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Feb 8, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: CI, eBusiness Intelligence, BI, EBI, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Business Knowledge DEFINITION: In information technology, gap analysis is an assessment tool that helps identify the differences between the current condition and a desired state. A gap is sometimes called "the space between where we are and where we want to be." A gap analysis highlights which requirements are not being met and provides a foundation for measuring the investment of time, money and human resources that's required … Definition continues below.
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Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Software Evaluation and Selection Guide sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn a systematic approach to select software for your planning, budgeting and forecasting needs. Read how to combine today's best practices with leading-edge technology. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Financial Reporting \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Spreadsheets

Financial Analysis Clears the Profit Haze sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper by Technology Evaluation Centers discusses the challenges that organizations face when trying to understand their existing business positions and future business scenarios. It focuses specifically on profitability analysis. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Corporate Governance \| Data Analytics \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software

Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software

Profitability Analysis & Optimization: Gaining a competitive edge sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Improved business processes, powered by optimized technology, can help many companies significantly improve their profitability. Read this paper released by BPM Partners to see how a business can take advantage of new trends and tools for profitability. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Activity-based Costing \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management

Facilitating “sound practices” in risk management with IBM OpenPages ORM sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| Standards

Improving Sales Effectiveness In a Buyer’s Market sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper details the results of a survey of 160 firms with annual revenues of $250M or more conducted to determine whether their customer relationship management (CRM) software is addressing the changed and changing requirements of sales reps as they develop relationships and pursue opportunities in light of ever increasing buyer expectations. Posted: 07 Feb 2012 \| Published: 07 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CRM \| CRM Analytics \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Software \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Sales Information Systems \| Sales Representatives

Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: How can a small to midsized business (SMB) improve its ability to analyze data and transform it into useful information, thereby improving the overall quality of its decisions? With business intelligence (BI). Read this white paper for an introduction to the benefits of BI, approaches to implementing BI, what to look for in a BI product, and more. Posted: 07 Feb 2012 \| Published: 07 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Real-time Analytics \| Reporting Software

The Customer Loyalty Conundrum sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In 2011, Forrester Consulting conducted a study to find out how customer loyalty decision-makers define and execute customer loyalty. Read this study to find Forrester's analysis of how loyalty decision-makers currently use customer data, technology, and analytics to manage customer loyalty programs. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CRM \| CRM Analytics \| CRM Best Practices \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Retention \| Customer Satisfaction \| Customer Service \| Loyalty Programs

The Intelligent Enterprise: Creating a Culture of Speedy and Efficient Decision-Making sponsored by Versa Shore Inc. WHITE PAPER: Use this exclusive resource as a guide to gain insight in to how to foster intelligent business decisions through collaboration, information governance, customer service, and corporate culture. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Decision Support Systems \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Information Governance \| Information Management \| Oracle (Product)

Agile Business Intelligence: Real-Time Intelligence for Smarter, Faster Decisions sponsored by JackBe WHITE PAPER: Read this comprehensive white paper now to learn more about real-time business intelligence (BI) and the benefits of implementing agile BI into your current BI strategy. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Decision Support Systems \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

Operational Dashboards: Making Real-Time Decisions sponsored by JackBe WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the uses of operational dashboards and how many leading organizations, including the U.S. Department of Defense, take advantage of them. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Decision Support Systems \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

Composite Information Server 6.1 Data Sheet sponsored by Composite Software WHITE PAPER: This industry leading and innovative data virtualization approach to data integration enables you to more efficiently and effectively leverage valuable data that is scattered throughout your organization. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Warehouses \| Databases

Strategic Profitability Management sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Very few of today's companies have a reliable way to achieve the widest profitability margins consistent with other strategic objectives, largely because no one person or organization is responsible for it. Read this white paper to find out what Ventana Research recommends as part of an effective profitability management strategy. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Activity-based Costing \| Business Intelligence \| Business Metrics \| Business Performance Management \| Contingency Planning \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Reporting Software

