White Papers Published by Neil Raden 2005-2009
Client Title Description
1. Actuate Reporting Steps Up The convergence of operational and analytical reporting
requirements are best met with an integrated
architecture, a broad set of functionalities and robust
data integration capabilities
2. Actuate The Managed Spreadsheet How to preserve the best and most useful features of
Environment spreadsheets while mitigating the risks and expense
caused by unbridled Shadow IT
3. Actuate In progress December 2009
4. Applix The Case for Business BI drifted away from modeling tools for end-users; a
(IBM/Cognos) Modeling description of modeling functions for people who do
more than read reports
5. Business Objects Business Objects Solutions Business Objects (via its acquisition of Crystal) provides
(SAP) for SAP access to SAP R/3 natively; a discussion of some
shortcomings of ERP systems and remedies
6. Celequest BI 2.0: Pervasive, Intelligent BI software is not adequately addressing the
(IBM/Cognos) and Timely analytical needs of today’s private and public
sector organizations.
7. Certive (Cloud 9 A New Approach to Data Realigning Data Warehouse Best Practices Based on
Analytics) Management and Integration Technological Advances and Lessons Learned
for Business Intelligence
8. DATAllegro Solving the Load/Query A slightly technical piece on strategies for optimizing
(Microsoft) Conundrum in Dimensional both load and query processing
Design

9. Exeros (IBM) Data Relationship Discovery Integrating data manually is no longer feasible. New
approaches are needed, especially those that rely on
algorithms to discover the relationships between data
elements
10. Expressor Data Integration: What’s Missing from today’s DI tools are two key capabilities that
Next can reduce or even eliminate the slow work and
redundancy – semantic rationalization and abstraction.
11. Fuzzy Logix In progress
12. Information Due December, 2009 Discussion of alternatives to classic data warehouse using
Builders federation and abstraction
13. Initiate Systems The Case for Master Data How probabilistic data matching and other stochastic
Services techniques can provide enterprise master data services
14. Kalido Back to Business: How A model-driven approach to the entire process of data
Business Modeling integration management, and information delivery
Rationalizes Data including metadata, changes everything, especially the
Warehousing way stakeholders work with each other.
15. Metallect Application Semantics: The The promise of SOA is heightened agility powered by
Starting Point for SOA reuse and dynamic assembly of business processes, a
necessary element for competing in faster, more open
markets.
16. Metatomix (In Progress) Business Real-life examples of semantic technology in the
Applications of Semantic enterprise
Technology
17. Metatomix The Emerging Role of A primer on semantic technology; how it provides the
Semantic Technology in the ability to infer the meaning of data and determine its
Enterprise utility within context

18. Oracle Ambient Business next generation BI will advise and drive businesses with
Intelligence embedded analytics, real-time decision tools and vastly
improved capabilities for people
19. ParAccel Killing Time: Reducing The creation of time and the elimination of latency in
Operational Latency decision making
20. Pentaho In Progress Getting to the bottom of the cost of migrating between BI
tools
21. ProClarity Shedding Light on Shadow The existence of Shadow IT implies a failure on the part
(Microsoft) IT: Is Excel Running Your of IT to provide all of the services to meet their clients’
Business? needs, and the problem is universal.
22. Salesforce.com Accelerating Analytics An on-demand, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform
Success with On Demand allows IT organizations to maximize innovation and
output with their BI opportunities, while lowering
downside IT burdens, in four key aspects
23. SAP (in Progress) Business
Intelligence Accelerator
24. SAP Analytics Manifesto A new set of principles for analytics that enables vastly
smarter business processes.
25. SAP Enterprise Business A formal data warehouse methodology, comparing “Best
Intelligence ROI of Breed” to single vendor offerings
26. Silver Creek Semantic Integration: The growing externalization of business processes
Systems Tapping the Full Potential of requires the discovery of meaning in data
Enterprise Data
27. Spotfire NextGen Software or Informing business decisions with information and tools
(SoftwareAG) Software for the NextGen? to visualize, present, manipulate and share information
can no longer be constrained by existing development

paradigms
28. Spotfire The Foundations of What are the real requirements for interactive,
(SoftwareAG) Analytics: Visualization, collaborative, dynamic visualization tools?
Interactivity and Utility
29. SPSS Decision Categorization Examination and classification of various types of
decisions and the appropriate technology to manage
them
30. Sybase (In Progress) Predictive A close look at the need for and implementation issues
Analytics for prediction in organizations
31. Sybase Brains Over Brawn: Six Steps Six ideas for enabling your organization to leverage
to Smarter BI information more strategically in today’s technology and
business environments.
32. Tableau Fast Analytics and Business Collaborative decision-making requires something
Intelligence for Everyone: different that the traditional deployment of packaged BI.
Best Practices for Deploying People involved in decision-making need answers to their
Collaborative BI own questions, not just pre-determined ones.
33. Tableau Fast Analytics and BI for Best practices for deploying collaborative BI
Everyone
34. Teradata et al Technology for Operational Multi-vendor sponsored paper on decision Management
Decision Making
35. Teradata Spending Wisely on Analytics Making the Data Warehouse Investment Case to the CEO
in a Challenging Economy
36. Teradata Exploring the Business Evaluating the opportunities for real-time and near real-
Imperative of Real Time time data in data warehouses and the implications
Analytics

37. Teradata Dynamic Mixed Workloads: As data warehouses are required to provided vastly
Meeting Demands for Data greater volumes of data, with more diverse needs
Warehouse Performance (queries), adoption of intelligent load managers is
required
38. Teradata Questions to Ask a Data Data warehouse appliance vendors have produced some
Warehouse Appliance Vendor questionable benchmarks derived from loose
methodologies
39. Teradata Teradata and SAP/BW (in How the new Teradata/SAP DW development will benefit
progress) clients of both companies
40. Vertica BI Is in the Details (In How columnar technology leverages the latent value in
Progress) SQL databases