Business Intelligence
White papers and resources to help technology professionals make meaningful business decisions through data analysis and intelligence.
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Meeting the Challenges of Business Intelligence
BI is often seen as a complicated, jargonfilled arena that requires lots of IT expertise and resources. There is also a tension between delivering fast results economically and doing the right thing for long-term growth and flexibility. This paper provides smaller organizations with a framework to evaluate and select the...
Sponsored By SAP
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Know What Customers Want Before They Do
Webcast Summary: Today’s consumers and B2B companies only want interactions that are relevant, personalized, and based on a customer’s situation and preferences. Companies that fail to provide relevant offers will be left behind.
Sponsored By Oracle
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Turn Your Dreams into Actionable Goals
Having a solid business plan is one of the best predictors of the future success of your company, but few business owners take time to sit down and actually create a business plan. Some believe their businesses are too small to need a plan; others believe they don't have time...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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Cognos Enterprise in Action
See what's new and exciting in Cognos Enterprise. The overview is an animated video about the Cognos family and others are demonstrations of enhanced features.
Sponsored By IBM
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Extending BI’s Reach: Anticipate outcomes, forecast results, and respond proactively
According to the Technology Evaluation Center (TEC), BI and predictive analytics improves the decision making process at all levels and enables the ability to monitor and analyze data and generate predictions.
Sponsored By IBM
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Business Intelligence that’s always just right
Cover the BI spectrum with this IBM Cognos 10 family of products: Cognos Insight for individuals, Cognos Express for workgroups and Cognos Enterprise for the entire organization
Sponsored By IBM
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Ziff Davis: Top Five Considerations for Self-Service BI Dashboards
The core of BI remains the “dashboard”. In its simplest form, the dashboard is a report generated from a BI system that displays predefined measures, metrics, and aggregated data to a user. Learn why the most significant trend in business intelligence today is the “self-service” dashboard.
Sponsored By IBM
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Online demo: IBM Cognos 10 Solutions for Profitability, Modeling and Optimization Demo
Cognos software helps you understand what is affecting your company's profitability so you can take appropriate action.
Sponsored By IBM
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Data Quality, Big Data, Strategy and Visualization
Based on observations and conversations with clients, Gartner has identified five "hot" trends related to business intelligence: data quality, mobile BI, big data hype, BI strategy and visualization and has made recommendations for addressing these trends to meet changes that are coming in BI in the next few years. IBM...
Sponsored By IBM
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Business Intelligence for Analysts
This demo shows IBM Cognos Business Intelligence can help analysts find out why products are underperforming in a specific market and investigate solutions to increase revenue.
Sponsored By IBM
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In-memory processing - Enhancing performance and analytics capabilities
This paper covers the in-memory processing capabilities used in Cognos software for faster queries and how to determine which is right for your business.
Sponsored By IBM
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Analyze Your Data with IBM Cognos Enterprise
See how IBM Cognos® Enterprise can help you quickly and easily analyze all the information needed to anticipate and shape outcomes with fact-based recommendations.
Sponsored By IBM
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IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition
IBM Cognos Insight is a personal analytics solution that empowers analysts and business users to explore, analyze, visualize and share insights without compromising IT values.
Sponsored By IBM
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[IDC] Best practices for a BI and analytics strategy
There is growing evidence that higher BI and analytics competency and pervasiveness have a direct impact on competitiveness. However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated to the investment. As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute...
Sponsored By SAP
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Oxford Economics: The Global SME Mindset
The roster of SMEs generating more than 40% of revenue outside their home country will increase by 66% in three years, while those doing business in at least six countries will jump 129%.
Learn more about one of four themes that emerged from the Oxford Economics study SMEs: Equipped To...Sponsored By SAP
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Mobile Business Intelligence: A Growing Enterprise Trend
Read this white paper by Ovum Consulting to better understand what type of businesses are adopting mobile BI solutions and at what rate, based on a survey of 1,000 enterprises across four different regions (Asia-Pacific, Europe, MENA, and North America) and 11 different verticals.
This paper covers:
* Mobile devices...Sponsored By SAP
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Drive Performance and Growth with Scalable Solutions for Midsize Companies
Manage every aspect of your business in real real time. Success depends on the ability to not only proactively manage sales, operations, and financial performance, but also to react and take advantage of changing customer, supplier, and business partner expectations and demands.
Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One solution can...Sponsored By SAP
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Forrester: Competitive Differentiation Through Innovation In Business Intelligence
Making The Most Of Existing And Emerging BI, Analytics, And Big Data Tools
In this thought leadership paper by Forrester Consulting, you will learn what separates the leading companies from the rest when it comes to exploiting innovative technologies in BI and analytics, and what steps you can take...Sponsored By SAP
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Leverage Customer Content, Enhance Customer Service
Great service is delivered one customer at a time and improving interactions across all channels means truly understanding customer wants and needs. Massive amounts of unstructured data exist in your organization and can deliver customer insight that is specific, relevant and actionable. Leveraging the latest technology can help unlocks its...
Sponsored By IBM
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Why Business Analytics in the Cloud?
Many businesses today are re-evaluating their infrastructure so they can move faster and be more flexible. Adoption of cloud services, from Salesforce to Workday to Google Analytics, has been massive.
But is it right for business analytics? And is it right for your business? What are the factors you should...Sponsored By Tableau Software
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Answers on Demand: Bringing the Power of Advanced Analytics to Midsize Businesses [FROST & SULLIVAN]
"While more and more enterprises are using analytics to guide their decision-making processes, most midsize businesses continue to rely on old-fashioned decision-making techniques like trial and error. The reason for this is simple: advanced analytics solutions can be very complex and expensive to implement, leading midmarket businesses to assume that...
Sponsored By IBM
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Three capabilities to fuel today’s dynamic planning and forecasting
Today’s economy is widely characterized by skittishness and uncertainty about the future. The effect that unpredictable external forces can have on the economy can leave many business leaders feeling helpless. This fact was demonstrated in the IBM Global CFO Study, where many CFOs admitted that they lacked the ability to...
Sponsored By IBM
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PassMark Ranks Leading Endpoint Protection Products
In today's challenging security environment, using the best products that fulfill your business needs is of the essence. So when evaluating solutions, be sure to look at all aspects of a product - including performance benchmark testing. PassMark Software is a leading authority in software and hardware performance benchmarking, providing...
Sponsored By Webroot Software
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Rapid Database Migration of SAP Netweaver BW to SAP HANA
Gain a business analytics platform that changes the way your company supports its business analytic requirements with SAP HANA.
Download this service brief to find out how you can upgrade your current BW environment to SAP HANA with minimal risk by migrating your existing SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse installation to...Sponsored By HP
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SAP HANA Profitability Analysis rapid-deployment solution
If you use SAP ERP Profitability Analysis, add SAP HANA CO-PA rapid-deployment solution for real-time reporting and analytics.
Download this service brief to understand how SAP HANA CO-PA rapid-deployment solution can speed up your implementation of SAP HANA for SAP ERP Profitability Analysis.Sponsored By HP
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The Top Five Reasons Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage
As more organizations virtualize their IT environments, they're finding modern storage systems are the best fit for these next-generation setups. And, as more admins deploy EMC VNX unified storage, Flash technologies are becoming an attractive option for ensuring optimal performance for both highly active and less active data.
In...Sponsored By EMC
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Top Five Reasons Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage
As more organizations virtualize their IT environments, they're finding modern storage systems are the best fit for these next-generation setups. And, as more admins deploy EMC VNX unified storage, Flash technologies are becoming an attractive option for ensuring optimal performance for both highly active and less active data.
In...Sponsored By EMC
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Vendor Landscape: Managed File Transfer
Managed file transfer (MFT) secures and facilitates file transfer; it reduces risk and cost, increases reliability and visibility, and simplifies partner relationships. Read more to understand what’s new in the MFT market, evaluate MFT vendors and products for your enterprise needs and determine which products are most appropriate for particular...
Sponsored By Ipswitch
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Overcoming Barriers to Video Adoption in the Workplace
Video conferencing offers clear benefits to business users, including better collaboration, faster decision-making, lower times to market and cost-effective, face-to-face meetings. But many managers have a hard time getting employees to warm up to video technology at the office. Although many employees are familiar with video in their personal lives...
Sponsored By Polycom, Inc.
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Business Discovery: Powerful, User-Driven BI
The promise of business intelligence (BI) software is to enable decision makers at all levels in an organization to leverage data for business advantage - to explore data, draw insights and meaningful conclusions, and make better decisions. Traditional BI solutions have delivered reliable, operational data tied to pre-defined, static reports...
Sponsored By QlikTech
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On-demand Webcast: Beyond 20-20 Vision: Luxottica Gains Actionable Customer Insight for Marketing
Join us in our IBM/Aginity webinar to learn how Luxottica, the world's largest eyewear company best known for brands including Ray-Ban, Persol and Oakley, Inc., is using advanced analytics with their omni-channel customer data to improve marketing ROI and customer engagement.
