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Case Studies
Powerful Business Intelligence for the University of Calgary: An IBM Cognos Solution
Aug 2009
Located in northwest Calgary, the University of Calgary (U of C) campus is home to scholars in 16 faculties and 36 research institutes and centers. It needed to consolidate complex and confusing...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Cognos Is the Glue That Brings Management and Clinical Departments Together at the Bloorview Kids Rehab Center
Jul 2009
Bloorview Kids Rehab, known as Bloorview, is Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital. In 2002, Bloorview partnered with the University of Toronto to become Canada's first teaching...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Providing Cost Efficient Care at Martin's Point
Jun 2009
Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, Martin's Point Health Care serves approximately 88,000 members and patients. Containing costs, while improving clinical outcomes, and at the...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Gamesys Finds a Safe Bet With Its Balanced Warehouse Solution From IBM
May 2009
Founded in 2001, the Gamesys Group has rapidly built a profitable online entertainment business providing Instant Win, Bingo and Casino games to a worldwide audience. Despite its rapid growth, in...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: Ryobi
Feb 2009
Ryobi sells power tools and outdoor power equipment, and has won supplier awards in multiple categories at The Home Depot in North America, for six consecutive years. The company was also...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
The Business Analysis Team at Fenmarc Expands Its Role and Streamlines Processes With IBM Cognos
Feb 2009
Fenmarc is a dedicated large-scale supplier of fresh vegetables to Asda, one of the UK's leading supermarket chains. It needed to consolidate and coordinate budgeting and forecasting throughout...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Movia Gets on Board With IBM Cognos Technologies
Dec 2008
Trafikselskabet Movia is the Danish public transport agency responsible for managing bus lines and local railways in the regions of Sjælland and Hovedstaden. Administrating the finances of 600...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Vicor Evaluates Business Performance in Realtime Using IBM Cognos Software
Aug 2008
Vicor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems used in the communications, data processing, industrial controls, test equipment, medical, and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Mueller Gains Greater Insight Into Financial Performance With IBM Cognos Software
Nov 2008
Mueller, Inc. is the industry leader in Steel Building and Metal Roofing solutions throughout the south central United States. It needed to extract and disseminate the information essential in...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Martin's Point Identifies Health Trends With IBM Cognos Software to Improve Care Delivery
Oct 2008
Martin's Point is a non-profit health care provider offering reliable, proven clinical services at health care centers in Maine and New Hampshire. It needed to move away from a paper reporting...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Moran Pioneers Aged Care Business Intelligence
Oct 2008
The Group's general manager for finance, Chris Mamarelis, told iTNews that the aged care revenue model in Australia is extremely complex due to government subsidies and regulatory compliance. The...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Nestle Achieves Global Excellence With SAP NetWeaver BI and IBM
Mar 2008
Nestle is the largest worldwide company in the food and beverages sector, with sales for 2006 up to CHF 98.5 billion and a net profit of CHF 9 billion. Implementing and running a business...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Sun World Analyzes Crop Costs and Harvesting Efficiency With IBM Cognos TM1
Jun 2009
Based in Bakersfield, California, Sun World International grows and markets fresh fruit and vegetables. It needed to improve operating efficiency through detailed operations and cost analysis. It...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Burgess Pigment Improves Reporting and Analysis of Orders With a Data Warehousing Solution
Jul 2009
Burgess Pigment Company is a leading provider of functional anhydrous and hydrous aluminum silicates, used in everything from ceramics, paints and ink to additives in food, medicines and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Mission Accomplished for Customer Support Command Center
Jun 2009
A leading global manufacturer of high-technology products needed better insight to deliver on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with enterprise customers worldwide. It needed to develop a continuous...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Crane Pumps & Systems: Suffering During Recession? Not With Leadership and the Right Business Intelligence Tool, Says Crane Pumps & Systems
Dec 2008
Since 1948, Crane Pumps & Systems (CP&S) has manufactured a diverse range of pumps, accessories, and services to provide successful solutions for water, wastewater, military, and engineered pump...
