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Home > Enterprise Applications > Business Intelligence 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. Results 1 - 25 of 65 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Using Financial Management Solutions to Make Intelligent Business Decisions By : Microsoft Published Date: Dec 04, 2006 In this webcast, we discuss how companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward. While strategies, organization, motivation, and leadership all set the stage for business success, you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities to see results—because ultimately success is determined by your people. Learn why we call a business that fosters a winning environment a "people-ready business." Download Now Using Business Intelligence to Gain an Advantage By : Microsoft Published Date: Nov 07, 2004 The people in your organization have access to volumes of information that was once unimaginable. Success or failure can hinge on whether or not people can use this information to make wise decisions quickly. But without the ability to make sense of information, a knowledge gap exists, and the best anyone can do is guess or follow a hunch. Business intelligence helps you decipher and extract meaning from data so you can make informed decisions. Download Now Financial Management and Business Intelligence Solutions for a High-Performance Workplace By : Microsoft Published Date: Apr 16, 2007 Sound, responsible financial management is at the heart of business success. Download this webcast to learn more about the Microsoft solutions for financial management and business intelligence (BI) that can help you transform your business into a high-performance workplace. We describe how Microsoft business solutions are designed to help you work more efficiently by focusing on the tasks that add the most value to your business and enable you to make more informed decisions based on timely, accurate information. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now Discover Low-Cost Data Handling Breakthrough: MSSO By : Business Intelligence Inc. Published Date: Mar 16, 2006 Surprisingly low-cost technology MSSO/SD4E transforms Excel into an incredibly powerful and completely secure Business Intelligence tool capable of quickly and easily manipulating and analyzing live data directly from multiple, disparate data sources, generating even the most complex and sophisticated analytical reports with a simple keystroke. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now Top 10 Tips for Web-Based Collaboration in SMBs By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006 The following tips can help you select Web-based collaboration software that offers all the features you need to get your entire team working together effectively. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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.  Download Now 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. Download Now The Location Intelligent Enterprise: Unlocking the Value of Location in Data By : Quocirca Published Date: Oct 04, 2007 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. Download Now Unified CPM and the Application of Predictive Analytics By : OutlookSoft Published Date: Oct 24, 2005 As vendors rush to embrace and exploit predictive analytics, only those with a truly unified solutions will succeed in capitalizing on this powerful and promising technology. Read this insightful white paper to learn more. Download Now Using Trust, Information and Relationships to Improve Operational Efficiency By : WorldTelemetry, Inc. Published Date: Mar 08, 2007 Companies that purchase fuels, chemicals, solvents and other products often have to make a choice: either reduce costs by keeping inventory levels low, risking run-outs and lost sales, or keep enough surplus inventories on hand to be prepared for unforeseen spikes in product demand, which tends to drive up inventory costs and market price risks. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now Achieve Predictable Return on Investment with an End-to-End Tank Monitoring Solution By : WorldTelemetry, Inc. Published Date: Jan 05, 2007 Corporate managers responsible for multiple fuel tank locations need remote technology applications to maximize their information use and increase the reach of their resources. Success when planning new remote technology projects can be measured in terms of increased profitability or ROI if the planners adequately address the build vs. buy decisions required when choosing the necessary hardware, software, deployment and integration strategy. Download Now 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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