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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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White Papers
Business Intelligence for the Retail Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
Feb 2008
In the future, firms will need to continue to be cost effective but increasingly will need to focus on using data to drive revenue by better understanding their customers' needs. Increasingly,...
Provided by New Paradigm
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White Papers
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Usability is Key for Casual Users
Jun 2008
This white paper is intended for companies that realize that getting the right business information to the right people at the right time is a vital requirement. After reading this whitepaper one...
Provided by Progress Software
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White Papers
Organization of Business Intelligence
Aug 2008
Business Intelligence (BI) supports companies by delivering important information for decision-making and management processes. To ensure a successful implementation, companies need to address a...
Provided by BARC
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Whitepapers
Cognos Support for PeopleSoft EPM
Feb 2008
This paper outlines the Cognos product offering, integration, and support for PeopleSoft's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) offerings. Cognos, an IBM company, is unique in its ability to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Monitor, Manage, Perform: Scorecarding With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Jan 2009
Scorecards helps to define and monitor company's critical metrics and are an important part of performance management. IBM Cognos scorecards are industry leaders, with data pulled from reliable...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Testing the 'Typical BI Day': Scalability Testing of an IBM Cognos 8 BI Enterprise Deployment
Mar 2009
Comprehensive testing in a range of business intelligence activities shows that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers enterprise level performance - and scalability - to meet the complex...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Metadata and IBM Cognos 8 BI
Apr 2009
For enterprise-scale business intelligence (BI) to function successfully, it requires common metadata to deliver the often promised but rarely delivered "single version of the truth." With...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Operational Business Intelligence: Providing Decision-Makers With Up-to-Date Visibility Into Operations
Mar 2009
This paper provides an overview of IBM Cognos Now!, an operational business intelligence solution that helps companies manage and analyze data to make better, more effective business decisions....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence Master Plan Service: BI Strategy and Management Consulting Services From HP
Mar 2009
Facing intense regulatory and competitive pressures, mounting data volumes and increasingly sophisticated data needs, organisations demand more value from their Business Intelligence (BI)...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
HP Neoview: Architecture and Performance
May 2009
With both private businesses and public enterprises under more financial and competitive pressure than at any time since World War II, business intelligence continues to rise in importance....
Provided by Winter
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White Papers
Closing the Loop in a Consolidated World: Evaluating Packaged Analytic Applications
Jan 2009
Analytic applications are the business complement to enterprise applications, although they have always taken a backseat to their operational brethren until recently. While enterprise applications...
Provided by Data Warehousing Institute
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Whitepapers
HP Solution With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, Accelerated Version: For SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
Jul 2009
To help organizations address all these challenges, HP and SAP have teamed to deliver the HP Solution with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version - an easy-to-use and high performance...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Midsize Companies
Jul 2008
Hyperion's 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey) of requirements for Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions revealed the...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Enterprise Performance Management: Joining Planning and Reporting for Superior Results
Apr 2008
Faced with increased pressure to provide unified, organization wide financial planning and reporting with tighter controls and better audit trails, organizations are turning to integrated...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
The HP Neoview Enterprise Data Warehousing Platform for Retail Business Intelligence
Apr 2008
As a decision-maker in the fast-moving retail industry, how do one rank the information challenges that face enterprise? Different types of retail operations may answer this question in slightly...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence Neoview Master Plan From HP
Nov 2007
Facing intense regulatory and competitive pressures, mounting data volumes and increasingly sophisticated data needs, organizations demand more value from their information management solutions....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence for the CIO Services: Performance Management and Analytics Services From HP
Apr 2009
When it comes to Business Intelligence (BI) for the CIO, it is hard to beat deep, focused expertise in BI solutions combined with understanding of IT management tools and HP Labs research aimed...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence for the CIO Solution: Business Intelligence Software and Services for IT
Apr 2009
Most IT organizations spend their time helping the business bridge information silos with new Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, yet find themselves in a similar situation, with tremendous...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Managing Operational Business Intelligence Workloads
Nov 2008
As data warehouses grow in size to petabytes and complex analytic queries play a greater role in day-to-day business operations, factors such as inaccurate cardinality estimates, data skew, and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Case for Investing in Business Analytics Technology
Feb 2009
The business analytics technology functionality must provide support for a range of decision-maker needs, including standalone ad hoc, exploratory, and predictive analysis. But business analytics...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Student Performance Prediction by Using Data Mining Classification Algorithms
Nov 2012
In this paper, the authors present the results from data mining research, performed at one of the famous and prestigious Bulgarian universities, with the main goal to reveal the high potential of...