Provided by LogiXML
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Case Studies
Integrated Marketing and Decision Support Solution Using Business Intelligence and ETL
Jan 2009
A $300-million online real estate management, information, media and technology services provider needed single, integrated solution to make analysis of market data easy. It deployed business...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Implementing a Business Intelligence Solution for a Leading Media Company in North America
Jan 2009
The customer found the existing business intelligence applications inadequate to manage the voluminous data across disparate applications. The customer selected Datamatics services to deploy a...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Cognos 8-Based Reporting Tool for One of the Largest Global Publicly-Traded Global Asset Management Firms
Jan 2009
One of the largest publicly traded global asset management firms in the world. It provides diversified, global investment management services that include growth and value equities, blend...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Deploying a Business Intelligence Solution for One of the Leading Global Pharmaceutical Company
Jan 2009
The customer needed a solution that allowed users to do their own ad hoc reporting and analysis. The customer selected Datamatics to deploy a business intelligence solution that would meet its...
Provided by Datamatics Global Services
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Case Studies
Pitney Bowes Case Study: Scotiabank
Jul 2009
Scotiabank, Canada's international bank, employs nearly 56,000 individuals, and along with its affiliates, serves upwards of 10 million customers in approximately 50 countries around the world....
Provided by Pitney Bowes
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Case Studies
PGG Wrightson Data Warehouse
Jan 2009
PGG Wrightson is New Zealand's largest provider to the agricultural sector, offering a wide range of products, services and solutions to farmers, growers and processors in New Zealand and...
Provided by Montage Professional Services
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: RED.ES
Jan 2009
The Spanish National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (ONTSI), part of the public organisation red.es within the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, is...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Operational Business Intelligence: The State of Art
Aug 2009
BI solutions have evolved to focus on operational BI - the ability to more effectively manage and optimize daily business activities by seamlessly sly integrating BI analytics within operational...
Provided by BeyeNETWORK
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White Papers
Corda CenterView Gives Companies a Comprehensive View of SAP BW Data
Jan 2009
Companies that invest in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) make a tremendous investment in the value of their information. Although SAP BW makes a wealth of information available to these companies,...
Provided by CORDA Technologies
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White Papers
Advanced Corda CenterView Data Visualization for the BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform
Aug 2008
The BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform pulls company data into one centralized location to ensure that every person connected within an organization has trusted, immediate access...
Provided by CORDA Technologies
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White Papers
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies to Deploy BI on an Enterprise Scale
Jun 2008
This paper is designed for business and technical managers who oversee a business intelligence environment and wish to learn the best practices and pitfalls for deploying reporting and analysis...
Provided by 1105 Media
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White Papers
Business Intelligence Solutions From the Microsoft and Teradata Partnership
Oct 2008
The trend toward evidence-based decision making is taking root in commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. Driven by increased competition due to changing business models,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
The Payoff of Pervasive Performance Management: Spreading Data Analysis Tools From the Executive Suite to the Shop Floor Brings Top-Line and Bottom-Line Benefits
May 2008
BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) launched a research program in early 2008 to determine the views of senior business and technology executives on whether widespread use and dispersal of...
