Decision Support White Papers

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Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

IBM

Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

IBM

Making Business Relevant Information Instantly Available to More Users
sponsored by SAP
WHITE PAPER: Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

SAP

Securities and capital markets
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: IBM®ILOG®’s business rule management system (BRMS) is widely used by leading investment banks, asset management and mutual fund firms to meet their compliance requirements while adding intelligent decisioning capabilities to applications and processes throughout the trading cycle, and business channels and systems.
Posted: 07 Jul 2011 | Published: 07 Jul 2011

IBM

JBoss Enterprise BRMS Overview: Business Rules and the Red Hat Open Source Way
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an overview of JBoss Enterprise BRMS – an open source system that automates decisions by using simple rules development, access, and change management. Learn about the features and benefits of this system, as well as why BRMSs are important for the success of your business.
Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

Red Hat

Unlocking business intelligence with collaboration
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Accurate decision making is key to your company's survival. Read this paper to learn how collaborative business intelligence (BI) can help streamline the decision making process. Learn to optimize efficiency and business transparency by creating a collaborative BI framework that connects BI information and decisions to business outcomes.
Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

IBM

Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology for Continuous Intelligence
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology, which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. Sybase CEP provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and deliver more analytic modules over time.
Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

Sybase, an SAP company

Smarter Lending: Returns come quickly when you increase agility, make better decisions and delight customers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges modern financial institutions face when seeking to implement a smart lending strategy. Inside, learn about the unique methods and approaches available to help overcome these hurdles.
Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 10 Aug 2011

IBM

A Low Cost Data Warehouse Using SQL Server 2008
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft SQL
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines different considerations for separating decision support systems (DSS) from Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments and touches upon technical procedures for achieving the same, as well as examines data warehouse solutions, different storage topologies, storage interface optimizations and much more.
Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

Dell and Microsoft SQL

Business Analytics and the Path to Better Decisions
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper considers the use of of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving improved decision making across many functions in an organization.
Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

SAP America, Inc.