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The Mandate of Customer-Centric IT
Jan 2010
Business intelligence and reporting have served companies well over the years by inspiring smart decisions based on sales analysis. But remaining competitive in the new, constricted world economy,...
Provided by IBM
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Unified Performance Management: The Key to Successful Performance Management
Apr 2009
The rapid pace of business today requires organizations to do everything possible to provide members of their workforce with the information and tools they need to successfully complete their...
Provided by Ventana Research
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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Software for Use With SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
Oct 2009
As business data volumes expand, the challenge of channeling reams of disparate data accumulated over years of operation, into usable information that supports effective decision making. Leading...
Provided by IBM
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Content Analytics: Tapping Unstructured Content for Business Advantage
Dec 2009
Content analytics is an emerging field of analytics that enables companies to gain new business insights from "Unstructured" and "semi-structured" content. This content can include forms,...
Provided by IBM
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Application Of Data Mining In Bioinformatics
Aug 2010
This paper highlights some of the basic concepts of bioinformatics and data mining. The major research areas of bioinformatics are highlighted. The application of data mining in the domain of...
Provided by Jamia Millia Islamia
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Survey on Distributed Data Mining in P2P Networks
May 2012
The exponential increase of availability of digital data and the necessity to process it in business and scientific fields has literally forced upon one the need to analyze and mine useful...
Provided by Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management
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Mining Educational Data Using Classification to Decrease Dropout Rate of Students
May 2012
In the last two decades, number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) grows rapidly in India. Since most of the institutions are opened in private mode therefore, a cut throat competition rises...
Provided by Cornell University
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Data Mining Application to Attract Students in HEI
Jun 2012
In the last two decades, number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) grows in leaps and bounds. This causes a cut throat competition among these institutions while attracting the student get...
Provided by Singhala Music
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Relational Data Mining Through Extraction of Representative Exemplars
Jul 2012
With the growing interest on Network Analysis, Relational Data Mining is becoming an emphasized domain of Data Mining. This paper addresses the problem of extracting representative elements from a...
Provided by University of Regina-Bookstore
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Data Mining on Educational Domain
May 2012
Educational Data Mining (EDM) is defined as the area of scientific inquiry centered around the development of methods for making discoveries within the unique kinds of data that come from...
Provided by Cornell University
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Data Mining the MNC Like Internal Co-Opetition Duality in a University Context
Aug 2012
The goal of the paper is to quantify the simultaneous competition and cooperation that takes place in organizations. As the concepts seem to be dichotomous opposites at first, the term internal...
Provided by Cornell University
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Hybrid Data Mining Technique for Knowledge Discovery from Engineering Materials' Data sets
Jan 2011
Studying materials informatics from a data mining perspective can be beneficial for manufacturing and other industrial engineering applications. Predictive data mining technique and machine...
Provided by MANGALORE UNIVERSITY
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Mining Social Data to Extract Intellectual Knowledge
Jul 2012
Social data mining is an interesting phenomenon which colligates different sources of social data to extract information. This information can be used in relationship prediction, decision making,...
Provided by American International University
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An Adaptive Parameter Free Data Mining Approach for Healthcare Application
Feb 2012
In today's world, healthcare is the most important factor affecting human life. Due to heavy work load it is not possible for personal healthcare. The proposed system acts as a preventive measure...
Provided by MIT College Of Engineering
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Automating Legal Research Through Data Mining
Dec 2010
The term legal research generally refers to the process of identifying and retrieving appropriate information necessary to support legal decision-making from past case records. At present, the...
Provided by University of Montreal
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Multi Relational Data Mining Approaches: A Data Mining Technique
Nov 2012
The multi relational data mining approach has developed as an alternative way for handling the structured data such that RDBMS. This will provides the mining in multiple tables directly. In MRDM...
Provided by Cornell University
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Application of Data Mining in Protein Sequence Classification
Oct 2012
Protein sequence classification involves feature selection for accurate classification. Popular protein sequence classification techniques involve extraction of specific features from the...
Provided by West Bend Broadcasting, Inc.
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Data Mining: A Prediction Technique for the Workers in the PR Department of Orissa
Oct 2012
This paper presents the method of mining the data and which contains the information about the large information about the PR (Panchayat Raj Department) of Orissa. The authors have focused some of...
Provided by Gandhi Institute of Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Collaboration Is Mobile Collaboration
Nov 2012
In a mobile-centric world, IT has a new challenge on its hands: ensuring that users can access and collaborate on content anytime, anywhere and on any device. Your business challenges very likely...
Provided by Box.net
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Case Studies
Hospital De Faro: Hospital Improves Operations and Patient Care, Establishing Powerful BI Capabilities
Jun 2010
With 2,300 employees, Hospital de Faro serves half a million citizens in Faro, Portugal. Relying on multiple disparate systems, hospital employees lacked holistic insight into patient and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Frequent Item Set Mining Using Convertible Constraints in IMine
Nov 2011
Frequent item set mining has turned out to be a familiar area of investigation in the data mining field. Its key objective is to determine the sets of items that come collectively more than a...
