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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 72 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 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. Download Now Data Modeling: A Necessary and Rewarding Aspect of Data Management By : Burton Group Published Date: May 19, 2008 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. 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 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. 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 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 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 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 Pharmaceutical Social Media Marketing: Risks and Regulatory Issues By : Cymfony Published Date: Sep 04, 2007 The pharmaceutical industry is very interested in using social media to promote products, services and issues important to it. However, many drug firm executives are uncertain about how to tackle the legal and regulatory issues associated with social media communications. 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 How a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Can Transform Your Shop Floor Operations By : High Jump Software Published Date: Aug 07, 2008 Special Report for Discrete Manufacturers: How a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Can Transform Your Shop Floor Operations Ever wonder exactly what an MES can do?  Want to learn how manufacturing execution software will benefit your company? Discover answers in this guided tour of a best-in-class MES. Download Now Fighting Fire With Fire: Five Strategies to Enable Business Change in IT Operations By : HP Software Published Date: Jan 30, 2008 The problem is change; the solution is change. Like firefighters setting controlled burns to combat forest fires, IT managers are addressing the demands of business change by introducing change of their own. To meet new business needs, new applications are deployed on new architectures using new technologies. Download Now 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. 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 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. 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. Download Now 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. Download Now Operational Business Intelligence (BI): Getting Real-Time About Performance By : IBM Published Date: Dec 28, 2007 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. 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 Tom Davenport Study: Linking decisions and information for organizational performance By : IBM Published Date: Nov 14, 2008 We are entering a new period in the era of business Information systems. For most of this five-decade period (beginning in the mid-1950s), the primary focus has been on automating core business processes. The era began with custom-developed narrow-purpose applications and concluded with broad enterprise system packages provided by external vendors, but the purpose was the same: develop control and efficiency over processes by automating and capturing information from key business transactions. Download Now 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? Download Now 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. Download Now 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. Download Now 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. 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. 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