MPI Group: The Informed Manufacturer — Tips, Tricks and Tactics for High-Tech Manufacturers sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: For high-tech manufacturers, even a brief delay in design, production, or distribution can severely limit sales and profitability. With so much at risk, speed and accuracy are imperative. Read this white paper to learn what practices, processes and systems will keep your high-tech manufacturing organization on the cutting edge. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Demand Chains \| Distribution \| Lean Production \| PLM \| Product Development \| Supplier Management \| Supply Chain Intelligence \| Supply Chain Management

Accelerating the Speed of Intelligence for Fast and Flexible Forecasting sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Dashboards \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Visualization \| Financial Management \| Financial Metrics \| Financial Reporting \| Forecast/Demand Management Software \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software

5 reasons for data discovery: Why BI data discovery tools are coming of age sponsored by NeutrinoBI WHITE PAPER: This paper details five reasons there is a shift to data discovery tools for business intelligence (BI) tool kits. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Databases

Assessing the Total Cost of Ownership for BI sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: This report provides mid-market organizations a framework for evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Reporting Software \| Small Businesses \| SMBs \| TCO

Dashboard Best Practices sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines what features are necessary and nice to have on business intelligence (BI) dashboards. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Data Visualization \| Data Visualization Software \| Reporting Software

LogiXML vs. Microsoft: Which BI Platform is Right for You? sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines both sides of the buy vs. build, Microsoft vs. LogiXML debate for SQLServer business intelligence (BI) applications. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Warehouses \| Databases \| SQL \| SQL Server

Dashboard Software Buyers Guide sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: Read this dashboard software buyer's guide to learn what to look for when selecting data visualization software for your business intelligence (BI). Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Data Mining \| Data Visualization \| Data Visualization Software

The Preferred Business Intelligence Choice-Designed for Growing Companies sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Finding a business intelligence (BI) solution that integrates with your small to midsize organization's existing IT assets can be challenging. Read this paper to discover SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, built on an open, heteregeneous platform and designed to integrate easily with SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and even mobile environments. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Microsoft Office \| Oracle (Product) \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product) \| SMBs

Fundamentals of Business Intelligence for the Small and Midsize Enterprise sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: While business intelligence (BI) tools can help small to midsized businesses (SMBs) understand how their business runs and capitalize on opportunities for growth, simply installing BI software does not guarantee its effectiveness. In this white paper, find a checklist of six essential factors for SMBs to consider when implementing BI tools. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Analytics \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product) \| SMBs \| Software Implementation

Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper breaks down the spectrum of business intelligence (BI) tools into specific functionalities and explains how they can be practically applied by midsized organizations to improve decision-making. Read it to learn what you need to know to get started with a BI implementation. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Quality \| Query Tools \| Reporting Software \| SMBs \| Software Implementation

Freedom from Facets: Discovering the data you really need sponsored by NeutrinoBI WHITE PAPER: This paper by Dr. Barry Devlin, renowned business intelligence (BI) expert and founder of 9sight Consulting, discusses the new free-form search techniques that business users are now taking advantage of for more valuable business insight. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Database Management \| Databases

Driving Sustained Improvements with Supply Chain Metrics and Analytics sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Managing today's complex, volatile, global supply chains requires the right set of performance metrics as well as the insight into risks and opportunities that analytics provides. Read this paper to learn how to use the widely-accepted SCOR framework to assess and improve your organization's supply chain performance management. Posted: 30 Jan 2012 \| Published: 30 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| SAP (Product) \| Supply Chain Intelligence \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chain Software

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): … In information technology, gap analysis is an assessment tool that helps identify the differences between the current condition and a desired state. A gap is sometimes called "the space between where we are and where we want to be." A gap analysis highlights which requirements are not being met and provides a foundation for measuring the investment of time, money and human resources that's required to achieve the desired outcome. In software development, for instance, a gap analysis can be used to document which services and/or functions have been accidentally left out, which ones have been deliberately eliminated and which still need to be developed. In compliance, a gap analysis can be used to compare what is required by law to what is currently being done. See also: risk analysis, business impact analysis, vulnerability analysis
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