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whitepaper It's 9:00am - Do You Know Where Your Critical Talent Is?: Retention Analytics for Human Capital Management2008-02-18 SAS Institute
  Employee retention is an increasingly serious issue in many business sectors. Understanding which factors cause employees to leave and which actions retain them is an important Business Intelligence application. This paper demonstrates analytic methods to address this problem. Data mining and predictive modeling can be used to improve retention of critical employees. The business user can use the retention analysis to generate reports that show how the loss of critical skills would affect an organization. Reports identify job groups, geographical regions, or organizational areas that have higher risk for employee voluntary termination. Additionally, the influential drivers to high-risk groups are identified to suggest the best course of action to reduce the risk.

Tags: HR, Human Capital Management		   
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 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 Server Consolidation and the Combinatorial Effects of Multi-Core Processing, Virtualization, and Grid Technologies2008-02-01 eXludus
  Information Technology (IT) is a fast moving target, constantly pushing the limits of human creativity in developing innovative solutions to meet user demands. But never has IT faced as radical an evolution as the one underway. Through the combined use of Grid, Virtualization and Multi-core technologies everyone is witnessing unprecedented levels of scalability, flexibility, price-performance and manageability. These three technologies form that are define in this paper as a 'Three tier consolidation platform'. That is, each technology is view as a consolidation mechanism operating on a distinct level. Furthermore, the usefulness of each consolidation tier taken independently is limited, while combining all tiers at once holds huge potential. The sum can be greater than the parts!

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center: A Breakthrough Approach for Efficient IT Service Delivery2008-02-01 IBM
  IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data center security and resiliency - at any scale. It will allow being highly responsive to any user need. And it aligns technology and business - giving the freedom and the tools one need to innovate - and stay ahead of the competition. Through the experience with thousands of client engagements, IBM has developed an architected approach based on best practices and proven implementation patterns and blueprints. And the own data center transformation provides first-hand proof that embracing this new approach simply makes good business sense.   
whitepaper Using Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler2008-02-01 Microsoft
  Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS), includes a new Job Scheduler that provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. The new Job Scheduler supports a new Service Oriented Architecture mode that provides access to interactive applications through the Windows Communication Framework. The graphical interface for the Job Scheduler is now fully integrated into the Administration Console, and the command-line interface now uses Windows PowerShell for all Job Scheduler functions, while maintaining compatibility with the command-line interface commands in WCCS. This paper explains the new Job Scheduler functionality.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  Most business analysts have applauded the announced acquisition by Sun Microsystems of open-source database provider MySQL AB. Although the business case for bringing MySQL under the Sun umbrella is clear, the acquisition leaves many developers wondering just what is in store for them. Developers want products that are easy to use during development, that are easy to scale to enterprise levels, and that will last long enough to repay the time investment required to master the technologies. Some MySQL community members wonder if they will continue to enjoy superior open-source products from the combined companies, and if the community will remain strong in the future.

Tags: Application Development