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Using SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3 to Examine the Factor Such as Poverty Level in Different School Districts
Mar 2010
The U.S. Congress appropriates revenues for elementary and secondary education in the federal government's annual budget in the form of an appropriation. Title I is part of the federal Elementary...
Provided by University of Louisville
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White Papers
The Healthcare Performance Dashboard: Linking Strategy to Metrics
Mar 2010
There is little doubt that the change in the global business environment will continue to outpace complacency and "Tried and true" approaches for managing costs and increasing revenues. At the...
Provided by ThotWave Technologies
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White Papers
Getting Correct Results From PROC REG
Mar 2010
PROC REG, SAS's implementation of linear regression, is often used to fit a line without checking the underlying assumptions of the model or understanding the output. As a result, one can...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Providing a Central IT Platform for the Irish Statistical System: Implementing SAS BI in the Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Mar 2010
The paper discusses the key technical decisions made when providing the solution, focusing on data storage and management, provision for multi-location offices, choice of operating system, user...
Provided by SAS Institute
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The MEANS/SUMMARY Procedure: Getting Started
Mar 2010
The MEANS/SUMMARY procedure is a workhorse for most data analysts. It is used to create tables of summary statistiPcs as well as complex summary data sets. The user has a great many options which...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Principles of Proper Inferences From Complex Survey Data
Mar 2010
This paper discusses commonly-encountered features of complex survey datasets that should be accounted for by employing the SURVEY family of SAS procedures. Concepts of clustering, stratification,...
Provided by University of Maryland
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The SAS Middle Tier: Providing Integration Services for the SAS Intelligence Platform
Apr 2010
As part of its mission to provide an integrated set of software applications, solutions, and services, SAS added a new level of integration capabilities with its release of 9.2. The SAS middle...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
ROC Hard? No, ROC Made Easy!
Mar 2010
A ROC (Receiver Operator Characteristic) curve shows how well two groups are separated by plotting the Sensitivity by 1 - Specificity. When used alone, the cut off used to balance the desired...
Provided by GlaxoSmithKline
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Detecting Claim Fraud and Improving Product Quality: Case Studies in Reducing Warranty Costs
Apr 2010
Manufacturers are utilizing analytics to reduce service claim fraud and increase product quality, yielding warranty cost reductions over 20%. This presentation highlights case studies of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Everything in Its Place: Efficient Geostatistical Analysis With SAS/STAT Spatial Procedures
Mar 2010
Got coordinates in the data? Feeling lost in space? Spatial data arise in a wealth of scientific fields; their stochastic structure poses unique analytical challenges that are different from most...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Survival Analysis: Overview of Parametric, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Approaches and New Developments
Mar 2010
Time to event data arise in several fields including biostatistics, demography, economics, engineering and sociology. The terms duration analysis, event-history analysis, failure-time analysis,...
Provided by Michigan State University
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Effective Visualization Techniques for Data Discovery and Analysis
Mar 2010
One of the best ways to understand data is through data visualization. The art of presenting data visually has matured from static graphs and dashboard widgets to interactive, animated graphs....
Provided by SAS Institute
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Optimizing Revenues in the Hospitality and Retail Industries: Comparing and Contrasting Different Industry Problems and How SAS Analytics Is Used to Solve Them
Apr 2010
With the acquisition of IDeaS by SAS in 2008, SAS now offers advanced revenue optimization solutions for both the retail (SAS Revenue Optimization Suite) and hospitality industries. This paper...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Analytics in the Converging Health and Life Sciences Industries: The Catalyst for the Next Generation of Healthcare
Mar 2010
Learn how analytics serves as a catalyst for both healthcare reform and the foundation for the next generation of healthcare. Understand the hurdles and opportunities presented as health...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Executive Dashboard: A Driver for Institutional Change and a Means to Broaden Understanding
Mar 2010
The financial meltdown created an uncertain and competitive environment, making it important for the institution to provide the executives insight into critical key metrics. The decision to create...
