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whitepaper Two-Stage Variable Clustering for Large Data Sets2008-02-15 SAS Institute
  In data mining, principal component analysis is a popular dimension reduction technique. It also provides a good remedy for the multicollinearity problem, but its interpretation of input space is not as good. To overcome the interpretation problem, principal components (cluster components) are obtained through variable clustering, which was implemented with PROC VARCLUS. The procedure uses oblique principal components analysis and binary iterative splits for variable clustering, and it provides non-orthogonal principal components. Even if this procedure sacrifices the orthogonal property among principal components, it provides good interpretable principal components and well-explained cluster structures of variables. However, the PROC VARCLUS implementation is inefficient to deal with high-dimensional data. This paper introduces the two-stage, variable clustering technique for large data sets.   
whitepaper Hospital Transport Service Saves Money, Boosts Quality With Integrated-Data Solution2008-02-15 Microsoft Tips
  MedSTAR Transport provides air-medical and ground-ambulance services to tertiary-care facilities around Washington, D.C., and Baltimore and emergency transport to other area hospitals. To cope with a 25 percent growth rate between 2004 and 2006 and simultaneously meet the strategic and financial goals of its parent organization, MedStar Health, the transport company needed integration between its dispatch and communications systems and the hospitals' systems for admission, registration, and discharge. Using Microsoft Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System, MedSTAR Transport is dramatically reducing claims denials, boosting equipment utilization and staff productivity, expanding its business model for greater efficiency, and providing more responsive service to the hospitals.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Cancer Center Empowers Researchers With New Data Exploration Tool2008-02-14 Microsoft Tips
  Moffitt wanted to develop a cancer care delivery paradigm called Moffitt Total Cancer Care (TCC). The key goals were to develop clinical trials and utilize bio-markers and evidence-based guidelines to personalize cancer care. To do this, Moffitt TCC partnered with a range of other industry stakeholders. Researchers needed a tool to access and explore genomic, proteomic, bio-specimen, imaging, and clinical data. Moffitt deployed Microsoft Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System, as a tool to present data from the warehouse to the researchers including clinical, bio-specimen, research data, and clinical images. Data from the data mart is fed into Amalga through an XML-based interface. The IT team groups the data into "Base views" for researchers to modify/filter/sort by themselves.

Tags: XML, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Solving Data Protection Challenges With NetBackup PureDisk and Deduplication2008-02-14 Symantec
  Deduplication of backup data can occur in two places - on the backup client or on the target disk storage system. This webcast will explain how both of these approaches work and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each approach. NetBackup PureDisk, part of the NetBackup platform, offers a unique software-based data deduplication solution. The webcast will explain the benefits of this approach and how it can solve common data protection challenges.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak Extending SQL Server Integration Services With Reza Madani (Level 100)2008-02-13 Microsoft Tips
  The presenter of this webcast shows the tips for extending Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) with scripts. He also takes the questions about the most effective use of this powerful tool for implementing Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes in Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.

Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Using Copulas to Model Dependency Structures in Econometrics2008-02-13 SAS Institute
  Modeling the correlation structures of economic variables is an important part of managing financial risk. Pearson correlation matrices fully characterize joint distribution when the underlying economic variables follow a multivariate normal distribution. When the economic variables are nonnormal, copulas are needed to model the correlation structure. In fact, given a copula and the marginal distributions, one can recover the joint probability density function. This fact can be used to estimate models separately and combine them for simulation. This paper introduces advanced copula modeling capabilities in the MODEL procedure. The paper also shows how insight into the correlation structure of the copulas can be obtained by using animations produced by SAS.   
whitepaper Business Activity Monitoring: Process Control for the Enterprise2008-02-12 SL Corporation
  As the nature of real-time information has evolved, the requirements for analysis and visualization of data has become more complex and sophisticated. There are key lessons to be learned from the process control industry's decades of experience in dealing with real-time mission-critical data.

This white paper discusses how lessons can be taken from traditional process monitoring applications and applied in today's more complex multi-dimensional environments in order to deliver more effective and successful business activity monitoring solutions for the enterprise.

Tags: Data Quality, Data Visualization, Data Center, High Performance Computing, Knowledge and Data Management, Decision Support - DW Front End, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Evaluating Packaged BI Solutions2008-02-07 Investcorp
  A decade ago not many people would have considered it worthwhile to discuss packaged Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. A large majority of the BI solutions, if not all, were custom implementations tailored specifically to meet the needs of the organization. A lot of things have changed in the last ten years and packaged BI solutions have shot into prominence. Speed seems to be of primary importance in today's world and packaged BI solutions are found to satiate this need for rapid implementations. In addition, more often than not, buying a vendor-supported software package is found to have a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Tags: ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper Information Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Managing Enterprise Information - Identifying, Capturing, Controlling, Presenting, and Archiving Content2008-02-05 IBM
  Information content management involves identifying useful information, organizing that information into an intuitive structure, and governing changes made to that information. Content comes in many forms, including text, graphics, tables, charts, illustrations, recordings, maps, video, audio, and many others. Learn how to organize that information into a maintainable and usable structure by categorizing and organizing the content to suit the audience.   
whitepaper At Top Accounting Firm, Client Data Protection Is More Than Dollars and Sense2008-02-05 amerivault
  Tofias PC is one of New England's largest and fastest growing regional accounting firms. For the company, client's data is clearly the firm's most valuable asset. Client data is available right away, not hours or days later. Client records are available at the stroke of a key, at anytime, from anywhere in the country. That's why backing up these important databases and accounting records is mission-critical to the modern accounting firm. Tofias PC found tape backup to be unsecure and to have a higher likelihood of failure due to the inherent sensitivity of tape. Tofias PC data is now backed up with AmeriVault's data vault which is secure and much easier to backup multiple servers at each of the offices.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security