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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 BI 2.0: The Next Generation of Business Intelligence By : LogiXML Published Date: Jan 26, 2007 The term Business Intelligence 2.0 (BI 2.0) is cropping up more and more in the industry, generally referring to the next generation of BI just as Web 2.0 has come to refer to the next generation of the Web. Download Now Building a Business Case for Customer-Centric Master Data Management: Don’t Forget the ROI By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 24, 2007 Discover the essential steps to delivering a solid business case for the right customer-centric MDM architecture and achieve maximum ROI. Download Now Business Integration ROI: Building The Business Case For Integration By : webMethods Published Date: Nov 28, 2005 Business integration is becoming increasingly important for many companies, with the need to streamline processes for efficiency and productivity while at the same time leveraging years of IT investments and becoming a more agile business that can move swiftly to exploit market opportunities and beat competition. 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 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 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 Business Intelligence Software: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary By : WorldTelemetry, Inc. Published Date: Mar 13, 2007 Business Intelligence Software are applications that build on existing data warehouses and provide analytical processing tools that allow users to more effectively analyze such data. This, in turn, permits businesses to more rapidly develop existing and new analyses and reports for improved decision-making power and information dissemination capacity. 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 Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 01, 2007 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. 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 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 Calculating the Return on Investment for Automated Remote Data Acquisition and Aggregations Systems By : WorldTelemetry, Inc. Published Date: Mar 26, 2007 ROI is based on the analysis of differential cash flows. In the case of remote data acquisition and aggregation systems for fuel tank operators, it is based on calculating the cost of acquiring and aggregating the data manually and compared to the total cost of owning, maintaining and operating an automated data acquisition and aggregation system. 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 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 Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 16, 2006 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. 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 CPM and The Big 3: Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting for Success By : OutlookSoft Published Date: Oct 24, 2005 Never has the need for a modern corporate performance management (CPM) solution -- one that unifies the "big three" processes of planning, budgeting, and forecasting -- been more critical to regaining and sustaining the accuracy, consistency, and transparency you expect from your numbers. Read this white paper to learn more. 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