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whitepaper Replication Best Practices for Oracle 11g With ASM & EVA8x002007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Disk-array-based remote copy infrastructures have been available and in use for over a decade. When properly configured and deployed, they are capable of providing a timely recovery from a variety of failures, including the loss of an entire data center site. Relying on a combination of well-understood technical issues, plus information from recent customer briefings and a commissioned study with IDC, HP has determined the key requirement: The remote copying of databases must be done in concert with the native Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) technology in order for the solution to be practical.

Tags: Best Practices, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Pathfinder Helps BEZ Unlock the Power of Their Product2007-12-01 Pathfinder Development
  BEZ makes Strategic Performance Management products for NCR Teradata, IBM DB2 UDB and Oracle database and data warehouse applications. At the time, the latest release version of the product was extremely feature rich, but the user interface was perceived as confusing and difficult to use. As a result, many users abandoned the product after a short period. Pathfinder redesigned the BEZ product to make it easier to navigate and use. After conducting an information architecture analysis, functionality analysis and usability testing of the product's highest impact/highest value functionality. The information architecture work also resulted in a global navigational model that enables non-experts to access and understand the product.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Application Development		   
whitepaper Delivering Simplified Access to Business Insights With IBM DB2 Warehouse2007-12-01 IBM
  Valuable information - whether structured or unstructured, operational or transactional, real-time or historical - is scattered throughout every enterprise. This information may reside in databases and data warehouses, e-mails and transaction logs, customer call logs, shopper behavior or repair orders. When leveraged properly, it can be used to make better decisions and drive sales, improve processes and services, boost team productivity, reduce the risks inherent in doing business and streamline relationships with customers, trading partners and suppliers. To accomplish these objectives, companies must reach farther into critical business data and look more deeply to find hidden relationships, patterns and trends.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Employing IBM Database Encryption Expert to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)2007-12-01 IBM
  In 2004, Visa USA, MasterCard International, American Express and Discover aligned their individual data protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS or PCI). This alignment in standards provided an industry-wide framework that complemented each brands' individual security policies - MasterCard's Site Data Protection program (SDP), Visa USA's Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP), American Express' Data Security Operating Policy (DSOP), and Discover's Information Security and Compliance (DISC).

Tags: Security Management, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Oracle Database 11g and Oracle RAC 11g on IBM AIX2007-12-01 IBM
  There are many technical topics to consider when running Oracle Database 11g and Oracle RAC 11g on AIX such as certifications, 11g patch sets, AIX code levels, tuning and related software components - just to name a few. This paper consolidates the information to be considered when planning or implementing an Oracle Database 11g or Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g on the IBM AIX operating system. Oracle Database 11g and Oracle RAC 11g were recently released for AIX.

Tags: AIX		   
whitepaper Improving Performance and Reducing Costs to Supply Growing Demand2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad (SESB) is the only power utility company in Sabah (formerly North Borneo) supplying electricity to over 350,000 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000 sq. km. The company wanted to improve performance and resiliency to increase computational speed, throughput and storage capacity. The company's challenge was to reduce data center footprint, power consumption and heat and improve disaster rollover and customer response times. SESB migrated its SAP application and system to Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire V240 servers running the Solaris 10 OS, and increased its storage expansion capability for its Oracle 9i database system and Veritas backup software with a Sun StorageTek 3510 Storage Area Network (SAN).

Tags: Data Center, SANs		   
whitepaper Tackling Generali Insurance's Email Challenges With Symantec2007-11-08 Symantec
  One million emails every month, saved in personal folders by 2,500 users. This combination of factors was placing excessive strain on the mail server at Generali (Switzerland) Holding, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. Trieste. B-Source is responsible for the insurance company's decentralized infrastructure and with support from its integration partner SQL, deployed Symantec Enterprise Vault. This easy-to-use email archiving system allowed users to make fast full text searches. As a result, Generali users are more productive and more satisfied with the system. Thanks to the Enterprise Vault solution, B-Source is saving approximately 500GB of expensive primary storage, which in turn is reducing costs by at least 50,000 CHF (US$41,000).

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Email		   
whitepaper Delivering high-value SOA information services2007-08-01 IBM
  This white paper describes the value proposition for SOA Information business services and SOA Information Analytic Services, and how these are delivered through master data management and information integration. It also discusses the value that the IBM Industry models bring in developing your SOA.   
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture - A Practical Guide to Measuring Return on that Investment2006-10-12 IBM
  IBM undertook to study 35 SOA projects across a range of industries and regions, with which we were intimately involved, to produce this practical guide to measuring return on that investment.   
whitepaper Video: Business intelligence: Tackling the data mountain2007-11-05 Oracle
  Tarik Ozyurt, general business solutions manager at Oracle UK, discusses how to get the most from the information hidden away in applications.