WHITE PAPER - Information consistency and reliability is essential for accurate business analysis. Yet, the lack of controls around the use of spreadsheets wreaks havoc on organizations every day, costing money and credibility. Read this report to learn how companies can benefit by migrating to Pentaho’s low-cost open source managed BI solution for spreadmarts.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Content Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Management Software | ERP | Information Management | Information Management Software | Open Source | Reporting Software | Spreadsheets

CASE STUDY - This white paper presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | ERP | Interoperability | Open Source | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - The ability to manage data is becoming increasingly key to a company's ability to compete effectively in today's ever more competitive business environment. The following paper outlines some of these drivers and examines the strategic role enhanced data management can play.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Management | Business Service Management Software | Business Systems | Customer Service | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Information Management | Knowledge Management

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript explores how to effectively mitigate architecture, security, and management risks to ensure a successful Windows Server integration into your cloud computing environment. Protect your organization from risks to customer data and liability issues and learn how to better manage virtualized and cloud environments.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Management | Data Security | Microsoft Hyper-V | Operating Systems | Server Management | SMBs | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - When choosing a data integration solution, companies are confronted with many product choices, multiple sources of information and different vendors. This paper cuts through the confusion with the top 10 reasons companies choose open source for their data integration needs and 31 proof points from actual users of open source data integration.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Connectors | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Databases | ERP | ERP Software | Open Source | Open Source Software | Vendor Selection

PODCAST - In this podcast, learn how Software as a Service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) tools can be less expensive, easier to deploy and more user-friendly than on-premise BI products, but why many businesses have been reluctant to embrace SaaS BI.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Premiered: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Application Hosting | Business Intelligence | Cloud Computing | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Security | Real-time Analytics | SaaS ERP | Software as a Service | Software Selection | Vendor Selection

WHITE PAPER - Organizations are often turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of BI with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. This survey report presents recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM as well as some findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Code Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Information Management | Information Management Software | Master Data Management | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Surveys | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. Read this active Q&A session on building a successful enterprise BI strategy.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Dashboards | Data Management | Data Quality | Information Management | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Predictive Analytics | Reporting Software | ROI

WHITE PAPER - Proper master data management (MDM) is very valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics. However, master data projects are often challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. This paper explains why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Process Management Software | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Migration | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Software | ETL (Software) | Master Data Management | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Dashboards | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Marts | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Databases | Open Source | Open Source Software | Query Tools | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - Processing very large data sets provides unique constraints, especially when time windows available for this processing are shrinking. This paper presents a variety of technologies available to accelerate the processing of large data volumes, including massive parallelization, optimized data-set-mode processing, grid deployment, and load balancing.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | ERP | ERP Software | Load Balancing | Open Source | Open Source Software | Parallel Processing | Processor Architectures

PODCAST - This podcast outlines how to converge storage traffic onto a common, unified data center with 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE). The benefits of this conversion include lower costs, easier deployment and greater flexibility and performance within the storage network.  Listen to this podcast to learn more.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Premiered: March 16, 2010


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Centers | Data Management | IT Management | NAS | SAN | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware | Storage Management

WEBCAST - This webcast outlines how to converge storage traffic onto a common, unified data center with 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE). The benefits of this conversion include lower costs, easier deployment and greater flexibility and performance within the storage network.  Download this webcast to learn more.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Premiered: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | NAS | SAN

PODCAST - In this podcast, Rick Sherman shares his expert insights on the pros and cons of different approaches to Software as a Service (SaaS) and on-premise data integration, comparing on-premise vs. hosted middleware and internal integration vs. hiring a services provider.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Premiered: March 15, 2010


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Integration | Cloud Computing | Data Integration | Data Management | Hosting Services | Integration Testing | Middleware | Outsourcing | Software as a Service | Vendor Selection

WHITE PAPER - In any industry, businesses must have a deep understanding of customers, suppliers or mobile traffic to better serve them. This requires sophisticated data analysis and reporting capable of analyzing large volumes of data. Read this paper to learn about Talend and its powerful capabilities to support the loading and analysis of web data.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: January 1, 2010


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Mining | Data Warehouses | Databases | ETL (Software) | Query Tools | Reporting Software | Web Analytics | Web Analytics Software