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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 |
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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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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible |
| By :IBM |
Published Date: Aug 08, 2006 |
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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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An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments |
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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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Balanced Scorecard Design Toolkit |
| By :AKS-Labs |
Published Date: Mar 14, 2007 |
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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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BI Market Consolidation: Re-Igniting the Debate of Open Systems vs. Closed Systems |
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The recent acquisitions in the BI market are re-igniting the debate on the most fundamental issue in enterprise software today – whether it is better for companies to have their software supplied by a few conglomerate vendors or by a range of independent vendors. This MicroStrategy white paper focuses on the contrasting dynamics of open system vs. closed system solutions.
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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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Business Intelligence for Consumer Products: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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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Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs |
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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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Butler Group on iWay Service Manager |
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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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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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Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence |
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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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Corporate Overview: Enterprise Business Intelligence |
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MicroStrategy software has helped industry leaders such as eBay, Ace Hardware and Cingular Wireless increase revenues, reduce operational costs, and better serve their customers. Learn how these and other successful MicroStrategy customers have committed to a culture of continuous performance improvement by running innovative MicroStrategy-based business intelligence applications.
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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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Using Virtualization to Maximize Your IT Environment
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The business of managing IT infrastructures has reached a crossroads. The number of global players is shrinking through mergers and acquisitions while the playing field, also known as the customer’s IT environment, has become exceedingly complex and difficult to manage. This working paper presents CA’s corporate and technology strategy behind appropriate virtualization management positioning and commitments as an important element in preparation for the move toward that model in your IT environment. |
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