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whitepaper Executive Brief - From conflicting, unintegrated historical data to actionable insight. An introduction to dymanic warehousing from IBM2007-09-25 IBM
 

Companies need the right information, right now. Traditional data warehousing play a critical role this process. However, going forward easy- to-access and real time warehousing will be required just to keep up with the competition.

This paper investigates Dynamic Warehousing, IBM’s new strategy to help organizations squeeze the greatest possible business value out of their information.

   
whitepaper IBM Balanced Warehouse Buyers' Guide - unlock the potential of data with the right data warehouse solution2007-09-25 IBM
 

Regardless of size or industry, every organization needs fast access to accurate, up-to-the-minute data. Yet many companies are unable to turn their data into actionable business insight.

This IBM whitepaper looks at the value of an effective data warehouse solution, suggesting that significant competitive advantage can be gained through continuously managing data, and transforming it into information-led business initiatives

   
whitepaper Follow the Trend or Make a Difference: The Evolution of Collective Opinions2007-09-25 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  No aspect of the massive participation in content creation that the web enables is more evident than in the countless number of opinions, news and product reviews that are constantly posted on the Internet. Given their importance their temporal evolution was analyzed in a number of scenarios. It was found that ignorance of previous views leads to a uniform sampling of the range of opinions among a community. Exposure of previous opinions to potential reviewers induces a trend following process which leads to the expression of increasingly extreme views. When the expression of an opinion is costly and previous views are known, a selection bias softens the extreme views, as people exhibit a tendency to speak out differently from previous opinions.   
whitepaper Need for a Single, Integrated Global Pipeline Drives Adoption of mySAP Customer Relationship Management2007-09-14 SAP
  With 78,000 employees around the world and corporate headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) earns more than $14 billion annually by providing consulting, system implementation and management, business process outsourcing, and other IT and business services. The company wanted to integrate information and processes for selling services. The challenge was to provide more accurate pipeline information and present a single view of the customer. As a solution the company deployed mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM), SAP NetWeaver Portal Component and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence component.

Tags: Portals, CRM Software		   
whitepaper How SAP Education Is Playing a Key Role in Helping Royal Mail Group Manage Its Business More Effectively2007-09-14 SAP
  In its quest to become more efficient and competitive, the Royal Mail Group embarked on a major SAP implementation in 2001, completing the successful roll-out of SAP R/3 across 18 business units and over 10,000 users. Having standardised and merged the organisation's internal processes and moved all legacy systems on to a single consistent platform, the next phase of development is well underway - the enhancement of the decision support capabilities to help Royal Mail Group manage its business more effectively. The ongoing SDS (Strategic and Decision Support) project - which comprises major SAP SEM and SAP BW implementations - is already delivering significant benefits to the business, and SAP education has been a crucial success factor.

Tags: ERP, Business Management		   
whitepaper Ace Hardware Gains Rapid Increase in Productivity and Performance Migrating to Informatica PowerCenter2007-09-14 Informatica
  Ace Hardware, headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., was established in 1924 and today serves over 6,000 independently owned and company owned hardware retailers in 50 states and over 70 countries. The $13 billion cooperative competes against "Big box" warehouse-style stores such as Home Depot and Lowes. The company wanted to analyze wholesale, inventory, and Point of Sale data from thousands of stores in real time. As a solution the company deployed Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerCenter Connect for IBM MQSeries. This resulted in real time data warehouse and POS analysis, improved pricing structures, effective marketing programs, increased development productivity and solid performance gains.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration		   
whitepaper Henry Schein Gains More Visibility Into Sales Using the Informatica Data Integration Platform2007-09-14 Informatica
  Henry Schein, Inc. is the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The company wanted to integrate customer and sales data from a variety of relational and non-relational systems into a central repository for strategic analysis. The company deployed Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration		   
whitepaper Dial Improves Sales Performance With the Informatica Data Integration Platform2007-09-14 Informatica
  The Dial Corporation, headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., is $1.7 billion company and is one of America's leading manufacturers of consumer products, including Dial soaps, Purex laundry detergents, Renuzit air fresheners and Armour Star canned meats. The company wanted to create a more sophisticated, robust method for conducting enterprise business analysis. In 1997 Dial selected the Informatica data integration platform to develop a centralized data warehouse and several supporting data marts. This has enabled Dial to improve sales performance, establish more effective sales promotions and product distribution strategies, and reduce IT support - ultimately improving the company's overall performance.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration		   
whitepaper Europcar Reduces Development, Administration, and Maintenance Costs With Informatica Data Integration Platform2007-09-14 Informatica
  Founded in Paris in 1949, Europcar is the leading car rental company in Europe. The company needed effective and rigorous decision-support facilities. Europcar needed a complete data integration solution that provided: real-time data, better analysis capabilities and greater reliability and availability. Europcar chose Informatica PowerCenter as an enterprise data integration platform for its ability to ensure data quality and to scale to support Europcar's operations in seven countries.

Tags: Data Quality, Data Sharing and Integration		   
whitepaper M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Unlocks Critical Patient Data With Informatica2007-09-14 Informatica
  The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is located in Houston, Texas, on the campus of the Texas Medical Center. The company wanted to integrate patient data from five major disparate sources to improve analysis capabilities, operational planning and research. M. D. Anderson decided to develop a fully integrated patient centered data warehouse and selected the Informatica as part of a strategic initiative focused on re-designing its reporting infrastructure for patient data analysis.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration