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Data Integration is the problem of combining data residing at different sources and providing the user with a unified view of these data. This important problem emerges in a variety of situations both commercial (when two similar companies need to merge their databases) and scientific. Data integration appears with increasing frequency as the volume and the need to share existing data increases.

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Building the next generation of IT with virtualization
By : HP Published Date: Apr 11, 2007
In an effort to stay ahead of the competition, companies have poured capital resources into information technology. In many cases, this has been done on a group-by-group basis, with each line of business creating its own infrastructure silo. Each silo had its own systems, servers, storage, licenses, and support teams—and each shouldered the total cost of owning and operating a standalone infrastructure.

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Identity Federation: Concepts, Use Cases and Industry Standards
By : CA Published Date: Jan 11, 2007
This paper is aimed at IT staff, application development managers, security architects and technical decision makers who need to learn more about identity federation and the industry standards that formalize federated environments.

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CA
Identity Federation: Security as a Business Enabler
By : CA Published Date: May 17, 2007
In this podcast you will learn what Identity Federation is, what the value of Federation is and how organizations and governments are using it today. This podcast will address the following questions: What is Federation?  Why are organizations federating? What are Federation challenges and ways to overcome these challenges?
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CA
SAS Grid Computing: Faster processing, increased resilience and improved hardware utilization
By : HP SAS Published Date: May 17, 2007
SAS Grid Computing delivers enterprise-class capabilities that enable SAS applications to automatically leverage grid computing, run faster and takes optimal advantage of computing resources. With grid computing as an automatic capability, it is easier and more cost-effective to allocate compute-intensive applications appropriately across computing systems. SAS Grid Manager helps automate the management of SAS Computing Grids with dynamic load balancing, resource assignment and monitoring, and job priority and termination management.
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Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform
By : Clarabridge Published Date: Mar 06, 2006
This white paper describes how the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis, and capitalizes on lessons learned from solving similar problems in the structured domain.
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Clarabridge
Discover Low-Cost Data Handling Breakthrough: MSSO
By : Business Intelligence Inc. Published Date: Mar 16, 2006
Surprisingly low-cost technology MSSO/SD4E transforms Excel into an incredibly powerful and completely secure Business Intelligence tool capable of quickly and easily manipulating and analyzing live data directly from multiple, disparate data sources, generating even the most complex and sophisticated analytical reports with a simple keystroke.
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Business Intelligence Inc.
5 Reasons to Switch from Custom Code to Appliances for Integration Projects
By : Cast Iron Systems Published Date: Aug 29, 2006
Traditionally companies had just two choices for their integration needs, complex and expensive platforms like EAI or write custom code. Learn about the "hidden costs" of custom code and discover five reasons why companies are switching to Integration Appliances that use a simple “configuration, not coding” approach to integration.
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Cast Iron Systems
Unmasking the Complexities of Data Sync: Understanding Retailers' Options for Reaping Benefits
By : Inovis Published Date: Oct 27, 2006
Major retailers and mass merchandisers are turning up the pressure on their trading partners and even other retailers to implement Global Data Synchronization (GDS) within their organizations. These advocates see GDS and participation in the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) as the best path to improving the timeliness and accuracy of their supply chains, particularly once these efforts are broadly supported across the retail supply chain landscape.
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Inovis
WebSphere Customer Center Product Positioning Paper
By : IBM Published Date: Feb 01, 2006

This paper gives the reader an overview of the functionality of IBM's WebSphere Customer Center, and explains why IBM is the strategic partner that more Fortune 500 companies select as their strategic platform for Customer Data Integration.


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IBM
WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic
By : IBM Published Date: Feb 01, 2006
This case study outlines their success in achieving global simultaneous product launches, correct information for catalogs and advertising, faster price change notifications and better Point of Sale (POS) integration.
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Advanced Global Name Recognition Technology
By : IBM Published Date: Jun 01, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the issues, requirements, and technologies available for automated advanced name recognition.
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IBM
Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
By : IBM Published Date: May 30, 2007
WinterCorp analyzes IBM's DB2 Warehouse and how it addresses twin challenges facing enterprises today: improving the value derived from the torrents of information processed every day, while lowering costs at the same time. Discover why WinterCorp believes the advances in data clustering strategies and intelligent software compression algorithms in IBM's Data Warehouse improves performance of business intelligence queries by radically reducing the I/O's needed to resolve them.
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Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System
By : Tidal Software Published Date: Jun 09, 2008
Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process.
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Tidal Software
Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage
By : Lombardi Software Published Date: May 17, 2006
In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of BPM and SOA in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities.
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Lombardi Software
Building a Business Case for Customer-Centric Master Data Management: Don’t Forget the ROI
By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 24, 2007
Discover the essential steps to delivering a solid business case for the right customer-centric MDM architecture and achieve maximum ROI.
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Siperian
Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants
By : BusinessObjects Published Date: Jan 25, 2007
Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You'll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.

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BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 01, 2007
The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.
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Information Builders
Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design
By : Information Builders Published Date: Sep 27, 2007
Dashboards help organizations make better business decisions. The way in which they are created is not trivial and attention must be paid to the details. Employing visual design standards and principles are important, but are only part of the journey. The way in which data is integrated from the enterprise is just as important.
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Information Builders
Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence
By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
This paper describes how to leverage WebFOCUS business intelligence software to generate Excel spreadsheets directly from enterprise data sources, consolidating large amounts of data, performing complex calculations, and creating advanced structures like PivotTables.
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Information Builders
Data Integration: Opportunities, Challenges, and MapForce
By : Altova Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
The ability to seamlessly connect with customers, partners, and co-workers is vital for success; yet most enterprises store and exchange data in dissimilar formats, such as databases, flat files, EDI systems, and, increasingly, XML-based applications.
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Altova
Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture
By : Information Builders Published Date: Sep 15, 2005
The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source:  the systems that run the business.
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Information Builders
Driving A Single View of The Customer
By : Informatica Published Date: Jun 15, 2006
The purpose of this white paper is to outline the importance of data quality with reference to single view of customer. In any organization SVC is the foundation of successful customer relationship management (CRM).
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Informatica
Deliver Application Integration Projects in Days
By : Cast Iron Systems Published Date: Aug 23, 2007
Discover how to complete more application integration projects by delivering in days what used to take months of custom programming.  Find out how an appliance-based approach to application integration uses “configuration, not coding” to dramatically simplify and accelerate integration projects, while cutting costs by up to 80%.
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Cast Iron Systems
Dell Automated Deployment (Honeycutt)
By : Dell Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
Dell's automated deployment solution meets the challenges that IT managers face, according to Windows expert and author Jerry Honeycutt.
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Dell
Enterprise Application Integration
By : Visible Published Date: Jul 15, 2004
The biggest problem facing CIO's today is their existing applications. This paper describes the problem and describes our permanent solution, Enterprise Application Integration.
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