Provided by University of Naples
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Analysis of Advanced Text Mining Methods on the Internet
Nov 2012
Large amounts of data have been collected routinely in the course of day-to-day management in business, administration, banking, the delivery of social and health services, environmental...
Provided by Acharya Nagarjuna University
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Data Leakage Detection Using K-Anonymity Algorithm
Dec 2012
A data distributor or a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company distributes sensitive data to a set of trusted companies or a set of agents (third parties). Some data can be leaked and found in...
Provided by SNPI
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Literature Survey on Association Rule Discovery in Data Mining
Jan 2013
Data mining is used for mining data from databases and finding out meaningful patterns from the database. Discovering Association Rules is a core topic of data mining. One of the challenges in...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Whitepapers
Frame Work for Understanding Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems
Jan 2013
Two recent trends have raised concern about the security and stability of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. The first move to define standard interfaces and communication...
Provided by IJCSMR
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DenTrac: A Density Based Trajectory Clustering Tool
Mar 2012
In this paper, the authors present a novel density based trajectory clustering technique for clustering and visualizing Spatio-temporal data to analyze the navigational behavior of moving...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Performance Comparison of Hard and Soft Approaches for Document Clustering
Mar 2012
There is a tremendous spread in the amount of information on the largest shared information source like search engine. Fast and standards quality document clustering algorithms play an important...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A New MFI Mining Algorithm with Effective Pruning Mechanisms
Mar 2012
Mining of frequent patterns is a basic problem in data mining applications. Frequent Itemset Mining is considered to be an important research oriented task in data mining, due to its large...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Data Mining Application in Enrollment Management: A Case Study
Mar 2012
In the last two decades, number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) grows rapidly in India. This causes a cut throat competition among these institutions while attracting the student to get...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Data Preparation Strategy in e-Learning System Using Association Rule Algorithm
Mar 2012
Data preparation is the important step in Course Recommendation System which aims at predicting the course selected by student. In this paper, the authors present the data preparation strategy for...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Data Mining Using Relational Learning Techniques to Present Selection Graph
Feb 2013
Data mining algorithms search pattern in data. Usually data mining algorithms operate on single table. So pattern is discovered from single table. Mostly data is stored in multiple tables. These...
Provided by IJCSMR
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Hybridization of Neighbourhood Search Metaheuristic with Data Mining Technique to Solve P-Median Problem
Nov 2012
Combinatorial optimization is the most panoptic area in current research paper. The p-median problem which is a combinatorial optimization problem is NP-Hard in nature that realizes facilitators...
Provided by IJCER
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A Review: Data Mining Over Multi-Relations
Jan 2013
In this paper, Multi-relational data mining enables pattern mining from multiple tables. Multi-relational data mining algorithms can be used as practical proposal to overcome the deficiency of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Performance Measure of Similis and FP-Growth Algorithm
Jan 2013
Exploration, analysis of data and to know patterns from large data repository has become the need of an hour. Data Mining Technology provides the solution to meet the market trends. Mining...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Fuzzy Classifier Based on Product and Sum Aggregation Reasoning Rule
Jan 2013
This paper proposes the algorithm ProSum to perform the supervised classification of the data. In the proposed algorithm data is fuzzified by using type membership function to give the feature...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Graph Based Text Document Clustering by Detecting Initial Centroids for K-Means
Jan 2013
Document clustering is used in information retrieval to organize a large collection of text documents into some meaningful clusters. k-means clustering algorithm of pratitional category, performs...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Comparative Analysis of Data Cleaning Approaches to Dirty Data
Jan 2013
Data Cleansing or (data scrubbing) is an activity involving a process of detecting and correcting the errors and inconsistencies in data warehouse. Thus poor quality data i.e.; dirty data present...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Data Mining in Education- An Experimental Study
Jan 2013
Data mining first proved to be beneficial to business related fields such as marketing and consumer related service enhancements. Slowly it has made its way toward other fields such as medicine,...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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A Parallel Approach to Combined Association Rule Mining
Jan 2013
Data Mining carried out using traditional methodologies of Support-Confidence framework and Association Rule Mining yield an enormous number of inefficient rules or patterns in a certain amount of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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An Effective Method for Association Rule Mining Based on Transactional Matrix
Feb 2012
Focus of this paper is to present a new method based on transactional matrix for finding association rules more efficiently. Apriori algorithm is one of the classical algorithms for finding...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Refinement of K-Means and Fuzzy C-Means
Feb 2012
Clustering is widely used technique in data mining application for discovering patterns in large data set. In this paper the K-Means and Fuzzy C-Means algorithm is analyzed and found that quality...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
EFB Grid Based Structure for Discovering Quality Clusters in Density Based Clustering
Feb 2012
Clustering is one of the important data mining techniques which discover clusters in many real-world data sets. Recent algorithms attempt to find clusters in subspaces of high dimensional data....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
SD-Miner System to Retrieve Probabilistic Neighborhood Points in Spatial Data Mining
Sep 2012
In GIS or Geographic Information system technology, a vast volume of spatial data has been accumulated, thereby incurring the necessity of spatial data mining techniques. Displaying and...
