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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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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
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Case Studies
Transform Data Into Insight: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions
Apr 2009
Worldwide, every business faces demands to cut costs, improve performance, streamline processes, and increase productivity. The challenge was to enable access to accurate, relevant information to...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Cuts Timesheet Settlement Bottlenecks for 60,000 Staff
Jun 2009
Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, part of the Dutch group Randstad Holding nv, is a leading staffing provider in Germany. In addition to traditional temporary staffing, Randstad offers...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster
Aug 2009
Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Facilitates Decision-Making With Business Intelligence Solution
Sep 2009
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MPSV) wanted to consolidate data across multiple sources - including information systems used by the government's social services, employment services, and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
BT Retail Boosts Upselling and Productivity and Cuts Churn in Price-And Service-Driven Market
Sep 2009
A major force in the U.K. communications market, BT Retail offers a mix of innovative propositions, integrated offerings, and bespoke solutions that have won it 17 million business and residential...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Developing Sustainable Designs for Enduring Value
Sep 2009
Sustainable Designs are achievable for higher efficiency, lower cost and greater reliability. SolidWorks enables engineering enterprises in developing Better Designs for a Greener Earth. Every...
Provided by EGS Computers India
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Case Studies
Heinrich Heine GmbH Cuts Database Administration Costs by 80% With Consolidated Infrastructure
Apr 2008
Mail-order firm, Heinrich Heine GmbH was founded in 1951 and has been part of the Otto Group since 1976. The catalog firm offers fashion collections and housewares to customers in Switzerland,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Kapsch TrafficCom AG Integrates Data From Disparate Systems to Improve Business Processes
Aug 2009
Kapsch TrafficCom AG is a leading international provider of innovative Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) products, and services. Kapsch TrafficCom primarily develops and supplies electronic...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
NEP Shared System Group Deploys Shared System to Enable Streamlined Purchasing
Dec 2008
NEP Shared System Group is a consortium of 57 National Health Service (NHS) organizations in England. It needed to cut IT overhead by sharing a centrally managed infrastructure and applications...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Procter & Gamble Scales 18 Terabyte Data Warehouse Using Materialized Views Technology
Jun 2009
Procter & Gamble (P&G) has a large portfolio of trusted and respected brands, including Pringles, Pampers, Tide, Always, Pantene, and Charmin. The company started as a small, family-operated soap...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Kovosvit MAS Accelerates Reporting by a Factor of Ten and Improves Problem Solving
Sep 2009
Kovosvit MAS wanted to ensure greater availability of accounting, sales, purchasing, warehousing, and manufacturing production data and reduce reporting times for all reports across the business,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
City of Boston Improves Efficiency and Service With Data-Driven Decision Making
Oct 2009
City of Boston strives to provide its more than 600,000 residents with the highest quality services possible. Improving performance, customer satisfaction, and responsiveness are the cornerstones...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
7-Eleven Redefines the Convenience Store for the Digital Age
Sep 2008
7-Eleven is renowned in the retail industry for its adoption of technologies that track sales, manage inventory and connect stores with headquarters accounting systems and regional distribution...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Transformed Technology Environment Improves Operations and Reduces Costs
Nov 2008
With 5,000 offices delivering parcels to more than 120,000 destinations worldwide, DHL's operations are vast, complex and nonstop. Over time, as business expanded, planning and executing air and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Future Proof Your Business Intelligence Initiatives
Sep 2009
The one constant that businesses can rely on is change. While change is a given, successfully navigating it isn't. The current economic situation is one that is challenging the fundamentals of...
Provided by YASH Technologies
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Case Studies
Silicon Image, Inc. Saves Time and Improves Access to Enterprise Data With Business Intelligence Solution
Nov 2009
Silicon Image, Inc. wanted to enable the company to automatically import data from multiple sources, including Oracle and third-party systems and present them in one single business intelligence...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Kellwood Re-Emerges Stronger, More Savvy With Microsoft BI Solution
Oct 2009
For nearly 50 years, Kellwood Company has designed, manufactured and marketed many of the country's most popular women's clothing brands. With millions of SKUs and an ever-expanding portfolio,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Query Processing
Jun 2011
'Query' may be defined as retrieval of meaningful information. In search, true success comes from understanding what the user is asking from their query. Mistakes most commonly made - is the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
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Whitepapers
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight: Healthcare Performance Management in a Weak Economy
May 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 healthcare providers and healthcare payers in a down...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Disease-Specific Extraction of Text From Cardiac Echo Videos for Decision Support
May 2009
Echo videos are an important modality for cardiac decision support. In addition to describing the shape and motion of the heart, they capture important diagnostic measurements as textual...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Grocery Retailer Uses Business Intelligence to Strengthen Supplier Negotiations
Dec 2009
Grocery retailer Waitrose needed a more efficient business intelligence solution to support buyers' daily decisions. It designed a solution based on Microsoft technologies, which pulls reporting...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
TBP Electronics Streamlines Reporting Processes, Enhancing Operational and Strategic Reporting Quality
Nov 2009
TBP Electronics wanted to select and implement a reporting platform that effectively supports the company's production monitoring and quality assurance processes and leverage historical...
