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Build or Buy: Selecting an Analytic Application
Nov 2009
The face of globalization is changing. According to the third edition of IBM's 2008 Global CEO study, private and public sector leaders agree that success in the global economy no longer relies...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Why Performance Management?: A Guide for the Midsize Organization - Gain Competitive Advantage Without Breaking the Bank
Sep 2009
Performance management links the insights drawn from trusted information to the actions in strategic and operational plans. It sees reports, scorecards and plans not as separate technologies or...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos Dashboards and Scorecards for Healthcare
Sep 2009
Healthcare organizations around the globe are increasingly using dashboards to provide at-a-glance views of current business performance and decision-making. But not all dashboards are the same,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The City Re-Examined: Measuring Municipal Performance for Smarter Services
Sep 2009
As cities become bigger and more influential in the world today, so grows their responsibility to provide maximum liveability and the best possible services to residents. With technology more able...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Top Ten Reports Every Insurance Executive Needs: Executive Insight With IBM Cognos Software
Sep 2009
The crisis in the financial markets jolted the insurance industry awake to the realities and dangers of highly complex global systems and the need to respond to rapid fluctuations in market...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How Performance Management Can Help You to Navigate Through Turbulent Times: Know Where Value Is Created and Destroyed
Aug 2009
Most companies write long proposals and memos to justify their case. This is not a learning process. It tells people why they have made a proposal that they should accept. Toyota has communication...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Measure What Matters: Five Reports Every Retailer Needs
Jul 2009
Business analytics, reports and measures give retail organizations the tools they need to develop company-wide strategies, put plans into place and track performance against objectives. They can...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Insurance Performance Management: Four Ways to Win With IBM Cognos Software
Jun 2009
The insurance industry will be reshaped and won by those innovators who can develop more flexible products, deliver new breakthrough services and create new business models and operational...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM IMS Tools Performance and Tuning Solution - Helping You Achieve and Maintain Superior IMS Performance
Jun 2009
The IMS Tools Performance and Tuning Solution from IBM provides comprehensive performance analysis and tuning assistance for IMS transactions and databases, and includes functionality that is not...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight: Performance Management for Life Sciences Companies in a Weak Economy
Jun 2009
There are no times like tough times to make the case for performance management software. This white paper reviews the many hurdles faced by pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations in a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Next-Generation Forecasting: How Rolling Forecasts Can Rescue Your Company's Performance
Mar 2010
Faster, more accurate forecasting is essential in today's turbulent business environment, where uncertainty, insecurity, declining markets and dwindling consumer demand have created significant...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Why Insurers Are Getting Smart About Business Intelligence
Apr 2009
That's why more and more insurers are investing in Business Intelligence (BI) to gain more comprehensive knowledge about their customers, products and services, employees and overall company...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
10 Ways to Drive Performance in Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing
Mar 2009
This paper outlines barriers to effective performance management, and the IBM Cognos corporate performance management solution, which provides reporting, scorecarding and analysis, and integrates...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Integrating, Modeling, and Managing Data to Drive Performance
Jan 2009
Performance management is driven by information. And the quality of that information, who can access it and how, is critical to the success of any performance management solution. The powerful IBM...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Managing the Business of Education: Uniting the Mission of Education With the Mission of the Marketplace
Mar 2009
Universities and other institutions of higher learning face a tough transition as they seek to behave more like big businesses and base their decisions on data rather than emotions or "hunches."...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Next-Generation Forecasting: Performance Management and Rolling Forecasts
Jan 2009
Faster, more accurate forecasting is essential in today's business environment, where new profit opportunities emerge quickly and require rapid, strategic decision making. Rolling forecasting -...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Manufacturing Quality Assurance With IBM Cognos Now!: Mitigate Quality Risk With Operational Performance Management
Mar 2009
This white paper reviews recent changes in the practice and implementation of manufacturing quality assurance, and the resulting impact on companies. It explains the technological problems faced...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Seat at the Table: How Smart HR Departments Win With Business Intelligence
Mar 2009
This guide presents a number of practical ways in which one can begin the alignment process in the sales and marketing departments - two high-profile and high-impact areas that have a significant...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Consolidation: Laying the Groundwork for Sustainable Compliance
Jan 2009
This paper provides an overview of recent changes to US Federal and International Securities Law, and the effect of these changes on the financial administration and reporting of both private and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Dec 2009
Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) have become increasingly strategic in organizations, regardless of their size or market sector. While initial deployments may have...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Consolidation Automation: Advancing Compliance and Performance Management