Luxottica, has teamed with Aginity and IBM to...Sponsored By IBM
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Business Insight: Enabling User Mobility with Enterprise Security Solutions
The belief that “work is something you do, not somewhere you are,” is taking hold for much of the corporate work force. Savvy business leaders have embraced the benefits of user mobility, including:
- Increased productivity
- Improved customer relationships (through increased face time)
- Greater resilience in the face of...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Building a Business Case: Data Warehouse Appliances
Data warehousing is a powerful tool, ready to turn data into business intelligence, and now, it’s available to companies of every size. In this white paper, see how small to mid-sized companies can build a business case for a data warehouse appliance – and how to get it up and...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Social Business Discovery: Optimising Decision Making
BI (business intelligence) software has long been touted as the route to insight and better business decisions. But powerful business insight comes not just from data, and not just from what one person sees and thinks. It comes from the combination of varied viewpoints and the conclusions and compromises people...
Sponsored By QlikTech
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Customer Analytics: A Powerful Source of Competitive Advantage for Midsize Organizations
Organizations that adopt customer analytics can provide a higher level of service and build strong customer relationships. Learn how in this newsletter, featuring new research from Gartner. Top 3 takeaways:
- The amount of customer data now available through all channels and sources is staggering. Businesses need to gather...
Sponsored By IBM
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Business Plan Blueprint: Turn Your Dreams into Actionable Goals
Having a solid business plan is one of the best predictors of the future success of your company, but few business owners take time to sit down and actually create a business plan. Some believe their businesses are too small to need a plan; others believe they don’t have time...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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Enterprise Feedback: BlackBerry 10 is a Natural Evolution for McCain & Air Canada
McCain Foods Ltd. and Air Canada are long-time BlackBerry® enterprise customers. In this short video, senior IT leaders from both companies explain why they see BlackBerry® 10 as the natural evolution of their mobile strategy.
Sponsored By BlackBerry
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Key Considerations in Evaluating Data Warehouse Appliances
Data warehousing can be an expensive, complicated bag of hardware, software and support. However, adopting a data warehouse appliance will benefit your business today and in the future. In this new white paper, learn about the evolution of the data warehouse, its pros and cons and if this technology is...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Harness Your Data for Better, Faster Decision-Making
A data warehouse can help change data to insight for your company, giving you the power to see what customers, markets and operations truly need. But deploying one can be risky, time consuming, resource intensive and expensive. Is there a way to get a data warehouse integrated into your company...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Geeknet: Business Analytics for Midsize Businesses: Challenges and Benefits
Business intelligence derived from sophisticated analytics has given large companies an edge for years. It helps them be more competitive, make information -- based decisions faster and better, improves operational efficiencies, and boosts the bottom line. Midsize businesses are increasingly eager to reap similar benefits.Business intelligence derived from sophisticated analytics...
Sponsored By IBM
- The amount of customer data now available through all channels and sources is staggering. Businesses need to gather...
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Business Plan Blueprint: Turn Your Dreams into Actionable Goals
Having a solid business plan is one of the best predictors of the future success of your company, but few business owners take time to sit down and actually create a business plan. Some believe their businesses are too small to need a plan; others believe they don’t have time...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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On-demand Webcast: Beyond 20-20 Vision: Luxottica Gains Actionable Customer Insight for Marketing
Join us in our IBM/Aginity webinar to learn how Luxottica, the world's largest eyewear company best known for brands including Ray-Ban, Persol and Oakley, Inc., is using advanced analytics with their omni-channel customer data to improve marketing ROI and customer engagement.
Luxottica, has teamed with Aginity and IBM to...Sponsored By IBM
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Beyond Web Analytics
Web analytics give you a snapshot of what is happening on your website, but they don’t give you the full picture. Foglight User Experience Management from Dell enables you to record every step of every customer’s visit to your site. Now, you can track customer behavior, see what they see,...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Analytics and the Smarter Planet
Learn how BAO is helping deliver actionable insights and optimize your business results.
Sponsored By IBM
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Social Media Analytics: Making Customer Insights Actionable
Learn how the right combination of technologies can help you understand emerging customer trends and increase the ROI of your marketing campaigns.
Sponsored By IBM
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[IDC] Best practices for a BI and analytics strategy
There is growing evidence that higher BI and analytics competency and pervasiveness have a direct impact on competitiveness. However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated to the investment. As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute...