Provided by Pace University
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White Papers
The Enterprise Melting Pot (Part II) SAS BI - The Plan Versus Reality or Don't Try This at Home, Kids
Mar 2008
The Decennial Census is one of the largest undertakings of the US government, trying to count everyone at least once. How is this undertaking planned and managed? Most people think the Census...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition: 28,000-User Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Running Oracle Solaris 10
Mar 2010
Business Intelligence (BI) is no longer the domain of a few power analysts or a point application used by a small target audience of middle and upper management. BI has evolved into a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition: 50,000-User Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Running Oracle Solaris 10
Mar 2010
Business intelligence (BI) is no longer the domain of a few power analysts or a point application used by a small target audience of middle and upper management. BI has evolved into a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Identity Warehouse: Best Practices
Jan 2010
Enterprises are always in a state of flux. They are expanding their geographical footprint, shrinking their employee count, outsourcing non-core business or service areas, changing organizational...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on the Sun Oracle Database Machine
Apr 2010
Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). A true EDW provides a single 360-degree view of the business and a powerful platform for a wide spectrum of...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Enabling Pervasive BI Through a Practical Data Warehouse Reference Architecture
Feb 2010
Many things have changed in the world of business and IT since Data Warehouses were first popularized. Many studies have suggested that by far the majority of IT spend is on simply running the...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Database Rolling Upgrade Using Transient Logical Standby: Oracle Data Guard 11g
Jan 2010
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle's best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high-availability technologies. This MAA white paper provides best practices for...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Automatic Workload Management With Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2
Jan 2010
Applications using a clustered database generally want to load balance their workload across the cluster. Starting with Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 the load balancing advisory provides real-time...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition With Oracle Active Data Guard
Mar 2010
This paper describes the Enterprise Deployment architecture for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus). It also describes how to configure Oracle BI EE Plus with...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Setting Up Oracle 11g Data Guard for SAP Customers
Jan 2010
Oracle Data Guard is the management, monitoring, and automation software infrastructure that creates, maintains, and monitors one or more standby databases to protect enterprise data from...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Project 2010 BI and Portfolio Reporting: Advanced Techniques (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)
May 2010
The presenter of this webcast show how to generate Microsoft Visio Services reports and PowerPivot analytics using Microsoft Project Server data sources.
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence for 2010
Feb 2010
BI systems will evolve to take advantage of the new computing environment to increase the ability to exploit data to improve business management. This will increase the need for enterprises to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Social Factors in Creating an Integrated Capability for Health System Modeling and Simulation
Feb 2010
The health system is a complex system of systems - changes in agriculture, transportation, economics, family life, medical practices, and many other things can have a profound influence on health...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Case Studies
Federated Group Deploys Windows CMS Portal
Jan 2008
Canada-based The Federated Group offers customs and logistics services across North America and the globe. The company used the Visual LANSA Framework to engage a Client Management System (CMS)...
Provided by LANSA
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Case Studies
CREA-PR Simplifies Charts and Report Generation to Monitor Activities in Real Time
May 2010
The case study throws light on how Oracle assisted Conselho Regional de Engenharia, Arquitetura e Agronomia do estado do Parana (CREA-PR) in simplification of their charts and paper generation...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Bangkok Bank Enhances Competitive Edge With Business Intelligence Data Mart
May 2010
Commitment to customer service is something that makes Bangkok Bank one of the largest commercial bank in Thailand. Even though it has always focused and taken essential measures towards the right...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Dah Sing Bank Deploys New Marketing System and Achieves ROI in Less Than 12 Months
Mar 2010
Hong Kong-based Dah Sing Bank is the major banking subsidiary of Dah Sing Group. The bank provides banking and financial services through a network of about 70 branches in Hong Kong, Macau, and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Microsoft Business Intelligence Opens Doors to Rich Housing Analytics
May 2010
The housing industry's leading giant Hanley Wood has a powerful yet easy to use analytic platform for all their real estate needs. Expansion at the right time writes the success story of a company...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Application Platform Helps Online Insurer Meet Critical Data Management Needs
May 2010
With the aim to support its online presence, Esurance was on the lookout for a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable application for meeting its critical data needs. The company relies on...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Optimizing ETL: The Key to Accelerating Data-Driven Business Decisions
Feb 2008
When we are trying to access, understand and decipher data, the time that goes by in the entire process has direct implications on revenue, or the loss of it. One could be involved in analyzing...
