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Articles
Operational Business Intelligence – A Prescription for Operational Success
Business intelligence has “invaded” the operational space in a big way, offering in-line analytics, real-time or near real-time decision-making support for all employees in the
enterprise. 
The Three Environments of IT
The Impact of Master Data Management on Business Intelligence and Operational Architectures
This article defines a master data management environment and describes how it should interact with the business intelligence and business transactional environments.
Three Trends in Business Intelligence Technology
Perfect Storm or Perfect World?
As the business intelligence marketplace matures, three trends are impacting the direction of the industry.
Best Practices for Business Intelligence Tool Selection
Proven best practices mitigate business risk and reduce time, cost and effort involved in selecting a business intelligence tool – by as much as 40 percent.
Connecting the Extended Corporate Information Factory to the Enterprise
The combination of the Extended Corporate Information Factory and the Smart BI Framework enables business intelligence processing to work cohesively with business transaction and business collaboration applications.
News
Wrigley Implements AeroScout’s Real-Time Enterprise Visibility Solution
Wrigley is using AeroScout's technology and a Cisco Unified Wireless Network to track the location of pallets in real time.
Business & Decision Acquires ICS Ltd
ICS Ltd specializes in custom application development and business intelligence solutions.
Informatica Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Identity Systems
Acquisition brings identity resolution capabilities to Informatica.
Organizations Worldwide Select Oracle for Enterprise Performance Management and BI Initiatives
Organizations are choosing Oracle to help optimize business processes, decisions and actions.
Customers Worldwide Sign Up for Sybase IQ Analytics Server
Several hundred new customers worldwide sign up for Sybase IQ analytics server, the market leader in column-oriented database, in the last year.
White Papers
Business Intelligent Best Practices: Delivering Real & Expected Value
The success of any technology depends on how simple and easy it is to use. With BI getting out of the confines of PhDs and analysts, and getting into the realm of everyday business users, this dictum
is more important than ever.
Supporting pervasive BI with new technology
This paper discusses how business intelligence is in more demand that ever. The paper also discusses the emergence of new data analytics and data warehousing technology that is set to help
organizations provide more access to intelligence and insight usin
Model Driven Data Warehousing
This white paper is intended for people who want to understand how the design and implementation of data warehouses and data marts can be improved dramatically by using model driven methods and
tools.
DB2 Warehouse Performance Monitoring and Optimization
This paper discusses IBM's solution to manage the complete lifecycle of BI and data warehousing with comprehensive monitoring and optimization.
The Critical Shift to Flexible Business Intelligence: What Every Marketer Wants – And Needs – From Technology
An Intelligent Solutions White Paper by Claudia Imhoff and Raymond Pettit.
Solutions Spotlights
Ravi Shankar, Director of Product Marketing for Siperian
Ravi Shankar discusses the Siperian MDM Hub. This next generation master data architecture is an integrated, model-driven software platform that meets business and technology requirements to improve
quality, consistency and access to any data. 
Dr. Larry Harris, Vice President and General Manager, EasyAsk a division of Progress Software
Larry Harris shares how EasyAsk makes business intelligence as easy as Web search. Using a familiar search box, business users can type in natural language questions and get back answers and relevant
reports.
Sanjay Poonen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Performance Management for SAP-Business Objects
Sanjay Poonen shares SAP’s integrated road map for enterprise performance management providing highly usable, best-of-breed products.
