A Primer for IT and Business Decision Makers: Understanding the Planning and Deployment Requirements of Todays Software-as-a-Service Solutions
sponsored by SAP
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Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009
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A Smart Path to Virtualization
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009
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Advancing your SAP Netweaver: Maximize the value of SAP Netweaver with Atos Origin
sponsored by Atos Origin
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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
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Architecting Cost-effective Scalable Oracle Data Warehouses
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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This paper describes reference configuration and sizing information for Oracle data warehouses on Sun servers for small, medium, and large solutions to meet business intelligence/data warehouse needs.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Augmenting the Value of ERP to Achieve the Perfect Plant
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
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This paper reviews multiple compelling issues of establishing and maintaining connectivity to manufacturing operations to achieve the Perfect Plant through an existing ERP system.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008
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Automating Stimulus Fund Reporting How New Technologies Simplify Federal Reporting
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
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This paper explores the reporting challenges faced by organizations and examines the many benefits of automated U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) reporting systems.
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009
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Avoid the Dragonfly's Sting: The Importance of the BI Licensing Model
sponsored by LogiXML
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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
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Best Practices for Deploying Collaborative BI
sponsored by Tableau Software
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This paper will show you how to navigate around the usual hurdles and deliver collaborative BI that works.
Posted: 30 May 2008 | Published: 30 May 2008
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BI for Small and Mid-sized Businesses
sponsored by LogiXML
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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
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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
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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
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Business Intelligence - Now More Than Ever
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
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The goal of this white paper is to explain why business intelligence is a sound investment for any IT manager to make, especially now. Budgets are tighter and demands from executives to see immediate results from IT implementations are increasing. This paper outlines the benefits of a BI solution and its impact on a company. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Business Intelligence in SAP® Business All-in-One
sponsored by SAP AG
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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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Business Intelligence Standardization
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
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This paper gives an overview of the advantages of implementing business intelligence (BI) standards. Learn how successful organizations have standardized on, and benefited from BI solutions from SAP - and why you should join them.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Business Problems Solved: With Better Business Intelligence
sponsored by Board International
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This document presents a series of business challenges, why organizations faced them, and how these problems were solved through the use of Business Intelligence best practices.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 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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Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI
sponsored by IBM
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The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every companycutting 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
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Competing on Innovation - A Guide to Next-Generation BI Appliances
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
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IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase in the moment insight and business agility without disrupting current operations.
Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Published: 25 Aug 2009
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Creating a Business-ready Infrastructure with HP and VMware
sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware
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HP and VMware help you change the economics of IT by creating a business-ready infrastructure based on three pillars: standardize, optimize, and automate.
Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
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Dashboards: the New Face of Business Intelligence
sponsored by LogiXML
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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
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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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Deploying Oracle® Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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Designing Compelling Business Intelligence Business Cases for an SAP® Software Landscape: Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions From SAP and Business Objects
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
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A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. From a business user perspective, this translates into more interactive and pervasive BI, both creating a richer user experience and reaching every place where work is done.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Doing Good: Business and the sustainability challenge: An Executive Summary focusing on North America
sponsored by SAP AG
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Read this report on an EIU survey of 320 executives. Focusing on North America case studies and issues, the report reviews the growing importance of sustainability strategies and management and the challenges included.
Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009
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Enabling Software and SaaS Vendors to Gain Competitive Advantage: Partnering with SAP for Business Intelligence and Analytics to Achieve Rapid ROI
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices & Technologies on Your Path to Success
sponsored by SAP AG
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The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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