Provided by Syncsort
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White Papers
ROOT: A Data Analysis and Data Mining Tool from CERN
Feb 2008
Root is a free and open-source data mining tool that has been developed by CERN. CERN is also the lab where the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented. The arrival of ROOT was a result of the need that...
Provided by Casualty Actuarial Society
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White Papers
Deploying EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 for Data Warehouse/Decision Support (DSS) Workloads
Aug 2008
EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 can be deployed efficiently for data warehouse/decision support (DSS) workloads. The EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 is known to add to the performance, flexibility and scalability of...
Provided by EMC Corporation
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White Papers
Building Business Intelligence From the Network
Sep 2008
There are many reasons that call for effective gathering of business intelligence data. These include billing, predict new revenue sources, verify and measure Service Level Agreements (SLAs),...
Provided by Foundry Networks
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White Papers
Best Practise in Travel Business Intelligence
May 2008
Information plays a crucial role in planning an effective travel management program. The power of right information allows companies to effectively negotiate with supplier contracts, monitor...
Provided by PhoCusWright
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White Papers
Assessing Business Intelligence Readiness in Your Organisation
Nov 2008
Business intelligence (BI) has been around for quite a while and has steadily evolved as a tool that can help organizations to analyze data to take accurate and sound business decisions. This...
Provided by FMT Systems
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White Papers
Customer Data Clustering Using Data Mining Technique
Nov 2011
Classification and patterns extraction from customer data is very important for business support and decision making. Timely identification of newly emerging trends is very important in business...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Predictive Data Mining and Discovering Hidden Values of Data Warehouse
Apr 2011
Data Mining is an analytic process to explore data (usually large amounts of data - typically business or market related) in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between...
Provided by ARPN Journal of Systems and Software
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White Papers
Project Management Phases of a SCADA System for Automation of Electrical Distribution Networks
Mar 2012
The aim of this paper is, firstly, to recall the basic concepts of SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems, to present the project management phases of SCADA for real time...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Improving Performance of Distributed Data Mining (DDM) With Multi-Agent System
Mar 2012
Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (or agents) and knowledge discovery (or data mining) are two of the most active areas in information technology. Ongoing research has revealed a number of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Continuous Monitoring of Distance-Based Outliers Over Data Streams
Mar 2011
Anomaly detection is considered an important data mining task, aiming at the discovery of elements (also known as outliers) that show significant diversion from the expected case. More...
Provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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White Papers
An Optimal Algorithm for Conflict-Free Coloring for Tree of Rings
Feb 2012
An optimal algorithm is presented about Conflict-Free Coloring for connected subgraphs of tree of rings. Suppose, the number of the rings in the tree is |T| and the maximum length of rings is |R|....
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Graph Partition and Identification of Cluster Number in Data Analysis
Feb 2011
Modern computing with wide range of applications in different areas such as Internet, biology, and social science, involves large scale of data analysis. The relations of data can be modeled as...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Automated Data Analysis Techniques for a Modern Silicon Debug Environment
Jan 2012
With the growing size of modern designs and more strict time-to-market constraints, design errors unavoidably escape pre-silicon verification and reside in silicon prototypes. As a result, silicon...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Improve Teaching Method of Data Mining Course
Mar 2012
It is clearly perceived that most of theoretical information, the authors teach to students are lost after graduation, mostly because abstract information do not last in students' minds much...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Efficient Incremental Constrained Clustering
Aug 2007
Clustering with constraints is an emerging area of data mining research. However, most work assumes that the constraints are given as one large batch. In this paper, the authors explore the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Data Warehousing and Phases Used in Internet Mining
Aug 2011
In this paper, the authors describe the data warehousing and data mining. Data Warehousing is the process of storing the data on large scale and Data mining is the process of analyzing data from...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Management Studies
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White Papers
Parameter Based Quality Measurement of Data Warehouse
Jun 2011
Data warehousing is most demanding technology to facilitate analytical processing on data from remote sources. This technology is being employed successfully today in many organizations specially...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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White Papers
A Mining Technique for Web Data Using Clustering
Aug 2011
Web text mining is an important branch in the data mining. Text mining is the process of searching large volumes of documents from certain keywords or key phrases. An extension of text mining is...
Provided by Bapurao Deshmukh College of Engineering
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Discriminative Features Selection in Text Mining Using TF-IDF Scheme
Aug 2011
This paper describes technique for discriminative features selection in Text mining. 'Text mining' is the discovery of new, previously unknown information, by computer. Discriminative features are...
Provided by Bapurao Deshmukh College of Engineering
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White Papers
Regionalisation as Spatial Data Mining Problem: A Comparative Study
Jun 2011
Regionalisation, an important problem from sociogeography. It could be solved by a classification algorithm for grouping spatial objects. A typical task is to find spatially compact and dense...
Provided by Rungta Group of Colleges
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White Papers
Development of an Efficient Data Mining Classifier With Microarray Data Set for Gene Selection and Classification
Jan 2012
Microarray sample classification has been studied extensively using classification techniques in machine learning and pattern recognition. In a microarray chip, the number of genes available is...
Provided by Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of Hybrid Swarm Intelligence Rule Induction Algorithm
May 2010
Data mining is used to extract potential information from data base. Rule induction is used to extract information from data base and display it in IF-THEN rule format. First the classification...
Provided by Kongu Engineering College
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White Papers
Multilayer Ensemble Pruning Via Novel Multi-Sub-Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization
Feb 2009
Recently, classifier ensemble methods are gaining more and more attention in the machine-learning and data-mining communities. In most cases, the performance of an ensemble is better than a single...
Provided by Journal of Universal Computer Science
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White Papers
A Comparison of Rule Inheritance in Model-to-Model Transformation Languages
Feb 2011
Although model transformations presumably play a major role in Model-Driven Engineering, reuse mechanisms such as inheritance have received little attention so far. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
How Users Use Access Control
Jul 2009
Existing technologies for file sharing differ widely in the granularity of control they give users over who can access their data; achieving finer-grained control generally requires more user...
Provided by Palo Alto Research Center
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Whitepapers
On Clustering Algorithms for Uncertain Data
Mar 2009
In this paper, the authors will study the clustering problem for uncertain data. When information about the data uncertainty is available, it can be leveraged in order to improve the quality of...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Study of Semantic Web Usage Mining
Jan 2012
The related theories of Web and Web mining in semantic are concluded and analyzed in this paper. The description on RDF resource is analyzed on the semantic step, and the clustering method for...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Exploiting Duality in Summarization With Deterministic Guarantees
Aug 2007
Summarization is an important task in data mining. A major challenge over the past years has been the efficient construction of fixed-space synopses that provide a deterministic quality guarantee,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Towards a Benchmark for ETL Workflows
Sep 2007
Extraction-Transform-Load (ETL) processes comprise complex data work-flows, which are responsible for the maintenance of a Data Warehouse. Their practical importance is denoted by the fact that a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Automating the Loading of Business Process Data Warehouses
Mar 2009
Business processes drive the operations of an enterprise. In the past, the focus was primarily on business process design, modeling, and automation. Recently, enterprises have realized that they...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
QoX-Driven ETL Design: Reducing the Cost of ETL Consulting Engagements
Jul 2009
As business intelligence becomes increasingly essential for organizations and as it evolves from strategic to operational, the complexity of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes grows. In...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Benchmarking ETL Workflows
Aug 2009
Extraction-Transform-Load (ETL) processes comprise complex data work-flows, which are responsible for the maintenance of a Data Warehouse. A plethora of ETL tools is currently available...
