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5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories with Data
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Data doesn't have to be only fact driven and metric. Learn these five best practices to help you make sense and order out of a disparate collection of facts.
Posted: 20 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

Tableau Software

The IBM big data platform
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: What have you done to prepare for the volume, velocity and variety of big data? Today's data explosion has forced companies to re-assess their capabilities for managing the full spectrum of big data challenges. Read this paper to learn why a big data platform could hold the answer to optimizing big data management to maximize business insight.
Posted: 14 Aug 2012 | Published: 14 Aug 2012

IBM

Rapid-deployment Solution for Mobile Analytics Visualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, discover a rapid-deployment technology for mobile analytics visualization, so you can take full advantage of data visualization capabilities anywhere, at any time. Explore the benefits you'll get with rapid-deployment, and learn how easy it is to get a mobile analytics strategy up and running within two weeks.
Posted: 24 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Oct 2013

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

IBM

Analytics: The New Path to Value
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this executive report from MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute for Business Value learn how the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action and out-perform the competition, recommended actions organizations can take to bolster their analytics capabilities to achieve long-term advantage.
Posted: 20 Feb 2011 | Published: 20 Feb 2011

IBM

Harvard Business Review's Guide to Visualizing Data
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: The following Harvard Business Review report explores the current state of data visualisation. Hear from many leading authors on how to leverage data visualisation, and the right times to use it.
Posted: 24 Apr 2014 | Published: 24 Apr 2014

SAS

New Promise of BI
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Cognos Business Intelligence lets you access virtually any data source, regardless of platform, and provide detailed, understandable views of the data to all users, regardless of location.
Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

IBM

Use Analytics to Innovate and Lead in Today's Banking Environment
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Banks are bringing together big data projects, transactional processing, data warehousing and analytic tooling. Find out how IBM DB2 for z/OS and DB2 Analytics Accelerator in an IBM zEnterprise environment can help.
Posted: 22 Apr 2014 | Published: 31 Mar 2014

IBM

Selecting a Visual Analytics Application
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Visual analytics is the process of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Its becoming the fastest way for people to explore and understand Business Intelligence data of any size. This paper will introduce you to the seven essential elements of true visual analytics applications.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

Tableau Software

Building a World-Class Supply Chain – New Insights from Chemical & Petroleum Producers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn what leading companies do differently to outperform their peers. From strategy decisions to investment in information technology and performance measurement systems, MPI’s latest research explains how your company can realize tangible returns though greater flexibility and improved delivery performance.
Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

IBM