Provided by Gogte Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
A Survey of Text Mining: Retrieval, Extraction and Indexing Techniques
Sep 2012
Text mining is a variation on a field called data mining that tries to find interesting patterns from large databases. Text databases are rapidly growing due to the increasing amount of...
Provided by Peritum.Net
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An Efficient Approach for Mining Frequent Itemsets with Large Windows
Jun 2012
The problem of mining frequent itemsets in streaming data has attracted a lot of attention lately. Even though numerous frequent itemsets mining algorithms have been developed over the past...
Provided by NGM College
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Actionable Knowledge Discovery
Feb 2012
In this paper, the authors present a formal view of Actionable Knowledge Discovery (AKD) from the system and decision-making perspectives. AKD is a closed optimization problem-solving process from...
Provided by P.Robbie Products
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Document Clustering Using Learning From Examples
Feb 2012
Information Filtering (IF) systems usually filter data items by correlating a set of terms representing the user's interest with similar sets of terms representing the data items. Many techniques...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Comparative Study of Association Rule Algorithms for Course Recommender System in E-learning
Feb 2012
A course Recommender System plays an important role in predicting the course selection by student. Here the authors consider the real data from Moodle course of their college & they try to obtain...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Review of Financial Accounting Fraud Detection Based on Data Mining Techniques
Feb 2012
With an upsurge in financial accounting fraud in the current economic scenario experienced, Financial Accounting Fraud Detection (FAFD) has become an emerging topic of great importance for...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Auto-Label Threshold Generation for Multiple Relational Classifications Based on SOM Network
Feb 2012
Classification and Association rule mining are two basic tasks of Data Mining. Classification rules mining finds rules that partition the data into disjoint sets. This paper is based on MrCAR...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
An Innovative Approach for Finding Frequent Item Sets Using Maximal Apriori and Fusion Process and Its Evaluation
Feb 2012
Frequent pattern mining is a vital branch of Data Mining that supports frequent itemsets, frequent sequence and frequent structure mining. The authors' approach is regarding frequent itemsets...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Hybrid PSO with Dynamic Inertia Weight and GA Approach for Discovering Classification Rule in Data Mining
Feb 2012
Data Mining is the efficient knowledge discovery form database. It is also form of knowledge discovery essential for solving problem in specific domain like health care, business and other field....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
EOPTICS - Enhancement Ordering Points to Identify the Clustering Structure?
Feb 2012
Grouping a set of physical or abstract objects into classes of similar objects is a process of clustering. Clustering is very important technique in statistical data analysis. Among the clustering...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Different Similarity Measure Functions and Their Impacts on Shared Nearest Neighbor Clustering Approach
Feb 2012
Clustering is a technique of grouping data with analogous data content. In recent years, Density based clustering algorithms especially SNN clustering approach has gained high popularity in the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Prediction of Course Selection by Student Using Combination of Data Mining Algorithms in E-learning
Feb 2012
Course recommender system aims at predicting the best combination of courses selected by students. Here in this paper, the authors present how the combination of clustering algorithm-Simple...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Association Rule for Privacy Preserving in Data Mining
Dec 2012
Data mining is the computer oriented process to evaluate vast database and extract the meaning of the data. Privacy is inter-related with secrecy and anonymity. Thus privacy preserving in data...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Analyzing Cognitive Skills Through Data Mining
Dec 2012
This is theoretical modeling and algorithmic paper about cognitive processing of human brain by using data mining techniques. This paper discusses the challenges associated with cognitive...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Detecting Effectiveness of Outliers and Noisy Data on Fuzzy System Using FCM
Oct 2009
Fuzzy systems which are an artificial intelligent technique are applicable for controlling and decision support systems. Fuzzy systems are created using Membership Functions (MFs) which modeled...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
A Study on UI based Channel Simulator for Indoor LED Communication
Oct 2012
In this paper, the simulator for LED communication channel in indoor was studied. Indoor circumstance was supposed that the shape was hexahedron type and LEDs were located on the ceiling and...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Data Mining: Application, Handling and Future
Feb 2012
Data mining is a chunk of a process/procedure called KDD stands for knowledge discovery in current databases. This practice entails fundamentally of phases that are accomplished earlier/before...