Provided by University of Ioannina
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White Papers
Rule-Based Management of Schema Changes at ETL Sources
Oct 2009
In this paper, the authors visit the problem of the management of inconsistencies emerging on ETL processes as results of evolution operations occurring at their sources. They abstract...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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White Papers
A Taxonomy of ETL Activities
Nov 2009
Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) activities are software modules responsible for populating a data warehouse with operational data, which have undergone a series of transformations on their way to the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Partitioning Real-Time ETL Workflows
Jan 2010
Many organizations are aiming to move away from traditional batch processing ETL to Real-Time ETL (RT-ETL). This move is motivated by a need to analyze and take decisions on as fresh a data as...
Provided by Hewlett Packard
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White Papers
Optimizing ETL Workflows for Fault-Tolerance
Jan 2010
Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes play an important role in data warehousing. Typically, design work on ETL has focused on performance as the sole metric to make sure that the ETL process...
Provided by Hewlett Packard
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White Papers
Leveraging Business Process Models for ETL Design
Jan 2011
As Business Intelligence evolves from off-line strategic decision making to on-line operational decision making, the design of the back-end Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes is becoming even...
Provided by Hewlett Packard
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White Papers
Extraction, Transformation, and Loading
Dec 2007
Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) processes are responsible for the operations taking place in the back stage of a data warehouse architecture. In a high level description of an ETL...
Provided by University of Ioannina
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White Papers
Macro-level Scheduling of ETL Workflows
Aug 2011
Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) work-flows extract data from various sources, transform, cleanse and homogenize these data, and populate a target data store (e.g., a data warehouse). Typically, such...
Provided by University of Ioannina
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White Papers
Near Real Time ETL
Aug 2009
Near real time ETL deviates from the traditional conception of data warehouse refreshment, which is performed off-line in a batch mode, and adopts the strategy of propagating changes that take...
Provided by University of Ioannina
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White Papers
Policy-Regulated Management of ETL Evolution
Nov 2009
In this paper, the authors discuss the problem of performing impact prediction for changes that occur in the schema/structure of the data warehouse sources. They abstract Extract-Transform-Load...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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White Papers
Ontology-Driven Conceptual Design of ETL Processes Using Graph Transformations
Nov 2009
One of the main tasks during the early steps of a data warehouse project is the identification of the appropriate transformations and the specification of inter-schema mappings from the source to...
Provided by National Technical University of Athens
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White Papers
Accelerating CUDA Graph Algorithms at Maximum Warp
Feb 2011
Graphs are powerful data representations favored in many computational domains. Modern GPUs have recently shown promising results in accelerating computationally challenging graph problems but...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Data Mining of Ultraviolet Spectra of Environment Pollutants
Jan 2012
This paper suggests a novel method named DOSC-WT-GRNN based on Generalized Regression Neural Network (GRNN) with Direct Orthogonal Signal Correction (DOSC) and Wavelet Transform (WT) as a...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
An Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimization With Complementary Distribution Strategy for Feature Selection
May 2011
Data clustering is a powerful technique for discerning the structure of and simplifying the complexity of large scale data. An improved technique combining Chaotic map Particle Swarm Optimization...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
The Enterprise Melting Pot (Part II) SAS BI - The Plan Versus Reality or Don't Try This at Home, Kids
Mar 2008
The Decennial Census is one of the largest undertakings of the US government, trying to count everyone at least once. How is this undertaking planned and managed? Most people think the Census...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition: 28,000-User Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Running Oracle Solaris 10
Mar 2010
Business Intelligence (BI) is no longer the domain of a few power analysts or a point application used by a small target audience of middle and upper management. BI has evolved into a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition: 50,000-User Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Running Oracle Solaris 10
Mar 2010
Business intelligence (BI) is no longer the domain of a few power analysts or a point application used by a small target audience of middle and upper management. BI has evolved into a...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Identity Warehouse: Best Practices
Jan 2010
Enterprises are always in a state of flux. They are expanding their geographical footprint, shrinking their employee count, outsourcing non-core business or service areas, changing organizational...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Transparent Data Encryption for SAP
Mar 2010
Securing sensitive customer data has become more and more important in the last years. One possible threat is confidential data lost either by data theft - internal or external - or by gaining...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on the Sun Oracle Database Machine
