White Papers Published by Neil Raden 2004-2008
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 robus data integration
t
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. 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
4. Business Objects Business Objects Solutions Business Objects (via its acquisition of Crystal) provide
s
(SAP) for SAP access to SAP R/3 natively; a discussion of some
shortcomings of ERP systems and remedies
5. Celequest BI 2.0: Pervasive, Intelligent BI software is not adequately addressing the analytical needs of today’s
private and public sector organizations.
(IBM/Cognos) and Timely
6. 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
7. Corda In Progress Concerning Operational BI
8. DATAllegro Solving the Load/Query A slightly technical piece on strategies for optimizing both
(Microsoft) Conundrum in Dimensional load and query processing
Design

9. Exeros Data Relationship Discovery Integrating data manually is no longer feasible. New
approaches are needed, especially those that rely on
algorithms to discover t relationships between data
he
elements
10. Expressor Data Integration: What’s Next Missing from today’s DI tools are two key capabilities that
can reduce or even eliminate the slow work and
redundancy – semantic rationalization and abstraction.
11. Initiate Systems The case for Master Data How probabilistic data matching and other stochastic
Services techniques can provide enterprise master data services
12. 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 way
Warehousing stakeholders work with each other.
13. Metallect Application Semantics: The The promise of SOA is heightened agility powered by reuse
Starting Point for SOA and dynamic assembly of business processes, a necessary
element for competing in faster, more open markets.
14. Metatomix (In Progress) Business Real-life examples of semantic technology in the
Applications of Semantic enterprise
Technology
15. 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
16. Oracle Ambient Business Intelligence next generation BI will advise and drive businesses with
embedded analytics, real-time decision tools and vastly
improved capabilities for peopl
e
17. ParAccel In Progress Infrastructure implications of Operational BI

18. Pentaho In Progress Open source BI
19. ProClarity Shedding Light on Shado IT:
w The existence of Shadow IT implies a failure on the part of
(Microsoft) Is Excel Running Your IT to provide all of the services to meet their clients’
Business? needs, and the problem is universal.
20. 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
21. SAP (in Progress) Business
Intelligence Accelerator
22. SAP Analytics Manifesto A new set of principles for analytics that enables vastly
smarter business processes.
23. SAP Enterprise Business A formal data warehouse methodology, comparing “Best of
Intelligence ROI Breed” to single vendor offerings
24. 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
25. Spotfire (Tibco) NextGen Software or Informing business decisions with information and tools to
Software for the NextGen? visualize, present, manipulate and share information can
no longer be constrained by existing development
paradigms
26. Spotfire (Tibco) The Foundations of Analytics: What are the real requirements for interactive,
Visualization, Interactivity collaborative, dynamic visualization tools?
and Utility
27. SPSS (In Progress) Decision Examination and classificationof various types of
Categorization decisions and the appropriate technology to manage them

28. Sybase (In Progress) Data The Factory: How data warehousing and BI in th data
e
Aggregators aggregators business duffers from “best practices” in the
enterprise.
29. 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.
30. Tableau Fast Analytics and Business Collaborative decision-making re
quires something
Intelligence for Everyone: different that the traditional deployment of packaged BI.
Best Practices for Deploying People involved in decision-making ne answers to their
ed
Collaborative BI own questions, not just pre-determined ones.
31. Teradata (in progress) What Every CEO Translation between two dialects: How a CIO should
Needs to Know About Data communicate the need for data warehousing to a CEO
Warehousing
32. 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
33. Teradata Dynamic Mixed Workloads: As data warehouses are required to provided vastly greater
Meeting Demands for Data volumes of data, with more diverse needs (queries),
Warehouse Performance adoption of intelligent load managers is required
34. Teradata Questions to Ask a Data Data warehouse appliance vendors have produced some
Warehouse Appliance Vendor questionable benchmarks derived from loose
methodologies