Provided by McGraw-Hill Companies
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Whitepapers
The Full Promise of Business Intelligence
Dec 2008
IBM Cogno Business Intelligence supports corporate performance management because it delivers complete, consistent information. Together with integrated planning capabilities, one can then...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
CIO Scorecard Fosters Strategic Performance Management Culture
Jan 2009
As the worldwide leader in software for business and personal computing, the vision of Microsoft Corporation is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Value From the IBM Cognos 8 Platform
Jan 2009
With the IBM Cognos 8 platform, business users gain access to all data through a consistent business model. IT professionals can access data wherever it resides and deliver that information in a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Meeting the Needs of Your Organization With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Mar 2009
Add Business Intelligence to the list of must-have tools. It represents the only way to capture the insight of most important assets - people - and turn it into competitive advantage. People are...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos Dashboards and Scorecards
Mar 2009
High-performing organizations need information that will improve their decision making in a way that drives better performance. And more often than not, they need it in an easy-to-understand,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Easier to Deploy and Manage With IBM Cognos 8 BI
Feb 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only software delivering the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, and dashboards on a single, proven architecture. It's part of the complete...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight: Performance Management in a Weak Economy
Feb 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 organizations in a down economy and explains how...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida
Aug 2008
The School District of Palm Beach County, Florida (PBCSD) is the 5th largest school district in Florida and the 11th largest school district in the U.S. The school district's 2008/2009 fiscal year...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Business Event Management: Event and Process-Enabled Business Intelligence
Apr 2009
BEM encompasses the whole process of monitoring and managing events through to resolution. With business and decision-process automation, this leading-edge technology can drive action to support...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Vision Integrated Graphics, Graphic Service Bureau: HP Major PM Service Renews HP Indigo Digital Presses
Aug 2009
Vision Integrated Graphics is a Chicago-based, full-service marketing solutions provider with a thriving variable print business. Over the years, the company has acquired seven HP Indigo Digital...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management Solutions for SAP: Unlocking Hidden Value From Investments in the SAP Business Warehouse
Feb 2009
The architecture, capabilities, and value of IBM Cognos 8 for SAP customers is centered on embracing existing skills, knowledge, work and investments, enhancing existing SAP investments while...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Integration and Interaction of Distributed Data Mining with Agent Technology
Jun 2012
In recent years, more and more researchers have been involved in research on both agent technology and distributed data mining. A clear disciplinary effort has been activated toward removing the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Predictive Data Mining for Highly Imbalanced Classification
Dec 2012
The paper addresses some theoretical and practical aspects of data mining, focusing on predictive data mining, where two central types of prediction problems are discussed: classification and...
Provided by Sri Sai Solutions
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Whitepapers
An Intelligent Approach to Search Timeline Data on Web
Dec 2012
The internet is a huge source of unstructured information. Web mining is done to organize these huge amounts of data available online in this paper the authors propose a technique to retrieve and...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
A Theoretical Formulation of Bit Mask Search Mining Technique for Mining Frequent Itemsets
Dec 2012
In this paper, the authors have dealt with the problem of finding frequent itemsets which can be used to make strong association rules. Although a number of methods have been developed, those can...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
An Evolutionary Multi Label Classification Using Associative Rule Mining for Spatial Preferences
Jun 2011
Multi-label spatial classification based on association rules with Multi Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGA) is proposed to deal with multiple class labels problem which is hard to settle by...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Privacy Preservation with Attribute Reduction in Quantitative Association Rules Using PSO and DSR
Aug 2012
Data mining aims at extracting hidden information from data. Data mining poses a threat to information privacy. Privacy preserving data mining hides the sensitive rules and prevents the data from...
Provided by PSG
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Whitepapers
Association Rule Mining Using Self Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization
Nov 2012
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is a simple and powerful population based stochastic search algorithm for solving optimization problems in the continuous search domain. However, the...
Provided by PonderCloud
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Whitepapers
Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Using Data Reconstruction Based Approach
Mar 2012
Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. To preserve client privacy in the...
Provided by MIT
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Whitepapers
An Efficient Implementation of Apriori Algorithm Based on Hadoop-Mapreduce Model
Dec 2012
Finding frequent itemsets is one of the most important fields of data mining. Apriori algorithm is the most established algorithm for finding frequent itemsets from a transactional dataset;...
Provided by International Journal of Reviews in Computing
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Whitepapers
A Natural Language Processing Based Web Mining System for Social Media Analysis
Jan 2013
Social Media Monitoring and Analysis are the new trends in technology business. The challenge is to extract correct information from free-form texts of social media communication. Natural Language...
Provided by Indiana State University
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Whitepapers
Multiresolution Surface Representation Using Combinatorial Maps
Aug 2012
Multiresolution representations of geometric objects have gained much of interest in many computer graphics areas, especially geometric modeling. The multiresolution representation has various...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Whitepapers
Rewriting Petri Nets as Directed Graphs
Mar 2011
In this paper, the authors attempts to understand some of the basic properties of Petri nets and their relationships to directed graphs. Different forms of directed graphs are widely used in...
