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Datanomic Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing by Datanomic
BI and Data Warehousing and maximize competitive advantage. Data Quality: 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
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
Uncovering Hidden B2B Sales Potential by MapInfo Corporation
Location intelligence software helps companies increase B2B sales by improving customer and prospect knowledge, managing their sales channels proactively, responding faster to changing market conditions and improving their channel structure and
ROI Case Study: "Deployment of QlikView at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG" by QlikTech, Inc.
Learn about a business intelligence interface that helps gather information easily and quickly, which supports decision-making and allows managers to deal directly with data rather than having to rely on standard analyses. Data-relevant themes and integration issues are
Comcast & NetworkIP Re-think Data Warehouse Architecture by Vertica Systems
have now implemented Vertica, and the experience of three is described in this report. Business users looking for a lower cost approach to meeting the performance demands of query-intensive analytic applications should carefully evaluate the Vertica Analytic Database solution
Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option for Business Intelligence?: Seven Styles of Data Integration by Information Builders
information in the hands of business users. Most people assume that the starting point for any business intelligence (BI) project is a data warehouse. In reality, while data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren't always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. It can also
SiSense Prism by SiSense Ltd.
Tired of a business intelligence tool that requires too much IT support? What powerful and intuitive analytics without paying a fortune? SiSense Prism provides an ad hoc analytics and reporting solution that requires no IT support, programming... Product Type: Desktop
Secure and Effective Data Extraction from the SAP® ERP System by Winshuttle, Inc.
for many business applications, including one-time use data extracts, operational business intelligence (BI) reports, or prototyping a steady-state BI report.

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
PODCAST: Maximize Value from Your SAP Investment with Business Intelligence (BI) & Performance Management (PM) by Cognos, an IBM Company
best means to drive additional 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
best means to drive additional 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
Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System Datasheet by Oracle Corporation
Oracle's EPM system includes a suite of performance management applications, and business intelligence (BI) applications. Learn how organizations have optimized business processes by using enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other applications. Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) system includes a suite of financial &
Entertainment Retailer Expects Store Data Analysis to Increase Sales by $1.8 Million by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
Server System™ integrated server software and the Microsoft .NET Framework to build a business intelligence solution. Virgin Entertainment Group operates Virgin Megastores, one of the largest entertainment media retail specialty chains in the United States. Virgin wanted to increase the effectiveness of its store managers and product
Operational Business Intelligence: A Benefit to Your Customer and Your Business by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software
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 interaction with your customer to provide benefit to both the customer and your business. This differentiates operational BI from
SAS®9: Beyond Business Intelligence by SAS Institute Inc.
SAS®9 takes you beyond business intelligence as you know it with a single, scalable platform for delivering proven predictive analytics and a consistent and rewarding user interface experience. SAS®9 takes you beyond business intelligence as you know it with a single,
Leveraging the Power of Location Intelligence to Enhance Business Intelligence by MapInfo Corporation
how location intelligence can be used to solve problems of geographic relevance, enhancing business intelligence. Historically, location-relevant data has been limited in its broader market adoption because it has been "siloed" in technical deployments outside of standard business and IT systems. The emphasis has been on creating and managing maps as
Warranty Management as Your Competitive Differentiator: How to Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Satisfaction by SAS Institute Inc.
Read on for a discussion of ten business realities constraining today's warranty management programs - and what progressive companies should be doing about them. SAS® Warranty Analysis provides the broad array of analytics required to transform warranty claims data
Comcast Revolutionizes Network Performance Data Analysis with Vertica by Vertica Systems
45;speed, relational SQL database management system (DBMS) purpose-built for analytics and business intelligence. The Vertica Database has a shared-nothing, column-oriented architecture, and has been benchmarked by many customers as being 10x to 200x faster than other solutions. It also uses compression very aggressively, both of data on
Enterprise Performance Management: The Next Generation of Performance Management and BI by Oracle Corporation
to gain competitive advantage and deliver results, IT executives are turning to integrated business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions to achieve management excellence.

Join us July 16, 2008, for our virtual tradeshow on Enterprise Performance Management: The Next Generation of Performance Management and BI.

Through a series of

Operational Intelligence: Correct Problems before They Occur by Vitria Technology, Inc.
at the right time. The earlier a company detects and responds to SLA violations, the lower the business impact. Even better, with sufficient visibility into critical business processes managers can prevent violations from happening in the first place. The message here is that increasingly, companies need to manage business events in real
Presenting Structured Data in Rich Internet Applications using an Open Source Foundation The BIRT-based Product Line - from Eclipse BIRT to Enterprise-Scale Implementations by Actuate
will show you how you achieve this new level of expectations using open source BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) that brings these capabilities together and show you how to take advantage of Web 2.0 advancements and Rich Internet Application technologies to deliver web applications and reports with a highly visual, interactive
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership: Delivering Cost Effective Enterprise Business Intelligence by MicroStrategy Incorporated
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 Investment (ROI). Evaluating ROI requires two components: (1) the business value delivered and (2) the investment costs spent. The business value of a BI application is often
Autodesk Solutions for Utilities by Autodesk
44; easily standardize data, reduce drafting time with simplified workflows, build intelligence (feature classes and attributes) into the object during the design process, and facilitate easy movement of design data into records (GIS).

Also in this session you will see a preview of other Autodesk Utility Solutions that help to ensure
Workflow Vs. Application Automation Tools: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job by UC4 Software, Inc
between workflow programs and application automation tools. Both claim to automate business processes.

The purpose of this document is to compare and contrast workflow and application automation. This document will show that workflow and application automation are similar, but that there are important distinctions, and
Business Intelligence Fundamentals: Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services 2008 (SSIS) by Microsoft
at the fundamental components that make up SSIS and then moves onto designing packages using Business Intelligence Development Studio. You will look at solutions to common ETL challenges such as slowly changing dimensions. Topics covered are:

  • Reviewing ETL Fundamentals
  • Introducing SSIS Components
  • Designing ETL Packages
  • Slowly Changing Dimension
Measuring Return on Business Intelligence Investment. by Acxiom Corporation
This paper examines business intelligence from the point of view of a maturing analytical organization that creates economic value from its activities. This paper examines business intelligence from the point of view of a maturing analytical organization that creates economic
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Pros and cons of DASD options by David Boyes
out, but the answer here is "whatever tool you're using for the rest of your open systems"; that's probably the best I can give you. One caveat is that the storage vendor tools are not likely to understand the utilization patterns of a VM system running on FCP disk very well, so some of the More...
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Can vendor ROI analyses be trusted? by Tom Pisello
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