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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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A Closer Look at the Financial Benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 ARX
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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.
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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Jun 01, 2008 |
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Read this article to identify the 5 phrases of an EDM implementation you need to achieve efficiency and effectiveness with your master data.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: May 30, 2008 |
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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.
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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.
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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Apr 20, 2008 |
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Learn how this furniture manufacturer used the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence composite application to integrate data from multiple sources, build team-leader and operator dashboards, and streamline production flow and efficiency on the shop floor.
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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Apr 20, 2008 |
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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.
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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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| 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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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 |
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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.
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| 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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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 |
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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.
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| 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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| 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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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Dec 28, 2007 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| By : Netsuite |
Published Date: Nov 08, 2007 |
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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.
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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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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Oct 16, 2007 |
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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.
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| By : Quocirca |
Published Date: Oct 04, 2007 |
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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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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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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.
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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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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Jul 02, 2007 |
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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.
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