Provided by University of Malaya
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Whitepapers
Predicting Sequential Pattern Changes in Data Streams
Jan 2012
Data streams are utilized in an increasing number of real-time information technology applications. Unlike traditional datasets, data streams are temporally ordered, fast changing and massive. Due...
Provided by National Chung Hsing University
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Whitepapers
Fuzzy Concept Mining Based on Formal Concept Analysis
Dec 2008
Data Mining (also known as Knowledge Discovery) is defined as the non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from data. It includes not only methods...
Provided by Sunmoon
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Whitepapers
A Single-Scan Algorithm for Mining Sequential Patterns from Data Streams
Mar 2012
Sequential PAttern Mining (SPAM) is one of the most interesting research issues of data mining. In this paper, a new research problem of mining data streams for sequential patterns is defined. A...
Provided by Kainan University
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Whitepapers
Fuzzy Clustering Analysis of Data Mining: Application to an Accident Mining System
Aug 2012
In this paper, the authors deal with the application of data transforms and fuzzy clustering to extract useful data. It is possible to distinguish similar information which includes selector and...
Provided by WasatchWare
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Whitepapers
Multi-Objective Genetic-Fuzzy Data Mining
Oct 2012
Many approaches have been proposed for mining fuzzy association rules. The membership functions, which critically influence the final mining results, are difficult to de ne. In general, multiple...
Provided by Tamir Khason
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Whitepapers
A Supervised Learning Approach for Automatic Keyphrase Extraction
Nov 2012
Keyphrases, synonymously spoken as keywords, represent semantic meta-data and play an important role to capture the main theme represented by a large text data collection. Although authors provide...
Provided by King Saud University
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Whitepapers
Depth Map Coding Using Graph Based Transform and Transform Domain Sparsification
Oct 2011
Depth map compression is important for compact "Texture-plus-depth" representation of a 3D scene, where texture and depth maps captured from multiple camera viewpoints are coded into the same...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - Turning the Web Up to 11
Dec 2012
This webcast will cover the web audio capabilities for games and music. The presenter will explain through the audio element and the Web Audio API, and dive deep into using the Web Audio API for...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Inter Cluster Distance Management Model With Optimal Centroid Estimation for K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Jun 2011
Clustering techniques are used to group up the transactions based on the relevancy. Cluster analysis is one of the primary data analysis method. The clustering process can be done in two ways such...
Provided by WSDOT
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Whitepapers
Up/Down Analysis of Stock Index by Using Bayesian Network
Jul 2012
Bayesian network is the graphical model which can represent the stochastic dependency of the random variables via the acyclic directed graph. In this paper, Bayesian network is applied for the...
Provided by Canadian Center of Science and Education
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Whitepapers
Density-Based Clustering of Streaming Data Using Weighting Scheme
Jul 2012
Clustering of data streams is an important issue in data mining. A large number of algorithms exist for clustering data streams but most of these algorithms give equal weights to all the...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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Whitepapers
Survey of Recent Clustering Techniques in Data Mining
Aug 2012
Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of assigning a set of objects into groups called clusters. Main task of clustering are explorative data mining, and a common technique for statistical...
