Business Intelligence Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how in-memory computing changes the way organizations can operate and gain value from their business intelligence (BI). Particularly, discover how this method can bring together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Branch office consolidation solutions help small-but-growing businesses to improve their competitive positions by reducing infrastructure purchasing and management costs, improve business continuity and step up productivity.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 15 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses: What is an industry model? What is the value of industry models? Considerations for building or buying data models IBM Industry Models—business and technical blueprints Reducing time to value with IBM Industry Models

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a set of six management processes that lead organizations to become smarter, more agile, and better aligned—the key attributes of management excellence.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This brief by Gihan Perera, founder of First Step Communications, provides 10 practical tips for keeping control of your online meetings.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 29 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: Learn what leading companies do differently to outperform their peers. From strategy decisions to investment in information technology and performance measurement systems, MPI’s latest research explains how your company can realize tangible returns though greater flexibility and improved delivery performance.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how IBM Cognos solutions can harness data from multiple systems, wrapping the critical information into easy-to-understand reports that help you identify and respond to trends as they are happening. Download this white paper now and see examples of seven essential supply chain reports designed to answer your most pressing questions.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This report demonstrates the benefits of building smarter supply chains and highlights three new rules for optimizing performance given today’s often-daunting challenges. Find out if your supply chain organization is an ‘Operator’, ‘Planner’ or ‘Visionary’, and the strategic capabilities required at each level to advance supply chain performance.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn the benefits of advanced data mining, including a greater return on investment. It offers practical guidance for incorporating additional data types and sources, expanding the scope of data mining projects and deploying results more effectively throughout your organization.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this executive report from MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute for Business Value learn how the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action and out-perform the competition, recommended actions organizations can take to bolster their analytics capabilities to achieve long-term advantage.

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 | Published: 20 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn how retailers are using predictive analytics to uncover patterns in the products purchased together to differentiate assortment, merchandise stores and develop combined product offers to drive sales and profits.

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 | Published: 20 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper from IBM describes how a set of five predictive imperatives can help ensure that your company maximizes the value of its customer relationships and sustains higher levels of revenues and profits.

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 | Published: 20 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Cognos Business Intelligence lets you access virtually any data source, regardless of platform, and provide detailed, understandable views of the data to all users, regardless of location.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper is written for BI technical professionals and provides an in-depth overview of the Oracle BI Foundation Suite functional capabilities and technical architecture.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how CIOs are building a foundation for a much more agile business that holds the potential for working in a more flexible way and enabling faster innovation by actively evaluating and experimenting with newer technologies.

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 | Published: 22 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization - from front line employees to senior management - that enable better decisions, actions, and business processes.

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 | Published: 22 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Following on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and others, global investors are demanding stricter corporate governance and compliance requirements for publicly held companies. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the issues, principles, and technologies underlying new requirements in corporate governance.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses challenges with trusted data in enterprises and recommends solutions through a data warehousing implementation scenario. The paper also discusses the capabilities of InfoSphere Foundation Tools and provides proof points through customer scenarios on the productivity, acceleration and risk reduction benefits.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: In top - performing organizations, analytics has replaced intuition in predicting and acting upon real-time information. Read this white paper and see how an effective business analytics strategy can help organizations optimize performance, operationalize decisions and solve mission problems.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Get the help your organization needs to link product paths into an intelligent whole, using software as the invisible thread to make it happen. This white paper examines software delivery for smart products, plus strategies for turning software development evolution into a business practice, and more.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 14 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper, intended for both IT and operational management, explores a series of high-level best practices for analytics and data warehousing based on Sybase’s experience with successful implementations. Suggestions are provided in three categories: performance, cost control, and ease-of-deployment with each dimension broken down into sub-topics.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology, which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. Sybase CEP provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and deliver more analytic modules over time.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Ray Wang of The Altimeter Group explores the IT and business criteria organizations must consider when planning their next BI deployment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Jun 2010