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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  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Business Intelligence
Technical Summary of New Features A9 SP3
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Actuate 9 Service Pack 3 solidifies the Actuate 9 Platform by harnessing the powerful new capabilities of the latest open-source BIRT release which, combined with the availability of the Information Objects technology on Linux.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 28 Dec 2007
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Collaborative Reporting Architecture
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The Collaborative Reporting Architecture represents a breakthrough in BI by bringing not only technology, but also the principals of open source development, into reporting applications of any size and complexity.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 05 Oct 2007
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Gartner: Roundup of Business Intelligence and Information
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This document provides a roundup of 1Q08 (and some earlier) research and toolkits for IT leaders on the topic of business intelligence (BI) and information management.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 02 May 2008
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Rich Internet Applications or Business Intelligence - How Do I Choose?
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Rich Information Applications integrated with a performance management strategy helps high-performing organizations improve decision making at all levels by ensuring better operational performance and execution.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 21 Jul 2008
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Operational Excellence through Enterprise Intelligence: Building Competitive Advantage in Financial Services
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WEBCAST: In this videocast Rod Nelsestuen describes how leading financial institutions are improving and achieving operational excellence through enterprise intelligence, while at the same time building competitive advantages.advantage.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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AMR Research: Pervasive Performance Management
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
VIDEOCAST: In this webcast John Haggerty discusses the concept of pervasive performance management, gives a lesson on framing issues and, more importantly, shows how technology can solve some pretty thorny business problems.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 21 Jul 2008
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IDC on Rich Internet Application Trending for Online Business Banking Channels
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WEBCAST: View this webcast and discover what's powering client expectations of online business banking channels and how Rich Internet Applications can drive the value added services they require.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Data Modeling: A Necessary and Rewarding Aspect of Data Management
sponsored by Burton Group
WHITE PAPER: Data modeling has evolved from an arcane technique for database designers into an entire family of interrelated techniques that serves many constituencies, including techno-phobic business stakeholders and users. The new maturity of modeling to...
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 19 May 2008
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Videoconferencing: Increasing Productivity, While Reducing Costs
sponsored by Polycom, Inc.
EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: This expert E-Guide is a series of published Networking Media articles containing the factors driving videoconferencing and 10 ways to determine if videoconferencing can help your company reduce costs, while increasing productivity.
Posted: 17 Jul 2008 | Published: 17 Jul 2008
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): …  analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Business intelligence applications can be:

  • Mission-critical and integral to an enterprise's operations or occasional to meet a special requirement
  • Enterprise-wide or local to one division, department, or project
  • Centrally 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, … 
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