Provided by Samrat Amin
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Whitepapers
An Analysis on Effective and Accurate Data Clustering Based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Sep 2012
Nonnegative matrix factorization method is a kind of new matrix rotting method. It is an effective tool for large data processing and analysis. At the same time, NMF has an important performance...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Using Data Mining Techniques for Business Intelligence in Web Mining
Sep 2012
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a popular and interactive medium to disseminate information today. The web is huge, diverse, and dynamic and thus raises the scalability, multimedia data, and temporal...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Studies on Research and Development in Web Mining MANET Protocols Under Wormhole Attack Enent
Apr 2012
World Wide Web has changing into one amongst the foremost comprehensive data resources. It most likely, if not perpetually, covers the data requirement for any user. However the net demonstrates...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Approach of Association Rules Mining for Service Discovery in Mobile Adhoc Network
Apr 2012
The Service Discovery in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANET) is a difficult task because of the changing nature of such networks. Different services are available in MANET considering time and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Modified Projected K-Means Clustering Algorithm with Effective Distance Measure
Apr 2012
Clustering high dimensional data has been a big issue for clustering algorithms because of the intrinsic sparsity of the data points. Several recent research results signifies that in case of high...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Optimizing the Web Cache Performance by Clustering Based Pre-Fetching Technique Using Modified ART1
Apr 2012
Web caching is a technique which is used to reduce user perceived latency when user is accessing the Web pages. Web pre-fetching is a scheme where Web pages are pre-fetched into the intermediate...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
MSApriori Using Total Support Tree Data Structure
Apr 2012
Association rule mining is one of the important problems of data mining. Single minimum support based approaches of association rule mining suffers from "rare item problem". An improved approach...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
An Effective Web Document Clustering for Information Retrieval
Oct 2012
The size of web has increased exponentially over the past few years with thousands of documents related to a subject available to the user. In this paper, the authors introduce a combine approach...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Use of Data Mining Techniques for the Evaluation of Student Performance:A Case Study
Oct 2012
Data and Information or Knowledge has a significant role on human activities. Data mining is the knowledge discovery process by analyzing the large volumes of data from various perspectives and...
Provided by Lovely Professional University
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Whitepapers
Reversible Image Data Hiding Using Predictive Coding Technique Based on Steganograpic Scheme
Jul 2012
Steganography is the science that involves communicating secret data in an appropriate multimedia carrier, e.g., image, audio, and video files. This scheme provides the ability to hide the data...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Detection and Summarization of Genuine Review Using Visual Data Mining
Apr 2012
In earlier days the authors were asking their friends or relatives for their opinions regarding products which they want to purchase from the merchants. But now a day's E-commerce is gaining more...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Mining Of Spatial Co-Location Pattern from Spatial Datasets
Mar 2012
Spatial data mining, or knowledge discovery in spatial database, refers to the extraction of implicit knowledge, spatial relations, or other patterns not explicitly stored in spatial databases....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Mining Association Rules from Web Logs by Incorporating Structural Knowledge of Website
Mar 2012
One of the basic problems with the Association Rule discovery is that when Mining Algorithms are applied on Web Access Logs, the total number of generated rules is found to be very large. For...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
An Accurate Grid -Based PAM Clustering Method for Large Dataset
Mar 2012
Clustering is the procedure to group similar objects together. Several algorithms have been proposed for clustering. Among them, the K-means clustering method has less time complexity. But it is...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Genetic Algorithm for Discovering Classification Rules in Data Mining
Mar 2012
Data mining has as goal to discover knowledge from huge volume of data. Rule mining is considered as one of the usable mining method in order to obtain valuable knowledge from stored data on...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Enhancing Classifier Performance Via Hybrid Feature Selection and Numeric Class Handling-A Comparative Study
Mar 2012
Classification is a supervised machine learning procedure in which the effective model is constructed for prediction. The accuracy of classification mainly depends on the type of features and the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Case Studies
PGG Wrightson Data Warehouse
Jan 2009
PGG Wrightson is New Zealand's largest provider to the agricultural sector, offering a wide range of products, services and solutions to farmers, growers and processors in New Zealand and...
Provided by Montage Professional Services
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: RED.ES
Jan 2009
The Spanish National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (ONTSI), part of the public organisation red.es within the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, is...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Operational Business Intelligence: The State of Art
Aug 2009
BI solutions have evolved to focus on operational BI - the ability to more effectively manage and optimize daily business activities by seamlessly sly integrating BI analytics within operational...
Provided by BeyeNETWORK
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White Papers
Corda CenterView Gives Companies a Comprehensive View of SAP BW Data
Jan 2009
Companies that invest in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) make a tremendous investment in the value of their information. Although SAP BW makes a wealth of information available to these companies,...
Provided by CORDA Technologies
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White Papers
Advanced Corda CenterView Data Visualization for the BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform
Aug 2008
The BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform pulls company data into one centralized location to ensure that every person connected within an organization has trusted, immediate access...
Provided by CORDA Technologies
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White Papers
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies to Deploy BI on an Enterprise Scale
Jun 2008
This paper is designed for business and technical managers who oversee a business intelligence environment and wish to learn the best practices and pitfalls for deploying reporting and analysis...
