Master Data Management initiative at Equifax integrates 2.1 million customer records, enabling more accurate customer visibility.
Organic growth and acquisitions have led to continual expansion of Equifax’s geographic markets and product lines. This case study outlines how Equifax took advantage of its own master data management capabilities to create internal efficiencies that benefit business leaders throughout the organization. Leverage the experience and expertise of Equifax to benefit your company’s MDM initiatives.
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Your business depends on SAP. What happens if it stops?
Due to its integration into every aspect of your business, any lack of availability of the ERP application or its data represents a serious impediment in the way of your company’s effectively delivering world-class service and products to its clients.
Given this growing dependency, the need to minimize your servers’ planned and unplanned downtime becomes paramount. Yet, to-date, neither the System i platform, nor SAP ERP software offer inherent protection against planned or unplanned downtime. Thus, taking additional steps to ensure high availability (HA) is now critically important for your company.
This white paper discusses how choosing and implementing the most appropriate high availability solution for your SAP ERP environment can protect your enterprise’s most valued asset: its data.
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In over 800 interviews with midsize companies, IDC has found that while their needs are complex and varied, they share a common interest in using advanced technology solutions similar to those deployed by larger enterprises, but they face the constraints of limited IT budgets and resources.
HP and Oracle have announced a new focus within their 25-year alliance with the goal of addressing these requirements for midsize companies. This informative white paper analyzes this powerful partnership and outlines how businesses looking to improve business processes can get enterprise-level products and services despite common midmarket budgets and constraints.
Written by IDC, Sponsored by: HP and Oracle
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Data sets are growing ever larger. Queries are becoming increasingly complex. So SGI and Oracle are teaming up with innovative, standards-based configurations to meet the urgent need for scalable, powerful data warehouse solutions.
Through participation in Oracle’s Optimized Warehouse Initiative (OWI), SGI® works to ensure that its Adaptive Data Warehouse Solutions deliver exceptional performance and adaptability.
Within its Adaptive Data Warehouse portfolio, SGI® offers standards-based reference configurations– configurations that are based on OWI preeminent practices and designed to help ensure exceptional, scalable warehouse performance. SGI® Adaptive Data Warehouse solutions, based on Intel® Itanium® processors, support from 5TB to 320TB of data with optimal performance. Users are able to execute highly complex, ad-hoc queries on massive amounts of data, resulting in more effectively managed business and more informed business decisions.
Brought to You in Partnership by: SGI® and Intel
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Learn how APC’s Data Center architecture can be implemented to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
Data center power and cooling infrastructure waste more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity. This white paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available data center architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
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A new gold standard in continuous data protection and complete system recovery is here—Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5. With more than two decades of data protection experience, Symantec™ delivers industry-leading Windows® data protection and system recovery.
Symantec Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery provide complementary technologies that together minimize the impact of system downtime and data loss. With over three million servers protected globally, organizations around the world count on industry-leading and award-winning Symantec Backup Exec technology. If your business-critical information is protected with an earlier version of Symantec Backup Exec or Backup Exec System Recovery—or both—it’s time to upgrade and maximize your data and system protection for physical and virtual environments and leverage new unmatched recovery advantages.
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Learn how to successfully navigate the unknown waters of Data Governance with these the best practice techniques.
This report from TDWI Research drills into the business initiatives, technical implementations, and cross-functional organizational structures with which data governance intersects. It also quantifies the state of data governance adoption and describes some of the technologies and vendor products that can help automate data governance. All this information is tailored to assist business and technical managers in planning and implementing a sustainable data governance program.
Prepared by: The Data Warehousing Institute; Sponsored by: Informatica
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In 20 minutes learn about Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and more.
For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, CDP is an essential consideration. Analysts agree that businesses will be incorporating this strategy in the next few years as part of an integrated solution. In this podcast you’ll learn the basics of CDP, including:
- How CDP enables you to quickly and easily reverse data corruption.
- Why CDP offers recovery in a fraction of the time and labor required for recovery from tape.
- How to eliminate the planned downtime traditionally required for tape backups.
- How CDP offers the widest range of possible recovery points.
- How CDP works with high availability to protect against critical data loss.
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Learn how you can simplify desktop management and ensure desktop security.
Citrix XenDesktop™ delivers desktops on-demand to users anywhere while dramatically simplifying lifecycle management. It provides a superior and more responsive user experience as well as a complete end-to-end desktop delivery solution that accelerates the delivery of desktops to knowledge workers, enables stronger data protection and control, and reduces the cost of ownership by up to 40%.
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Learn best practices for optimizing your SQL Server 2008 environment by maximizing your storage investment, CPU and server memory use.
Learn how to optimize your SQL Server 2008 environment with data compression, a new feature of SQL Server 2008 that provides more efficient data storage and improved performance (due to lower I/O demands). HP conducted extensive testing to determine the impact of data compression on OLTP and data warehouse workloads; this report documents the best practices for its configuration, deployment, and usage in an enterprise environment.
By following the tested, technical best practices in this report, you can:
- Maximize your storage investment through improved use: Data compression reduces OLTP and DW data space by as much as 50% for targeted tables when using page-level compression.
- Optimize CPU use: Data compression on an existing table is very CPU-intensive, especially when using page-level compression. Consider activating the data compression on production databases outside peak hours and, ideally, when no load is applied to the server.
- Optimize server memory use: Data compression significantly reduces memory consumption.
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