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Business Intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions. The term implies having a comprehensive knowledge of all of the factors that affect your business. It is imperative that you have an in depth knowledge about factors such as your customers, competitors, business partners, economic environment, and internal operations to make effective and good quality business decisions. Business intelligence enables you to make these kinds of decisions.

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Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
From everyday tactical choices to long-term strategy, timely, well-informed decisions make the difference between costly missteps and confident growth. This paper examines how you can gain access to accurate information and visibility across your company from efficient integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.
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SAP
Discover Retail 'Megatrends' For 2010
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 17, 2004
Empower consumers. Increase productivity. Profitably compete in a saturated market. Today, mid-sized retailers need powerful tools to conquer a turbulent environment. IBM can help with tailored solutions. Click for information and a complimentary copy of National Retail Federations's report, "Deeper Customer Insight" - an in-depth look at five retail megatrends of 2010.
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IBM
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
Enabling Organic Growth - Executive Insights
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 13, 2008
Discover why organic growth is the means to achieving continuous, profitable growth, and find out how your company can address some of the most common challenges in the quest to achieve it.
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SAP
Financial Management and Business Intelligence Solutions for a High-Performance Workplace
By : Microsoft Published Date: Apr 16, 2007
Sound, responsible financial management is at the heart of business success. Download this webcast to learn more about the Microsoft solutions for financial management and business intelligence (BI) that can help you transform your business into a high-performance workplace. We describe how Microsoft business solutions are designed to help you work more efficiently by focusing on the tasks that add the most value to your business and enable you to make more informed decisions based on timely, accurate information.
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Microsoft
How Graphic Packaging International Transformed Its Business With SAP
By : SAP Published Date: Apr 20, 2008
Examine how GPI built a solid infrastructure based on the SAP ERP application, positioning the company for significant growth. GPI can now reach strategic corporate objectives – including improved visibility into business processes and decreased production costs through better order scheduling and reduced inventory.
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SAP
Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? 7 Styles of Data Integration
By : Information Builders Published Date: Oct 03, 2007
There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.

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Information Builders
IBM Balanced Warehouse: The Flexible Foundation for Real-Time Business Intelligence
By : IBM Published Date: May 30, 2008
Businesses need a better way to leverage information, manage analytic results and glean business insights across the enterprise.  Are you seeking a simple, flexible and optimized solution?  Watch this short video to learn about IBM's Balanced Warehouse -- the complete ‘ready-to-go’ data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components of DB2 Warehouse, Server and Storage.
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IBM
IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value of Information
By : IBM Published Date: Jul 02, 2007
Organizations must adapt more rapidly than ever before - which means that they must align their IT environments with their business goals and deliver information on demand, when and where it is needed. In this white paper, the experts at IBM discuss how your company can meet this need for information on demand with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a business-centric approach to IT architecture that supports integration through linked, repeatable business tasks or services.
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IBM
Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain
By : Information Builders Published Date: Dec 05, 2007
A firm's supply chain is the essence of how it delivers value to its customers. Deploying a supply chain performance management solution is a challenging process. This paper outlines critical steps and key factors in optimizing performance management for your entire supply chain.
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Information Builders
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
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
Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
By : IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure.
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IBM
Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Mar 13, 2008
The business intelligence (BI) “boom” of the 1990s was something BIG: big projects designed to give big companies with big budgets a competitive advantage. And while BI delivered big returns for some companies, for others it was nothing but a big headache. An estimated 50% of all data warehousing projects failed to meet their goals. Why? Because many companies underestimated just how big an undertaking BI really was.
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Oco, Inc.
Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Your organization's focus has been on acquiring customers, increasing revenues and profitability, and outpacing the competition. And while your organization has continued to improve its operating efficiencies (sometimes by quickly learning from past mistakes), you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what’s going on and planning for the future.
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SAP
Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
The Retail sector was one of the first sectors to make significant investments in collecting and integrating customer data in data warehouses. In the future, firms will need to continue to be cost effective but increasingly will need to focus on using data to drive revenue by better understanding their customers' needs. Enterprises that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.
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SAP
Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. One side effect of these investments has been the creation of vast stores of valuable data.  achieve insight, transparency and competitive advantage.
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SAP
Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design
By : Information Builders Published Date: Sep 27, 2007
Dashboards help organizations make better business decisions. The way in which they are created is not trivial and attention must be paid to the details. Employing visual design standards and principles are important, but are only part of the journey. The way in which data is integrated from the enterprise is just as important.
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Information Builders
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.
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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