Provided by 1105 Media
-
White Papers
Business Intelligence Solutions From the Microsoft and Teradata Partnership
Oct 2008
The trend toward evidence-based decision making is taking root in commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. Driven by increased competition due to changing business models,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
-
White Papers
The Payoff of Pervasive Performance Management: Spreading Data Analysis Tools From the Executive Suite to the Shop Floor Brings Top-Line and Bottom-Line Benefits
May 2008
BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) launched a research program in early 2008 to determine the views of senior business and technology executives on whether widespread use and dispersal of...
Provided by McGraw-Hill Companies
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Whitepapers
The Full Promise of Business Intelligence
Dec 2008
IBM Cogno Business Intelligence supports corporate performance management because it delivers complete, consistent information. Together with integrated planning capabilities, one can then...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
CIO Scorecard Fosters Strategic Performance Management Culture
Jan 2009
As the worldwide leader in software for business and personal computing, the vision of Microsoft Corporation is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Whitepapers
Value From the IBM Cognos 8 Platform
Jan 2009
With the IBM Cognos 8 platform, business users gain access to all data through a consistent business model. IT professionals can access data wherever it resides and deliver that information in a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Meeting the Needs of Your Organization With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Mar 2009
Add Business Intelligence to the list of must-have tools. It represents the only way to capture the insight of most important assets - people - and turn it into competitive advantage. People are...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos Dashboards and Scorecards
Mar 2009
High-performing organizations need information that will improve their decision making in a way that drives better performance. And more often than not, they need it in an easy-to-understand,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Easier to Deploy and Manage With IBM Cognos 8 BI
Feb 2008
IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only software delivering the complete range of BI capabilities: reporting, analysis, scorecarding, and dashboards on a single, proven architecture. It's part of the complete...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight: Performance Management in a Weak Economy
Feb 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 organizations in a down economy and explains how...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida
Aug 2008
The School District of Palm Beach County, Florida (PBCSD) is the 5th largest school district in Florida and the 11th largest school district in the U.S. The school district's 2008/2009 fiscal year...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Business Event Management: Event and Process-Enabled Business Intelligence
Apr 2009
BEM encompasses the whole process of monitoring and managing events through to resolution. With business and decision-process automation, this leading-edge technology can drive action to support...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Vision Integrated Graphics, Graphic Service Bureau: HP Major PM Service Renews HP Indigo Digital Presses
Aug 2009
Vision Integrated Graphics is a Chicago-based, full-service marketing solutions provider with a thriving variable print business. Over the years, the company has acquired seven HP Indigo Digital...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
SAP Case Study: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Jul 2009
Kimberly-Clark Corporation and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 150 countries. It needed to make reporting a mission-critical function and to...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management Solutions for SAP: Unlocking Hidden Value From Investments in the SAP Business Warehouse
Feb 2009
The architecture, capabilities, and value of IBM Cognos 8 for SAP customers is centered on embracing existing skills, knowledge, work and investments, enhancing existing SAP investments while...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Solutions Based on IBM DB2 9 and IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
Apr 2009
Business Intelligence (BI), analytics solutions and Business Warehouse have all become mission-critical parts of today's SAP landscapes. More and more SAP applications are relying on BW...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
How Business Intelligence Should Work: The Connection Between Strategic, Analytical, and Operational Initiatives
Mar 2009
Business Intelligence (BI) has been around for a long time, and over the years has taken on many different forms - reporting, OLAP, ad hoc, performance management, predictive analytics, data...
Provided by Information Builders
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White Papers
The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications: Customer-Facing, Revenue-Generating BI
Aug 2009
If one is looking to leverage business intelligence software to create an application that will have maximum impact on organization, perhaps one should look outside the traditional boundaries of...