Sponsored By SAP
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Enterprise Feedback: BlackBerry 10 is a Natural Evolution for McCain & Air Canada
McCain Foods Ltd. and Air Canada are long-time BlackBerry® enterprise customers. In this short video, senior IT leaders from both companies explain why they see BlackBerry® 10 as the natural evolution of their mobile strategy.
Sponsored By BlackBerry
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IBM Cognos Express Product Demo Overview
Delivering essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that workgroups and midsize companies need at a price they can afford.
Sponsored By IBM
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PassMark Ranks Leading Endpoint Protection Products
In today's challenging security environment, using the best products that fulfill your business needs is of the essence. So when evaluating solutions, be sure to look at all aspects of a product - including performance benchmark testing. PassMark Software is a leading authority in software and hardware performance benchmarking, providing...
Sponsored By Webroot Software
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Rapid Database Migration of SAP Netweaver BW to SAP HANA
Gain a business analytics platform that changes the way your company supports its business analytic requirements with SAP HANA.
Download this service brief to find out how you can upgrade your current BW environment to SAP HANA with minimal risk by migrating your existing SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse installation to...Sponsored By HP
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SAP HANA Profitability Analysis rapid-deployment solution
If you use SAP ERP Profitability Analysis, add SAP HANA CO-PA rapid-deployment solution for real-time reporting and analytics.
Download this service brief to understand how SAP HANA CO-PA rapid-deployment solution can speed up your implementation of SAP HANA for SAP ERP Profitability Analysis.Sponsored By HP
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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances: Which One is Right for You?
While your security needs may be many and complex, the key to solving these needs is to choose the right combination of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASAs) for your network. This white paper takes a high-level look at the various models in the 5500- series of ASAs and their features....
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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DirectAccess: The New VPN
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have a new built-in architecture designed to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. This new technology is known as DirectAccess (DA) and is forecasted to replace traditional VPN connections for most of your remote access needs. DA can be installed as a...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Microsoft and the Cloud: Five Essential Things To Know
Many of the world's leading companies are making significant investments in cloud computing, and cloud computing continues to evolve. Essentially, cloud computing is a "pay for use" model similar to a utility company. Over time, Microsoft has steadily increased its investments in the cloud as well as partnered with major...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Introduction to Junos
This white paper provides a clear introduction to the workings of the Junos operating system and the devices in the Junos lineup. Following the outline of the Introduction to the Junos Operating System course, we will focus on topics that will get your feet wet and have you talking Junos...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Business Analysis Communication and Elicitation
The Business Analysis (BA) process is much like a jigsaw puzzle. It is made up of many pieces that must fit together to create a complete picture. This white paper focuses on communications, especially during elicitation, the foundation of all BA efforts and the knowledge area that occurs throughout any...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing Desktops
These five "secrets" to virtulizaing desktops will greatly increase the chance of a successfully VDI implementation. It is very important to plan for this; to balance the hardware environment to handle not just average but peak load; to properly size storage, not just for capacity, but for performance as well;...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards
Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow. As a result, BI has continued to evolve - creating a next generation of BI. This white paper explores how organizations are demanding more integrated and flexible business intelligence...
Sponsored By SAP
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Expanding BIs Role by Including Predictive Analytics
In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business to keep ahead of the competition and improve revenue. Increasingly, organizations are finding that the benefits of BI can be complemented when combined with predictive analysis. Specifically, more insight can be gained, and even...
Sponsored By SAP
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Best Practices for a BI & Analytics Strategy
At a time of great economic volatility, there has been a significant decrease in the ability of decision makers at all levels to rely effectively on only experience or intuition to make decisions. The demand to respond faster, with greater insight into ongoing internal and external events based on facts,...
Sponsored By SAP
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Managing Financial Performance
Implementing individual enterprise performance management (EPM) applications can bring great benefits to organizations, especially when replacing inefficient processes that relied on tools such as spreadsheets. But best-practice performance management, such as the Palladium Execution Premium Process set out by Doctors Robert Kaplan and David Norton in The Execution Premium, requires...
Sponsored By SAP
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Vendor Landscape: Managed File Transfer
Managed file transfer (MFT) secures and facilitates file transfer; it reduces risk and cost, increases reliability and visibility, and simplifies partner relationships. Read more to understand what’s new in the MFT market, evaluate MFT vendors and products for your enterprise needs and determine which products are most appropriate for particular...
