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Business Analytics is the branch of logic dealing with analysis. Business analytics is a term used for more sophisticated forms of business data analysis. Analytics closely resembles statistical analysis and data mining, but tends to be based on physics modeling involving extensive computation.

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Customer Relationship Management: Secrets to CRM Success
By : Microsoft Published Date: Sep 17, 2005
Find out how you can convert your pains into profit. Learn how Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can help you develop profitable customer relationships. Microsoft CRM uses lead and opportunity management, incident management and a searchable knowledgebase. CRM also makes use of reporting tools for accurate forecasting, measurement of business activity, and employee performance.
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Microsoft
Executive Guide to Understanding Business Requirements
By : IAG Consulting Published Date: Nov 01, 2006
This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.

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IAG Consulting
Enabling Growth for Midsize Companies - Executive Insights
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 26, 2008
This SAP Executive Insight explains the challenges inherent in three common growth models and describes how to implement a solid, flexible, and adaptive foundation that supports corporate growth objectives.
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SAP
Enabling Growth Through Business Model Innovation - Executive Insights
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 13, 2008
Read this Executive Insight to find out the answers to the following questions: 1. What are the main dimensions of innovating on my business model holistically? 2. How do I enable my organization to pursue business model innovation? 3. What role does software play in supporting my business transformation?
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SAP
Insights to Accelerate Services Growth
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Jun 20, 2008
As a Services Executive are you struggling with questions regarding what to measure, how to effectively engage with your customers, and what information should be leveraged and shared with service-chain partners and customers? Leading edge organizations are making tools and data available to their suppliers and customers with aggregated information from multiple data systems. Service-chain partners and customer personnel can now see the same views of service performance and activity. This is the next frontier to creating customer "stickiness" and business growth.

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Oco, Inc.
Learn the Secrets of Competing with Larger Financial Institutions
By : IBM Published Date: Mar 24, 2005
It’s tough for community financial institutions to succeed, especially when faced with fierce competition from large banks with large budgets. See how IBM can help with solutions tailored for community banks. Click now and receive the new 18-page report from TowerGroup on CRM Metrics and how smart banks measure success.
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IBM
Master Data Management: Effective Data Governance
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 12, 2007
Organizations with data-sharing environments, complex information and systems hinder business responsiveness and decision makers’ ability to make informed decisions. This white paper will describe how engaging in a master data management (MDM) project enables effective governance of data - specifically master data - and achieves maturity in key categories of the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model.
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IBM
6 Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Aug 07, 2007
Need a retail intelligence system that doesn't require a significant up front investment, coordination of multiple software vendors and system integrators, or take months or years to implement? This guide will help you gain greater visibility of all your sales channels, products, distribution and suppliers to make timely and effective business decisions.
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Oco, Inc.
Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions from SAP and Business Objects
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. In this light, organizations that run SAP software should perform due diligence on solutions from SAP and from Business Objects, an SAP company. New milestones in areas such as user experience and information integration, from both business-user and enterprise-IT perspectives, will be hard to ignore under such a mandate.
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SAP
The CMO's Strategic Agenda Benchmark Report
By : IBM Published Date: Oct 17, 2006
Marketing executives, face a constant stream of business pressure. At the same time, customer expectations are increasing and customer satisfaction is becoming increasingly difficult  This report provides a blueprint of what best-in-class CMO's (Chief Marketing Officers) do differently to improve marketing effectiveness through marketing automation.
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IBM
Transform Data and Analytics into Meaningful Business Insights with Microsoft Dynamics GP
By : Microsoft Published Date: Nov 01, 2007
Watch this informative webcast as we discuss how the integrated intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics GP and other Microsoft technologies can help improve your company operations by providing business insights to all employees. Learn how you can enable people throughout your organization to make confident, business-critical decisions while minimizing costs.
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Microsoft
The Business Value of Plant Floor Visibility
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
Best in Class manufacturers are driven to improve plant floor data management initiatives by two related yet distinct pressures. In fact, both the desire to improve performance improvement program effectiveness and the desire to improve operational performance visibility motivates the majority of Best in Class manufacturers, 70% in both cases. These manufacturers have also realized that the best way to address these pressures is with a technology centric approach.
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SAP
Using Financial Management Solutions to Make Intelligent Business Decisions
By : Microsoft Published Date: Dec 04, 2006
In this webcast, we discuss how companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward. While strategies, organization, motivation, and leadership all set the stage for business success, you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities to see results—because ultimately success is determined by your people. Learn why we call a business that fosters a winning environment a "people-ready business."
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Microsoft
Using Business Intelligence to Gain an Advantage
By : Microsoft Published Date: Nov 07, 2004
The people in your organization have access to volumes of information that was once unimaginable. Success or failure can hinge on whether or not people can use this information to make wise decisions quickly. But without the ability to make sense of information, a knowledge gap exists, and the best anyone can do is guess or follow a hunch. Business intelligence helps you decipher and extract meaning from data so you can make informed decisions.
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Microsoft
Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail
By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 06, 2007
This paper provides insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence. It also provides guidance on how to avoid or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives.
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Information Builders
Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
Building the customer-centric enterprise explores how insurers are seeking to maximize the profitability and growth potential of the markets by scrutinizing loss performance, retention strategies, buying behavior and demographics. The report features a customer analytics case study that draws on an interview with Michael Bernaski, acting chief analytics officer of Safeco.
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SAP
Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform
By : Clarabridge Published Date: Mar 06, 2006
This white paper describes how the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis, and capitalizes on lessons learned from solving similar problems in the structured domain.
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Clarabridge
Discover Low-Cost Data Handling Breakthrough: MSSO
By : Business Intelligence Inc. Published Date: Mar 16, 2006
Surprisingly low-cost technology MSSO/SD4E transforms Excel into an incredibly powerful and completely secure Business Intelligence tool capable of quickly and easily manipulating and analyzing live data directly from multiple, disparate data sources, generating even the most complex and sophisticated analytical reports with a simple keystroke.
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Business Intelligence Inc.
Forrester: Measuring The Business Value of IT
By : SAP Published Date: Sep 25, 2006
There’s an old management axiom: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Yet many organizations do a very poor job (or no job at all) of measuring the business value of their IT investments. Four existing methodologies can be adopted as is or customized to suit specific needs. Firms should pick one, institutionalize it as part of an overall governance framework, and embed it in IT portfolio management.
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SAP
How to Outsell the Competition
By : Netsuite Published Date: May 30, 2007
Sales Benchmark Index presents information in this NetSuite White Paper that helps sales management succeed in implementing a data-driven decision making process for sales success. Five steps for developing a sales benchmark are defined, with a list of key metrics you can use.
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Netsuite
An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.
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iWay Software
Acquiring Business Intelligence is Crucial
By : Netsuite Published Date: Nov 08, 2007
But what is "BI" and how do small/mid size business owners acquire it without too much cost?  This Executive White Paper will outline the issues and solutions for the "BI" requirements of growing companies.
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Netsuite
Butler Group on iWay Service Manager
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006
iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.
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iWay Software
Consolidation of Disaster Recovery Replica Servers
By : XOsoft Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
Achieve significant cost savings through consolidation of disaster recovery servers by combining the award-winning disaster protection of XOsoft's WANSync with the latest virtual server technologies from Microsoft and EMC. Consolidating disaster recovery servers on virtual machines can yield both reduced hardware costs and significantly lessened management burden.
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XOsoft
Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence
By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
This paper describes how to leverage WebFOCUS business intelligence software to generate Excel spreadsheets directly from enterprise data sources, consolidating large amounts of data, performing complex calculations, and creating advanced structures like PivotTables.
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