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<title><![CDATA[whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/Data Management/Business Intelligence]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delivering on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Mandate]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper708/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-27 13:51:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper709/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-27 13:51:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source:&nbsp; the systems that run the business.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving Compliance- Meeting Today's Reporting Requirements With Business Intelligence Technology]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper710/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 12:32:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn about the challenges and solutions for meeting the reporting requirements faced by today&rsquo;s organizations, with attention to formal government legislation, industry-specific regulations, and internal corporate governance.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Establishing a Culture of Measurement – A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper711/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-27 13:51:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper serves as a synopsis of Information Builders&#39; philosophy of business intelligence. By using this paper as a model, you&#39;ll learn how to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Cost of a Question – Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper712/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-27 13:52:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture ( SOA )  – A New Alternative to Traditional Technology Integration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper713/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-16 16:11:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Butler Group on iWay Service Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper714/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-10 10:29:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper715/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-16 16:12:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper716/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-10 10:29:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today&#39;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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper790/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-16 22:10:11</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Definition of a Business Service for Customer Data Integration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper801/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:34:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper will define different vendor approaches to developing business services and the relative cost implications of each approach for the customer.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper806/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:31:37</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper will outline the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions to address the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the Basel II Capital Accord.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper822/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-16 16:10:40</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Master Data Management:  The Myth of a Single Vendor Platform]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper836/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:44:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Master Data Management is a cohesive strategy for managing all master data domains.&nbsp; Where is your organization most likely to derive business value from a Master Data Management solutions?&nbsp; This report answers these questions and details the path forward:&nbsp; Adaptive Master Data Management. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Sell Skeptics on the Value of Master Data Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper837/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:44:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This comprehensive report addresses industry-specific issues for the Financial Services sector, Insurance, Pharmaceutical companies, Retailers, Manufacturing, and High-Tech.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building a Business Case for Customer-Centric Master Data Management: Don’t Forget the ROI]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper839/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:43:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover the essential steps to delivering a solid business case for the right customer-centric MDM architecture and achieve maximum ROI.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper843/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:24:41</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You&#39;ll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Balanced Scorecard Design Toolkit]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper992/</link>
<pubDate>2007-03-20 12:43:17</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 &quot;how-to&quot; ideas.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BI 2.0: The Next Generation of Business Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1094/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:56:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reporting & Dashboarding with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1155/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 14:11:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read how Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers complete reporting to all users with one business intelligence product&mdash;to make it simpler, faster, and easier to manage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Performance Manager: Turning Information into Business Performance]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1156/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 14:12:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual Communication: Core Design Principles for Displaying Quantitative Information]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1157/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 14:12:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6 Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1266/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-28 15:08:11</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Need a retail intelligence system that doesn&#39;t require a significant up front investment, coordination of multiple software vendors and system integrators, or take months or years to implement? This guide will help you gain greater visibility of all your sales channels, products, distribution and suppliers to make timely and effective business decisions. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Location Intelligent Enterprise: Unlocking the Value of Location in Data]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1478/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-05 09:03:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency.&nbsp; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1518/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-26 14:42:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 &ndash; 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?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1586/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-27 13:51:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The CIO&#39;s role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper &ndash; using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS&#39; performance on System z running z/OS and Linux &ndash; helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1587/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-16 12:39:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Acquiring Business Intelligence is Crucial]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1607/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-27 14:16:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But what is &quot;BI&quot; and how do small/mid size business owners acquire it without too much cost?&nbsp; This Executive White Paper will outline the issues and solutions for the &quot;BI&quot; requirements of growing companies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Harnessing the Power of an IT Dashboard]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1635/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 09:53:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1987/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 11:03:10</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Discover Retail 'Megatrends' For 2010]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1990/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 11:03:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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&#39;s report, &quot;Deeper Customer Insight&quot; - an in-depth look at five retail megatrends of 2010.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA - Actionable Information for Business Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2321/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2452/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-28 15:08:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The business intelligence (BI) &ldquo;boom&rdquo; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2661/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your organization&#39;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&rsquo;s going on and planning for the future.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions from SAP and Business Objects]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2662/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs&#39; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence for Consumer Products: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2663/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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&#39; business performance.&nbsp; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2664/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.&nbsp; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2666/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-15 00:19:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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&#39; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2667/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.&nbsp; achieve insight, transparency and competitive advantage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2671/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A firm&#39;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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2672/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM Balanced Warehouse: The Flexible Foundation for Real-Time Business Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2719/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 10:41:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Businesses need a better way to leverage information, manage analytic results and glean business insights across the enterprise.&nbsp; Are you seeking a simple, flexible and optimized solution?&nbsp; Watch this short video to learn about IBM&#39;s Balanced Warehouse -- the complete &lsquo;ready-to-go&rsquo; data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components of DB2 Warehouse, Server and Storage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value of Information]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2724/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 10:39:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing Business Intelligence (BI) Complexity]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2944/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-22 22:15:58</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Businesses, more than ever before, are relying on fact based decision-making and analytics to compete in this environment. This has given rise to &quot;Business Intelligence,&quot; or simply BI, a broad category of applications and technologies for accessing, combining, computing and analyzing data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Financial Management and Business Intelligence Solutions for a High-Performance Workplace]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3042/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-01 08:50:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using Financial Management Solutions to Make Intelligent Business Decisions]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3043/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-01 08:52:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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&mdash;because ultimately success is determined by your people. Learn why we call a business that fosters a winning environment a &quot;people-ready business.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using Business Intelligence to Gain an Advantage]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3046/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-01 08:52:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Modeling: A Necessary and Rewarding Aspect of Data Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3059/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-07 13:07:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving Efficiency and Effectiveness With Your Master Data]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3266/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read this article to identify the 5 phrases of an EDM implementation you need to achieve efficiency and effectiveness with your master data.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Graphic Packaging International Transformed Its Business With SAP]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3299/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-25 15:29:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 &ndash; including improved visibility into business processes and decreased production costs through better order scheduling and reduced inventory.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Sauder Woodworking Transformed Its Business With SAP]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3300/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3355/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Operational Business Intelligence (BI): Getting Real-Time About Performance]]></title>
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<pubDate>2008-09-23 10:29:27</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Companies are trying to improve efficiencies and performance of many real-time operational business practices, including customer experiences, inventory &amp; purchasing, manufacturing yield, BAM and BPM. This white paper explores strategies and capabilities that best-in-class companies are employing to improve operational performance.]]></description>
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