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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 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 0 comments		10-03-2010
Strategic Considerations for Evaluating Enterprise Performance Management Solutions Summary Learn how those who take advantage of evolving enterprise performance management solutions will gain a truly sustainable competitive advantage through timely access to strategic information. Topics: Performance Management 0 comments		10-03-2010
Enterprise Reporting: A Sound Step to Superior Performance Management Summary Reporting has long been a core activity for getting valuable information out to users. The time has come to take it to the next level: to make possible a broader, richer and higher quality view of the data so users can make important decisions fast and with confidence. Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management. Topics: Performance Management 0 comments		10-03-2010
Staffing for Intelligence Summary This technology brief explains how to get the best return on your analytics investment by seeking out a new combination of skill sets in your data professionals – and creating cross-functional liaison roles that bridge the gap between IT and business. Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence 0 comments		09-03-2010
Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid Summary Business analytics could be your greatest asset in delivering insight into customer behavior, operations, financial performance and risk management. Read how business analytics on a grid computing platform can significantly benefit your organization. Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics 0 comments		09-03-2010
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 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 0 comments		09-03-2010
Analytics: The Art and Science of Better Summary This briefing presents a series of insightful, timely articles that highlight how people, culture, process and technology combine to overcome analytical challenges. Learn how analytics can help you make better decisions faster. Topics: Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence 0 comments		09-03-2010
Data Requirements for Advanced Analytics Summary Preparing data to accommodate the analytic application you’ve chosen is imperative to success. This TDWI Checklist Report clears up confusion about distinguishing between data warehouses and analytic databases, as well as scaling up to handle large data volumes. Topics: Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence 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 0 comments		09-03-2010
OEM Dashboards: 5 Ways to Make Good Software Better Summary Adding a dashboard at the point where product meets people makes a solution easier to use, and the value of your product far more apparent. This white paper can help you leverage a desktop dashboard to increase performance and profitability for your customers. Topics: Performance Management, Dashboards, Business Intelligence 0 comments		08-03-2010
Are You Focused on Your Priorities? Summary Most departments could benefit from keeping their KPIs in front of their team members full time. Desktop dashboards from Klipfolio do this by promoting your organization’s short list of carefully considered KPIs on the desktop where they need to appear. Topics: Performance Management, Dashboards, Business Intelligence 0 comments		08-03-2010
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) 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) 0 comments		02-03-2010

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