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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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Complementary BI: The New Approach to Business Intelligence |
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Many companies have business intelligence (BI) tools and infrastructure that serve their business’ needs; however, certain functional departments, business units, or key business initiatives often don’t yet have the BI tools that they need in place. There is a new approach to BI to address those pressing business needs that leverages the existing BI infrastructure and can deliver value to the business in weeks rather than months and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional BI solution. Learn how Complementary BI leverages Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) BI solutions to address targeted business needs in a way that complements in-house BI systems, leading to a win-win situation for business users and IT analytical tools to business users.
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Enabling Growth Through Business Model Innovation - Executive Insights |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Jun 13, 2008 |
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Read this Executive Insight to find out the answers to the following questions: 1. What are the main dimensions of innovating on my business model holistically? 2. How do I enable my organization to pursue business model innovation? 3. What role does software play in supporting my business transformation?
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Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System |
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Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process.
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IBM Balanced Warehouse: The Flexible Foundation for Real-Time Business Intelligence |
| By :IBM |
Published Date: May 30, 2008 |
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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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Data Modeling: A Necessary and Rewarding Aspect of Data Management |
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Data modeling has evolved from an arcane technique for database designers into an entire family of interrelated techniques that serves many constituencies, including techno-phobic business stakeholders and users. The new maturity of modeling tools and techniques arrives in the nick of time, because new technical and regulatory realities demand that enterprises maintain scrupulous awareness of their data and how it is used. Data modeling is no longer for databases only, no longer for technologists only, and no longer optional.
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How Graphic Packaging International Transformed Its Business With SAP |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Apr 20, 2008 |
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Examine how GPI built a solid infrastructure based on the SAP ERP application, positioning the company for significant growth. GPI can now reach strategic corporate objectives – including improved visibility into business processes and decreased production costs through better order scheduling and reduced inventory.
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Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies |
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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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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 |
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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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Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions from SAP and Business Objects |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 |
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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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Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 |
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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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Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Jan 01, 2008 |
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From everyday tactical choices to long-term strategy, timely, well-informed decisions make the difference between costly missteps and confident growth. This paper examines how you can gain access to accurate information and visibility across your company from efficient integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.
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Operational Business Intelligence (BI): Getting Real-Time About Performance |
| By :IBM |
Published Date: Dec 28, 2007 |
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Companies are trying to improve efficiencies and performance of many real-time operational business practices, including customer experiences, inventory & purchasing, manufacturing yield, BAM and BPM. This white paper explores strategies and capabilities that best-in-class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
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Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain |
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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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Harnessing the Power of an IT Dashboard |
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Discover the three key reasons how enterprise IT dashboards can deliver highly valuable information to your organization in an easy to use format and provide simple processes that will turn dashboard data into actionable IT decisions.
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Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI |
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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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SOA - Actionable Information for Business Optimization |
| By :IBM |
Published Date: Oct 16, 2007 |
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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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The Location Intelligent Enterprise: Unlocking the Value of Location in Data |
| By :Quocirca |
Published Date: Oct 04, 2007 |
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Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency. However, despite the proliferation of data that businesses generate today, the potential value of this location dimension is often overlooked in the business intelligence process.
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Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? 7 Styles of Data Integration |
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There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.
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Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design |
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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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IDC Workbook: Assess the Value of Deduplication for your Storage Consolidation Initiatives
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Enterprises are caught between the continued growth in the amount of data they create, store, and depend on, and the need to consolidate IT resources to reduce costs and create a more 'green' IT environment. But while organizations have worked to reduce IT footprint, they must balance the need to improve resource utilization with more efficient protection and recovery capabilities, all in the face of increasing capacity pressures. Download the IDC Workbook: Protecting Data in the Context of Enterprise Infrastructure Consolidation and Data Growth: The Rise of New Technologies. |
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