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ALSO CALLED: CI, eBusiness Intelligence, BI, EBI, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Business Knowledge
DEFINITION: Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications include the activities of decision support  … 
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How Oracle Addresses Technology Business Challenges for Midsize Companies
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
VIDEO: Join Nick Kritikos, Sr. Director Technology Channels Marketing at Oracle, as he discusses key technology business challenges facing Midsize companies in the environments they face today.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 01 Dec 2008
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Downtime: Myths and Truths
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: This webcast explains the myths surrounding disaster recovery, discusses how to examine your strategy and create a plan, explains how to quantify the cost of downtime, and provides tips for selecting and implementing solutions.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Mission Critical Services
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: In this webcast you will learn how Mission Critical & Proactive Services help you improve availability, reduce risk and increase service management.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Actionable Enterprise Architecture
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Enterprises undergo costly efforts in defining their Enterprise Architecture (EA) to ensure their software development is flexible for their business.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Quality in Action: Introducing the Quality Management
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Join us as we introduce our newest Quality Management offerings that transform the way people work together to deliver enduring software quality as a strategic business competency - to improve operational efficiencies.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to learn a proactive data privacy strategy that will remove the vulnerability within your SAP environment.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Premieres: 11 Dec 2008, 14:00 EST (19:00 GMT)
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Forrester Research Oracle Database Security 11g: Data Masking Webcast
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST: In this webcast, Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn explains the importance of using data masking products, such as Oracle Data Masking, to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or regulated data.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Application data protection: Key risks and best practices
sponsored by Ounce Labs
WEBCAST: Learn the risks to sensitive enterprise application data, explain how to avoid the top trouble spots, and look at best practices you can implement to protect your key data while still making it work for your organization.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Business Intelligence - Accelerator Infrastructure powered by Fujitsu Siemens Computers and EMC
sponsored by Fujitsu Siemens Computers and EMC
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to learn how to keep your business operations up to speed with a secure, cost-efficient, state-of-the-art solution that takes your SAP business intelligence (BI) accelerator to the next level.
Posted: 18 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Is JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Right for Your Business?
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST: View this Webcast and complimentary Podcast to learn why the new transformation of JD Edwards applications can integrate your manufacturing strategies to improve your competitiveness and overall performance.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Mozilla Transforms BI with Pentaho and Vertica
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WEBCAST: Please join this webinar to learn about the business intelligence platform Mozilla Corporation uses to support the management of some of the world's largest collaborative, open-source development projects such as the Firefox web browser.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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TechNet Webcast: Advanced Manageability for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: This webcast details how to build effective queries, reports, and even cubes that you can use to understand and monitor the behavior of your Analysis Services servers.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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SEO for Small Businesses
sponsored by BuyDomains.com
WEBCAST: In this 30-minute interactive presentation you'll learn: The relevancy and importance of targeting the right keywords; Why page titles and meta data matter; H-1 headers tags.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Batch processing trends and key issues
sponsored by Software Engineering of America, Inc.
PODCAST: Understanding batch processing challenges is the first step to increasing efficiency and lowering costs in the data center. Listen to this podcast for insight into these common pitfalls.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2008
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Improving Mainframe Batch Efficiency- Methods and Strategies
sponsored by Software Engineering of America, Inc.
WEBCAST: View this webcast today to understand the attributes of an effective batch processing environment and how you can incorporate them into your own data center without making changes to your legacy application programs.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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BI and Performance Management Best Practices for Your SAP Investment
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
WEBCAST: Business Intelligence and Performance Management are proven technologies to provide the ability to unify all data, to deliver analytics and create information to support critical business planning and decision-making. Your challenge is to provide...
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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How to Quit Paper and Close the Order-to-Cash Performance Gap
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to learn how your company can reduce the time and effort it takes to turn a customer order into money in the bank and eliminate human errors caused by manual document processing.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Faster than Light JavaScript
sponsored by The Ajax Experience
WEBCAST: Learn about the new JavaScript features being implemented in Mozilla's engines to inform the "ECMAScript Harmony" standards process. See advanced canvas-based rendering demos that take advantage of the new speed and features.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Google Chrome and Web Applications
sponsored by The Ajax Experience
WEBCAST: This keynote gives a high-level overview of Google Chrome's current architecture with a focus on Web development; this will include a discussion of Google Chrome's rendering, Web site compatibility and developer tools.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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The Ajax Experience 2008: 15-minute Lightning Rounds
sponsored by The Ajax Experience
WEBCAST: The Ajax Experience features ten "lightning round" sessions on new, hot topics in Ajax development. These sessions have been combined into one webcast
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Ajax Testing Tool Review
sponsored by The Ajax Experience
WEBCAST: This session covers when to test, what to test, how to test Ajax components. Automatic testing with various tools, including YUI Test, OpenQA Selenium and TIBCO Test Automation Kit, are also covered.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Windows Essential Server Solutions for Channel Partners
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Windows Essential Server Solutions provides Microsoft trained IT consultants and partners who serve SMBs with an ideal platform to meet their customer's needs and grow their own business.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Turn Your IT Infrastructure into a Strategic Business Asset - Customer and Partner Perspective
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Participate in this business-focused session to learn how Windows Essential Server Solutions helps turn small and midsize IT infrastructures into a strategic asset, boosting productivity and growth while helping to control costs.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: XenApp 5 - Never Install a Windows Application Again
sponsored by Citrix
PODCAST: Learn how XenApp 5 enables you to install an application once in the data center and deliver to both servers and endpoints for the best performance.
Posted: 08 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 10 Nov 2008
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Securing Data In Motion - Part Three
sponsored by Symantec Corporation and Iron Mountain Digital and Websense and Lumension Security and Utimaco Safeware
VIDEOCAST: In part three of this videocast series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the tools and techniques needed to control data leakage.
Posted: 07 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 07 Nov 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): …  systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Business intelligence applications can be:

  • Mission-critical and integral to an enterprise's operations or occasional to meet a special requirement
  • Enterprise-wide or local to one division, department, or project
  • Centrally initiated or driven by user demand

This term was used as early as September, 1996, when … 
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