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Sponsored by IBM
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Sponsored Content
Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment, Reduce Your TCO, Increase Your ROI
Read this white paper to learn how the right BI solution lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
From Business Intelligence to Business Optimization
This Hurwitz and Associates white paper discusses the journey of moving from business intelligence to business optimization, and how this leads to increased business benefits.
Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding of Information
Check out this Web resource to learn more about a single-platform solution with capabilities to discover, cleanse, transform, integrate and deliver high quality information to BI and performance management applications throughout the enterprise.
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Professional Users
Read this white paper to learn about a BI solution that includes Web-based reporting tools that allow individuals throughout the organization to join in the creation and delivery of BI reports that are richly detailed, customizable and easy to distribute.
Full Demo: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Check out this Web resource for a full demonstration of a BI solution that combines financial and operational data into a single, seamless source of information for better business decisions.
Reducing Data Management Costs to Put the Focus Back on Business Goals
In this archived Webcast, IT analyst Merv Adrian and IBM VP Arvind Krishna talk with TechWeb about how companies are using new data management technologies to save on data administration, storage, servers, energy consumption, and IT support.
Blogs
Mutual Need Drives SAP-Microsoft Alliance
Although any time that Microsoft and SAP cooperate on anything it leads to idle speculation about a possible merger, every now and again even these two giants actually wind up doing something that is just driven by the requirements of mutual customers. Such is the case with the latest cooperative...More >
Data Integration and BI: The High Cost of Doing Nothing
Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, according to a recent Computerworld Technology Briefing on business...More >
The Need for BI Speed
There are a lot of data warehouses out there that can no longer keep up with the pace of the business. Most data warehouses were built on the assumption that performance would hardly be an issue. The business side wasn’t expected to stress the platform by making too many queries, and just about...More >
Articles & Interviews
Microsoft's PowerPivot Puts BI Users More in Control
Ann All spoke with several employees of SharePoint360 , a SharePoint hosting and consulting company specializing in business intelligence that is included in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for the Gemini technology. (Gemini was recently renamed PowerPivot.) SharePoint360 is the... More >
Have We Lost Control of the Business Intelligence Investment?
Business executives know that one of the surest ways to lose management control is to skip the standard practice of auditing business investments. Unfortunately, that is exactly the current state for business intelligence. Spending on business intelligence assets in the global marketplace has... More >
Viewing OpenWorld With An Open Mind
Regarding Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009, I find his continued reference to Netezza as a baseline against the now-defunct HP version of Exadata a stark reminder of what Netezza has achieved in the past few years. In 2002, while Oracle was fighting other enemies, Netezza... More >
Related Topics
IBM Offers BI Application Service
IBM is making use of its Cognos acquisition to offer the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud . Our CTO Edge site reports that the BI application service will allow customers: to roll out an implementation of Cognos 8 running on top of virtual machine software running on top of a Linux operating system hosted on an IBM... More >
IBM's Finger in Every Pie: The Cloud, Analytics, Health Care
IBM is offering cloud services that offer a place for developers to create and test cloud applications, reports ReadWriteWeb . IBM Smart Business Development and Test on IBM Cloud is designed to eliminate the time developers spend setting up their test environments. It will support third-party and open source tools. ... More >
IBM Continues to Roll Dice on Business Analytics
Over the past five years, IBM has bet big on business analytics. The company will continue to gamble on business analytics with the announcement that it will hire or train 4,000 new consultants and build six new analytics centers around the globe, reports V3.co.uk . IBM will also expand its business analytics... More >
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