Business intelligence best practices

With all the attention surrounding dashboards & other attractive delivery methods for business intelligence (BI) content, classic report generation & production is often overlooked. However, at the heart of every effective BI strategy is a solid reporting solution: and recent innovations in reporting technology make this topic worth reviewing

Read this leading analyst study to gain insight on business intelligence for operational performance that highlights best practices for IT departments and line-of-business (LOB) managers. Survival in this economy requires sound business practices and intelligent business decision making. Read this

Listen to this Podcast to explore best practices for supercharging business intelligence and performance management efforts with your SAP investment. In today's economic climate, there is a growing pressure to do more with less and efficiently deliver access to critical business information within, across, and beyond the

This paper describes the business context out of which grew the need for a service oriented approach, and the Microsoft approach to achieving successful SOA implementations. The ability to readily change and optimize business processes is the key to organizational

Business Intelligence and Performance Management are proven technologies to provide the ability to unify all data, to deliver analytics and create information to support critical business planning and decision-making. Your challenge is to provide... In today's

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

This document explains best practices about infrastructure and about jointly developing and executing ongoing performance management strategy with the application development professionals. With most enterprises now conducting business on the Web, it has become more

on a Cognos, an IBM Company/TechTarget webcast entitled "BI and Performance Management: Best Practices for Your SAP Investment." In this document, Mark Smith, the CEO and EVP Research at Ventana Research and Bob Corson, Senior Manager, Product Marketing for Cognos software with SAP, will discuss some common challenges seen with customers in

In this Expert Podcast, explore best practices and tips for leveraging ERP to support changing business requirements. Business requirements can change quickly -- especially in today's competitive economy. Manufacturers need to meet new requirements, which may require quickly

and running can be a major challenge. So, in this podcast, get valuable expert advice and real-world best practices for selecting the right data warehousing technology.

In this 12-minute podcast, appropriate for IT, business intelligence and data warehousing professionals, listeners will:

• Learn where to start -- and what to consider -- when determining the

you need action, not just words. As more companies implement MDM successfully, new techniques and best practices continue to emerge. SearchDataManagement.com recently sat down with Forrester Research analyst Rob Karel to get his take on the latest MDM best practices.

In this 15-minute podcast, appropriate for both business and IT professionals

This Webcast explores how leveraging data management and archiving best practices while upgrading your Oracle E-Business Suite can improve application performance and help your organization better meet the needs of your business users. Upgrading packaged applications is a major strategic software initiative in

meet the needs of your business users by leveraging data management and database archiving best practices while upgrading PeopleSoft. IT organizations committed to employing PeopleSoft Enterprise are now, more than ever, being recommended to begin their upgrade, rather than delay the inevitable and force a multi-release upgrade process

Get updated information and data quality best practices, from expert Larry English. Find out how to get started, build a business case and structure program teams for data quality success. Successfully implementing information and data quality programs can be challenging -- often due to both

solution can be of tremendous benefit. Read this white paper to learn about easy-to-follow best practices for achieving a successful accelerated implementation. Companies who implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tend to be intimidated by the time and cost of an implementation and seek to accelerate the go-live date. Without

This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. These recommendations are generic

Analysis delivers an end-to-end warranty management solution designed around industry best practices.

The data analysis, reporting and communication capabilities of this solution satisfy the requirements of all users-from executives who want to see key performance metrics at the company level or across business units, to business

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.

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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

and developing a web site can take time and effort. Listen to the webcast to discover the best practices for successful implementation and performance for your online business.

Explore:

• How to develop and start your web strategy
• Key reasons to take your business on the web
• How to create a cost effective action plan to expand your business

Aberdeen surveyed 206 organizations to examine best practices for managing application performance. These findings serve as a guideline to organizations looking to improve the performance of their business critical applications. Aberdeen surveyed 206 organizations between May and June 2008 to

DLP) solution is a must-have for today's organizations. Read this white paper to learn the best practices for DLP. There are two key capabilities required for content filtering: high performance and the ability to accurately scan nearly anything. Let's begin with the former. With today's ever-increasing bandwidth requirements, high

performance when managing XML data in enterprise applications. The examples illustrating the best practices are based on a real-world financial application scenario and demonstrate how to implement the guidelines. The examples can be easily adapted to other types of XML applications. The paper covers the following areas:

• Storage options for

cost money, they cost time and they cause a great deal of frustration. Once you adopt the best practices mentioned in this solution paper, your organization can quickly reap the following benefits:

• Reduce the costs of processing invoices by 25 to 50 percent
• Improve invoice processing efficiency and accuracy
• Reduce paper by up to 90

components critical for a successful data integration implementation. Explore cutting edge best practices that can lead to a highly standardized approach to all stages of implementation. Data Integration services: Our data integration services help companies to rapidly integrate data into their existing systems from heterogeneous sources