Business Intelligence Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: The paper will examine the business analytics workloads, discuss how these workloads put different demands on the underlying systems and infrastructure, and provide guidance designing an integrated business analytics environment that will provide organizations with high performance, resiliency, and a scalable growth path

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 | Published: 16 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Spreadsheets are widely used for statistical analysis, but only up to a certain point. This paper presents some points you should consider if you use, or plan to use, a spreadsheet to perform statistical analysis. It also describes an alternative that in many cases will be more suitable.

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 | Published: 15 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: While big data means many things to many people, there's no arguing that today it's a business imperative. Recent research findings show that midsize organizations are just as likely to be using big data technologies to tap into data sources and get closer to their customers.

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 | Published: 15 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Top performing organizations are analytics-driven. They use business intelligence (BI), performance and strategy management, statistical analysis, modeling and predictive and advanced analytics to guide their actions, large and small and in all corners of their businesses. View this resource to learn how you can make better and smarter decisions.

Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Santam, South Africa's largest short-term insurance company, needed a way to identify risks and accelerate claims settlement. Consult this resource to find out how predictive analytics helped asses the risk of fraud and improved the service to customers.

Posted: 10 Jul 2013 | Published: 10 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are responsible for millions of decisions every day, and even the smallest variable can have an effect on the bottom line. By using advanced analytics, many companies can make well-informed decisions. Find out how you can take advantage of advanced analytics by consulting this resource now.

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 | Published: 09 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Find out how leading global investment bank, Credit Suisse, found a way to adapt to organizational change. Consult this resource to learn how planning models can be updated to reflect organizational changes within minutes rather than days.

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 | Published: 09 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Efficient analytics is a must in today's competitive market. But, finding the analytical platform that works with your IT environment can be a challenge. This resource presents a next-generation analytics technology SAP users can utilize in order to speed analysis of large data sets, increase transparency into SAP data, and more.

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 | Published: 02 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: This EMA Radar Report details how a suite of advanced performance analytics (APA) solutions combines predictive analytics with a dynamic service model to provide an intelligent framework around alerts, help you achieve faster MTTR, proactively manage application performance, and much more.

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: Ensuring that business intelligence data is accurate and consistent is crucial to the success of business intelligence (BI) projects. However, managing BI data quality is becoming more challenging as data varieties and sources increase. View this white paper to find out how you can get a handle on BI data quality.

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 | Published: 19 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: With the exponential growth of data in day-to-day business operations, business users need unlimited access to information.  View this white paper to learn more about how you can deliver analytics on rich data volumes and gain insight that can benefit your business.

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 | Published: 13 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: In response to these challenges, savvy businesses are increasingly turning to visualization-based data discovery tools, which promote self-service business intelligence (BI). This informative paper provides valuable information about visualization-based data discovery tools and how they can help IT decision-makers derive more value from big data.

Posted: 29 May 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn more about how to implement self-service business intelligence (BI.) It explores the approach used to help organizations balance the different requirements of BI. By integrating self-service BI with a centralized BI development model, your business can have a more flexible and efficient environment.

Posted: 24 May 2013 | Published: 24 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: For organizations of all sizes, data management has shifted to a critical differentiators that can distinguish winners and has-beens. View this white paper to learn more about how companies are finding out that big data is not a single technology. It explores four ways in which big data is changing businesses.

Posted: 24 May 2013 | Published: 24 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn more about what contributes to an effective business analytics buying criteria. It examines the importance of implementing an integrated infrastructure and its relationship to business analytics.

Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 17 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: The top performing organizations are analytics-driven. By using BI, companies can better guide their actions in all areas of the enterprise. This resource provides information on what you can do to stay ahead of the competition.

Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 17 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Business intelligence (BI) and business analytics have become a common solution for enterprises. This white paper outlines how you can choose an analytics solution that works for your organization now and also helps satisfy your needs in the future.

Posted: 16 May 2013 | Published: 16 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to uncover the five criteria for the right business intelligence (BI) solution. It explains how you can find the best results for your business and how to ensure you have an effective approach to business analytics.

Posted: 14 May 2013 | Published: 14 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Today, all organisations are engaged in social media. Enterprises can no longer escape the need to monitor and analyse social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and other news outlets. Enterprise need to adjust to this change quickly or they risk falling behind.

Posted: 08 May 2013 | Published: 08 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn more about visual analytics. Find out how you can combine an easy-to-use, dynamic interface with powerful in-memory technology to enable your entire user to visually explore data and execute analytic correlations on large sets of data within seconds.

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This resource offers guidance to help you navigate the business intelligence (BI) marketplace, and introduces a BI platform that can help meet your business needs. Also inside, find eight key motivators you should consider when choosing a BI tool.

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to gain a better understanding on how analytic engines can benefit your business. It helps examine the importance of analytical to business decision making. It divides the analytics into categories, so you can get to know all of your options and tailor your investment to fit your business needs.

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Gain expert insights on getting the in-memory and big data mix right. First, explore the possibilities of in-memory big data analytics and the issues that need to be considered. Next, look at the IT requirements to keep in mind, and end with tapping into an interview on managing in-memory and big data projects

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to gain a better understanding on how to unlock the value of your big data. It explores the way to use structured and unstructured data to find the way to higher revenue and competitive advantages. It outlines the careful planning process to follow to help unlock the true value of your data.

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 | Published: 26 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Big data is complex term to define and it often presents obstacles for businesses. Consult this resource to learn more about how you should look at big data from a business perspective. Find out how big data has changed the way that the business intelligence (BI) landscape operates.

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 | Published: 16 Apr 2013