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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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| 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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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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MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards deliver a new caliber of information dashboards. MicroStrategy combined state-of-the-art data visualization and interactivity with its industrial-strength business intelligence platform to create dashboards that yield greater business insight and are usable by more people than ever before. Dashboards provide easy-to-use access to enterprise data and help organizations track performance and optimize decision-making.
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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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The business value of a business intelligence application is often hard to measure, given that value will continue to evolve and grow over the application’s lifetime. In contrast, the investment costs – also referred to as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) – often represent a more objective and quantifiable estimate.
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The recent acquisitions in the BI market are re-igniting the debate on the most fundamental issue in enterprise software today – whether it is better for companies to have their software supplied by a few conglomerate vendors or by a range of independent vendors. This MicroStrategy white paper focuses on the contrasting dynamics of open system vs. closed system solutions.
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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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Discover the wide range of business intelligence applications that MicroStrategy customers are using. This 88-page document features detailed application descriptions, sample reports and customer vignettes from leading companies like eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, and many more.
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Learn how MicroStrategy delivers the Best in Business Intelligence to its customers. This comprehensive book reviews over 90 customer success stories, presents customer applications by industries and much more.
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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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Successful business intelligence implementations can unlock key information within a company’s data vaults and enable organizations to operate more effectively and profitably. Unfortunately, it can be extremely difficult for organizations to develop the initial justification for a BI solution, and more importantly, measure the benefits a BI project has delivered once it is in place.
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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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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Aug 16, 2007 |
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You’ve made the decision to upgrade to the SAP NetWeaver® Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) component and look forward to achieving the advanced functionality it offers. But are you really prepared for the upgrade? Do you know the key value drivers behind it or which software functionalities your organization should focus on?
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Need a retail intelligence system that doesn'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.
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MicroStrategy software has helped industry leaders such as eBay, Ace Hardware and Cingular Wireless increase revenues, reduce operational costs, and better serve their customers. Learn how these and other successful MicroStrategy customers have committed to a culture of continuous performance improvement by running innovative MicroStrategy-based business intelligence applications.
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