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The Search for the Elusive ROI: Tracking Down Value in a Jungle of Enterprise Management Products Summary
 In the enterprise management space, ROI research provides a glimpse into “real world” IT and the experiences of a variety of companies. Every IT organization is on a quest to deliver high value to the business in the most cost effective way possible. While ROI is important in all areas of the business, skillful product selections within IT can yield particularly high levels of quantifiable value.

Topics: Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Data Acquisition and Delivery, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, ROI (Return On Investment), Data Management login required
0 comments 		10-03-2010
Integrating Content Across the Enterprise: An Introduction to ASG-Total Content Integrator Summary
 Research shows that enterprise content is growing by as much as 200% per year, and the risks of not managing it effectively are growing even faster. This paper examines the business and technical challenges of integrating disparate enterprise content and offers an elegant solution to address these issues.

Topics: Data Integration, Compliance (SOX, Basil II, HIPAA), Content Management, Data Modeling and Design, Data Management login required
0 comments 		10-03-2010
Managing Enterprise Content: Why Architecture Matters Summary
 Without full content integration, organizations risk legal and regulatory noncompliance and the undermining of business operations. Explore the implications of architecture on the repository and presentation technologies at the heart of true enterprise content management.

Topics: Information Management, Data Acquisition and Delivery, Data Modeling and Design, Architecture, Data Integration, Data Migration, Data Management login required
0 comments 		10-03-2010
Building the Case for Business Intelligence ROI Summary
 The recent economic conditions have significantly impacted the budgets of most every business in the world. Even those that are thriving are more conservative about spending for fear of deeper and extended recession over the coming months and years. This has made it more difficult than ever to gain funding for business intelligence (BI) initiatives. For these initiatives to garner their fair share of the limited funding available in this economy, it is important to build a case that documents how investing in BI addresses not only the common fears created by this downturn but also how it is critical to capitalize on the (hopefully) inevitable recovery. This paper describes 6 tactics to strengthen the case for BI investment in this environment.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Quality login required
0 comments 		10-03-2010
Fighting the Tide Summary
 Aberdeen Group recently examined how companies are using business intelligence (BI) tools to adapt to today’s market pressures. They discovered that despite these adverse economic conditions, some companies are using BI to not just support, but actually to grow their business through the lean years. This report focuses on IBM Cognos 8 BI users and compares the results they are seeing to other survey respondents.

Topics: Business Intelligence login required
0 comments 		10-03-2010
Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI Summary
 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? This white paper highlights the best practices to employ to expand BI thorughout your organization.

Topics: Business Intelligence login required
0 comments 		09-03-2010
Who Ensures Clean, Consistent Data? (Hint: It’s Not Just IT) Summary
 Inaccurate customer data costs businesses a staggering $611 billion annually. This TDWI report explores real-world solutions for strengthening alliances between business and IT, investing in technology that corrects data at its entry source, and solving data accuracy and standardization issues.

Topics: Information Quality (IQ), Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Data Profiling, Data Stewardship, Business Analytics login required
0 comments 		09-03-2010
How Organizations Make Better Decisions Summary
 Decisions, whether tactical or strategic, are critical to the success of every organization. This research study investigates the decision-making processes of 57 organizations and their use of business analytics to support and improve decision-making.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics login required
0 comments 		09-03-2010
Avoiding the Integration Tar Pit Summary
 If you don’t plan and design the data integration parts of your projects, you are destined for a data integration tar pit, with a tangled mess of point-to-point integrations of exponentially increasing complexity. This Bloor Research on agile integration discusses fast delivery of cost-effective data integration which can respond immediately to changing business needs and which doesn’t grow more complex (and expensive) to manage over time.

Topics: Data Integration, Data Acquisition and Delivery, Data Quality, Metadata, Data Profiling, Data Migration login required
0 comments 		08-03-2010
QlikView for SAP Summary
 Companies have spent millions automating their business processes, but many still lack the ability to fully leverage their wealth of data contained in SAP. QlikView in-memory analysis, with the specially designed QlikView Connector powered by SAP NetWeaver, enables SAP users to perform quick, flexible, visual, ad hoc analysis and reporting, which can include combining data from external non-SAP sources.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, SAP login required
0 comments 		03-03-2010
Semantic Alignment: Why It Matters Summary
 Semantic alignment requires organizations to look beyond mere technical fits and think in terms of mechanisms that transcend their IT infrastructure to a sustainable information-centric infrastructure that meaningfully aligns business with IT. To achieve this goal, this white paper pinpoints two essential requirements: business semantics management and data services.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Information Management, Governance, Enterprise Information Management (EIM) login required
0 comments 		02-03-2010
Business Semantics Management for Effective Application Integration Summary
 Adopting a shared information model is a great opportunity to better align business and IT, increase information governance through transparency and traceability, and create a true enterprise asset, without additional costs.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Information Management, Data Modeling and Design, Governance, Enterprise Information Management (EIM) login required
0 comments 		02-03-2010
Beat the Competition with Business Analytics Summary
 Uncover the important details required to make solid decisions to accelerate your profits.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics login required
0 comments 		01-03-2010
State of the Business Intelligence Market, 2008 – 2009 Summary
 Consolidation has changed the landscape of the business intelligence market, providing new opportunities for business intelligence open systems.

Topics: Business Intelligence login required
0 comments 		01-03-2010
Evolving from Departmental Islands of BI to a Cohesive Enterprise BI Environment Summary
 Migrating from disparate islands of business intelligence (BI) to a cohesive enterprise BI environment provides plenty of long-term corporate benefits – higher performance, lower cost of ownership and a single version of the truth. MicroStrategy explores BI consolidation in this all-new paper.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Data Marts, Analytics, BI Competency Center login required
0 comments 		01-03-2010

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