Provided by EuroJournals
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A Comparative Analysis of Fuzzy C-Means Clustering and Harmonic K Means Clustering Algorithms
Nov 2011
Data clustering is a common technique for data scrutiny, which is used in many fields, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis, video analysis and...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Performance Analysis of Data Mining Algorithms in Weka
Oct 2012
The retail industry collects vast amounts of data on sales, customer buying history, goods, and service with ease of use of modern computing technology. This paper elaborates the use of data...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Algorithm for Clustering Mixed Data Sets
Oct 2012
Clustering is one of the data mining techniques used to group similar objects into different meaningful classes known as clusters. Objects in each cluster have maximum similarity while the objects...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Scalable Regression Tree Learning on Hadoop Using OpenPlanet
Apr 2012
As scientific and engineering domains attempt to effectively analyze the deluge of data arriving from sensors and instruments, machine learning is becoming a key data mining tool to build...
Provided by University of Southampton
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Whitepapers
A Review on Diverse Ensemble Methods for Classification
Jun 2012
Ensemble methods for different classifiers like bagging and boosting which combine the decisions of multiple hypotheses are some of the strongest existing machine learning methods. The diversity...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Multidimensional Data Modelling: A Survey
Mar 2012
Data warehouse store and provide access to large volume of historical data supporting the strategic decisions of organizations. Data warehouse is based on a multidimensional model which allow to...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
Selections: Internet Voting With Over-the Shoulder Coercion-Resistance
Feb 2012
The present Selections, a new cryptographic voting protocol that is end-to-end verifiable and suitable for Internet voting. After a one-time in-person registration, voters can cast ballots in an...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Graph Coloring and Conditional Graph Entropy
Jul 2010
The authors consider the remote computation of a function of two sources where one is receiver side information. Specifically, given side information Y, they wish to compute f(X, Y) based on...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Redescription Mining With Three Primary Data Mining Functionalities
Aug 2012
Describing an object in two ways or shifting the vocabulary of the same concept is Redescription. Not a new problem, Redescription Mining premise had resulted the subsets of objects that afford...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
An Architecture Framework fr Patiotemporal Data Mining System
Sep 2012
Spatiotemporal data mining is an emerging area of research. Applications for mining different kinds of spatiotemporal patterns and trends are being developed by researchers in various domains....
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Fast Packed String Matching for Short Patterns
Feb 2012
Searching for all occurrences of a pattern in a text is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many other fields, like natural language processing, information retrieval...
Provided by Cornell University
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Anomaly, Novelty, One-Class Classification: A Comprehensive Introduction
Jan 2011
In data analysis and decision making the authors need frequently to judge whether the observed data items are normal or abnormal. This happens in banking, credit card use, diagnosing patient...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Horizontal Format Data Mining With Extended Bitmaps
Dec 2011
Analyzing the data warehouses to foresee the patterns of the transactions often needs high computational power and memory space due to the huge set of past history of the data transactions. With...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Whitepapers
The Survey of Data Mining Applications and Feature Scope
Jun 2012
In this paper, the authors have focused a variety of techniques, approaches and different areas of the research which are helpful and marked as the important field of data mining Technologies. As...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
Classification by Object Recognition in Satellite Images by Using Data Mining
Jul 2011
In this paper, an approach for classification of satellite images has been presented. Satellite images are rich in geographical information. Geographical information can be used in a number of...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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Whitepapers
Exploratory Data Analysis of Turbulent Flows
Aug 2012
Large Eddy Simulations (LES) contains 3D instantaneous velocity fields as well as passive scalar concentration field describing the coherent flow structures. The study of coherent flow structures...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Technology (IJCSET)
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Whitepapers
Implementation of FS-DT Algorithm to Enhance the Performance of Decision Tree
Nov 2011
In recent days Data mining gained a large amount importance because it enables modeling and knowledge extraction from the abundance of data which is available. In which Decision trees are powerful...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
Fast Query-Processing With Clustering Algorithm
Jul 2011
Clustering, in data mining, is useful for discovering groups and identifying interesting distributions in the underlying data and to fast query processing. Traditional clustering algorithms either...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
A Hybrid Evolutionary Functional Link Artificial Neural Network for Data Mining and Classification
Sep 2012
This paper presents a specific structure of neural network as the Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN). This technique has been employed for classification tasks of data mining. In...
Provided by The Schwa
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Whitepapers
Forecasting Stream Flow Using Support Vector Regression and M5 Model Trees
Jul 2012
The paper presents use of two recent data driven techniques namely model tree and support vector regression to forecast stream flow at two different locations one in Narmada river basin and the...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)
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Whitepapers
Distributed Formal Concept Analysis Algorithms Based on an Iterative MapReduce Framework
Oct 2012
While many existing formal concept analysis algorithms are efficient, they are typically unsuitable for distributed implementation. Taking the MapReduce (MR) framework as the authors' inspiration...
Provided by Waterford Institute
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Whitepapers
Data Interpolation: An Efficient Sampling Alternative for Big Data Aggregation
Oct 2012
Given a large set of measurement sensor data, in order to identify a simple function that captures the essence of the data gathered by the sensors, the authors suggest representing the data by...
Provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Whitepapers
A Comparative Analysis of Data Mining Tools in Agent Based Systems
Oct 2012
World wide technological advancement has brought in a widespread change in adoption and utilization of open source tools. Since, most of the organizations across the globe deal with a large amount...
Provided by Dayananda Sagar Institutions
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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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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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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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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,...
Provided by SAS Institute
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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...
Provided by SAS Institute
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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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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...
Provided by SAS Institute
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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...
Provided by SAS Institute
