Guide
Managing Data and Healthcare Regulations Efficiently
The right Business Intelligence (BI) tool can address the twin challenges of today's healthcare industry and regulations: efficient, secure information retrieval and effective monitoring of day-to-day operations.
In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Title XIII of ARRA, called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical...
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Dirty Data: One of the Largest Hidden Costs of Doing Business
By Alan Jordan on Fri, 09/16/2016
Poor data quality is more common than you think—and the consequences can be devastating. By implementing SEQUEL Data Warehouse, you can solve your data problems, improve your data quality, and avoid a data disaster.
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How-To: Format, Visualize, and Deliver Data in Dashboards Quickly and Easily
Fri, 09/16/2016
Looking for quick tips for building Sequel dashboards? Look no further. Read the how-to for best practices on formatting, visualizing, and delivering data.
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Increase Productivity with Sequel View Builder
By Mike Stegeman on Thu, 08/25/2016
Business success hinges on sharing relevant information with the people who need it. When members of your organization can make informed decisions, productivity increases and problems can be solved more creatively.
With Sequel Data Access, more business users within your organization can see these benefits on an even greater scale.
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Monitor, Capture, and Send Log Events With Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Sun, 08/21/2016
In recent years, regulatory initiatives like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, and GLBA have placed increased emphasis on the need to monitor and secure sensitive information. For example, The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard dictates one of the most stringent requirements of all—logs must be reviewed daily, and a minimum of three months of logs must be available for analysis.
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Database 101: Why You Can Rely on IBM i
Fri, 08/19/2016
IBM i is the perfect environment for data access and reporting. Read this article to learn how you can better utilize your Power Systems databases.
Guide
The Race To Access Enterprise Data
Businesses need fast, easy access to data across an enterprise, but there are three big hurdles in the data access race. To overcome these hurdles, read our exclusive white paper.
Guide
Key Performance Indicators and the Reporting Tools for Success
Learn why KPIs are a must for any business intelligence strategy—and how you can apply them.
Guide
Dispelling the Myths of IBM i Data Access
Ironically, many IBM Power Systems™ users are sitting on top of a “gold mine” of data that they could use to make their lives easier, their jobs more productive, and their companies more profitable—if they only knew how to harvest it. Yet, they don’t have the first idea about how to do that. They might even be considered “power users” on their computer systems and not know how to transform the...
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How Banks Leverage Big Data for Big Value
Fri, 08/19/2016
Technology professionals in the banking industry face a wide range of concerns due to the nature of the data stored within their systems. The potential reward in stealing or compromising financial data makes these organizations a prime target for cybercrime, while stringent industry regulations require security to be extremely tight at all times.
Is it possible to strike a balance between defensive, regulatory, and data access needs and still provide access to data for analytics without compromising the security of the entire system? The truth is that many organizations in the financial sector have deployed analytics technology while being able to keep their security tight, and are benefiting from it.
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Top 10 Ways Sequel Makes Your Life Easier
Fri, 08/19/2016
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No matter what industry you’re in, accessing and presenting your data is incredibly important. Your business users’ ability to make informed decisions shouldn’t be limited by your data access tool or their...
Guide
Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data.
The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best practices, and a...
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Add Power to SEQUEL Scripts with Logic
Mon, 08/01/2016
SEQUEL Scripting is a process that allows users to run multiple SEQUEL and system commands together. Scripts allow for much of the same capability of Command Language Programs (CLP) without the need for programming knowledge or a compiling of the objects.
Guide
The Query Decision-Making Kit
Is Query/400 still cutting it? Probably not. You’ve most likely heard that there are other data access tools out there, but you might not be sure which one is right for you—or even if it’s the right time to upgrade. The Query Decision-Making Kit can help.
For starters, you want data access to be simple, no matter your skill level. You want the option to view visual data in real-time, access data...
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The Partitioning Paradox Solved
Mon, 06/27/2016
There is rarely a dull moment for IBM i administrators, as their operating environments continuously absorb and distribute new data. While this trend certainly keeps teams engaged, it also triggers fears that current protocols may not be enough to meet the challenges of tomorrow. First and foremost, there is often some doubt as to whether storage plans will be able to scale to manage the sheer...
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Easily Accessing Data on Remote Databases with SEQUEL
Mon, 06/27/2016
With SEQUEL you can retrieve information not just from your local IBM i, but also on other IBM i’s, SQL servers, Oracle, MySQL, and other remote databases. Once you have the remote host definition defined you are ready to convert data on other platforms into meaningful information right from your local IBM i. The ability to design views with SEQUEL SQL and translate them on the fly to native SQL...