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ALSO CALLED: CI, eBusiness Intelligence, BI, EBI, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and 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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Recent Vendor Reports on Business Intelligence
Best-of-Breed BI on a Budget
sponsored by ParAccel
WEBCAST: Business Intelligence is critical to running an effective business. Increase your BI efficiency by adopting best-in-class, easy-to-deploy data warehousing technologies. This webinar reviews how Talend, ParAccel, and Jaspersoft together provide a complete, affordable, end-to-end, world-class BI solution.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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What's Cool about Columns
sponsored by ParAccel
ANALYST REPORT: This paper will define what column-based relational databases do and how they do it, and where they have advantages (and disadvantages) compared to traditional approaches. This in turn will lead to a discussion of the sort of environments for which columns are best suited.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Focus on SAS® Enterprise BI Server: Applying Business Analytics Webinar
sponsored by SAS Institute Inc.
WEBCAST: This SAS® webcast will introduce viewers to the SAS Enterprise BI server. We'll discuss how this single solution will provide organizations the ability to access and distribute quality data whenever needed and in the desired format.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Focus on SAS® Visualization: Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series
sponsored by SAS Institute Inc.
WEBCAST: During this webcast, sponsored by SAS Institute, Inc., we'll be discussing visualization and how organizations using the SAS® BI platform can transform quality data into competitive business intelligence. Following this discussion, there will also be a flash demonstration to show the capabilities within this BI platform.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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IT@Intel: Using TCO to Determine PC Upgrade Cycles
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: At Intel, we've developed a comprehensive methodology, based on total cost of ownership (TCO), that lets us calculate the real cost of operating more than 90,000 PCs. Using it, we can understand the real cost of deploying and maintaining our PCs across varying time horizons.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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IT@Intel: Staying Committed to Server Refresh Reduces Cost
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn why Intel IT decided to move ahead with server refresh in 2009 after current economic conditions forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. Analysis found that delaying server refresh for a year would increase our costs by USD 19 million.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009
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Must Read: New Issue of Intel Premier IT Magazine
sponsored by Intel Corporation
EZINE: A special edition focused on PCs presents bottom line best practices for deploying, maintaining, managing, mobilizing, refreshing, and securing your client fleet. Read now.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009
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E-Book: Next-Generation Business Intelligence (BI) Strategies
sponsored by IDS Scheer
EBOOK: Business intelligence is critical to many initiatives. Therefore, CIOs need to pay special attention to changes in the business. Learn more about the latest BI systems and how they can help meet the changing needs of the business.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009
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Breaking the Business Intelligence Log Jam
sponsored by ParAccel
ANALYST REPORT: In an ongoing business intelligence project, the new required updates pile up at a steady or accelerating rate, while the effort to make each change grows as the system grows more complex. The inevitable result is a growing backlog of unmet business needs. That build-up is the BI Log Jam. Read this analyst report to learn how to break the cycle.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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Killing Time: Reducing Operational Latency to Boost Productivity
sponsored by ParAccel
ANALYST REPORT: 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.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009
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Enterprise Vault: Real World ROI
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WEBCAST: Join this webcast to learn about actual scenarios to help drive real, tangible returns from archiving and electronic discovery.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Enabling the Analytics-Driven Business: How Parallel, Columnar Database Technologies Power Operations Management
sponsored by ParAccel
WHITE PAPER: As the speed of business intensifies, C-level executives are struggling to implement effective strategies that give their companies a competitive edge. Operational Strategy and Operations Management (OM) are two business fields that work together to help executives set and manage business strategy based on quantitative analysis, not gut feel.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009
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Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service Delivery in a Lean Economy
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
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Customer case studies using HP Business Availability Center
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
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IDC White Paper: Making the Business Case for IT Consolidation
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: IDC believes that IT organizations are constantly being asked to do more with less. This analyst report will look at some of the key triggers CIOs look for when deciding to consolidate as well as getting started with consolidation and its impact on the business.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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5 Key Virtualization Management Challenges - and How to Overcome Them
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009
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Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End-User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses some of the common myths about infrastructure monitoring, and addresses how to ensure your infrastructure monitoring is responsive enough to satisfy and retain your customers.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Presentation Transcript: Pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) Trends
sponsored by IDS Scheer
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this expert webcast transcript, you'll learn more about the pros and cons of pervasive BI solutions, specific vendor offerings and ways to get executive buy - in.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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Successfully Automating Decisions with Business Analytics
sponsored by SAS Institute Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Corporations are getting much more interested in how analytical decisions can be embedded into business processes on an ongoing, repeatable basis. The purpose of this paper is to provide practical advice on how to identify the best opportunities for making your business processes more analytical.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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How to Compete on Analytics: The Analytical Center of Excellence
sponsored by SAS Institute Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The significance of analytics to an enterprise and the understanding of the value of analytics have moved it to the forefront of business thought leadership. In the process of understanding how to centralize and support analytics, this whitepaper will take a historical parallel perspective of support.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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Business Analytics for the CIO
sponsored by SAS Institute Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Organizations today are dealing with increasingly complex issues, dynamic changes and a systemic need for evidence-based decisions across a growing range of decision makers. The SAS® Business Analytics Framework maximizes the value of technology and information assets - enabling organizations to address critical business issues right...
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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PODCAST: The Need for Best of Breed. Tips for your ERP & BI Application Strategy
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
PODCAST: This Podcast can help you put your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs into perspective with application strategy tips offered by Ray Wang at Forrester Research.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 25 Jun 2009
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Best Practices for Optimizing SAP Accounts Payable
sponsored by Dolphin Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In an age when companies are tightening financial controls and automating business processes, Accounts Payable remains a largely manual process. This whitepaper discusses Dolphin's Best Practice approach and solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in SAP.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009
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The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build - Oracle's Pre-Built Analytic Applications Versus Building a Custom Warehouse
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper 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: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 23 Jun 2009
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Presentation Transcript: Business Benefits of Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript industry expert Greg Schulz explains the challenges and benefits of optimizing your web hosting.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Build Extensible Dashboards that Meet OEM End Customer Needs
sponsored by Actuate
WEBCAST: Today's OEM end customers are demanding dashboards to view performance metrics. This webcast discusses how to implement dashboards that present real-time operational indicators enabling end users to quickly take action and effect change before it is too late.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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 … 
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