Provided by Oracle
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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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Whitepapers
A Comparitive Study of Indexing Techniques in Data Warehouse
Jul 2012
The need for strategic information is escalating day by day and that can be fulfilled efficiently with the help of data warehouse indexing techniques. For this, one needs to maintain the data...
Provided by International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (IJMSE)
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Whitepapers
Solving Probation and Change-of-Major Issues in Higher Education Using Data Mining Techniques
Nov 2012
The rate of success in higher education is of utmost importance for both students and academic institutions. Indeed, it is a turning point in the students' life and a prerequisite for entering the...
Provided by International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (IJMSE)
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Whitepapers
Exploiting Need of Heterogeneous Data Mining Environment Based on Mobile Computing Environments
Nov 2010
Today the concept of Data Mining services is not alone sufficient. Data mining services play an important role in the field of Communication industry. Data mining is also called knowledge...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Novel Progressive Sampling Based Approach for Effective Mining of Association Rules
Nov 2010
Mining Association Rules from huge databases is one of the important issues that need to be addressed. This paper presents a new sampling based association rule mining algorithm that uses a...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Density Conscious Subspace Clustering for High Dimensional Data Using Genetic Algorithms
Nov 2010
Clustering has been recognized as an important and valuable capability in the data mining field. Instead of finding clusters in the full feature space, subspace clustering is an emergent task...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Method for Cross-Language Retrieval of Chunks Using Monolingual and Bilingual Corpora
Nov 2010
Information Retrieval (IR) is a crucial area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and can be defined as finding documents whose content is relevant to the query need of a user. Cross-Language...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Efficient Tree Based Distributed Data Mining Algorithms for Mining Frequent Patterns
Nov 2010
Advancements in the field of wired and wireless network environments have paved route to the advent of many dynamic distributed computing environments. These environments have diverged computing...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Data Warehouse Critical Success Factors
May 2010
The aim of this paper is to discover the main Critical Success Factors(CSF) that leaded to an efficient implementation of DW in different organizations, by comparing two organizations namely:...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Data Mining Model for Higher Education System
Jun 2010
Data mining is used to extract meaningful information and to develop significant relationships among variables stored in large data set/data warehouse. In this paper, data mining technique named...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Knowledge Mining From Student Data
Nov 2010
Over the years, several statistical tools have been used to analyze students' performance from different points of view. This paper presents data mining in education environment that identifies...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Data Acquisition From Multisensors Using a 0.11 GHz Frequency Modulation Telemetry
Jan 2011
Data AcQuisition (DAQ) and control system using telemetry method presents many advantages. In this paper, the authors have realized and analyzed low cost DAQ from multisensors using a 0.11 GHz...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Utility FP-Tree: An Efficient Approach to Mine Weighted Utility Itemsets
Feb 2011
Conventional association rules mining cannot satisfy the demands emerging from certain real applications. By regarding the diverse values of distinct items as utilities, utility mining...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
An Evolutionary Approach for Ruleset Selection in a Class Based Associative Classifier
Apr 2011
Associative classification is an emerging technique to build an accurate classifier that integrates two popular data mining techniques namely association rule mining and classification. Recent...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
An Efficiency Analysis of Projects Using DEA
May 2011
This paper presents a model to measure the efficiency of products produced by organization. The products are the projects carried out by the selected organization. The model which has been...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Validation Techniques to Find Optimal Clusters in Gene Expression Data
Jun 2011
The proliferation of microarray gene expression data have been analyzed by many popular data mining techniques. In that, clustering is one of the powerful tools in data mining which clusters the...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Opinion Mining Based on Recombined Parallel Neural Network
Jul 2011
With Internet becoming a base for exchanging ideas, customer reviews for a product grows rapidly in various user groups. For popular products the reviews found in the Internet could be in...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Coalition Graph Game for Joint Relay Selection and Resource Allocation in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks
Nov 2012
Cooperative relaying technology among Secondary Users (SUs) in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN) is shown to yield a significant performance improvement, such as improving spectrum utilization as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Smart Hybrid Data Mining Technique for Improving Classification Accuracy in Complex Data Sets
Feb 2012