Mar 2009
Some companies report having to spend more time and money to meet today's increased regulatory demands, but that's not always true for companies that have embraced process centralization,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Selecting the Right Enterprise Planning Solution: Considerations for Software Evaluators
Jan 2009
Corporations are putting increasing emphasis on planning, so choosing the right enterprise planning software is more critical than ever. Some solutions only measure what happened yesterday, but...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Driving Performance Enterprise Planning: What Is Planned Gets Executed
Feb 2009
Unless real results are achieved, all the planning, process development and technology investments that go into a major corporate initiative may be wasted. That's where enterprise planning comes...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Extending Your SAP Applications to Better Manage Business Performance: How Your IT Department Can Add Value to an SAP Infrastructure
Mar 2009
As an Information Technology professional, one faces the daunting task of fulfilling a vast array of rapidly evolving business user information needs in a diverse, fast-changing technical...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Seven S&OP Reports Every Manufacturing Executive Needs: Sales & Operations Planning Excellence With IBM Cognos Software
Mar 2009
What if it were possible to tightly link sales, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, and finance, so that executives could easily see the financial impact of plans, see variances between supply...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Transforming Performance Management
Mar 2009
How good is one's performance management system? Does it provide one's senior executives with the early warning signals of poor results or leave them facing angry shareholders? Does it encourage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Information Insight: From the Department to the Enterprise With IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
Apr 2009
As globalization gains momentum and the world of business becomes increasingly "Flat," geographic and regulatory advantages are becoming less relevant. Thanks to similar technology and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Information on Demand Framework for Business Intelligence: Unlocking the Business Value of Information for Competitive Advantage
Feb 2008
The IOD Framework for BI provices an end-to-end information infrastructure for BI, including information integration, master data management, data warehousing, industry models and BI tools. It...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Operational Excellence in Manufacturing: How to Win at the Margins With Business Intelligence
Dec 2008
The customers are ever more demanding, and margins for error are shrinking. With intense public scrutiny on product recalls and quality issues, anything less than perfection in any area - a single...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services Cube Server - Best Practices
Jul 2008
IBM's data warehouse offering, InfoSphere Warehouse (formerly known as DB2 Warehouse), provides a complete platform for all stages of the data warehouse life cycle, from data modeling to analytics...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Mining for Everyone
Jul 2008
Business intelligence systems are key tools for providing organizations with important business insights, allowing for fast and reliable business decisions. Data warehousing is an integral part of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Ibm Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint: Dimension Management at the Speed of Business
Oct 2008
Successfully driving business performance and profitability depends on how well one's organization understands - and acts upon - vital information about business dynamics across processes and the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Performance Management in Healthcare: Patient-Centered Care, Accountability and Rising Costs Drive Better Performance
Mar 2009
Leading healthcare organizations are discovering the power of a performance management approach to decision-making, driven by business intelligence software. Trends such as patient-centered care,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information
Feb 2009
The visual sense is highly tuned to spot patterns, and this natural ability can be trained to achieve even greater levels of acuity. Improvements result primarily from learning which of the many...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Visualization: Past, Present and Future
Mar 2009
Data visualization, the use of images to represent information, is only now becoming properly appreciated for the benefits it can bring to business. It provides a powerful means both to make sense...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Reporting and Scorecarding for Municipal Government
May 2008
Local governments have entered an enormously promising new era in the measurement, monitoring, and improvement of service performance. Prodded by a battery of new public policies and facilitated...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Scorecarding for the Public Sector
Feb 2009
Rising expectations for public sector performance have driven many public organizations to use scorecarding to monitor and manage their way to improved performance - with well-documented...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Planning for Higher Education
Mar 2009
Colleges and universities are constantly vying for top-notch students, world-class faculty, gifted administrators, and increasingly scarce resources. The institutions that compete most...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Monitor. Manage. Perform. Scorecarding With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Jan 2009
Scorecards help one define and monitor one's company's critical metrics and are an important part of performance management. IBM Cognos scorecards are industry leaders, with data pulled from...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Salesforce.com
Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (B!) for sales force.corn brings the power of IBM Cognos reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and business event management to the sales force.com CRM...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Fragment of Dependence Logic Capturing Polynomial Time
Oct 2012
In this paper, the authors study the expressive power of Horn-formulae in dependence logic and show that they can express NP-complete problems. Therefore, they define an even smaller fragment D-...