Apr 2010
Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). A true EDW provides a single 360-degree view of the business and a powerful platform for a wide spectrum of...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2: OWB ETL Using ODI Knowledge Modules
Feb 2010
This paper discusses how knowledge module technology from Oracle Data Integrator is used in Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL 11gR2 (OWB-EE) code template mappings to add fast, flexible,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Enabling Pervasive BI Through a Practical Data Warehouse Reference Architecture
Feb 2010
Many things have changed in the world of business and IT since Data Warehouses were first popularized. Many studies have suggested that by far the majority of IT spend is on simply running the...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Database Rolling Upgrade Using Transient Logical Standby: Oracle Data Guard 11g
Jan 2010
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle's best practices blueprint for implementing Oracle high-availability technologies. This MAA white paper provides best practices for...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Automatic Workload Management With Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2
Jan 2010
Applications using a clustered database generally want to load balance their workload across the cluster. Starting with Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 the load balancing advisory provides real-time...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition With Oracle Active Data Guard
Mar 2010
This paper describes the Enterprise Deployment architecture for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus). It also describes how to configure Oracle BI EE Plus with...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Setting Up Oracle 11g Data Guard for SAP Customers
Jan 2010
Oracle Data Guard is the management, monitoring, and automation software infrastructure that creates, maintains, and monitors one or more standby databases to protect enterprise data from...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Project 2010 BI and Portfolio Reporting: Advanced Techniques (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)
May 2010
The presenter of this webcast show how to generate Microsoft Visio Services reports and PowerPivot analytics using Microsoft Project Server data sources.
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence for 2010
Feb 2010
BI systems will evolve to take advantage of the new computing environment to increase the ability to exploit data to improve business management. This will increase the need for enterprises to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Social Factors in Creating an Integrated Capability for Health System Modeling and Simulation
Feb 2010
The health system is a complex system of systems - changes in agriculture, transportation, economics, family life, medical practices, and many other things can have a profound influence on health...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Case Studies
Federated Group Deploys Windows CMS Portal
Jan 2008
Canada-based The Federated Group offers customs and logistics services across North America and the globe. The company used the Visual LANSA Framework to engage a Client Management System (CMS)...
Provided by LANSA
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Case Studies
CREA-PR Simplifies Charts and Report Generation to Monitor Activities in Real Time
May 2010
The case study throws light on how Oracle assisted Conselho Regional de Engenharia, Arquitetura e Agronomia do estado do Parana (CREA-PR) in simplification of their charts and paper generation...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Bangkok Bank Enhances Competitive Edge With Business Intelligence Data Mart
May 2010
Commitment to customer service is something that makes Bangkok Bank one of the largest commercial bank in Thailand. Even though it has always focused and taken essential measures towards the right...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Dah Sing Bank Deploys New Marketing System and Achieves ROI in Less Than 12 Months
Mar 2010
Hong Kong-based Dah Sing Bank is the major banking subsidiary of Dah Sing Group. The bank provides banking and financial services through a network of about 70 branches in Hong Kong, Macau, and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Microsoft Business Intelligence Opens Doors to Rich Housing Analytics
May 2010
The housing industry's leading giant Hanley Wood has a powerful yet easy to use analytic platform for all their real estate needs. Expansion at the right time writes the success story of a company...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Application Platform Helps Online Insurer Meet Critical Data Management Needs
May 2010
With the aim to support its online presence, Esurance was on the lookout for a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable application for meeting its critical data needs. The company relies on...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Optimizing ETL: The Key to Accelerating Data-Driven Business Decisions
Feb 2008
When we are trying to access, understand and decipher data, the time that goes by in the entire process has direct implications on revenue, or the loss of it. One could be involved in analyzing...
Provided by Syncsort
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White Papers
ROOT: A Data Analysis and Data Mining Tool from CERN
Feb 2008
Root is a free and open-source data mining tool that has been developed by CERN. CERN is also the lab where the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented. The arrival of ROOT was a result of the need that...
Provided by Casualty Actuarial Society
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White Papers
Deploying EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 for Data Warehouse/Decision Support (DSS) Workloads
Aug 2008
EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 can be deployed efficiently for data warehouse/decision support (DSS) workloads. The EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 is known to add to the performance, flexibility and scalability of...