Enterprise data mining applications, such as mining public service data and telecom fraudulent activities, inevitably involve complex data sources, particularly multiple large scale, distributed,...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - Spatial Data Visualization
Aug 2012
Maps were among the first data visualizations, but they can also provide the backdrop for visualizing the own spatial data. In this webcast, the presenters will take a voyage through the world of...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Cluster Analysis by Binary Pretopology
Apr 2012
Cluster analysis or unsupervised classification is an important technique in exploratory data analysis when no a priori information of the distribution of the observed data is available. A new...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
A Five Step Procedure for Outlier Analysis in Data Mining
May 2012
Now-a-days, outlier detection is primarily studied as an independent knowledge discovery process merely because outliers might be indicators of interesting events that have never been known...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Laboratory
Nov 2009
SCADA systems became popular to arise the efficient monitoring and control of distributed remote equipments. This paper presents practical laboratory set in Supervisory Control and Data...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Organization Employees Behavior Mining Using Log Records and Web Mining Techniques
Sep 2012
Now-a-days, the Internet is one of the fundamental requirements of all the organizations. Thus, one of the most important responsibilities of managers in organizations is to make decisions on how...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
An Efficient Hybrid Model for Classification Problem in Data Mining
Oct 2012
Data mining a promising field of research in which many researchers are working. It may be viewed as extraction of patterns and models from observed data. The area of data mining is very broad as...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
Congruence Relation From Topological Indices
Nov 2012
A graph theoretical invariant is any mathematical expression based on the elements of a graph that does not depend on numbering of graph elements. A topological index is the numerical result of...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
A Scalable Distributed Stream Mining System for Highway Traffic Data
Aug 2011
To achieve the concept of smart roads, intelligent sensors are being placed on the roadways to collect real-time traffic streams. Traditional method is not a real-time response, and incurs high...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Whitepapers
Community Dynamics and Analysis of Decadal Trends in Climate Data
Jan 2012
The application of complex networks to study complex phenomena, including the Internet, social networks, food networks, and others, has seen a growing interest in recent years. In particular, the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Efficient Metadata Generation to Enable Interactive Data Discovery Over Large-Scale Scientific Data Collections
Nov 2010
Discovering the correct dataset efficiently is critical for computations and effective simulations in scientific experiments. In contrast to searching web documents over the Internet, massive...
Provided by Colorado State University
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Whitepapers
Cost-Effective Data Allocation in Data Warehouse Striping
Oct 2012
The Data Warehouse Striping (DWS) technique is a data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables are distributed by an...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
User Profile-Driven Data Warehouse Summary for Adaptive OLAP Queries
Dec 2012
Data warehousing is an essential element of decision support systems. It aims at enabling the user knowledge to make better and faster daily business decisions. To improve this decision support...
Provided by University of Luxembourg
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Whitepapers
A Novel Approach for Heart Disease Diagnosis Using Data Mining and Fuzzy Logic
Sep 2012
Cardiovascular disease is a term used to describe a variety of heart diseases, illnesses, and events that impact the heart and circulatory system. A clinician uses several sources of data and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
C-TREND: A New Technique for Indentifying and Visualizing Trends in Multi-Attribute Transactional Data
Jun 2007
Organizations and firms are increasingly capturing more data about their customers, suppliers, competitors, and business environment. Most of this data is multi-attribute (multi-dimensional) and...
Provided by University of Minho
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Whitepapers
Analysis of Student Motivation Behavior on e-Learning Based on Association rule mining
Jun 2012
This research aims to create a model for analysis of student motivation behavior on e-Learning based on association rule mining techniques in case of the Information Technology for Communication...
Provided by World Academic Union
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Whitepapers
Energy Efficiency for Large-Scale MapReduce Workloads With Significant Interactive Analysis
Apr 2012
MapReduce workloads have evolved to include increasing amounts of time-sensitive, interactive data analysis; the authors refer to such workloads as MapReduce with Interactive Analysis (MIA). Such...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Optimizing Data Warehousing Applications for GPUs Using Kernel Fusion/Fission
Feb 2012
Data warehousing applications represent an emergent application arena that requires the processing of relational queries and computations over massive amounts of data. Modern general purpose GPUs...
Provided by NEC Laboratories
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Case Studies
Transform Data Into Insight: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions
Apr 2009
Worldwide, every business faces demands to cut costs, improve performance, streamline processes, and increase productivity. The challenge was to enable access to accurate, relevant information to...