Provided by University of Heilongjiang
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Whitepapers
Inferring the Underlying Structure of Information Cascades
Oct 2012
In social networks, information and influence diffuse among users as cascades. While the importance of studying cascades has been recognized in various applications, it is difficult to observe the...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Developing a Novel and Effective Clone Detection Using Data Mining Technique
Aug 2012
A code clone is a code portion that is identical or similar to another in a source files. These code clones are called simple clones. And higher level similarities are called structural clones....
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
A Methodology for Information Quality Assessment in Data Warehousing
Apr 2008
This paper presents a methodology to determine two IQ characteristics - accuracy and comprehensiveness - that are of critical importance to data warehousing. This methodology can examine how the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Applying Feedback Mechanism For Content Based Image Retrieval Using Data Mining Technique
Nov 2011
A project that rigging and tests a simple color histogram based search and recover algorithm for images. The study finds the technique to be helpful as shown by analysis using the Rank Power...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
A Survey on Classification of Imputation Methods in Data Mining
Jan 2012
In data mining one important stage is pre-processing. In which there are different mining tasks for it. In real world most of the data are noisy, inconsistent and incorrect. In fact, the most...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Temperature and Humidity Analysis Using Data Logger of Data Acquisition System: An Approach
Jan 2012
The data logger is an invaluable tool to collect and analyze experimental data, having the ability to clearly present real time analysis with sensors and probes able to respond to parameters that...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Temperature and Humidity Data Analysis for Future Value Prediction Using Clustering Technique: An Approach
Jan 2012
Knowledge of climate data in a region is necessary for business, society, agriculture, pollution and energy applications. In research and development, it makes the researchers to pay an extra...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Survey on Data Mining
Feb 2012
In the Information Technology era information plays vital role in every sphere of the human life. It is very important to gather data from different data sources, store and maintain the data,...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Generic Approach in Automation and Sensors for Enhanced Efficiency
Mar 2012
The focus of this paper is on increasing the efficiency of the automation process, so that the overall cost of the manufacturing process can be minimized. Efficient power estimation during the...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Optimization of ETL Work Flow in Data Warehouse
Sep 2012
ETL is responsible for extracting the information or data from different several areas and applies some cleaning, customization, transformation function for data and finally loading into the data...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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Whitepapers
Efficient Clustering Technique for Information Retrieval in Data Mining
Jun 2012
In the emerging new wave of applications where people are the ultimate target of text clustering methods, cluster labels are intended to be read and comprehended by humans. The primary objective...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Gridification of Genetic Algorithm with Reduced Communication for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem
Sep 2010
This paper presents a parallel hybrid evolutionary algorithm executed in a grid environment. The algorithm executes local searches using Simulated Annealing within a Genetic Algorithm to solve the...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Experience-Consistent Fuzzy Rule-Based System Modeling
Mar 2011
The paper is concerned with an experience-consistent development of fuzzy rule-based systems. This design of such fuzzy models involves some locally available data and then reconciles the...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Reduction Technique for Instance-Based Learning Using Distributed Genetic Algorithms
Sep 2011
This paper addresses the problem of instance reduction using a distributed implementation of genetic algorithms. Different existing parallel and distributed models for parallelizing genetic...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Development of Evaluation Systems for Bi-Directional Protection Coordination in Distribution System Considering Distributed Generations
Mar 2012
This paper deals with the optimal evaluation algorithms for bi-directional protection coordination in the case where new Distributed Generations (DG) are operated in distribution systems. It is...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
ERDQ: A Real-Time Framework for Increasing Quality of Customer Whit Data Mining Mechanisms
Apr 2011
In this paper a real-time framework for increasing quality of customer whit data mining mechanisms will provide. EDRQ a framework that is simultaneously using the effective parameters can increase...
