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whitepaper Getting Requirements Right in the Analysis Phase2007-07-12 Microsoft
  Compuware Optimal Trace is a powerful requirements capture and management solution that facilitates collaboration between business and technical teams in the gathering and management of changing requirements throughout the software development life cycle. It fully supports the concepts of structured requirements as outlined in this paper. Designed for ease of use, it provides users with an intuitive structure for complete requirements gathering, enabling all project stakeholders to communicate easily. This ensures application development is driven by business need. Optimal Trace can be quickly deployed with minimal impact on other systems and downtime.

Tags: Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper BNP Paribas Enables Fast, Predictable Response Times to Deliver Real-Time Pricing and Analytics2007-07-11 Oracle
  A major European provider of banking and financial services, BNP Paribas has operations in 85 countries and ranks among the world's top 15 banks by market capitalization and assets. The company wanted to reduce IT costs related to the company's legacy statistical analysis system. The challenge was to give thousands of users simultaneous access to the latest pricing figures while maintaining consistent, predictable response times and deliver the new system with minimal impact to existing users and applications. The company selected Oracle Database 10g and its Oracle OLAP option to create a highly scalable, available, and responsive IT infrastructure that delivers real-time analytics and pricing information.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Credit Card Company Runs Its Business With 12-Terabyte Mission Critical BI Solution2007-07-01 Microsoft Tips
  PREMIER Bankcard, LLC (PREMIER) one of the largest VISA and MasterCard credit providers in the United States, needed to enhance scalability and performance for its Business Intelligence (BI) data warehouse and OnLine Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases. The company enhanced its BI infrastructure by upgrading its 12-terabyte data warehouse to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), hosted on a server computer with 16 Intel Itanium 2 processors. PREMIER also upgraded its OLTP database to the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005. The upgraded deployments provide a better view of the business, enterprise-grade scalability, maintenance without scheduled downtime, and easier database management.

Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Company Improves Data Analysis and Reporting With Business Intelligence Solution2007-07-01 Microsoft Tips
  Kelley Blue Book analyzes and publishes data on new and used vehicles. Large automotive manufacturers, as well as individual car and truck buyers, use the Kelley Blue Book Web site to find in-depth pricing information. The company gathers data from these Web site visits to create trend reports for manufacturers. However, the report-generation process was time-consuming, and employees were not able to effectively analyze all the data. In 2006, Kelley Blue Book implemented a solution based on Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies. With its new analytical capabilities, Kelley Blue Book has improved sales staff efficiency and created a compelling new Web analytics product that can provide its business customers with more targeted data for their marketing efforts.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Oracle Data Mining 11g: Know More, Do More, Spend Less2007-06-01 Oracle
  Oracle Data Mining is powerful software embedded in the Oracle Database that enables the user to discover new insights hidden in the data. Oracle Data Mining helps businesses to target their best customers, find and prevent fraud, discover the most influential attributes that affect Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and find valuable new information hidden in the data. Oracle Data Mining helps technical professionals find patterns in their data, identify key attributes, discover new clusters and associations, and uncover valuable insights.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications		   
whitepaper JobTrack: Transaction Computing 1012007-05-14 SAS Institute
  Transaction computer application handle data in a completely different way compared to data analysis applications. Data analysis application display information and manipulate it many different ways. Transaction applications also create data and manage it over the course of time. This management has many facets. The authors focus on two areas: data history and ease of maintenance of the datasets and application.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Access Data Analysis Cookbook: Managing Tables, Fields, Indexes, and Queries2007-05-01 O'Reilly Media
  One uses tables to store data, indexes to organize and order data, and queries to work with data. In a perfect world, when a database goes into production, the development effort is finished. Alas, this is not a typical scenario. New requirements come along. Table structures have to be changed. New indexes are needed. New queries are called for to match the new schema. This paper addresses how to manage these things programmatically. If one has done much work with Access, one knows how tedious it can be to manually create tables.

Tags: Database Management, 		  
whitepaper Transform Customer Data Into Profit: Discover New Sources of Value Through Analytic Insight Across Your Marketing, Sales and Service Organizations2007-04-01 SAS Institute
  Marketing groups were first to embrace predictive analytics, for cross-selling, campaign management, interaction management, customer acquisition and customer loyalty programs. Other functional groups are gradually discovering the value of predictive analytics for identifying unexpected opportunities and anticipating problems. They know that if they don't, they leave money on the table. Money that somebody savvier is ready to grab. The real winners are the enterprises that realize that true customer intelligence is about more than injecting analytics into discrete decisions or programs. Where ERP and CRM platforms unified operations across the organization, an Enterprise Intelligence Platform now unifies customer knowledge and insight.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper How Profitable to You Is Each Customer Today... and Tomorrow?: Why Transactional Profitability Measurements Are an Ultimate Goal2007-03-01 SAS Institute
  The problem with accounting's traditional gross profit margin reporting (i.e., restricted to product cost profit margins) is that managers cannot see the bottom half of the total picture - all the profit margin layers eroded from distribution, selling, credit, payments and marketing costs. The unacceptable result from not converting these types of expenses into customer costs is executives, managers and employee teams receive incomplete profit reporting that is not segmented by customer - and the product profitability data they do receive is flawed and misleading. This white paper describes a solution to these deficiencies. It describes a powerful and economical managerial accounting system that collects and transforms data at the detailed transaction level.

Tags: Accounting Applications, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Data Mining Techniques for (Network) Intrusion Detection Systems2007-01-12 University of California
  In Information Security, intrusion detection is the act of detecting actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of a resource. Intrusion detection does not, in general, include prevention of intrusions. This paper mostly focused on data mining techniques that are being used for such purposes. It debates on the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques. Finally the paper presents a new idea on how data mining can aid IDSs.

Tags: Security Tools, Intrusion Detection Systems