Provided by EMC Corporation
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White Papers
Building Business Intelligence From the Network
Sep 2008
There are many reasons that call for effective gathering of business intelligence data. These include billing, predict new revenue sources, verify and measure Service Level Agreements (SLAs),...
Provided by Foundry Networks
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White Papers
Best Practise in Travel Business Intelligence
May 2008
Information plays a crucial role in planning an effective travel management program. The power of right information allows companies to effectively negotiate with supplier contracts, monitor...
Provided by PhoCusWright
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White Papers
Assessing Business Intelligence Readiness in Your Organisation
Nov 2008
Business intelligence (BI) has been around for quite a while and has steadily evolved as a tool that can help organizations to analyze data to take accurate and sound business decisions. This...
Provided by FMT Systems
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Business Intelligence Technologies : Recent Developments and Future Trends
May 2009
An overview is provided in this paper of the most important and recent developments plus the major future trends in academic research and software market for Business Intelligence (BI)...
Provided by California State University
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Media Business Intelligence: 10 Key Benefits Plus 6 Popular KPIs
Jun 2008
Media BI can be described as a perfect and fast strategic decision support tool that any media enterprise can employ today. It enables instant access to accurate, current, corporate-wide media...
Provided by Decentrix
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Petroleum Business Intelligence and Operational Analytics
Jul 2008
This paper will show how to use business intelligence tools to make better business and operational decisions by integrating technical data from E&P applications, operational data from the...
Provided by Society of Petroleum Engineers
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Business Intelligence: Concepts, Components, Techniques and Benefits
Nov 2009
Business intelligence (BI) has two basic different meanings related to the use of the term intelligence. The primary, less frequently, is the human intelligence capacity applied in business...
Provided by JATIT
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The Impact of Business Intelligence System Maturity on Information Quality
Dec 2009
With the aim to recommend and investigate the relationship between business intelligence systems and information quality, this paper examines the impact of business intelligence systems' maturity...
Provided by University of Ljubljana
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Benefits of Business Intelligence System Implementation: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Business Intelligence System Maturity on Information Quality
Apr 2010
The idea of this paper is to discuss the benefits and introduction of business intelligence systems for increasing and achieving high information quality. This paper discusses in detail how...
Provided by University of Ljubljana
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Extracting Opinions and Facts for Business Intelligence
Oct 2009
In today's competitive world, there are two key elements for success. One is quality product and services and the other, corporate credibility and reputation. To stay ahead in competition, big and...
Provided by University of Sheffield
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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies Improving Your Company's Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
Jan 2009
Big organizations employ Business Intelligence (BI) to improve effectiveness and efficiency and take important business decisions. However, mid-sized companies have generally stayed away from...
Provided by SAP
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Using Business Intelligence to Navigate in Stormy Times: An SME's Guide
Feb 2009
The economic crisis of 2007-08 affected most economies across the world, directly or indirectly. It is being considered the biggest economic recession since 1991. Organizations, whether big...
Provided by Ranmor Computing
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Data Mart Consolidation and Business Intelligence Standardization: Getting the Most Value Out of Information
Aug 2007
It is broadly agreed that in today's date, information is the most valuable asset for an organization. It is becoming increasingly imperative to make relevant information available to all users...
Provided by SAP
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SQL Server 2008 Data Warehouse Deployments With EMC Clariion CX4 Storage Systems
Sep 2008
Large organizations face several challenges in terms of data management. There are vast amounts of data to be processed on a daily basis and that, coupled with the rapidly changing technology and...
Provided by EMC
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Enterprise Edition Analytic Data Warehouse Technology
Sep 2008
Over the last several years, Business Intelligence (BI) has emerged to become a key driver for business owners and managers through which they understand the health of their companies and take...
Provided by Infobright
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Data Warehouse Testing
Mar 2010
A powerful, reliable and stable data warehouse is the key to an efficient IT system. Exhaustive testing of the data warehousing system is vital during the implementation as well as for ongoing...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
