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Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail by Information Builders
Discover the 4 worst practices for business intelligence (BI) deployment and gain insight on how to overcome these pitfalls in order to tap into the power of BI. Learn how to achieve success with your departmental or enterprise-wide BI initiatives. Business Intelligence (BI) has evolved into a complex
Datanomic Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing by Datanomic
The Key to Successful Business Intelligence The Trouble with Data Business Intelligence (BI) tools are only as good as the data they access. Despite the popularity of BI tools, many companies are still ignoring the fact that analytical applications are particularly sensitive to data quality problems. Poor quality data undermines the
Enterprise Performance Management: The Next Generation of Performance Management and BI by Oracle Corporation
to standardize and automate management processes and integrate performance management and BI solutions to optimize enterprise-wide performance. Concerns over a looming economic slowdown are serving as a wake-up call for organizations to re-evaluate current management and operational processes to drive improved performance
Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option for Business Intelligence?: Seven Styles of Data Integration by Information Builders
data-access architectures to make sure you have devised the best method for connecting your BI tools with your data.

The intended audience for this paper is project, business, and IT managers who have responsibility for BI activities. This paper describes data warehouses along with many other options for placing relevant, timely
Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System Datasheet by Oracle Corporation
applications, a suite of business intelligence (BI) applications, a common foundation of BI tools and services, and a variety of data sources--all integrated using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Easy to use, easy to manage, and the lowest in cost to deploy, it's the most comprehensive and flexible EPM system in the marketplace today. Read this
ROI Case Study: "Deployment of QlikView at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG" by QlikTech, Inc.
and integration issues are the most common challenges related to business intelligence (BI). High quality data requires the commitment of both the IT and the business side, as inconsistent data may cause a lack of acceptance or lead to wrong decisions. Integration requires the implementation of BI, but with that comes additional
Operational Business Intelligence: A Benefit to Your Customer and Your Business by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software
An operational BI system should be focused on influencing the interaction with your customer to provide benefit to both the customer and your business. It also lends itself to a fairly direct ROI. An operational BI system should be focused on influencing the
The SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator: Transforming Business Intelligence by Hewlett-Packard Company
The NetWeaver BI Accelerator is a powerful analytic engine that sits alongside a BI server and offers fast response to complex, ad hoc queries against large InfoCubes, without requiring the effort to pre-compute aggregates. The SAP NetWeaver BI
Driving business value with integrated BI and ERP by QlikTech, Inc.
E-Book and gain valuable insight into how other organizations successfully integrated ERP and BI. To make strategic business decisions, organizations need to be able to effectively analyze and understand their data. This undertaking is difficult without integrating enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which capture
Secure and Effective Data Extraction from the SAP® ERP System by Winshuttle, Inc.
This white paper describes the variety of tools available for such ad-hoc reporting applications and compares and contrasts these tools in terms of their ease-of-use and security. The ability to easily and securely extract data in real-time from your transactional SAP system is
PODCAST: Maximize Value from Your SAP Investment with Business Intelligence (BI) & Performance Management (PM) by Cognos, an IBM Company
value from your SAP investment. As performance management (PM) and business intelligence (BI) continue to top the list of strategic initiatives, maximizing the inherent value of all enterprise data is a top priority. For customers with strategic investments in SAP, a major PM imperative is to embrace, enhance and extend the data
Maximize Value from Your SAP Investment with Business Intelligence (BI) & Performance Management (PM) by Cognos, an IBM Company
value from your SAP investment. As performance management (PM) and business intelligence (BI) continue to top the list of strategic initiatives, maximizing the inherent value of all enterprise data is a top priority. For customers with strategic investments in SAP, a major PM imperative is to embrace, enhance and extend the data
Comprehensive Business Intelligence Market Study: Summary Results from the BI Survey 7 by MicroStrategy Incorporated
The BI Survey 7, the leading independent survey of real-world BI implementations, provides unique, statistically significant insight into actual BI implementations and customer experiences with various BI products. The BI Survey 7,
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership: Delivering Cost Effective Enterprise Business Intelligence by MicroStrategy Incorporated
scalable platform and self-service technology enable organizations to achieve pervasive BI at the lowest industry ownership costs. Businesses today are demanding more and more out of the same amount of IT budget. As a result, many Business Intelligence (BI) buyers are seeking better ways to assess an initiative's Return on
IBM Cognos Pricing Makes More Projects Possible by Cognos, an IBM Company
has a flexible and tiered pricing grid that enables companies to cost effectively deliver BI and PM benefits to more users, and more types of users. Too often companies assume that software for potential business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) projects is too expensive. But IBM Cognos has a flexible and tiered
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence MidMarket Reporting Packages by Cognos, an IBM Company
IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture, it also delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management. Reporting is a key
Five BI Success Factors for the Midsize Organization: Tactical Guidelines for Effective BI Deployment - Featuring Research from Gartner by Cognos, an IBM Company
paper from Cognos, an IBM company, features research from Gartner highlighting the five BI success factors for the midsize organization, including tactical guidelines for effective BI deployment. Achieving business goals in every organization requires making smart, timely decisions-backed by solid data. While
5 Styles of Business Intelligence by MicroStrategy Incorporated
This paper looks at the historical development of BI applications and BI technology, and concludes that five common Styles of BI have evolved during the past decade - each style representing a certain characteristic usage. This paper looks at the historical development of BI
Comcast & NetworkIP Re-think Data Warehouse Architecture by Vertica Systems
For analytic applications, the Vertica Analytic Database is designed to deliver high performance at lower cost and More than 5 customers have now implemented Vertica, and the experience of three is described in this report. For analytic applications, the Vertica Analytic Database is designed to deliver high performance at lower
Selecting the right technology for integrated BI and performance management by Cognos, an IBM Company
Find out how to navigate the ever-evolving BI and PM technology markets, conduct an effective RFP process, evaluate software and successfully implement integrated BI-PM systems. Learn the critical technology considerations for an integrated business intelligence and
QuickTour Demo: Key Differentiators between MicroStrategy and Cognos by MicroStrategy Incorporated
This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise BI capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Cognos. Cognos claims to have an "integrated BI architecture"- the end result of joining existing products and legacy code from multiple
Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI by Informatica
The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions-with similar results. For many, the dividing line that kept (DW
Mozilla Transforms BI with Pentaho and Vertica by Vertica Systems
45; Lance Walters, VP of Marketing

Webinar attendees will learn about:

1. How Mozilla uses BI to support collaborative open-source software development

2. The technology on which Mozilla's BI platform is based:

3. Open-source data integration and BI software from Pentaho

4. Grid-based, column-oriented analytic database
How Celanese Chemicals Leverages SAP Netweaver BI Accelerator for Adaptive Business Intelligence and improves performance up to 150X by Hewlett-Packard Company
HP and Intel and learn how you can supercharge your business intelligence with SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator. Spend an hour with Celanese Chemicals, SAP, HP and Intel and learn how you can supercharge your business intelligence with SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator. You will hear how SAP BI, HP and Intel can boost the performance of your
7 Leading Applications of Business Intelligence Software by MicroStrategy Incorporated
This paper explores the leading business intelligence (BI) applications across industry verticals. It is useful for business users just learning about BI applications, as well as for project managers and report developers looking for best practices. Discover the depth and breadth of business
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