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Data Warehouses

ALSO CALLED: Data Stores, Datawarehousing, Data Ware-house, Datawarehouse, Data Warehousing, Knowledge Warehouse, and Dataware House
DEFINITION: A data warehouse is a central repository for all or significant parts of the data that an enterprise's various business systems collect. The term was coined by W. H. Inmon. IBM sometimes uses the term "information warehouse."

Typically, a data warehouse is housed on an enterprise mainframe  … 
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Demo/Trial: Balanced Warehouse Assessment Tool
sponsored by IBM
ASSESSMENT TOOL: Take this self-assessment quiz to understand how optimized, simple and flexible your solution is today and learn what next steps are recommended to establish a warehouse solution that can easily grow with your demands.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009
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Overview Video: New Capabilities of DWE
sponsored by IBM
VIDEOCAST: IBM DB2 Warehouse is a dynamic, integrated data warehousing solution that delivers all the functions required to deploy, maintain, and evolve an intelligent data warehouse.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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White Paper: The Dynamic Warehousing Infrastructure - Establishing a Foundation to Meet New Information Requirements
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how to create a roadmap for a truly dynamic warehousing infrastructure, and move ahead of your competition with your business intelligence system.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009
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Tom Davenport Study: Linking Decisions and Information for Organizational Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The study focuses on the relationship between information and decision-making obtained from interviews with a number of organizations.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009
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eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
EGUIDE: This E-Guide brings you up-to-date on new energy performance metrics to compare a server's power consumption with its performance.
Posted: 31 Dec 2008 | Published: 29 Dec 2008
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PODCAST: BI and Performance Management Best Practices for Your SAP Investment
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
PODCAST: Listen to this Podcast to explore best practices for supercharging business intelligence and performance management efforts with your SAP investment.
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 16 Dec 2008
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Unlocking the Full Power of Massive Parallelism: Solving the Network Bottleneck in MPP Databases
sponsored by Aster Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008
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Growing Revenue with Frontline Data Warehouses
sponsored by Aster Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and data warehousing for organizations building competitive advantage through analytics.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008
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Increasing Profitability through Intelligent Interactions: Innovative Marketing Strategies in the Communications Industry
sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER: Leading companies are placing more emphasis on inbound marketing and intelligent customer interactions as the means for building powerful customer relationships that boost profitable growth.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Published: 05 Dec 2008
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Sun Fire X4540 Storage Server: The Industry's First Open Storage Server
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DATA SHEET: The Sun Fire x4540 storage server, the first open storage server, integrates industry-standard compute and storage components in an open architecture and runs the Solaris OS and Solaris ZFS.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Squeezing More Value out of Data Warehouses through the Power of Database Compression
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Data compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.
Posted: 03 Dec 2008 | Published: 03 Dec 2008
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The Path toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Ferrari North America
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 02 Dec 2008
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A Technical Overview of the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines how Oracle Exadata can deliver outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for data warehousing applications by leveraging a massively parallel architecture to enable a dynamic storage grid for Oracle Database 11g deployments.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Oracle Exadata - Extreme Performance
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
PODCAST: With Larry Ellison's OpenWorld 2008 announcement of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine, Oracle is revolutionizing high performance data warehousing.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 20 Nov 2008
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IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: Ocarina Optimizer and Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Transforming the Economics of Data Warehousing with Cloud Computing
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing is ushering in a new era of analytic data management for business intelligence (BI) by enabling organizations to analyze terabytes of data faster and more economically than ever before.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008
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Sybase PowerDesigner 15.0
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: The industry leading data modeling tool and an enterprise modeling and design solution, PowerDesigner, helps implement effective enterprise architecture and brings powerful models to create and manage your IT infrastructure.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Avoid the MDM Blues with Rapid Time-to-Value MDM-in-a-Box Quick Start Solution
sponsored by Cognizant Technology Solutions
WEBCAST: View this Webcast and learn to optimize your enterprise's MDM program to deliver benefits such as enhanced compliance, customer service, cross-selling and up-selling.
Posted: 06 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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IT Briefing: How to Optimize ETL for Demanding Data Environments
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: This document is based on a Syncsort/TechTarget Webcast entitled "How to Optimize ETL for Demanding Data Environments."
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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Practical & Prudent Data Integration: A Trusted Advisor Approach
sponsored by Hummingbird, The Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group
WHITE PAPER: For more than a decade, Hummingbird has been delivering data integration solutions to companies worldwide. This document shows the value that Hummingbird's Genio offers its users, drawing on scenarios that demonstrate its significance.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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Data Consolidation in Government Agencies: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast, John Edgar, manager of the U.S. Postal Service's Network Operations Business Solutions portfolio, discusses the agency's success with data consolidation.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Essential Steps for the Integrated EDW
sponsored by Informatica
WHITE PAPER: This white paper proposes a specific architecture for building and integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW) that directly supports master data management efforts and provides the platform for consistent business analysis across the enterprise.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008
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Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI
sponsored by Informatica
WHITE PAPER: The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions-with similar results.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008
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Ventana Research - Aligning Business and IT to Improve Performance on SAP
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how enterprise planning must be built on the ability to operate across an organization, to collaborate across business lines and to access large volumes of enterprise data.
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 25 Sep 2008
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Forrester Report: Financial Impact of Migrating to a Sybase Database Management System
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
ANALYST REPORT: The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the financial impact of migrating to ASE 15 within their organizations.
Posted: 12 Sep 2008 | Published: 12 Sep 2008
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DATA WAREHOUSES DEFINITION (continued): …  server. Data from various online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and other sources is selectively extracted and organized on the data warehouse database for use by analytical applications and user queries. Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for useful analysis and access, but does not generally start from the point-of-view of the end user or knowledge worker who may need access to specialized, sometimes local databases. The … 
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