Analytic Applications Software

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

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

VIDEO: This video white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: As a sales manager, you may not have access to business analytics that may be telling a story about your team's performance. What analytics do you need in order to answer questions that may come down from upper management? In this session, you'll learn about what you need to see, report on, and summarize to manage your team's performance.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Learn how new developments in BI make it easier and faster to serve those departments and groups whose BI needs have gone unmet. Birst hosts this educational webinar featuring Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: In an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: A companywide business intelligence deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. This whitepaper outlines four styles of analysis and explains how to build deployment plans around these key pillars to get the most return on your BI investment.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This brief 10-minute web-based diagnostic tool will explore your experiences with Business Intelligence (BI) in order to generate a customized report designed to help you identify your top pain points and how to address them and see how your organization stacks-up against leading BI professionals.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: IBM Business Intelligence solutions draw on trusted and timely data to deliver consistent information in the terms businesses can own and understand.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This whitepaper, written by Hurwitz and Associates, talks about moving from Business Intelligence to Business Optimization and the road to increased business benefits.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: In 2006, Kelley Blue Book implemented a new analytical capabilities solution based on Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies. Now Kelley Blue Book has improved sales staff efficiency and created a compelling new Web analytics product that can provide its business customers with more targeted data for their marketing efforts.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

DATA SHEET: Oracle Financial Analytics provides organizations with better visibility into factors that drive revenues and shareholder value. Oracle BI Applications are powerful, pre-built solutions that enable organizations to implement more quickly, with less risk and at a fraction of the cost required to build traditional business intelligence solutions.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

BROCHURE: Rising trading volumes, complex assets and inaccurate assessments of risk by multiple financial partners all contributed to the recent global meltdown. Does your business rely on up-to-the-minute, accurate data? Can you get the insights you need quickly?

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 06 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: Running multiple, disparate job scheduling solutions can cost your company a lot of unneeded expense. See how BMC CONTROL-M gives you a single point of control for all your jobs, across all platforms and applications. Watch a 2-minute overview of BMC CONTROL-M and make the switch to enterprise workload automation.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 29 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: 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.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses the latest advances in business intelligence solutions for medium-sized businesses. Watch this webcast to learn how your mid-sized company can make the most out of BI.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Inexpensive, easy-to-deploy SaaS BI can help companies put easy-to-use data mining and reporting tools for smart decision making into the hands of more employees and uncover the real “geniuses” of decision making hidden in every department.

Posted: 10 May 2009 | Published: 10 May 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: BIRT Report Designers are easy-to-use, visual report development tools that offer programmatic control, extensibility and a component-based model for reuse.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009

SOFTWARE DEMO: Free, easy-to-use report writing tool for creating authentic Excel files and reports that retain formulas, formatting, live charts and data connections.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009