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White Papers, Technology Briefs, and Industry Analyst Reports on Business Integration

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Implementing Real-Time Data Quality Management

In this white paper, we compare the real-time approach to data quality management with higher-latency approaches, demonstrating the superiority of real-time efforts compared with batch and near real-time techniques when it comes to time, money, and corrupt data.

Data Quality Management: The Key to Successful Predictive Analytics
Data Quality Management: The Key to Successful Predictive Analytics

This white paper discusses the importance of data quality management as it relates to predictive analytics and explores various methodologies for assessing and improving data quality. It highlights best practices in preparing data for predictive analysis purposes and how poor data quality can negatively impact predictive modeling efforts.

Cost-Effective Business Intelligence as a Service
Cost-Effective Business Intelligence as a Service

This paper highlights key requirements for successfully building and deploying SaaS-based BI applications for external users, and how some companies are using the WebFOCUS BI platform to make vital, timely corporate information available outside the firewall.

Big Data Analytics and The New Era of Data Warehousing
Big Data Analytics and The New Era of Data Warehousing

This paper discusses how customer demands have led to recent changes in the data warehouse market. As a result, companies and departments of all types and sizes can leverage advanced data warehouse solutions to facilitate effective use of innovative business analytics and support of various mission-critical BI initiatives.

Making Social Networking Work for You
Making Social Networking Work for You

The rise of social networking at the professional level is a clear indication that companies of all sizes and in all industries need faster and more effective ways to communicate. In this white paper, we discuss how the same concepts that have transformed personal communication are now being applied to enhance enterprise collaboration.

Leverage Information Builders for Successful Health Information Exchange
Leverage Information Builders for Successful Health Information Exchange

Information Builders, specialists in the field of health integration, offers a health information exchange solution that creates a portal where hospitals, physicians, and other providers can engage in the meaningful use of electronic health records.

The Best Way to Integrate SalesForce.com and Oracle Fusion Middleware
The Best Way to Integrate SalesForce.com and Oracle Fusion Middleware

With more companies using cloud-based solutions, and Salesforce.com CRM applications in particular, effectively unifying them with other technology assets has become a top priority. The iWay Salesforce.com adapter can minimize the challenges associated with manual Salesforce.com integration efforts. Built with the Oracle Fusion Middleware, the iWay Salesforce.com adapter leverages all standards for the Oracle SOA components.

Developing an Information Strategy in the Retail Industry

An information strategy defines how a retailer uses the data it collects to achieve a competitive advantage. In this white paper, we explore how retailers can develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy that drives positive change using five distinct actions: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize.

Developing an Information Strategy in the Financial Services Industry

Five vital actions are essential steps in a well-executed information strategy in financial services: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize. When working in harmony, these actions improve processes, increase productivity, and enhance decision-making. This white paper explores how to use them to develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy.

Developing an Information Strategy in the Manufacturing Industry
Developing an Information Strategy in the Manufacturing Industry

Five vital actions are essential steps in a well-executed information strategy in maufacturing: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize. When working in harmony, these actions improve processes, increase productivity, and enhance decision-making. This white paper explores how to use them to develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance
Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

Effective data governance enables organizations to access the full value of data and creates a framework for the use of that data that fits into an individual enterprise. There are seven key steps that use a repeatable technological framework to ensure effective data governance.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Healthcare Organizations
Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare organizations operate very complex business systems that generate a tremendous amount of information. As a result, the need for effective, broad-reaching data governance strategies has become more urgent. This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance to healthcare organizations, and provides seven steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Financial Services Firms
Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Financial Services Firms

Financial services firms are plagued with information management challenges, which can lead to poor data quality. This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance in the financial services sector, and provides seven steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Manufacturers
Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Manufacturers

Critical manufacturing information often exists in many disjointed silos and can be difficult to unify. This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance for manufacturers, and provides seven steps for taking such an approach.

Eight Steps to Effective Data Governance for Insurance Companies
Eight Steps to Effective Data Governance for Insurance Companies

This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance in the insurance sector, and provides eight steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for State and Local Government Agencies

At a time when agencies are forced to do more with less, the accuracy and consistency of information is crucial. Data governance enables agencies to access the full value of data, while protecting that data from risk.

Eight Reasons Why Partnership Works
Eight Reasons Why Partnership Works

Without access to a mix of capabilities such as business intelligence, performance management, data quality, extensibility, analytics, location intelligence, and SaaS, organizations will be hard-pressed to optimize efficiency, performance, and the bottom line. A partnership with Information Builders combines that access with a proven record of leadership.

Integration, Data Quality, and the Patient Journey
Integration, Data Quality, and the Patient Journey

Healthcare organizations are under constant pressure to improve quality of care without increasing staff or expenditures. While the current charge is to slash departmental budgets by 10 percent or more, healthcare organizations can achieve greater benefits from more efficient and intelligent use of their information systems.

The Best Way to Integrate Salesforce.com With WebSphere
The Best Way to Integrate Salesforce.com With WebSphere

This paper explains how the iWay Salesforce.com adapter minimizes the challenges associated with manual Salesforce.com integration efforts and works seamlessly within the WebSphere environment.

Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise: How to Tackle Your Bad Information
Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise: How to Tackle Your Bad Information

This paper discusses some techniques companies can implement to enhance data quality across the entire enterprise. We also highlight iWay Software's suite of data quality management solutions, which provide businesses with the ability to effectively and economically enhance the correctness, completeness, and consistency of information in each and every system within their technology infrastructure.

Boost the Value of Information With Master Data Management
Boost the Value of Information With Master Data Management

Master data management improves accuracy and streamlines sharing by seamlessly linking together and synchronizing the disparate information that exists across a business.

10 Things You Can Do With the iWay Salesforce.com Adapter
10 Things You Can Do With the iWay Salesforce.com Adapter

In this paper, we will highlight the ten key ways in which the iWay Salesforce.com adapter can enhance important operations and initiatives across your business.

Maximize Opportunity and ROI With Business Intelligence and Integration
Maximize Opportunity and ROI With Business Intelligence and Integration

Information Builders iWay Software offers integration solutions designed to reduce customer costs and improve operational efficiency by linking together disparate information sources and enhancing mission-critical business activities.

Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: Ensure Your M&As Through Strategic Use of Integration Technology
Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: Ensure Your M&As Through Strategic Use of Integration Technology

The risks associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are high. Various obstacles exist that, without proactive planning, can set the stage for failure. At the top of the list is the need to bring together disparate IT infrastructures to support the new, combined entity. In this white paper we will examine the importance of integration as part of any M&A strategy, and discuss those factors that need to be carefully considered when defining and implementing an integration plan.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM): The Hidden Secret to Peak Business Performance
Enterprise Information Management (EIM): The Hidden Secret to Peak Business Performance

Poor data quality costs organizations millions each year. Master data issues lead to multiple systems with conflicting information for the same product or person. Data scattered across different silos are a challenge to consolidate. Find out how real-time Enterprise Information Management (EIM) addresses these issues and significantly improves the way information is managed and leveraged across a company.

Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm

This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy.

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements – Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities
Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements – Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities

iWay Activity Monitor integrates BAM and BI technology to capture end-to-end transaction and workflow data across multiple applications and business units, summarizing and displaying trading partner metrics to help managers make informed decisions.

iWay Software Secure Messaging Option
iWay Software Secure Messaging Option

iWay Service Manager's Secure Messaging Option allows buisness users, and their partners, to enhance the security and harden the integration infrastructure used to exchange messages between organizations.

iWay SOA Middleware: An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments
iWay SOA Middleware: An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments

Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems. With each new project, a company can gradually strengthen its SOA foundation without force-fitting all aspects of an operation into a Web-based service model.

Multi-Enterprise Integration and Managed File Transfer
Multi-Enterprise Integration and Managed File Transfer

iWay Software's Managed File Transfer (MFT) offers the industry's most complete suite of integration technology for coordinating processes and sending files in a managed and secure fashion. This paper explores some common integration scenarios and explains how iWay simplifies the setup, processing, and overhead related to managing file transfers.

Worst Practices in SOA Implementation
Worst Practices in SOA Implementation

Designed to help organizations learn from the mistakes of others, this paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices in order to realize the true value of an open, reusable integration architecture. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid SOA integration failure and achieve success with your initiatives.

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? Seven Styles of Data Integration
Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? Seven Styles of Data Integration

There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.

Why Business Managers Should Care About Service-Oriented Architecture
Why Business Managers Should Care About Service-Oriented Architecture

Technical staff frequently talk about the need for service-oriented architecture (SOA), but rarely in terms that business managers understand. We can sum up the benefits of service-oriented architecture and show you ways to avoid the danger of implementing technology for technology's sake.

The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture
The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – a highly evolved approach to integration that transforms IT service delivery – can significantly improve business agility and streamline business processes. A good enterprise service bus (ESB) – a component of SOA used to develop services – can enhance SOA by enabling a loosely coupled relationship between service interfaces and applications, minimizing code-writing and facilitating service changes without requiring intimate knowledge of underlying enterprise systems. This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.

Butler Group on iWay Service Manager
Butler Group on iWay Service Manager

iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment... from an end-user perspective it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications. without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure

Tackling the Data Management Challenge Through Server Consolidation
Tackling the Data Management Challenge Through Server Consolidation

Obtaining the best data for specific applications requires more than simply the ability to connect to like sources using similar semantics. It means making decisions about how fresh the data must be, where it must ultimately reside, and in what forms users need it. Navigate the challenges of data and server consolidation with help from Unisys and Information Builders.

An Integrated Justice Solution From iWay Software
An Integrated Justice Solution From iWay Software

This paper defines the elements of information sharing within the Integrated Justice community. iWay Software's Integrated Justice Suite facilitates the collection, transformation, integration, formatting, delivery, and analysis of justice information.

Nucleus Research Case Study: Alcan Achieves 934% ROI on EAI Project
Nucleus Research Case Study: Alcan Achieves 934% ROI on EAI Project

The ability to tie together data from multiple sources using iWay Software and bring it forward in new e-commerce initiatives has enabled Alcan to realize significant savings in operational costs while also generating incremental revenue.

The Coexistence of Old and New B2B Technologies
The Coexistence of Old and New B2B Technologies

iWay Software provides certified solutions that promote coexistence of EDI and Internet-based B2B. This paper explains how iWay Software solutions ensure that new systems remain backwards compatible with old systems, while driving down costs, increasing flexibility, and minimizing custom programming.