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Business Intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions. The term implies having a comprehensive knowledge of all of the factors that affect your business. It is imperative that you have an in depth knowledge about factors such as your customers, competitors, business partners, economic environment, and internal operations to make effective and good quality business decisions. Business intelligence enables you to make these kinds of decisions.

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6 Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration
By :Oco, Inc. Published Date: Aug 07, 2007
Need a retail intelligence system that doesn't require a significant up front investment, coordination of multiple software vendors and system integrators, or take months or years to implement? This guide will help you gain greater visibility of all your sales channels, products, distribution and suppliers to make timely and effective business decisions.
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Oco, Inc.
Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions from SAP and Business Objects
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. In this light, organizations that run SAP software should perform due diligence on solutions from SAP and from Business Objects, an SAP company. New milestones in areas such as user experience and information integration, from both business-user and enterprise-IT perspectives, will be hard to ignore under such a mandate.
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Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail
By :Information Builders Published Date: Aug 06, 2007
This paper provides insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence. It also provides guidance on how to avoid or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives.
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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
By :IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure.
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Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies
By :Oco, Inc. Published Date: Mar 13, 2008
The business intelligence (BI) “boom” of the 1990s was something BIG: big projects designed to give big companies with big budgets a competitive advantage. And while BI delivered big returns for some companies, for others it was nothing but a big headache. An estimated 50% of all data warehousing projects failed to meet their goals. Why? Because many companies underestimated just how big an undertaking BI really was.
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Oco, Inc.
Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Your organization's focus has been on acquiring customers, increasing revenues and profitability, and outpacing the competition. And while your organization has continued to improve its operating efficiencies (sometimes by quickly learning from past mistakes), you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what’s going on and planning for the future.
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Business Intelligence for Consumer Products: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
While historically consumer packaged goods (CPG) organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration, much of the data stored in their IT infrastructures has not been analyzed or deployed to further the firms' business performance.  Those enterprises that learn to effectively harness the vast quantities of information generated by their IT systems - both within and outside the corporation - will enjoy a substantial competitive advantage.
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Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration (through data warehouses and the like), it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its accumulated data to actually drive business performance.  In the years to come, as globalization and increased reliance on the Internet further complicate, accelerate and intensify marketplace conditions, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.
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Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
The Retail sector was one of the first sectors to make significant investments in collecting and integrating customer data in data warehouses. In the future, firms will need to continue to be cost effective but increasingly will need to focus on using data to drive revenue by better understanding their customers' needs. Enterprises that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.
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Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By :SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. One side effect of these investments has been the creation of vast stores of valuable data.  achieve insight, transparency and competitive advantage.
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Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design
By :Information Builders Published Date: Sep 27, 2007
Dashboards help organizations make better business decisions. The way in which they are created is not trivial and attention must be paid to the details. Employing visual design standards and principles are important, but are only part of the journey. The way in which data is integrated from the enterprise is just as important.
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Calculating ROI for Business Intelligence Solutions in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
By :Oco, Inc. Published Date: Oct 03, 2007
Successful business intelligence implementations can unlock key information within a company’s data vaults and enable organizations to operate more effectively and profitably. Unfortunately, it can be extremely difficult for organizations to develop the initial justification for a BI solution, and more importantly, measure the benefits a BI project has delivered once it is in place.
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Oco, Inc.
Discover Retail 'Megatrends' For 2010
By :IBM Published Date: Dec 17, 2004
Empower consumers. Increase productivity. Profitably compete in a saturated market. Today, mid-sized retailers need powerful tools to conquer a turbulent environment. IBM can help with tailored solutions. Click for information and a complimentary copy of National Retail Federations's report, "Deeper Customer Insight" - an in-depth look at five retail megatrends of 2010.
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Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain
By :Information Builders Published Date: Dec 05, 2007
A firm's supply chain is the essence of how it delivers value to its customers. Deploying a supply chain performance management solution is a challenging process. This paper outlines critical steps and key factors in optimizing performance management for your entire supply chain.
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Protect Your BI Investment
By :SAP Published Date: Aug 16, 2007
You’ve made the decision to upgrade to the SAP NetWeaver® Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) component and look forward to achieving the advanced functionality it offers. But are you really prepared for the upgrade? Do you know the key value drivers behind it or which software functionalities your organization should focus on?
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An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments
By :iWay Software Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.
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iWay Software
Acquiring Business Intelligence is Crucial
By :Netsuite Published Date: Nov 08, 2007
But what is "BI" and how do small/mid size business owners acquire it without too much cost?  This Executive White Paper will outline the issues and solutions for the "BI" requirements of growing companies.
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Netsuite
Butler Group on iWay Service Manager
By :iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006
iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.
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iWay Software
Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform
By :Clarabridge Published Date: Mar 06, 2006
This white paper describes how the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis, and capitalizes on lessons learned from solving similar problems in the structured domain.
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Clarabridge
Integrated Sales and Marketing for Consumer Products Companies
By :SAP Published Date: Jun 13, 2007
Explore how consumer products executives are gaining actionable market intelligence and clear visibility into all aspects of the enterprise, its suppliers, and customers -- to execute brand strategies efficiently at the shelf level. The key: an integrated sales and marketing approach.
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SAP
Pratt & Whitney Canada Case Study
By :SAP Published Date: Mar 21, 2007
Learn how this aircraft manufacturer deployed the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) composite application to support production of its next-generation engine – and achieved faster production and real-time analysis of parts quality.
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SAP
Reap the Benefits of Business Intelligence with HP Servers and Microsoft SQL Server
By :HP Published Date: Apr 12, 2006
Read this whitepaper to learn why HP Integrity servers and HP enterprise storage, combined with SQL Server 2005, can create the critical Business Intelligence IT environment that Windows customers have been dreaming of.
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HP
Reporting & Dashboarding with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
By :Cognos Published Date: Sep 26, 2006
Read how Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product—to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.
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Cognos
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership: Delivering Cost Effective Enterprise Business Intelligence
By :MicroStrategy, Inc. Published Date: Jan 25, 2008
The business value of a business intelligence application is often hard to measure, given that value will continue to evolve and grow over the application’s lifetime. In contrast, the investment costs – also referred to as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) – often represent a more objective and quantifiable estimate.
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MicroStrategy, Inc.
Service-Oriented Architecture ( SOA ) – A New Alternative to Traditional Technology Integration
By :Information Builders Published Date: Aug 10, 2005
Service-oriented architectures are being heralded by industry analysts and vendors as the only viable way to overcome the complexities involved in creating agile, reusable business systems. This paper examines the basic premises underlying SOAs.
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Information Builders
 
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