Provided by Payam Chu
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Whitepapers
A Multiversion Trajectory Data Warehouse to Handle Structure Changes
Jun 2011
The Data Warehouse (DW) technology was developed to integrate heterogeneous information sources for analysis purposes. Information sources are more and more autonomous and they often change their...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
A Survey On Distributed Data Mining Process Via Grid
Sep 2011
Distributed Data Mining (DDM) techniques have become necessary for large and multi-scenario datasets requiring resources, which are heterogeneous and distributed in nature. In this paper, the...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Building Data Warehousing and Data Mining From Course Management Systems: A Case Study of FUTA Course Management Information Systems
Sep 2011
In recent years, decision support systems otherwise called Business Intelligence [BI] have become an integral part of organization's decision making strategy. Organizations nowadays are competing...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
A New PCA Cluster-Based Granulated Algorithm Using Rough Set Theory for Process Monitoring
Dec 2011
A new PCA algorithm is introduced, utilizing a rough cluster-based granulation scheme for segmentation of multivariate time series and process monitoring purposes. This granulated cluster-based...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Cloud Technology for Mining Association Rules in Microarray Gene Expression Datasets
Jun 2012
Microarray gene expression techniques and tools have become of a substantial importance and widely used to analyze the Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) and Gene Regulation Network (GRN) research...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
A Robust Tree Induction Method Based on Heuristics and Cluster Analysis
Jun 2012
Data mining is the process of extracting useful and yet unknown information such as patterns or associations hidden in stored data. Among various existing techniques applied to search for...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Implementing A Data Mining Solution To Customer Segmentation For Decayable Products: A Case Study For A Textile Firm
Sep 2012
In this paper is developed a model to cluster customers who need to production change continuously. Mere mathematical models to cluster customers lead to ignoring the environment factors in model....
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
A Novel Class Imbalance Learning Using Intelligent Under-Sampling
Sep 2012
Class imbalance is a problem that is very much critical in many real-world application domains of machine learning. When examples of one class in a training data set vastly outnumber examples of...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Research Challenges in Web Data Mining
Jul 2012
With the exponential growth of information in online, the World Wide Web (WWW) is a fruitful area of data mining. Mining data over the web using different tools and technologies of data mining is...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Whitepapers
A Survey-Classifier Fusion
Feb 2012
A number of classifier fusion methods have been recently developed opening an alternative approach leading to a potential improvement in the classification performance. As there is little theory...
Provided by Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (JGRCS)
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Whitepapers
Classification and Comparative Study of Data Mining Classifiers With Feature Selection on Binomial Data Set
May 2012
This paper describes about the performance analysis of different data mining classifiers before and after feature selection on binomial data set. Three data mining classifiers Logistic Regression,...
Provided by Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (JGRCS)
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Whitepapers
OPTIMIZED GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR SPATIAL DATA EVENTS IN ACTIVE DATA WAREHOUSE
May 2012
A fast changing in dynamic heterogeneous environment makes the data to be maintained up-to-date. Due to enormous amount and composite formation of spatial data, the optimization of spatial query...
Provided by Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (JGRCS)
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Whitepapers
On Demand Efficient Frequent Itemset Method in Uncertain Data
Jul 2012
Frequent itemset mining, the task of finding sets of items that frequently occur together in a dataset, has been at the core of the field of data mining for the past sixteen years. In that time,...
