White Papers
Business data you can believe in: Kalido for Data Governance (442.13 KB)
Bad data can be detrimental to your business. Without a data governance program, you might be propagating poor customer service, bad business decisions, compliance risk and more. With Kalido for Data Governance, you can meet your needs for successful data governance head-on with an advanced, business-model-driven technology that can adapt to your business’ changing needs.
Understanding Kalido Data Architecture (1.87 MB)
A Technical Overview of a Kalido-Driven Business Model and Data Warehouse.
Get Ready for Master Data Management - 10 Things You Can Do NOW (221.7 KB)
Master Data Management (MDM) is a hot topic right now, but before you begin selecting tools you need to know what the most important things are that you should do to get started with Master Data Management. Download this white paper to learn about 10 things you can do NOW to prepare for your MDM initiative.
Business-Model-Driven Data Warehousing (1.05 MB)
This white paper outlines the top 10 disconnects in the conventional data warehouse design process and how business modeling can eliminate those disconnects to keep your data warehouses connected to your business.
Back to Business: How Business Modeling Rationalizes Data Warehousing (198.32 KB)
Neil Raden, founder of Hired Brains, Inc. speaks to Business Modeling and its connection with Data Warehousing.
BI: The Inconvenient Truth
What's behind your Business Intelligence? (547.3 KB)
By Dr. David Waddington, Tyson Consulting
Understanding Why Companies Fail – and Four Steps to Avoid It (942.9 KB)
An impartial industry expert opinion on the data warehousing industry in general, and the Kalido Active Information Management Software specifically. Learn why companies are failing at a rate three times faster than 30 years ago, and what steps you can take to stay afloat in a sea of companies in decline.
What's Behind Your BI? (240.92 KB)
An overview of the Kalido Information Engine
Business Modeling with Kalido (996.84 KB)
This informative white paper shows how Kalido delivers unparalleled business modeling capabilities that allows BI Directors to manage and control their business intelligence. Download now to see how putting Kalido behind your BI can help you deliver accurate, consistent and accessible information to business decision makers.
Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse Technical Overview (715.07 KB)
Introduction to Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse
Managing Master Data with Kalido® Master Data Management™ (596.49 KB)
A Technical Overview
The Kalido Approach (331.53 KB)
The Kalido Approach is a best-practice services implementation framework for achieving rapid value from the Kalido Information Engine. The Approach builds upon years of experience in implementing Kalido and industry-best enterprise data warehousing and master data management solutions.
Supporting Data Warehouse Design Best Practices with Kalido (931.62 KB)
This informative white paper outlines the implementation of 20 data warehouse best practices as defined by Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon, the two best known data warehouse gurus. Implementation of these best practices results in 3 major benefits: Time to value, Reduction in total cost, and Risk mitigation.
Adaptive Insurance Data Warehouse: Using business intelligence and data warehousing to build an agile insurance enterprise (468.86 KB)
This white paper introduces the Adaptive Insurance Data Warehouse as a way to help the insurance industry capture the flexibility it needs to manage changing risks, define and deliver new products, manage agent effectiveness and adapt to the demands of a dynamic market. By delivering accurate, consistent information in an accessible way, the Adaptive Insurance Data Warehouse (AIDW) overcomes the shortcomings of ordinary data warehouses and helps insurance companies gain agility.
Bloor Research Master Data Management Report – Excerpt (485.28 KB)
Kalido has been awarded the Gold Award in the repository category of Bloor Research's "Master Data Management" report. In this report, Bloor analyzes 15 vendors and their master data management offerings. Kalido was singled out for its leadership in generic master data management (MDM) and pioneering of many key practices.
Bloor Research "Packaged Data Warehouses" Report (15.36 MB)
In this 123-page independent report on "Packaged Data Warehouses," Philip Howard, research director at Bloor Research, analyzes seven packaged data warehousing solutions including DecisionPoint, IBM DB2 UDB, SAS, SAP, SPSS, Teradata and the KALIDO Active Information Management Software.
Ventana Research MDM Customer Audit: Kalido MDM (806.58 KB)
This insightful 19-page report provides the best practices recommendations of companies who are deploying successful master data management (MDM) strategies. Conducted by Ventana Research, this audit details the real-life experiences of a subset of Kalido's MDM customers in implementing MDM in their organizations.