White papers & articles
Pioneering white papers and in-depth articles focusing on a diverse range of BI topics. These demonstrate best-practice techniques across a variety of industries and initiatives.
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What's Behind your BI
Date: 29.04.2008
Source: Kalido
Author: Kalido
This paper discusses how you can leverage a groundbreaking approach to delivering BI solutions that meets not only the demanding needs of todays decision makers, but lays a foundation to keep up with the constant and accelerating rate of change in todays business.
 WP-Info-Engine-Overview.pdf (241 kB)
Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses
Date: 01.04.2008
Source: Syncsort
Author: Syncsort
Staying competitive in today’s real-time business world demands the capability to process ever-increasing volumes of data at lightning speed. In todays fast-changing, competitive environment, a complaint frequently heard by data warehouse users is that access to time-critical data is too slow. Shrinking batch windows and data volume that increases exponentially are placing increasing demands on data warehouses to deliver instantly-available information.
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SyncsortWPSpeedingETProcessing.pdf (515 kB)
Using DMExpress for Change Data Capture
Date: 11.03.2008
Source: Syncsort
Author: Syncsort
Change data capture, or delta processing, is a technique in which an older file and a new file are compared to identify changes that have occurred. Only the data that has changed is updated in the master file. This type of processing will help reduce the amount of data that will need to be uploaded to a data warehouse, improving performance. This white paper describes two methods for performing change data capture processing: using joins or using sort/merge/summarize commands. Both methods discussed can be accomplished using Syncsort’s DMExpress, the high-performance data transformation product for UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.
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SyncsortWPChangeDataCaptureApplications.pdf (803 kB)
Business-Model-Driven Data Warehousing
Date: 30.11.1999
Source: Kalido
Author: Dr. Hakan Sarbanoglu and Bruce Ottmann
This paper analyses the issues of conventional data warehouse design process and explains how this practice can be improved using a business-model-driven process that covers not only the requirement definition and design, but also the development, operation, maintrnance and change requirements of the data warehouses and data marts in support of effective BI
WP-BizModelDWa.pdf (1.1MB)
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