Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
WinterCorp analyzes IBM's DB2 Warehouse and how it addresses twin challenges facing enterprises today: improving the value derived from the torrents of information processed every day, while lowering costs at the same time.

Discover why WinterCorp believes the advances in data clustering strategies and intelligent software compression algorithms in IBM's Data Warehouse improves performance of business intelligence queries by radically reducing the I/O's needed to resolve them.

Read this paper to learn how to reduce query response time from hours to seconds, support real time data warehousing, optimize your storage and lower operating costs.

Planning for Affordable Growth in the Data Warehouse
These days business intelligence is a necessity, not a luxury. That means that data warehousing solutions should provide a cost-effective, integrated, reliable and scalable approach to growing with the organizations that deploy them. In this paper, you'll discover how the IBM Balanced Warehouse D5100, with its pre-balanced building blocks and a transparent modular architecture, delivers on all these counts.

Economic Value of IBM DB2 Warehouse Solutions on Linux: Cost/Benefit Case for Business Intelligence Deployments
In this management brief from independent research firm International Technology Group, a comparison of experiences with and costs for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and IBM Balanced Warehouse offerings provides the basis for insight into controlling costs and improving planning for BI solution management and support.

Closing the data privacy gap: Protecting sensitive data in non-production environments
This white paper explains why protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy have become high priorities.

Maximize your mainframe’s return on information
This white paper explains how to deliver information you can trust with IBM Information Server for System z.

Driving information-led business innovation with IBM Information Server
This white paper identifies a shift in corporate thinking about the value of information to the organization and outlines reasons why this shift has occurred. It explores common barriers when addressing information integration challenges and outlines a list of key characteristics needed in an information integration solution.

A broad information reach: The gateway to information management
See how the IBM Cognos® 8 platform delivers its' broad information reach, with tools to easily maintain and revise the corporate view as new data sources and business needs emerge.

Economic Value of IBM InfoSphere Balanced warehouse Solutions: Cost/Benefit Case for Midrange Business Intelligence Deployments
Special-purpose systems that deliver higher levels of query performance are fast-growth BI areas. But many companies are caught by increasing demand patterns, more complex workloads, and their impact on service level issues — as well as on escalating costs. International Technology Group explores these issues via this report that compares three-year costs of ownership for Teradata, Netezza, and IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse systems in midsize installations.

IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse Buyer's Guide
The right data warehouse solution can unlock the potential of your data, through its support of business requirements for a single version of the truth and actionable, real-time information; by enabling users to perform ad-hoc, exploratory analysis to uncover hidden insights; and by providing optimal warehousing performance out-of-the-box, among other features. Find out why IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse is the right solution for your enterprise.

Attitudes And Imperatives: Intelligent Enterprise Reader Priorities Survey 2009
What are businesses' challenges, and investment priorities over the next one to two years in areas including information management, business intelligence and performance management? According to a new survey from InformationWeek Analytics and Intelligent Enterprise, there's growing support among both management and end users to move toward more centralized data management. But, a significant number of companies still struggle with application, process, and data owners who resist giving up control of "their" data. Find out what else is on the minds of business and technology leaders in this exclusive report.

Evaluating Real-time Data Integration Solutions
Access to timely and accurate information has become a critical driver of business success. But increasingly, organizations are hitting roadblocks in their quest for up-to-date accurate information. With IBM's Change Data Capture (CDC) technology, you'll be able to leverage your existing investment and provide a continuous flow of trusted information to a data warehouse while ensuring minimal risk and downtime to mission critical systems. Discover more about how you can gain scalable, high performance data integration in real time with minimal latency.

Dynamic Warehousing
Find out why there's a growing need for operational BI, and how an operational BI implementation impacts both a traditional BI environment and day-to-day business transaction systems. In this paper, Intelligent Solutions also will discuss why the concept of dynamic warehousing is required to fully integrate and leverage operational BI.

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for IBM System z
There's new interest in the mainframe as a data warehousing and business intelligence option. As it becomes increasingly important for organizations to give new and larger populations access to operational data, they'll want to draw upon a portfolio of innovative data warehousing and business intelligence solutions designed specifically for flexible, scalable, and cost-effective mainframe platforms. Learn how your organization can profit from a holistic, mainframe-oriented approach to extending its mission-critical data warehousing and business intelligence functions.

The Ever Evolving Data Warehouse
The concept of operational BI has changed the landscape for BI environments, requiring more data currency, better performance, increased scalability, and support for different data types and more complex and dynamic queries. Discover in this Intelligent Solutions white paper how to make your infrastructure more dynamic and future-proof to successfully deal with these new pressures on data warehouse environments.

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