Provided by SAP
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Case Studies
Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Cuts Timesheet Settlement Bottlenecks for 60,000 Staff
Jun 2009
Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, part of the Dutch group Randstad Holding nv, is a leading staffing provider in Germany. In addition to traditional temporary staffing, Randstad offers...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster
Aug 2009
Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Facilitates Decision-Making With Business Intelligence Solution
Sep 2009
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MPSV) wanted to consolidate data across multiple sources - including information systems used by the government's social services, employment services, and...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
BT Retail Boosts Upselling and Productivity and Cuts Churn in Price-And Service-Driven Market
Sep 2009
A major force in the U.K. communications market, BT Retail offers a mix of innovative propositions, integrated offerings, and bespoke solutions that have won it 17 million business and residential...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Developing Sustainable Designs for Enduring Value
Sep 2009
Sustainable Designs are achievable for higher efficiency, lower cost and greater reliability. SolidWorks enables engineering enterprises in developing Better Designs for a Greener Earth. Every...
Provided by EGS Computers India
-
Case Studies
Heinrich Heine GmbH Cuts Database Administration Costs by 80% With Consolidated Infrastructure
Apr 2008
Mail-order firm, Heinrich Heine GmbH was founded in 1951 and has been part of the Otto Group since 1976. The catalog firm offers fashion collections and housewares to customers in Switzerland,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Kapsch TrafficCom AG Integrates Data From Disparate Systems to Improve Business Processes
Aug 2009
Kapsch TrafficCom AG is a leading international provider of innovative Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) products, and services. Kapsch TrafficCom primarily develops and supplies electronic...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
NEP Shared System Group Deploys Shared System to Enable Streamlined Purchasing
Dec 2008
NEP Shared System Group is a consortium of 57 National Health Service (NHS) organizations in England. It needed to cut IT overhead by sharing a centrally managed infrastructure and applications...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Procter & Gamble Scales 18 Terabyte Data Warehouse Using Materialized Views Technology
Jun 2009
Procter & Gamble (P&G) has a large portfolio of trusted and respected brands, including Pringles, Pampers, Tide, Always, Pantene, and Charmin. The company started as a small, family-operated soap...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Kovosvit MAS Accelerates Reporting by a Factor of Ten and Improves Problem Solving
Sep 2009
Kovosvit MAS wanted to ensure greater availability of accounting, sales, purchasing, warehousing, and manufacturing production data and reduce reporting times for all reports across the business,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
City of Boston Improves Efficiency and Service With Data-Driven Decision Making
Oct 2009
City of Boston strives to provide its more than 600,000 residents with the highest quality services possible. Improving performance, customer satisfaction, and responsiveness are the cornerstones...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
7-Eleven Redefines the Convenience Store for the Digital Age
Sep 2008
7-Eleven is renowned in the retail industry for its adoption of technologies that track sales, manage inventory and connect stores with headquarters accounting systems and regional distribution...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Transformed Technology Environment Improves Operations and Reduces Costs
Nov 2008
With 5,000 offices delivering parcels to more than 120,000 destinations worldwide, DHL's operations are vast, complex and nonstop. Over time, as business expanded, planning and executing air and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Future Proof Your Business Intelligence Initiatives
Sep 2009
The one constant that businesses can rely on is change. While change is a given, successfully navigating it isn't. The current economic situation is one that is challenging the fundamentals of...
Provided by YASH Technologies
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Case Studies
Silicon Image, Inc. Saves Time and Improves Access to Enterprise Data With Business Intelligence Solution
Nov 2009
Silicon Image, Inc. wanted to enable the company to automatically import data from multiple sources, including Oracle and third-party systems and present them in one single business intelligence...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Kellwood Re-Emerges Stronger, More Savvy With Microsoft BI Solution
Oct 2009
For nearly 50 years, Kellwood Company has designed, manufactured and marketed many of the country's most popular women's clothing brands. With millions of SKUs and an ever-expanding portfolio,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Query Processing
Jun 2011
'Query' may be defined as retrieval of meaningful information. In search, true success comes from understanding what the user is asking from their query. Mistakes most commonly made - is the...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
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Whitepapers
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Need Insight: Healthcare Performance Management in a Weak Economy
May 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 healthcare providers and healthcare payers in a down...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Disease-Specific Extraction of Text From Cardiac Echo Videos for Decision Support
May 2009
Echo videos are an important modality for cardiac decision support. In addition to describing the shape and motion of the heart, they capture important diagnostic measurements as textual...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Grocery Retailer Uses Business Intelligence to Strengthen Supplier Negotiations
Dec 2009
Grocery retailer Waitrose needed a more efficient business intelligence solution to support buyers' daily decisions. It designed a solution based on Microsoft technologies, which pulls reporting...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
TBP Electronics Streamlines Reporting Processes, Enhancing Operational and Strategic Reporting Quality
Nov 2009
TBP Electronics wanted to select and implement a reporting platform that effectively supports the company's production monitoring and quality assurance processes and leverage historical...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
France Televisions Uses Enterprise Performance Management Tools to Gain New Business Insight
Nov 2009
France Televisions wanted to improve overall enterprise performance, spanning financial, human resource, and quality management functions, to maximize the value of service provided to the public...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Farmaceuticos Maypo S.A. de C.V. Improves Data Analysis and Information Services to Client Labs
Nov 2009
Farmaceuticos Maypo S.A. de C.V. wanted to consolidate internal information and information of affiliated laboratories to provide a total view of data, and accelerate availability of reliable,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Cia.de Participacoes Sinosserra Gains Decision-Making Agility With Business Intelligence Platform
Nov 2009
Cia. de Participacoes Sinosserra wanted to deploy a consolidated view of financial information and the group's full client base. and decentralize report creation to increase data reliability and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe ADMIRE White Paper: Motivation, Strategy, Overview and Impact Version 0.8 (draft)
Oct 2008
The rapidly growing wealth, complexity and diversity of data open many new opportunities in business, research, design, policy formulation and decision making. These opportunities will not be...
