model, with sequenced tasks that progressively transform and refine data from initial concept to final design. Learn more.

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This comprehensive report addresses industry-specific issues for the Financial Services sector, Insurance, Pharmaceutical companies, Retailers, Manufacturing, and High-Tech.

This White Paper discusses how intelligence agency management can apply machine translation as a much-needed support tool that can make linguists and intelligence analysts more effective in producing meaningful and actionable results.

We work in an ever-changing landscape of competitors, market forces, customer relationships, partner alliances, political and regulatory pressures, and global climate effects. The common mechanism for coping effectively with change is to refer to canned reports and dashboards, dump reporting data into a spreadsheet and look for answers to today's questions. All too often, we have to rely on estimates rather than models, and gut feel rather than data, because we can't get answers in a timely fashion. Yet we know that the answers lie hidden in the morass of corporate data.

In this paper, we analyze the implications and costs of purchasing and implementing cloud-based software (SaaS) vs. traditional on-premise software. Get your copy now, compliments of SuccessFactors.

This free Sybase presentation provides a high-level overview of Complex Event Processing (CEP).

This paper explores how the right data management architecture can overcome these challenges.

Learn why Sybase IQ is purpose-built for predictive analytics.

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This e-Brochure shows why Sybase IQ is the essential foundation for advanced analytics.

Watch how a global capacity management team managed service levels after multiple bank acquisitions.

Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process.

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Learn why that's so, why traditional log and event management solutions don't provide the answer, and how a modern integrated product does.

Purchasing a new software package like the IWMS from TRIRIGA, an IBM Company, could be viewed as a great investment especially, if money is available.

Discover the three key reasons how enterprise IT dashboards can deliver highly valuable information to your organization in an easy to use format and provide simple processes that will turn dashboard data into actionable IT decisions.

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are being implemented by a variety of companies looking for a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Without customer loyalty, many companies won’t be able to thrive and grow. Today’s consumers are more demanding because they have a greater variety of choices, including doing business on the Internet and via automated phone systems. Many expect access to customer service 24 hours a day.

In this white paper you will learn how data classification can be one of the most cost-effective methods for ensuring the value of data is maximized while still being used securely and how it can be a critical component to successfully govern information at an enterprise.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.