Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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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
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Three Keys to Better Data-driven Decisions: What You Should Know… Right Now
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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It's time for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) still using outdated business processes and systems to bring their decision-making up to speed with a centralized view of enterprise information. Read this white paper to learn how the right tools can give SMBs the accurate, timely data they need to make informed, strategic business decisions.
Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012
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Strategic Profitability Management
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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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
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Assessing the Total Cost of Ownership for BI
sponsored by LogiXML
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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
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Dashboard Best Practices
sponsored by LogiXML
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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
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The Preferred Business Intelligence Choice-Designed for Growing Companies
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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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
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Fundamentals of Business Intelligence for the Small and Midsize Enterprise
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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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
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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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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
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ISVs Accelerate Their Applications with BIRT and ActuateOne
sponsored by Actuate
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Download this white paper and learn how ISVs are leveraging Actuate and BIRT technology to deliver interactive functionality, customizable dashboards and rich visualization capabilities to their users.
Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012
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3 Steps to Service Assurance: Fostering Effective Data Collection, Analytics, and Reporting
sponsored by CA Technologies.
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The process of capturing and analyzing data from many sources for a clear picture of network performance and distributing these metrics can pose a complicated challenge. The effort is worthwhile - successfully performing these activities helps IT identify and isolate problems before they cripple the delivery of critical business services.
Posted: 24 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011
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Best Practices for Embedding BI into your Software Solution
sponsored by Birst
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This paper offers practical advice on how to plan for, build, and market an analytics product. If you execute product development and rollout well, you can grow your business, build customer satisfaction, and improve the “stickiness” of your product. But like any great opportunity, success requires careful planning and attention to detail.
Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 15 Apr 2011
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Business Intelligence for Business Users
sponsored by IBM
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Learn how important it is to address the different BI needs of your business constituents, so they have insight when and where they need it.
Posted: 08 Feb 2011 | Published: 08 Feb 2011
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Business Intelligence Strategy
sponsored by IBM
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BI can yield valuable insight that increases performance. For some, BI programs can be derailed by factors beyond technology- by people and process. Learn how to prepare a BI strategy that will help you achieve excellence in your initiative.
Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011
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Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This paper is written for BI technical professionals and provides an in-depth overview of the Oracle BI Foundation Suite functional capabilities and technical architecture.
Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011
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Recover lost online revenue with customer experience management
sponsored by Tealeaf
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In this white paper, we’ll describe the two main techniques companies utilize to incorporate customer recovery into their overall Customer Experience Management strategy—namely, Immediate Issue Resolution & Follow‐up and Real‐time Customer Recovery.
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010
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An Introduction to Procurement Management Using PMI Terminology
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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The current version (v4, 2008) of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) has four processes® within the Procurement knowledge area.
Posted: 19 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010
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Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards®
sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
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Whether you are just starting a compliance program or need to fine-tune your existing process, this document will help you understand the steps involved in becoming GIPS compliant. It is not a substitute for the Standards themselves. It is designed to help you understand the value of compliance, what’s needed to achieve it, pitfalls to avoid.
Posted: 23 Apr 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010
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The Road to BI Success
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
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There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. Read this active Q&A session on building a successful enterprise BI strategy.
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010
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Leveraging Open Source Data Quality - Practical Examples Illustrated with Talend Data Quality
sponsored by Talend
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This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data.
Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010
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Using Syslog Effectively for Security Troubleshooting
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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This paper examines the numerous ways that syslog messages can be used to enhance the secure deployment of an infrastructure of equipment from Cisco®. Syslog can not only be an essential auditing tool for network and administrative events, but also can be an effective troubleshooting tool.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010
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SQL Server 2008 Dynamic Duo: Management Views and Functions
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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Dynamic management views and functions were extraordinary additions to SQL 2005, and they have only improved in function and increased in number in SQL 2008. This white paper will explore a few of their capabilities and give examples as to how they can ease the workload of a database administrator.
Posted: 22 Sep 2009 | Published: 22 Sep 2009
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Back Office Outsourcing and Investment Reporting - A Guide for Investment Advisors
sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
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In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors.
Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
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Data Conversion in a System Migration: Best Practices for Compliance and Continuity
sponsored by Advent Software, Inc
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This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion.
Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
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Inside SQL Server 2008: Management Studio Improvements
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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When the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was first introduced in SQL Server 2005, it received mixed reviews. With the launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has succeeded in transforming the SSMS into a much more useful tool set. This whitepaper will list and discuss each of these improvements of SSMS 2008.
Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009
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