WHITE PAPER - Information consistency and reliability is essential for accurate business analysis. Yet, the lack of controls around the use of spreadsheets wreaks havoc on organizations every day, costing money and credibility. Read this report to learn how companies can benefit by migrating to Pentaho’s low-cost open source managed BI solution for spreadmarts.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Content Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Management Software | ERP | Information Management | Information Management Software | Open Source | Reporting Software | Spreadsheets

ANALYST BRIEF - Read this report to learn what Aberdeen Group found when analyzing the results of 65 IBM/Cognos BI users who participated in a larger study about best practices for business intelligence during a recession.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how IT decision makers can drive better business performance through strong strategic, tactical, and advanced reporting.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: July 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Systems | Reporting Software | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - Companywide BI deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: July 25, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Systems

WHITE PAPER - IBM's acquisition of SPSS broadens the support network for SPSS users and offers IBM Cognos users a predictive analytics platform. This paper shows why business analytics may be used by everyone in the future.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Management | Predictive Analytics | Predictive Analytics Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how to strengthen your organization's business intelligence investment in the current economic environment, which has seen budget cuts in virtually every area. This paper offers tips for making a tangible business case for BI investments.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Investments | IT Spending | ROI

PRODUCT DEMO - This demonstration shows all the capabilities of the IBM Cognos 8 BI product. Demos are presented for all roles including employees, managers, BI professionals, business analysts, and system administrators.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2010


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Enterprise Systems | Systems Management

CASE STUDY - This white paper presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | ERP | Interoperability | Open Source | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - Enterprise reporting offers a single platform starting point for performance management. Combining performance management with an enterprise BI reporting system yields exponential benefits across the organization and does so more cost-effectively than point solutions implemented by individual lines of business and functions.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Enterprise Systems | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. Read this active Q&A session on building a successful enterprise BI strategy.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Dashboards | Data Management | Data Quality | Information Management | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Predictive Analytics | Reporting Software | ROI

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for a discussion of the business reasons to move to real-time data warehousing and common data integration approaches, with an emphasis on using real-time CDC capabilities and Oracle solutions.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Published: January 19, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Oracle (Product) | Real-time Analytics

WHITE PAPER - In this Intel IT Brief, you'll learn about the value of server refresh by taking a look at the costs savings achieved by Intel while executing their four-year server refresh strategy.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: June 30, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Provisioning

CASE STUDY - eBuilder, a provider of Cloud Supply-Chain Management Processes, needed a web-based BI solution to enable clients to swiftly analyze information and make critical business decisions. Jaspersoft’s BI Suite enabled eBuilder to provide visually impactful, easy-to-use strategic measurement and monitoring capabilities for the business B2B supply chain.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: March 15, 2010


Topics:  B2B | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Cloud Computing | Dashboards | Data Management | Open Source | Open Source Software | Software as a Service | Strategic Planning | Supply Chain Intelligence | Supply Chain Management | Supply Chain Software

WHITE PAPER - BI solutions provide organizations with the insight required to make critical business decisions. This paper outlines how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) BI outperforms traditional and open source BI solutions by offering greater TCO advantages via automation, easier integration and lower staffing costs thus enabling faster, easier BI deployments.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Published: March 11, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Cloud Computing | Open Source | SaaS ERP | Software as a Service | Staffing | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Rising data and query volumes take a toll on data warehouse hardware, software and administration. To maintain service levels, IT must perform constant tweaking or commit more of the IT budget to adding more storage. Read this paper to find out how SAP NetWeaver BW optimizes for both cost and performance, while reducing the administrative load.
Posted: March 11, 2010 | Published: March 10, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Data Storage | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Architectures | ERP | Information Management | Information Management Software | Information Retrieval Software | NetWeaver | Query Tools | SAP (Product)