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Solid State Disk: A Business Case Develops in Data Warehousing

As solid state disks show signs of rebirth and growth, vendors and their integrators must identify what values SSD offers within the context of modern enterprise computing.

Y2K Compliance Testing and Verification

In the selection of a renovation tool set, an executive's ability to quantitatively recommend the "right" organization to support their renovation efforts and to make the "right" decision correctly, can have a major financial impact on the profitability/survivability of the business.

Referential Integrity for the Data Warehouse Environment

The creation and enforcement of referential integrity - the practice of ensuring that relationships between rows of data exist and are used as they are defined - and especially bounded referential integrity give the user a feeling of confidence in the data and predefined relationships in completing complicated tasks.

The Hidden Costs of Enterprise Data Conversion

The right tools for the right job as the saying goes. The competitive edge goes to the company with the best information and the most-efficient processes for delivering it. But often lost in this mix is the price tag that accompanies the actual moving of legacy data from older to newer enterprise systems.

Supporting the Data Mining Process with Next Generation Data Mining Systems

As we move into the next stage of data mining, businesses see the need to automate more and more of the process, beginning with the collection and warehousing of the appropriate data and ending with the incorporation of the appropriate predictive model into operational systems.

Editorial: The Devil's in the Data

The status of data warehousing and ESJ's number one ranking among IT publications.

Data Warehousing Guidelines for DB2

The do's, do not's and the dare not's in data warehousing when designing, implementing and using a DB2-based data warehouse for OS/390.



Data Mart Delivery Architecture

The authors propose an enterprise architecture for delivering dependent data marts that will satisfy varying end user's DSS needs, and features the ability to allow the reuse of dimensions across the enterprise.

Outsourcing: Keys to a Successful ERP Implementation

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have surfaced as popular applications for the manufacturing and service industries alike. But achieving the full benefits of an ERP implementation takes more than simply adding an SAP or Oracle solution to the network.

A Bright Idea: HR Portal Helps Osram Sylvania See the Light

The idea of a central aggregation point for corporate data, tools and links accessed through a familiar browser interface appeals to firms whose information and business processes are scattered across many different reports, applications and systems. When Osram Sylvania created HR InfoNet, they overcame many challenges in building the portal, and a team philosophy of "think small" led to some large accomplishments.