Sponsored By Ipswitch
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Leverage Customer Content, Enhance Customer Service
Great service is delivered one customer at a time and improving interactions across all channels means truly understanding customer wants and needs. Massive amounts of unstructured data exist in your organization and can deliver customer insight that is specific, relevant and actionable. Leveraging the latest technology can help unlocks its...
Sponsored By IBM
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Key Considerations in Evaluating Data Warehouse Appliances
Data warehousing can be an expensive, complicated bag of hardware, software and support. However, adopting a data warehouse appliance will benefit your business today and in the future. In this new white paper, learn about the evolution of the data warehouse, its pros and cons and if this technology is...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Harness Your Data for Better, Faster Decision-Making
A data warehouse can help change data to insight for your company, giving you the power to see what customers, markets and operations truly need. But deploying one can be risky, time consuming, resource intensive and expensive. Is there a way to get a data warehouse integrated into your company...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Building a Business Case: Data Warehouse Appliances
Data warehousing is a powerful tool, ready to turn data into business intelligence, and now, it’s available to companies of every size. In this white paper, see how small to mid-sized companies can build a business case for a data warehouse appliance – and how to get it up and...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Business Insight: Enabling User Mobility with Enterprise Security Solutions
The belief that “work is something you do, not somewhere you are,” is taking hold for much of the corporate work force. Savvy business leaders have embraced the benefits of user mobility, including:
- Increased productivity
- Improved customer relationships (through increased face time)
- Greater resilience in the face of...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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TechRepublic Resource Guide: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
As more and more data is being created and converted to digital streams, businesses need a way to consolidate and harness all of it. That's where a data warehouse comes in. Once they've got all of that data connected, they need a way to tap into it for powerful reporting...
Sponsored By TechRepublic
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EMC Customer Profile - City of Denton, TX
City of Denton Benefits from VNX’s FLASH 1st Strategy.
Sponsored By EMC
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The Top Five Reasons Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage
As more organizations virtualize their IT environments, they're finding modern storage systems are the best fit for these next-generation setups. And, as more admins deploy EMC VNX unified storage, Flash technologies are becoming an attractive option for ensuring optimal performance for both highly active and less active data.
In...Sponsored By EMC
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Get actionable insight with security intelligence for mainframe environments
In today’s interconnected business environment, no system is immune to threats, including mainframe environments.
To help manage this challenge IBM delivers integrated threat analysis, real-time alerts, audit consolidation and compliance reporting to help you keep pace with today’s increasing threats with a single view into the risks affecting both...Sponsored By IBM
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Overcoming Barriers to Video Adoption in the Workplace
Video conferencing offers clear benefits to business users, including better collaboration, faster decision-making, lower times to market and cost-effective, face-to-face meetings. But many managers have a hard time getting employees to warm up to video technology at the office. Although many employees are familiar with video in their personal lives...
Sponsored By Polycom, Inc.
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Cognos Enterprise in Action
See what's new and exciting in Cognos Enterprise. The overview is an animated video about the Cognos family and others are demonstrations of enhanced features.
Sponsored By IBM
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Extending BI’s Reach: Anticipate outcomes, forecast results, and respond proactively
According to the Technology Evaluation Center (TEC), BI and predictive analytics improves the decision making process at all levels and enables the ability to monitor and analyze data and generate predictions.
Sponsored By IBM
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Business Intelligence that’s always just right
Cover the BI spectrum with this IBM Cognos 10 family of products: Cognos Insight for individuals, Cognos Express for workgroups and Cognos Enterprise for the entire organization
Sponsored By IBM
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Five reasons why the right BI is like the right partner
Searching for the right BI solution for your company and making sure it is a success is much like looking for the right partner. This paper provides five reasons why.
Sponsored By IBM
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The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP give organizations the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.
Sponsored By IBM
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Ziff Davis: Top Five Considerations for Self-Service BI Dashboards
The core of BI remains the “dashboard”. In its simplest form, the dashboard is a report generated from a BI system that displays predefined measures, metrics, and aggregated data to a user. Learn why the most significant trend in business intelligence today is the “self-service” dashboard.
Sponsored By IBM
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Making confident decisions with the full spectrum of analysis capabilities
This paper covers how IBM analysis software can help the people in your organization compile the facts and trends needed to make better and smarter decisions.
Sponsored By IBM
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IBM Cognos Mobile: Intelligence on the go
Interact with trusted BI content and enjoy the same user experience whether you are online at the office, using a smart phone or tablet computers on the road or offline.
Sponsored By IBM