Provided by Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (JGRCS)
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Downloads
SQL Server database developer interview cheat sheet
Oct 2012
This list of open-ended proficiency questions and answers will come in handy for hiring managers interviewing SQL Server developer candidates -- and it will be a useful interview prep tool for the...
Provided by Tony Patton
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Whitepapers
Modeling Data Warehouse Using Quality Metrics: The Need of Software Process
Sep 2012
Data warehouses play a powerful role in decision making in the organizations. Data warehouse provides most accurate and relevant information to improve strategic decisions making process. There...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Sensitive Distance Estimates Technique Analysis for Continuously K-Nearest Neighbors Query in Multi-Stream Processing
Apr 2012
In many real-world applications, data streams are usually collected in a decentralized manner such like sensor network, ubiquities sensor network, internet traffic analysis, and so on. In...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Density Based k-Nearest Neighbors Clustering Algorithm for Trajectory Data
Jun 2011
With widespread availability of low cost GPS, cellular phones, satellite imagery, robotics, Web traffic monitoring devices, it is becoming possible to record and store data about the movement of...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Data Mining Tools and Techniques to Manage the Textile Quality Control Data for Strategic Decision Making
Jan 2011
The forces of liberalization, globalization and competition have led to a remarkable evolution in the general theory of quality. Quality control usually refers to an evaluation of inspection,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Deriving Generalised Stochastic Petri Net Performance Models From High-Precision Location Tracking Data
May 2011
Stochastic performance models have been widely used to analyze the performance and reliability of systems that involve the flow and processing of customers and/or resources with multiple service...
Provided by ICST
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Whitepapers
A Hierarchical Dynamic Load Balancing Strategy for Distributed Data Mining
Feb 2012
Extracting useful knowledge from data sets measuring in gigabytes and even terabytes is a challenging research area for the data mining community. Sequential approaches suffer from a performance...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Podcasts
Podcast: The Importance of Creating Sandboxes for Business Intelligence Analysts
Jul 2012
Business intelligence analysts are busy people, often with several well-defined and recurring projects based on data preparation and standard reporting. In this podcast, the speakers discuss the...
Provided by Wellesley Information Services
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Podcasts
Creating Good Visualizations To Tell Data Truths
Sep 2012
In this podcast, the speaker discusses why he feels business culture needs to change to better understand data processing and analytical methods, what elements make up a powerful data...
Provided by Wellesley Information Services
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Whitepapers
Informative Motif Detection Using Data Mining
Mar 2011
Motif finding in biological sequences is a fundamental problem in computational biology with important applications in understanding gene regulation, protein family identification and...
Provided by Maxwell Science Publication
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Whitepapers
A Seat at the Table: How Smart HR Departments Win With Business Intelligence
Mar 2009
This guide presents a number of practical ways in which one can begin the alignment process in the sales and marketing departments - two high-profile and high-impact areas that have a significant...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Consolidation: Laying the Groundwork for Sustainable Compliance
Jan 2009
This paper provides an overview of recent changes to US Federal and International Securities Law, and the effect of these changes on the financial administration and reporting of both private and...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center
Dec 2009
Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) have become increasingly strategic in organizations, regardless of their size or market sector. While initial deployments may have...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Consolidation Automation: Advancing Compliance and Performance Management
Mar 2009
Some companies report having to spend more time and money to meet today's increased regulatory demands, but that's not always true for companies that have embraced process centralization,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Selecting the Right Enterprise Planning Solution: Considerations for Software Evaluators
Jan 2009
Corporations are putting increasing emphasis on planning, so choosing the right enterprise planning software is more critical than ever. Some solutions only measure what happened yesterday, but...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Driving Performance Enterprise Planning: What Is Planned Gets Executed
Feb 2009
Unless real results are achieved, all the planning, process development and technology investments that go into a major corporate initiative may be wasted. That's where enterprise planning comes...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Extending Your SAP Applications to Better Manage Business Performance: How Your IT Department Can Add Value to an SAP Infrastructure
