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	podcasts, IT downloads and product information provided by Bitpipe</description>
	<language>en-us</language> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:40:13 EDT</lastBuildDate>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:40:13 EDT</pubDate>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Understanding the Components of Business Confidence]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1255033609_245.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren&#146;t as competitive as they&#146;d like to be.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Driving Business Results with a New kind of Intelligence]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254946929_732.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    In a turbulent economy, companies need to seize every viable opportunity possible. Yet, as the global markets struggle, any margin for error or inefficiency has virtually vanished. Access to sound intelligence -- derived from accurate, up-to-date information -- helps companies make game-changing decisions quickly and with confidence.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[IBM Performance Manager online demo]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254936106_657.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    See how plans, financial reports and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources in this flash demo.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Information Agenda Assessment Tool]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254933712_649.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    The cost and complexity of managing increasing volumes of data and content, plus the need to provide trusted information to all users, are driving CIOs to rethink approach to information delivery. This quick self-assessment is the first step to find out how IBM's Info Agenda approach can help your company unlock the business value of information.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254927237_98.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    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.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254853729_377.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Complete capabilities in one product, on a single architecture. See key features for both business and IT users, including Framework Manager, the Administration Console, and integration with Microsoft Excel.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Professional Users]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254760528_44.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    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&reg; 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 24:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254756132_560.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company&#151;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.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 24:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1254165595_856.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.
   Published by: SAP America Inc]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Making Strategy Real]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1253910366_127.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
   Published by: SAP America Inc]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Crystal Reports - The Affordable, Trusted Solution that Just Works]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1251149632_591.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    With Crystal Reports - solve report design and information sharing issues through: powerful report and dashboard mashups, secure report sharing, management, scheduling and publishing - an affordable, cross-platform solution, that just works.
   Published by: SAP BusinessObjects]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[BI for Business Users:  How IT Can Make Business Intelligence Easy for Everyone]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1248115044_187.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Today, the latest BI solutions put the power of advanced business intelligence into the hands of more people throughout the organization - improving the speed and accuracy of decision-making from top to bottom. Knowing your business, market, customers, and competition is critical for any organization. Read this for more...
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[In Search of Clarity: Unravelling the Complexities of Executive Decision&#45;Making]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1213035590_114.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Decision&#45;making by companies has enormous room to improve both in terms of efficiency and quality; it will have to for companies to keep pace in an increasingly competitive global business environment.
   Published by: SAP America Inc]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Killing Time: Reducing Operational Latency to Boost Productivity]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1246052701_645.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Operational systems and analytical systems are on a convergent path. The artificial divide between operations and analysis is closing rapidly as a combined result of Moore's law and technological innovation. This promising development is leading to real reductions in latency of operations and the creation of time itself for decision-makers.
   Published by: ParAccel]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Data Base 101a - Thinking Just a Little Differently]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1246050847_703.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    A columnar data base is a data base arranged to optimize data analysis, but how? What is a columnar database really? This document presents the basic concepts of columnar databases in a straightforward manner so anyone who is involved with data, business or technical, can understand their purpose and application.
   Published by: ParAccel]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245701668_20.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes.
   Published by: Information Builders]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence Standardization]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245448273_816.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    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.
   Published by: SAP BusinessObjects]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Expanding BI's role by including Predictive Analytics]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245446940_977.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    In today's economic downturn, organizations are looking for ways to improve the way they do business, to keep ahead of the competition, and to grow revenue. With reduced funding for new initiatives, it can be difficult to meet these objectives. Read on to learn how expanding your business intelligence with predictive analysis can help.
   Published by: SAP BusinessObjects]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Business Intelligence - Now More Than Ever]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245440440_949.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    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.
   Published by: SAP BusinessObjects]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 24:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Making Business Relevant Information Instantly Available to More Users]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245444388_864.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs.
   Published by: SAP BusinessObjects]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[All Information, All People, One Platform: What's New In SAP&reg; BusinessObjects&trade; XI 3.1]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245436511_228.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    BusinessObjects XI 3.1 solutions provide a full spectrum of BI functionality--from reporting, query and analysis, and dashboards and visualization, to intuitive discovery and advanced predictive analytics capabilities--as well as data quality and extract, transform, and load functionality.
   Published by: SAP BusinessObjects]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 24:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245176157_447.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Download this paper and learn how Blaze Advisor makes it easy to bring the power of predictive analytics to bear on decisions, integrating judgmental and regulatory business rules with analytically derived models for more precise, more effective decision making. Download and learn the secrets of developing decision management applications.
   Published by: FICO]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Decide to Survive: Four Imperatives that make Decision Management Essential in Today's Uncertain Environment]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1245100636_898.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Download this paper and learn about a decision making solution that will help you survive in this difficult economy by managing decisions with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency while driving down costs.
   Published by: FICO]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 24:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1242325543_346.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
   Published by: IBM]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 24:00:00 EDT</pubDate> </item>  <item> <title><![CDATA[Optimizing Information Insight:  How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data]]></title> <link><![CDATA[http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1235581980_35.html?asrc=RSS_BP_TERM]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[
    This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business decisions is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data.
   Published by: Oracle Corporation]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 24:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item>  </channel> </rss>

