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How Your Medium-Size Business Can Join the Business Intelligence (BI) Revolution: Redefining the Mid-market and its BI Requirements by Birst
This webcast discusses the latest advances in business intelligence solutions for medium-sized businesses. Watch this webcast to learn how your mid-sized company can make the
Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be
Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and
Improving Organizational Decision-Making Through Pervasive Business Intelligence: The Five Key Factors That Lead to Business Intelligence Diffusion by JasperSoft
BI pervasiveness at some of the leading organizations in the world. This report discusses how evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. BI and data warehouse (DW) tools and analytic applications - a set of
Defy the Times: Business Growth in a Weak Economy by SAP BusinessObjects
Listen to our Podcast to discover how you can become a faster, leaner, more agile business, by using business intelligence (BI) focused on 3 core strategies. Can your business actually benefit from a tough economy? Absolutely -- with
The Path toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Ferrari North America by Tableau Software
Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making
Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
has not been analyzed or deployed to further the firms' business performance. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications that are capable of integrating cross- and inter-enterprise processes and
eGuide: Business Intelligence Best Practices and Tips to Improve your Business Performance by Oracle Corporation
integration, software considerations, and hiring (good) BI professionals. Today's successful enterprises are discovering that Business Intelligence (BI) applications and technologies are helping their users make better business decisions. BI solutions
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008 by SAS Institute Inc.
This paper gives the results of Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence platform vendors. It found, among other things, IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their
Gartner Predictions for 2009: Business Intelligence and Performance Management Will Deliver Greater Business Value by Actuate
Learn from leading Gartner analysts on how to develop and deploy a cost-effective BI solutions using open source and business intelligence tools (BIRT). Learn from leading Gartner analysts on how to develop and deploy a cost-effective BI
Process-driven Business Intelligence: Building Smarter Business Processes by Information Builders
the ability to make better decisions on a near-real-time basis.

This next-generation BAM initiative, called process-driven business intelligence (BI), begins with a simple design notion: decision-making is a fundamental aspect of any operational business
Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities by Information Builders
capabilities to analyze the huge amount of information that's being exchanged.

Advanced integration platforms include embedded business intelligence (BI) capabilities that help administrators quickly troubleshoot problems, detect anomalies, and conduct
What is Process Intelligence? by IDS Scheer
Process Intelligence is a powerful tool that helps management to ensure that individual processes meet defined business objectives - and indeed that the entire enterprise does so. By analyzing operational KPIs and mapping them
Expanding BI's role by including Predictive Analytics by SAP BusinessObjects
revenue. With reduced funding for new initiatives, it can be difficult to meet these objectives. Read on to learn how expanding your business intelligence with predictive analysis can help. In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to
Using Master Data in Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
building their own custom-built business transaction (BTx) solutions for managing operational master data for many years, and business intelligence (BI) applications and their underlying data warehouses have been providing a single view of key master data
Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
to drive the next stage of innovation and competitive advantage. To take full advantage of this data, firms need a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications to integrate cross-enterprise, inter-enterprise and externally
Data Management for Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
to accelerate the delivery of actionable information within their enterprises. As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications has grown, and the sophistication of BI capabilities has accelerated, organizations
Enterprise Transparency: The Process Performance Lifecycle by IDS Scheer
This presentation makes the case for the importance of business process performance as an indicator of overall business performance and provides an in-depth look at the
Open Source Business Intelligence Costs and Benefits What You Need to Know by JasperSoft
At the end, you should understand whether open source BI is a viable option for your organization. For over a decade, Business Intelligence (BI) has been sold as an investment--typically a six-to-seven figure investment that promised to make
Real-Time Data Warehousing: 3 Case Studies by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
highlights the challenges faced by three companies and the real-time data warehousing solutions they implemented to enhance business intelligence, protect customer data, and enhance business reporting. Read these case studies to learn how GoldenGate
Data Integration: Creating a Trustworthy Data Foundation for Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
technology is the key to consolidating this data and delivering an information infrastructure that will meet strategic business intelligence (BI) initiatives and tactical and governmental reporting requirements. Data integration is the enabling
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Marrying Web services and business intelligence
to decide where to start implementing Web services? According to an analyst from Hurwitz Group, integrating Web services with existing business intelligence technology may be a wise place to begin More...
May 7, 2002
Marrying Web services and business intelligence
to decide where to start implementing Web services? According to an analyst from Hurwitz Group, integrating Web services with existing business intelligence technology may be a wise place to begin More...
Jan 15, 2002
Eclipse hits business intelligence milestone
Eclipse has released Milestone 3 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) 2.0. It includes library and template support, a new charting wizard and a new XML data source More...
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Data warehousing and business intelligence
Since the Internet first penetrated corporate IT shops for commercial application, the business intelligence market has been driving toward the ideal of "ubiquitous business intelligence." Web Services promises to increase the availability of information and analysis services More...
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The evolution of business intelligence
As the use of business intelligence (BI) has matured, there has been increased interest in analytic applications, a logical extension of the business intelligence concept. Although analytic applications have been available in areas such as financial More...