Mar 2009
As an Information Technology professional, one faces the daunting task of fulfilling a vast array of rapidly evolving business user information needs in a diverse, fast-changing technical...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Seven S&OP Reports Every Manufacturing Executive Needs: Sales & Operations Planning Excellence With IBM Cognos Software
Mar 2009
What if it were possible to tightly link sales, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, and finance, so that executives could easily see the financial impact of plans, see variances between supply...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Transforming Performance Management
Mar 2009
How good is one's performance management system? Does it provide one's senior executives with the early warning signals of poor results or leave them facing angry shareholders? Does it encourage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Information Insight: From the Department to the Enterprise With IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
Apr 2009
As globalization gains momentum and the world of business becomes increasingly "Flat," geographic and regulatory advantages are becoming less relevant. Thanks to similar technology and...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Information on Demand Framework for Business Intelligence: Unlocking the Business Value of Information for Competitive Advantage
Feb 2008
The IOD Framework for BI provices an end-to-end information infrastructure for BI, including information integration, master data management, data warehousing, industry models and BI tools. It...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Operational Excellence in Manufacturing: How to Win at the Margins With Business Intelligence
Dec 2008
The customers are ever more demanding, and margins for error are shrinking. With intense public scrutiny on product recalls and quality issues, anything less than perfection in any area - a single...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services Cube Server - Best Practices
Jul 2008
IBM's data warehouse offering, InfoSphere Warehouse (formerly known as DB2 Warehouse), provides a complete platform for all stages of the data warehouse life cycle, from data modeling to analytics...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Mining for Everyone
Jul 2008
Business intelligence systems are key tools for providing organizations with important business insights, allowing for fast and reliable business decisions. Data warehousing is an integral part of...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Ibm Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint: Dimension Management at the Speed of Business
Oct 2008
Successfully driving business performance and profitability depends on how well one's organization understands - and acts upon - vital information about business dynamics across processes and the...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Performance Management in Healthcare: Patient-Centered Care, Accountability and Rising Costs Drive Better Performance
Mar 2009
Leading healthcare organizations are discovering the power of a performance management approach to decision-making, driven by business intelligence software. Trends such as patient-centered care,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Visual Pattern Recognition: Meaningful Patterns in Quantitative Business Information
Feb 2009
The visual sense is highly tuned to spot patterns, and this natural ability can be trained to achieve even greater levels of acuity. Improvements result primarily from learning which of the many...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Visualization: Past, Present and Future
Mar 2009
Data visualization, the use of images to represent information, is only now becoming properly appreciated for the benefits it can bring to business. It provides a powerful means both to make sense...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Reporting and Scorecarding for Municipal Government
May 2008
Local governments have entered an enormously promising new era in the measurement, monitoring, and improvement of service performance. Prodded by a battery of new public policies and facilitated...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 BI: Scorecarding for the Public Sector
Feb 2009
Rising expectations for public sector performance have driven many public organizations to use scorecarding to monitor and manage their way to improved performance - with well-documented...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Planning for Higher Education
Mar 2009
Colleges and universities are constantly vying for top-notch students, world-class faculty, gifted administrators, and increasingly scarce resources. The institutions that compete most...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Monitor. Manage. Perform. Scorecarding With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Jan 2009
Scorecards help one define and monitor one's company's critical metrics and are an important part of performance management. IBM Cognos scorecards are industry leaders, with data pulled from...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Salesforce.com
Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (B!) for sales force.corn brings the power of IBM Cognos reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and business event management to the sales force.com CRM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Using Lab Manager for the Support Organization at SAP Business Intelligence
Oct 2009
