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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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Balanced Scorecard Design Toolkit
By :AKS-Labs Published Date: Mar 14, 2007
Business professionals lack essential information about real-life metrics and information on how to build a Balanced Scorecard, which supports weights and scores, which allows calculating the performance values. This whitepaper is a Balanced Scorecard design toolkit, which contains some "how-to" ideas.
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Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants
By :BusinessObjects Published Date: Jan 25, 2007
Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You'll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.

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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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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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The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Business Performance
By :Cognos Published Date: Jan 29, 2007
The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, strengthens the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide the information that drives better decisions. It suggests 42 decisions areas, or information sweet spots, to help you understand your data, plan, and monitor your performance.
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Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information
By :Cognos Published Date: Sep 13, 2006
This paper looks at research into the link between visual perception and understanding, and translates the findings into practical techniques that you can use to communicate more clearly with your data.
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Employee Performance: Coaching Techniques for Dealing with Underperformers
By :Global Knowledge Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
How, then, do we deal fairly and firmly with under-performing employees? The secret is to give effective feedback on a regular basis, link that feedback to a 6-12 month coaching plan, link individual coaching plans to your company's performance review process (if you have one), and, if the situation warrants, link that to progressive discipline.
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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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The Definition of a Business Service for Customer Data Integration
By :IBM Published Date: Mar 01, 2006

This white paper will define different vendor approaches to developing business services and the relative cost implications of each approach for the customer. 


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IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II
By :IBM Published Date: Dec 01, 2005

This white paper will outline the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions to address the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the Basel II Capital Accord. 


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IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value of Information
By :IBM Published Date: Jul 02, 2007
Organizations must adapt more rapidly than ever before - which means that they must align their IT environments with their business goals and deliver information on demand, when and where it is needed. In this white paper, the experts at IBM discuss how your company can meet this need for information on demand with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a business-centric approach to IT architecture that supports integration through linked, repeatable business tasks or services.
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IBM Balanced Warehouse: The Flexible Foundation for Real-Time Business Intelligence
By :IBM Published Date: May 30, 2008
Businesses need a better way to leverage information, manage analytic results and glean business insights across the enterprise.  Are you seeking a simple, flexible and optimized solution?  Watch this short video to learn about IBM's Balanced Warehouse -- the complete ‘ready-to-go’ data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components of DB2 Warehouse, Server and Storage.
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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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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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SOA - Actionable Information for Business Optimization
By :IBM Published Date: Oct 16, 2007
We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we’re called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis.
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Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI
By :Informatica Published Date: Oct 24, 2007
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. There are thousands of business process steps in a typical enterprise where pervasive BI insights can be added. What are leading companies doing with pervasive BI?
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Delivering on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Mandate
By :Information Builders Published Date: Nov 11, 2004
This white paper discusses the specific business and architectural success factors to consider when selecting one Enterprise Business Intelligence Suite (EBIS) to serve as the enterprise standard.
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Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture
By :Information Builders Published Date: Sep 15, 2005
The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source:  the systems that run the business.
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Achieving Compliance- Meeting Today's Reporting Requirements With Business Intelligence Technology
By :Information Builders Published Date: Nov 24, 2004
Learn about the challenges and solutions for meeting the reporting requirements faced by today’s organizations, with attention to formal government legislation, industry-specific regulations, and internal corporate governance.
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Establishing a Culture of Measurement – A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence
By :Information Builders Published Date: Nov 11, 2003
This paper serves as a synopsis of Information Builders' philosophy of business intelligence. By using this paper as a model, you'll learn how to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.
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The Cost of a Question – Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions
By :Information Builders Published Date: Sep 19, 2003
Reduce the purchase, maintenance, and implementation costs of business intelligence by standardizing on a single solution that meets all of your reporting and information delivery needs. This paper compares the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of BI solutions from Cognos, Business Objects, and Information Builders.
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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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The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture
By :Information Builders Published Date: Sep 06, 2006
This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.
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Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence
By :Information Builders Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
This paper describes how to leverage WebFOCUS business intelligence software to generate Excel spreadsheets directly from enterprise data sources, consolidating large amounts of data, performing complex calculations, and creating advanced structures like PivotTables.
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Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
By :Information Builders Published Date: Aug 01, 2007
The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.
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