Provided by International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (IJMSE)
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White Papers
Business Intelligence for the Retail Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
Feb 2008
In the future, firms will need to continue to be cost effective but increasingly will need to focus on using data to drive revenue by better understanding their customers' needs. Increasingly,...
Provided by New Paradigm
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White Papers
Pervasive Business Intelligence: Usability is Key for Casual Users
Jun 2008
This white paper is intended for companies that realize that getting the right business information to the right people at the right time is a vital requirement. After reading this whitepaper one...
Provided by Progress Software
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White Papers
Organization of Business Intelligence
Aug 2008
Business Intelligence (BI) supports companies by delivering important information for decision-making and management processes. To ensure a successful implementation, companies need to address a...
Provided by BARC
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Whitepapers
Cognos Support for PeopleSoft EPM
Feb 2008
This paper outlines the Cognos product offering, integration, and support for PeopleSoft's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) offerings. Cognos, an IBM company, is unique in its ability to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Monitor, Manage, Perform: Scorecarding With IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Jan 2009
Scorecards helps to define and monitor company's critical metrics and are an important part of performance management. IBM Cognos scorecards are industry leaders, with data pulled from reliable...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Testing the 'Typical BI Day': Scalability Testing of an IBM Cognos 8 BI Enterprise Deployment
Mar 2009
Comprehensive testing in a range of business intelligence activities shows that IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers enterprise level performance - and scalability - to meet the complex...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center: Establishing a Culture of Best Practice
Feb 2009
Business Intelligence (BI) has become increasingly more strategic in organizations. IT departments are looking for ways to manage and support deployments across divisions, regions, and functions...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Metadata and IBM Cognos 8 BI
Apr 2009
For enterprise-scale business intelligence (BI) to function successfully, it requires common metadata to deliver the often promised but rarely delivered "single version of the truth." With...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Operational Business Intelligence: Providing Decision-Makers With Up-to-Date Visibility Into Operations
Mar 2009
This paper provides an overview of IBM Cognos Now!, an operational business intelligence solution that helps companies manage and analyze data to make better, more effective business decisions....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence Master Plan Service: BI Strategy and Management Consulting Services From HP
Mar 2009
Facing intense regulatory and competitive pressures, mounting data volumes and increasingly sophisticated data needs, organisations demand more value from their Business Intelligence (BI)...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
HP Neoview: Architecture and Performance
May 2009
With both private businesses and public enterprises under more financial and competitive pressure than at any time since World War II, business intelligence continues to rise in importance....
Provided by Winter
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White Papers
Closing the Loop in a Consolidated World: Evaluating Packaged Analytic Applications
Jan 2009
Analytic applications are the business complement to enterprise applications, although they have always taken a backseat to their operational brethren until recently. While enterprise applications...
Provided by Data Warehousing Institute
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Whitepapers
HP Solution With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, Accelerated Version: For SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
Jul 2009
To help organizations address all these challenges, HP and SAP have teamed to deliver the HP Solution with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version - an easy-to-use and high performance...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management: Trends for Midsize Companies
Jul 2008
Hyperion's 2007 survey (2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey) of requirements for Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions revealed the...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Enterprise Performance Management: Joining Planning and Reporting for Superior Results
Apr 2008
Faced with increased pressure to provide unified, organization wide financial planning and reporting with tighter controls and better audit trails, organizations are turning to integrated...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
The HP Neoview Enterprise Data Warehousing Platform for Retail Business Intelligence
Apr 2008
As a decision-maker in the fast-moving retail industry, how do one rank the information challenges that face enterprise? Different types of retail operations may answer this question in slightly...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence Neoview Master Plan From HP
Nov 2007
Facing intense regulatory and competitive pressures, mounting data volumes and increasingly sophisticated data needs, organizations demand more value from their information management solutions....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence for the CIO Services: Performance Management and Analytics Services From HP
Apr 2009
When it comes to Business Intelligence (BI) for the CIO, it is hard to beat deep, focused expertise in BI solutions combined with understanding of IT management tools and HP Labs research aimed...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Business Intelligence for the CIO Solution: Business Intelligence Software and Services for IT
Apr 2009
Most IT organizations spend their time helping the business bridge information silos with new Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, yet find themselves in a similar situation, with tremendous...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Managing Operational Business Intelligence Workloads
Nov 2008
As data warehouses grow in size to petabytes and complex analytic queries play a greater role in day-to-day business operations, factors such as inaccurate cardinality estimates, data skew, and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Case for Investing in Business Analytics Technology
Feb 2009
The business analytics technology functionality must provide support for a range of decision-maker needs, including standalone ad hoc, exploratory, and predictive analysis. But business analytics...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Business Analytics - Six Questions to Ask About Information and Competition
Jul 2008
Specific technologies are required for analytical competition, but most large organizations probably have many of them already. Assuming that critical data reside in transactional systems such as...
