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ALSO CALLED:
CI,
eBusiness Intelligence,
BI,
EBI,
Enterprise Business Intelligence,
Competitive Intelligence,
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 systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. Business intelligence
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Business Intelligence White Papers
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Operational efficiency — how to save big with BMC Software
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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As the business demands more from your tight IT budget, it's helpful to know that you can actually fund the IT improvements your business needs from savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009
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Data Center Projects: Project Management
sponsored by APC
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This paper presents a framework for project management roles and relationships that is understandable, comprehensive, and adaptable to any size project.
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009
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SAP® BusinessObjects™: The Preferred Business Intelligence Choice Designed for Growing Companies
sponsored by SAP AG
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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
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Giving Service Companies a Fast Start
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can provide service companies like yours with a software solution that helps you respond quickly to customers' expectations of high-quality, differentiated services to help you maintain services relationships - with predictable costs, and low total cost of ownership.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009
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Business Intelligence in SAP® Business All-in-One
sponsored by SAP AG
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
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SAP® Business All-in-One Fast-Start Program: Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value
sponsored by SAP AG
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The SAP® Business All-in-One fast-start program enables you to configure a solution online, obtain an estimate of costs, and implement the solution quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers rapid time to value and lets you tailor the solution to meet your changing needs, protecting your long-term investment.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
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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
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Using Advanced Analytics: Gain Insight into Your Revenue Stream
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER:
Read this paper to learn how analytics can help you leverage the right combination of people, processes, and information. With analytics, you can analyze your sales and marketing processes to gain insights more quickly and improve business performance. Read on to learn how by using analytics you can increase top-line revenue.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions: Instant, Accurate Information Drives Competitive Edge
sponsored by SAP AG
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This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Cashing in on Customer Intelligence in the Financial Services Industry
sponsored by Infor CRM
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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
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Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009
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7 Ways to Inspire Customer Loyalty with Voice of the Customer (VOC) Initiatives
sponsored by Vovici
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In the most challenging economic environment in generations, organizations are more focused than ever on retaining customers and maintaining existing revenue. Many businesses have put significant resources into implementing CEM and VOC programs. Read on to learn seven ways to inspire customer loyalty using these VOC initiatives.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009
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Customer Experience IQ Report
sponsored by Vovici
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The Customer Experience IQ (CEIQ) report identifies the six secrets of highly effective customer experience programs that every company can use to create true customer loyalty. Read this paper to learn which customer experience programs that organizations have implemented are most effective at driving customer loyalty.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009
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7 Habits of Highly Successful Surveys
sponsored by Vovici
WHITE PAPER:
Understanding your customer is vital to maintaining and improving loyalty. Learn how to measure customer experience so you can build customer loyalty. Download a copy of the latest Vovici whitepaper 'The Customer Satisfaction Survey' to learn how to understand the major customer experience metrics and more!
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009
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TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009
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Migrate to Online Services
sponsored by SHI
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
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Security in the Business Productivity Online Suite from Microsoft Online Services
sponsored by SHI
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This paper describes how Microsoft manages security, privacy, and continuity of the Online Services program, as well as how it aligns with industry standards for security and reliability.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009
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Transforming Insight Into Action with Business Process Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:
Take action based on deep process insight with business process management. This white paper shows how your business can not only acquire deeper insight into current business operations, but also how to use that insight to drive performance, productivity and savings throughout your organization with BPM from IBM.
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009
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Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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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
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Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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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
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Maximizing Operational Efficiency with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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
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Performance Management Applications Overview
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009
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Deploying Business Intelligence on Sun Fire X4275 Servers
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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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
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Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): … applications can be:Mission-critical and integral to an enterprise's operations or occasional to meet a special requirementEnterprise-wide or local to one division, department, or projectCentrally initiated or driven by user demand This term was used as early as September, 1996, when a Gartner Group report said:By 2000, Information Democracy will emerge in forward-thinking enterprises, with Business Intelligence information and applications available broadly to employees, consultants, customers, suppliers, and the public. The key to thriving in a competitive marketplace is staying ahead of the … Business Intelligence definition sponsored by SearchDataManagement.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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