Business Intelligence Software

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises that embrace SAP NetWeaver early will gain a tremendous competitive advantage. And by using the proven experience of Atos Origin nothing is left to chance. Atos Origin will provide transparency regarding the costs and benefits and help turn your vision into results using our proven global SAP expertise and integration experience.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The SAP® Business One application offers a single, affordable way to manage your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Designed specifically for small businesses, it helps you streamline processes, act on timely information, and accelerate profitable growth.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the business intelligence functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, your company can gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability to increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this 1to1 Executive Dialogue, Don Peppers and Steve Muran talk about the importance of customer retention, the need to integrate disparate sources of data, and the opportunity for financial institutions to rebuild customer trust as a means to competitive advantage.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature simplified IT Management, high availability and comprehensive security. This whitepaper will help you understand what is needed to prepare to migrate your current systems to a hosted model.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Building greater confidence in your underlying data is easier said than done. The typical organization is home to a wide variety of fragmented data sources. Organizations with a baseline of data management maturity will get better value from their BI investments. They are also more likely to outperform organizations less mature in data management.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today's Dashboards can deliver what users and the organization as a whole need to know so as to understand their current business and even conduct informed forecasts.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at end-user and server-based licensing fees for BI solutions and argues that server-based fees makes much more sense.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: BI capabilities are becoming a must-have for independent software vendors. But customers and prospects are no longer satisfied with basic home-built solutions and offerings from legacy vendors.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information at business speed. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009