Provided by nGenera
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Whitepapers
Business Analytics: The Perfect Fit for the Agile Enterprise
Jan 2009
Agility is more than responsiveness. It's the ability to recognize all the opportunities facing the organization and adopt innovative strategies to take advantage of them. To achieve this level of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Best Practice Approaches to Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
Feb 2009
As part of an ongoing research program, the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT) teamed with the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) to conduct a study entitled "Planning, Budgeting, and...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Business Value of BI
May 2009
This whitepaper provides an introduction to Business Intelligence from a business perspective. Too often it finds Business Intelligence initiatives at customer sites that are very IT oriented....
Provided by Logica
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White Papers
Managing BI
May 2009
For Business Intelligence development and maintenance there are still some reservations against a blended delivery model. A large involvement of end users, a high degree of iteration and...
Provided by Logica
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White Papers
Business Intelligence in Manufacturing
Jul 2009
With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, manufacturing is never easy. IT departments have taken advantage of hardware improvements to economically store the increased data,...
Provided by MAIA Intelligence
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White Papers
BusinessObjects XI 3.1: All Information, All People, One Platform
Sep 2008
Two industry leaders have come together to create a clear leader in the business optimization market. SAP, the leader and pioneer in enterprise applications, has acquired Business Objects, the...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Large-Scale Testing of the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator on an IBM Platform
Mar 2008
To meet the widespread demand for better business intelligence, SAP NetWeaver BI customers need to scale their NetWeaver BI systems to unprecedented levels. This will entail rapid growth in data...
Provided by Winter
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Whitepapers
IBM and SAP: Greater Value From Business Intelligence
May 2009
In today's challenging and uncertain economic climate, rapid and effective decision making is more important than ever. This has placed great emphasis on Business Intelligence (BI) and the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Boosting Performance in the Retail Industry
Jul 2009
Retailers today are in tight competition for every consumer dollar. In an environment where people are hesitant to spend their money, giving them a superior experience can make the difference...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Collaborative Brushing and Linking for Co-Located Visual Analytics of Document Collections
Mar 2009
Many real-world analysis tasks can benefit from the combined efforts of a group of people. Past research has shown that to design visualizations for collaborative visual analytics tasks, one needs...
Provided by EUROGRAPHICS Association
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White Papers
Predictive Analytics for the Retail Industry
May 2008
The Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007 can be used to solve multiple business problems. The examples used in this paper describe the retail environment, but these methods are not exclusive to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Ford Motor Company Drives Down Telco and IT Costs With MBG
Jan 2009
As part of an overall initiative to streamline its internal businesses using the Web, Ford wanted a solution that could simplify the reallocation of IT and telecom costs. As with most large...
Provided by MBG Expense Management
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Case Studies
Extract Business Intelligence From JD Edwards Applications: Integrate SAP BusinessObjects Solutions to Deepen Insight
Jul 2009
The challenge was to avoid disconnects between strategic decision making and operational execution, to drive sound management decisions by integrating, managing, and enabling access to widespread...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
Close the Gap Between Strategy and Execution: Using SAP Services to Optimize Business Performance
Jul 2009
The challenge was to align the performance management approach with overall corporate strategy, to improve focus on organizational drivers and priorities, to identify the most important metrics...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
Extract Business Intelligence From JD Edwards Applications
Jul 2009
The challenge was to avoid disconnects between strategic decision making and operational execution, to drive sound management decisions by integrating, managing, and enabling access to widespread...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
Healthcare Provider Performance Insight: All the Metrics You Need, All in One Place
Feb 2009
The challenge was from fierce competition among healthcare providers, growing demand for higher levels of accessible, high-quality healthcare, reduction in reimbursement from public and private...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
SAP Business All-in-One and BusinessObjects Edge Standard
Mar 2008
The challenge was to employ business intelligence software that is fine-tuned to the needs and resources of a midsize company, to incorporate data from business intelligence software into reports...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
Supercharge Your Business Intelligence: Improve Performance and Accelerate Decision Making
Jun 2009
The challenge was to take greater advantage of the increasing volume of business information, to maintain rapid response times, to improve overall performance of Business Intelligence (BI) systems...
Provided by SAP
