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The Data Warehousing Institute has gathered from solution providers a collection of the most outstanding white papers available for the business intelligence and data warehousing industry. Please select as many white papers as you would like to receive in any of the categories. These will be sent directly to you—with no obligation.

1) Select Your White Papers


Administration and Operations
 The Business Case for Database Partitioning

Analytic Apps and Development Tools
 Defining an Enterprisewide Business Performance Management Architecture

Business Analytics
 Enterprise Business Intelligence: Improving Corporate Performance Through Integrated Reporting, Analysis and Monitoring
Right-Time Business Intelligence: Optimizing the Business Decision Cycle
The Managed Spreadsheet Environment

Data Integration
 Addressing Data Quality at the Enterprise Level
Data Integration: Creating a Trustworthy Data Foundation for Business Intelligence
Data Integration in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Information Integration: New Capabilities in Data Warehousing for the On Demand Business
Is ETL Becoming Obsolete? E-LT is a Better Approach
Master Data Management: Creating an Enabling Platform for Business Integration
Optimizing ETL Operations: The Key to Timely Business Decisions Based on Database and Data Warehouse Results
The Challenges of Customer Data Integration (CDI)

Infrastructure
 Joins and Aggregates Are Critical for Achieving Faster Data Retrieval in a Dimensional Data Warehouse
Performance Optimization: A Necessary Component of EIM
The Truth About Data Warehouse Appliances

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3) Company Information

a) What is your most pressing Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing need? *

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b) What best describes your main Job Responsibility?
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d) What is your organization's (or largest client, if you are a consultant) primary business at this location?
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e) Select the option that best describes your role in the acquisition of software solutions.
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f) In what time frame do you plan to make a purchase?
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g) Which database applications are currently installed within your organization? Which are you planning to upgrade in the next 6-18 months?

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BI Platforms Installed
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h) BI/DW Products or Services are you involved in buying, approving, evaluating or recommending? (check ALL that apply)

Administration and Operations
(Includes: Perf. & usage mgt, DB mgt.. Capacity Planning, Back-up and Restore, Config. Mgt., Security, Disaster Recovery Systems and Network Admin.)

Analytic Applications and Development Tools
(Includes: AA Devel. Tools, Visualization Tools, BPM, CPM, Front /Back Office Apps., Supply Chain Apps., E-Business Apps, Balanced Scorecard, Real-Time BI, BAM, CRM)

Business Analytics
(Includes: BI Tools (Query/Reporting, OLAP), Business Analytic Suites, Forecasting, Data Mining, Text & Spatial Analysis)

Business Intelligence Services
(Includes: Consultants & System Integrators, ASPs for DW, Research)

Data Integration
(Includes: Data Quality & Cleansing, DW Mapping & Transformation, Metadata Mgt., Data Movement, Conversion or Access, ETL, Data Acquisition/Data Delivery/Middleware)

Data Warehouse Design
(Includes: Data Modeling and Analysis, DW Toolsets, logical & physical design tools)

Information Delivery
(Includes: Enterprise Information Portals, broadcasting, wireless data analysis, content or document mgt, collaboration)

Infrastructure
(Includes: Storage mgt systems, Servers, Relational DB mgt systems, multidimensional DBs, data accelerators)

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DecisionPath

DecisionPath Consulting is a recognized leader in leveraging Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies to drive profit and productivity improvement for large and mid-sized organizations.