This paper describes a VMware Lab Manager solution for a software product support environment and its large group of support engineers at SAP, one of the world's largest software companies. The...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Digi TV Plus Improves and Accelerates Customer Data Analysis With New Business Intelligence Tools
Mar 2010
Digi TV Plus wanted to implement a robust business intelligence solution to secure prompt information about the rapidly growing customer base, such as the channels or subscription packages...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
GasthuisZusters Antwerpen Gives Caretakers Easy and Continuous Access to Electronic Patient Records
Mar 2010
GasthuisZusters Antwerpen wanted to replace the self-developed mainframe application for patient administration with new applications that the hospital can use in a more flexible and user-friendly...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Bostads AB Poseidon Makes Reporting More Efficient With Business Intelligence
Mar 2010
Bostads AB Poseidon wanted to improve the analysis tool in order to be able to compile flexible, quality-assured financial reports and create the opportunity to compile reports that combine...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
BSH Group Streamlines SAP Data Protection & Dev/test With NetApp Solutions
Sep 2008
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH was founded in Germany in 1967 as a 50% joint venture of Bosch and Siemens. Today, BSH is a global player and number 3 worldwide in this market, holding 14...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Bank Austria: Powerful IBM Cognos Solution Helps Unite Banks
Dec 2009
The Austrian branches of the Bank Austria were already using an older IBM Congos solution, so it was just a matter of upgrading the software and implementing a roll-out in the bank's new German...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Loan Servicing Specialist Extends Market Leadership With Renewed Competitive Advantage Using IBM Middleware Package
Sep 2009
With growing demand for reverse mortgages and the corresponding advances, and sophistication of new investor products, Celink had to upgrade their existing IT infrastructure to maintain and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Smarter Analytics and Executive Insight at Selective: Driving Growth, Empowering People
Apr 2010
The insurance industry is data rich but information poor. They realized early on that the potential of putting that data in a real-time environment would help drive long-term shareholder value....
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
A Business Intelligence Solution to Improve Educational Standards and Performance for an Australian State Education Authority
Apr 2010
This paper describes the Business Intelligence (BI) solution developed by TCS using SAS9 products for an Australian state education authority. The state education authority was in need of an...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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Successful Product Creation by Using Analytics to Discover What Consumers Value
Mar 2010
Accurately identifying and understanding potential customers for future products greatly improves the likelihood of market success. This is particularly important for automotive manufacturers that...
Provided by Ford Motor
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White Papers
Using Dynamic and Cascading Prompts in SAS Enterprise Guide
Mar 2010
SAS 9.2 Phase 2 and Enterprise Guide 4.2 offer new and improved ways of parameterizing one's programs. Prompted selection lists can be linked to data sets so that the lists change with the...
Provided by University of Houston
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Visualizing Key Performance Indicators Using the GKPI Procedure
Mar 2010
The GKPI procedure is new in SAS 9.2 SAS/Graph. This new procedure can be used to create graphical Key Performance Indicator (KPI) charts which include sliders, bullet graphs, dials, speedometers,...
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SAS Enterprise Guide: The Self-Service Environment for Reporting and Analytics
Mar 2010
With the ever-increasing demand for timely business intelligence, business analysts require simple tools for reporting and analytics, which liberates IT. SAS Enterprise Guide provides a...
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White Papers
Business Intelligence 2.0: Are We There Yet?
Apr 2010
Business Intelligence (BI) has been with us for years now, and, one would argue, not much has changed. Advances in the consumer communications and the entertainment world have dwarfed commercial...
Provided by ThotWave Technologies
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White Papers
Business Intelligence Competency Center - Maine Medical Center
Mar 2010
Maine Medical Center has employed a Business Intelligence Competency Center model for SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS Strategic Performance Management projects. Maine Medical Center has utilized...
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White Papers
More Than Models: The Data Mining Team
Mar 2010
Gathering data from various sources, preparing it for modeling, imputing, partitioning, testing various models, choosing the best, presenting it to one's boss, then failure? Data mining is about...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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Getting the Right Report (Again): Your Compatibility Guide for ODS PDF 9.2
Mar 2010
ODS PDF in SAS 9.2 looks and acts different from earlier versions. Why? What changed? How can the author maintain the same look that he likes? This paper written in collaboration with SAS...
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