Provided by University of Edinburgh
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White Papers
Estimating the Socio-Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics
Sep 2008
This paper is the first study that integrates econometric, text mining, and predictive modeling techniques toward a more complete analysis of the information captured by user-generated online...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Optimizing Interval Training Protocols Using Data Mining Decision Trees
May 2009
Interval training consists of interleaving high intensity exercises with rest periods. This training method is a well known exercise protocol which helps strengthen and improve one's...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Delay-Coordinates Embeddings as a Data Mining Tool for Denoising Speech Signals
Feb 2008
This paper utilizes techniques from the theory of non-linear dynamical systems to define a notion of embedding threshold estimators. More specifically it uses delay-coordinates embeddings of sets...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
What Every Campus Leader Needs to Know About Analytics
Mar 2008
The purpose of this White Paper is to help campus leaders understand the principles, potentials, and pitfalls of deploying enterprise analytics in higher education. It describes the evolution of...
Provided by Strategic Initiatives
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Webcasts
Redefining Operational Intelligence Using BusinessEvents
Jan 2009
Traditional operational intelligence means knowing what the business and IT infrastructure are doing right now. That is not enough anymore. Operational intelligence for business is now like modern...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Podcasts
Business Intelligence 2.0
Jan 2012
Business intelligence systems are making the jump from reporting on past results to providing real-time analysis to decision makers. In this podcast, the speaker defines business intelligence 2.0...
Provided by Accenture
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Whitepapers
A Personalized Product Based Recommendation System Using Web Usage Mining and Semantic Web
Apr 2012
To be globally competent and competitive a successful presence on the web is necessary to sustain and retain itself in the market. The WWW is an interesting area for data mining because of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
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White Papers
Understanding the Applications That Run Your Business
Sep 2009
This paper discusses how complexity creates misalignment between business operations and the enterprise applications that automate them. It will explore how business intelligence about these...
Provided by Micro Focus
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Webcasts
EMC Consulting Presents: Business Intelligence for Infrastructure - Improve Decision-Making With Real Time Information
Jan 2010
The presenter will show a demonstration of EMC Consulting's Business Intelligence (BI) for Infrastructure Solution, implemented on the latest Microsoft 2010 technology. The EMC Consulting BI for...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence EE on Solaris and Sun SPARC Systems
Jan 2010
The attendee of this webcast will gain insight into best practices for architecting a fault tolerant, secure, and resilient solution, and for reducing deployment time by up to 40% with Sun's...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure: A Sun Open Network Systems Webinar
Jan 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to build a powerful business intelligence and web analytics solution for less. The Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure (BIWI) is...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Get Ready for Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 Release Candidate (Level 300)
Jan 2010
The presenter of this webcast will demonstrate the pre-RC that the early adopters have been running in production. The presenter demonstrates the new Windows client protection capabilities, the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Integrating Yellowfin
Jun 2009
Security integration allows a seamless transition between an OEM software product or an existing application and Yellowfin. The options range between having a completely independent user id /...
Provided by Yellowfin
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White Papers
Getting Started With BI Publisher ToolBox
Oct 2009
Ever wished that using the Oracle BI Publisher APIs could be easier to use? Ever wanted a single-click template load application for EBS Template Builder? Ever wanted to be able to test the...
Provided by Oracle
