Business Intelligence

Download your copy of this complimentary handbook to learn about the HMRC Mandate, find out what XBRL is and learn the essentials of "tagging" data, iXBRL compliance tools and options.

Download this paper to learn the top strategies leading executives are using to take full advantage of the insight they receive from their business intelligence (BI) systems - and turn that insight into a competitive weapon.

Today financial services institutions must meet the standards for data quality attestation by the FFEIC regulators of risk reporting. This paper discusses the platform and domain expertise needed to support the rigorous demands of commercial and retail risk reporting.

By implementing the six pillars of data quality optimization, your organization can incrementally improve the quality of the data that drives all your operations.

Effective CRM demands a single, complete, accurate view of customer information including purchasing history, product interest, and support interactions. Enterprises require a solution to discover data issues, correct and standardize, and maintain data accuracy and consistency.

This report provides recommendations for improving the quality of operational data, which in turn contributes to an organization's drive toward operational excellence.

The explosion of data and consumer mobility trends put more pressure than ever on the back office systems across telecommunications companies, defense, transportation, healthcare, financial services and more. Using selected customer scenarios this webcast describes how VisiBroker, the market leading CORBA ORB, is the most cost effective, high performance solution to bring together tens of thousands of end points across distributed applications.

To find out how your organization can reduce costs, speed time-to-market, and improve quality, download Quark's new white paper for free.

Download this white paper to learn how to deal with the challenge of delivering high-quality information and how to overcome the inherent limitations of traditional publishing techniques.

Download this white paper to learn how IT automation can increase BI infrastructure responsiveness and reliability.

The recent wave of new business analytics tools, solutions, and capabilities marks a true revolution in BI. In this SAPinsider Special Report on Business Intelligence, SAP Executive Vice President Sanjay Poonen lends his insights on the market drivers for this BI revolution, and explains what it all means for SAP customers. The article also features SAP ecosystem partners highlighting how SAP customers can unleash the power of information to truly innovate their business.

With the business intelligence functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, your company can gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability to increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.

This paper will outline the value and methods involved in data mining across both quantitative and qualitative data. In addition, it will describe the data transformations necessary before doing such work, and the tools that are particularly valuable for mining mixed data types.

BI usage among organizations with mobile BI has doubled compared to those companies that have not mobilized their BI. Learn about these results, the emerging best practices for mobile BI usage and the framework by which you can assess your own management capabilities for enterprise mobile BI adoption.

Find out how to recognize the signs your company needs a business intelligence solution and what you should look for in a vendor. Learn more about BI components and approaches to implementing a solution to improve your company's efficiency and effectiveness.

Nearly all companies realize that the way to gain a competitive advantage is to obtain better data, interpret them quickly, and distribute them in easier-to-use formats. However, there are many obstacles to the effective use of data and few companies surmount them all-a fact that results in a lot of unused corporate data. How are companies using information to beat their rivals and create a more level playing field? This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit examines how their practices are evolving and offers examples of data use at some highly successful companies.

The list of initiatives that are data-enabled-indeed, data-intensive-vary from company to company, from industry to industry. But the common denominator is an increasing awareness that these and other programs can't succeed without clean, meaningful, and available information. In this white paper, Baseline Consulting's Jill Dyché discusses how the data conversation is changing from philosophical questioning to hard-core tactics, from "What do we need?" to "Where do we start?" It covers the most common reasons for data governance failure, as well as the components of data governance that will inform the right strategy and give companies a means of determining where and how to begin their data governance journeys.

As you prepare to embark on an ERP implementation or to upgrade an existing system, you have a lot to juggle and plan. You know the horror stories of "go-lives" going bad but you aren't sure how to avoid the pitfalls. This white paper discusses at length how Utopia's formal data migration methodology reduces the risks of large systems deployments by using a tried-and-tested framework for the entire migration process, from source data analysis through post-go-live support.

Learn more about Business Intelligence for the iPad and the iPhone. Discover how beautiful dashboards display brilliantly in an instant. Gain quick access to key insights that you can share with your colleagues to drive better business decisions. Learn more.

This paper will discuss the security capabilities of MicroStrategy Mobile on Apple's mobile devices.

Learn about enterprise business intelligence (BI). Taught by a MicroStrategy expert, this free, one-day class includes core principles of business intelligence, product demonstrations, and hands-on exercises.

In this white paper, Pentaho Agile BI: An iterative methodology for fast, flexible and cost-effective Business Intelligence, Pentaho Chief Geek/CTO, James Dixon, dispels why old technologies, pricing and approaches used for Business Intelligence are not well suited for today¹s environment.

This white paper discusses how by designing these three corner stones correctly, you can seamlessly scale out your EDW without having to constantly tune or tweak the system.

See what BI can do for your company in this complete four-chapter Shortcut Guide to BI success. Learn practical, affordable tips for creating or expanding your BI strategy.

Read about how Mayflex used IBM Cognos Express to replace a complex spreadsheet system, improve time-consuming budgeting and forecasting processes, compare actuals against budgets at various levels and save time for end-users through automatic system updates.