Provided by Information Builders
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White Papers
Using Microsoft Excel and Business Intelligence to Thrive in Economic Uncertainty
Mar 2009
Microsoft's vision for Business Intelligence is to improve organizational effectiveness so that organizations of all sizes can overcome the challenges that arise from economic uncertainty. For...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Banking Industry Performance Management: Using Business Intelligence to Increase Revenue and Profitability
Mar 2009
Much of the data banks need to make strategic decisions that can improve their performance and increase their profitability is stored in silos managed by disparate and disconnected technology...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Democratizing Data Mining - A Radical Approach to Pervasive Predictive Analytics
Dec 2008
The area of incorporating predictive analytics into operational processes has, for the most part, relied on "Industrial Strength" data mining and knowledge discovery products employed by expert...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Jaspersoft APIs Integrating BI With Your Application
Jul 2009
Almost every commercially viable business application offers built-in reporting or analytics. Too often, however, the Business Intelligence (BI) features included with these applications fail to...
Provided by JasperSoft
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White Papers
Beye Network Research Report: Using Embedded Business Intelligence and Analytics for Near-Real-Time Decisions and Actions
Aug 2008
Business Intelligence (BI) solutions have evolved to focus on operational BI - the use of BI analytics to help manage daily business operations. These BI solutions support more real-time data...
Provided by Powell Media
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White Papers
Open Source Business Intelligence in a Down Economy
Jan 2009
In a challenging economy, every organization wants a clearer understanding of how decisions are made, how money will be allocated, and how a business is performing. As it has seen, BI is...
Provided by JasperSoft
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White Papers
Improving Organizational Decision-Making Through: Pervasive Business Intelligence - The Five Key Factors That Lead to Business Intelligence Diffusion
Nov 2008
Evidence of the competitive value of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. BI and Data Warehouse (DW) tools and analytic applications - a set of technologies and processes...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Enterprise Reporting: Embeddable BI for Mission Critical Applications
Jan 2009
What's coming into focus more clearly, however, is the fact that Open Source BI is - literally - embedded in the enterprise. Early adopters found that Open Source is much easier to embed in...
Provided by JasperSoft
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White Papers
Avoid the Dragonfly's Sting: The Importance of the BI Licensing Model
Jan 2009
User license fees make very much sense - in case of a desktop software. Ever bought a copy of Adobe Photoshop? The company releasing the software has to charge by the individual download, or else...
Provided by LogiXML
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White Papers
BI in a Recession: How to Gain Marketshare
Dec 2008
In a recession, many companies tend to play defensive, slash investment and hope for the good times to come back. Others realize that while their competitors are hurting may be the perfect time to...
Provided by LogiXML
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White Papers
Software Manufacturers and Embedded BI: The Build Vs. Buy Question
Aug 2008
If someone does a software manufacturer or an OEM need to embed BI into solution, the question of 'Build vs. Buy" will be a familiar one. This paper makes one to learn about the factors to take...
Provided by LogiXML
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White Papers
BI for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses: Making a Better Decision Through a Realistic View of BI Needs Vs. Resource
Feb 2009
It one is a decision maker in a small or medium-sized company, one may be evaluating the need to implement Business Intelligence (BI) in organization. But considerations about cost, IT resources...
Provided by LogiXML
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White Papers
Dashboard: The New Face of Business Intelligence
Dec 2007
This paper outlines the best-practice standards of Dashboard implementation. Dashboards can be a powerful tool for reporting, analysis and even forecasting. However, they must be implemented...
Provided by LogiXML
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White Papers
Ad Hoc Reporting: Self-Service, Personalized Reporting for Any Business User
Aug 2009
This paper explains why ad hoc reporting has become a critical component of the BI environment and how easy it is to make this type of analysis possible for the everyday business user. The paper...
Provided by LogiXML
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White Papers
Complementary BI: The New Approach to Business Intelligence
Nov 2008
The role of Business Intelligence (BI) to help organizations drive top-line revenue growth, profitability increases, operational improvements, and customer satisfaction is well documented. Many...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies
Mar 2008
Traditionally, the road to BI has been a long one. Companies had the choice of implementing a BI solution with their own IT department or paying third-party consultants to implement it for them....
Provided by Oco
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White Papers
Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
Mar 2008
Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration (through data warehouses and the like), it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its...
Provided by New Paradigm
