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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 Identify Inventory Reduction Opportunities within Weeks By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Dec 03, 2008 In today’s tough economic times, more and more companies are looking to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on-demand business intelligence (BI) solutions to assess how they can quickly reduce inventory levels, assemble information, analyze operations and gain new insights in how to improve performance.  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 Complementary BI: The New Approach to Business Intelligence By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Nov 10, 2008 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. 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 Leveraging Capex-Free Managed Hosting By : The Planet Published Date: Jun 18, 2008 With all the competitive challenges and technology demands faced by web-based SMBs today, the possibility of a capital-expense-free alternative for providing world-class IT systems and services is extremely viable. By offering enterprise-class IT systems and services for a monthly fee, managed hosting helps to level the playing field as well as improve the technical capabilities of businesses that until now could not afford to match their larger competitors. Learn more today! Download Now Enabling Growth Through Business Model Innovation - Executive Insights By : SAP Published Date: Jun 13, 2008 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? Download Now Enabling Organic Growth - Executive Insights By : SAP Published Date: Jun 13, 2008 Discover why organic growth is the means to achieving continuous, profitable growth, and find out how your company can address some of the most common challenges in the quest to achieve it. Download Now Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System By : Tidal Software Published Date: Jun 09, 2008 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. 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 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 How Graphic Packaging International Transformed Its Business With SAP By : SAP Published Date: Apr 20, 2008 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. Download Now Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Mar 13, 2008 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. Download Now Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. One side effect of these investments has been the creation of vast stores of valuable data.  achieve insight, transparency and competitive advantage. Download Now Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 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. 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 Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 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. 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 Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions By : SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008 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. 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 Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain By : Information Builders Published Date: Dec 05, 2007 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. Download Now Harnessing the Power of an IT Dashboard By : uptime software Published Date: Nov 16, 2007 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. 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 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 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 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. 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