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Feb 9, 2012
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Business of Information Technology >
Business Processes >
Business Intelligence >
Business Performance Management >
Metrics >
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ALSO CALLED:
Business Performance Metrics,
Sales Metrics
DEFINITION: A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment (ROI), employee and customer churn rates, revenues, EBITDA, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access
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Business Metrics Reports
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Strategic Profitability Management
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Very few of today's companies have a reliable way to achieve the widest profitability margins consistent with other strategic objectives, largely because no one person or organization is responsible for it. Read this white paper to find out what Ventana Research recommends as part of an effective profitability management strategy.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012
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Dresner Advisory Services: 2011 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study™
sponsored by Actuate
ANALYST REPORT:
Read this white paper to learn why Actuate BIRT outperformed Pentaho and Jaspersoft to secure the leading open source overall ranking and surpassed other open source business intelligence (BI) vendors by a wide margin in this independent market study.
Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012
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Smarter Underwriting: New Strategies for Cost Control and Pricing Precision Using Data Management
sponsored by FICO
WHITE PAPER:
While insurers have invested in automating high volume decisions, most are not leveraging advanced analytics and other data-driven strategies to improve pricing decisions and cross-channel opportunities. In this white paper, FICO describes how to use business rules management systems as a core technology to improve revenue while controlling costs.
Posted: 23 Dec 2011 | Published: 23 Dec 2011
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The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success
sponsored by FICO
WHITE PAPER:
When automating decisions, choosing the right business rules management system is not enough. In this white paper, FICO offers 11 steps to help you make the most of business rules, from understanding where to apply the technology in your business to strategies to operationalize analytics and continuously improve decisions.
Posted: 23 Dec 2011 | Published: 23 Dec 2011
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In-Memory Analysis Delivering Insights at the Speed of Thought
sponsored by BeyeNETWORK
RESEARCH CONTENT:
In this exclusive research report, Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research for Business Applications and Architecture at TechTarget and renowned business intelligence (BI) expert, discusses the recent changes in the BI market as well as the future of BI technologies.
Posted: 15 Dec 2011 | Published: 15 Dec 2011
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Alteryx PT
sponsored by Alteryx, Inc.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
In this BeyeNETWORK transcript of a webcast, industry expert and author Cindi Howson details the current state of business intelligence (BI) adoption, the business impact and offers BI best practices from both organizational and technical perspectives.
Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011
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Podcast: Best Practices for Successful Business Intelligence
sponsored by Alteryx, Inc.
PODCAST:
In this BeyeNETWORK podcast, industry expert and author Cindi Howson details the current state of business intelligence (BI) adoption, the business impact and offers BI best practices from both organizational and technical perspectives.
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 01 Dec 2011
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Video: Get IT insight on your organization, as it's happening in a user-friendly scorecard
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIDEO:
Watch this short demonstration of HP IT Executive Scorecard to learn how easy it is to gather, analyze and report on your business intelligence (BI).
Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 30 Nov 2011
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Best Practices for Successful Business Intelligence: 2011 Insights
sponsored by Alteryx, Inc.
WEBCAST:
In this BeyeNETWORK webcast, industry expert and author Cindi Howson details the current state of BI adoption, the business impact, and offers BI best practices from both organizational and technical perspectives.
Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 26 Oct 2011
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Cost-effective strategies for delivering BI to SMBs
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
VIDEO:
BI is no longer just for large enterprises with bigger budgets. In this video, learn how the BI market has evolved to offer more affordable options to SMBs.
Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 06 Sep 2011
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Best Practices for Embedding BI into your Software Solution
sponsored by Birst
WHITE PAPER:
This paper offers practical advice on how to plan for, build, and market an analytics product. If you execute product development and rollout well, you can grow your business, build customer satisfaction, and improve the “stickiness” of your product. But like any great opportunity, success requires careful planning and attention to detail.
Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 15 Apr 2011
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Enterprise Analysis: An Introduction to Evaluating Your Organization
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
Enterprise analysis by a Business Analyst (BA) is a method used to identify and define why an organizational change is needed. Read this whitepaper to learn the importance of this process to an organization.
Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010
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Building a Best-Run Finance Organization
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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Measuring The Business Value of IT
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users.
Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 31 Jan 2008
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BUSINESS METRICS DEFINITION (continued): … A business metric is any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of a company's performance, such as return on investment (ROI), employee and customer churn rates, revenues, EBITDA, and so on. Business metrics are part of the broad area of business intelligence, which comprises a wide variety of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Systematic approaches, such as the balanced scorecard methodology, can be employed to transform an organization's mission statement and business strategy into specific and quantifiable goals, and to monitor the organization's performance in terms of achieving those goals. |
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