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1. Have We Lost Control of the Business Intelligence Investment?

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: DorothyMiller | Date Published: 11/05/2009

   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...

2. The New Frontier of Business Intelligence and Search

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 10/05/2007

   By Mark Smith Summary Business intelligence (BI) has become an information lifeline, one with which businesses can assess their performance and garner vital insights from data across the enterprise. Originally BI was the province only of technically astute business analysts or IT personnel,...

3. BI for Intelligent Business

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: SeraphimMansyreff | Date Published: 09/21/2009

   The value of making an informed decision is the paradigm of Business Intelligence (BI). In my experience, SAP implementations tend to focus on making business processes efficient, but seem to lose sight on measuring corporate performance effectiveness. In the current economic downturn, the business...

4. The Flawed Vision of Customer Data Integration – How to Get It Right the First Time

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Data Integration | Author: RaviShankar | Date Published: 09/23/2009

   The early pioneers of Customer Data Integration (CDI) had a primary goal – to create the most reliable customer data for the company by bringing together and resolving inconsistent, and oftentimes incomplete, customer data, which was at the time siloed in disparate applications across the...

5. Will Analytics Put an End to Formal Budget Planning?

   [ Article ] Topic: Budgeting | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 07/11/2007

   The Future of Business Analytics, a report produced by Australia's S2 Intelligence Pty Ltd, includes plenty of interesting predictions as part of its rather exhaustive take on business intelligence. Read the full transcript of our interview with the report's author, S2 Managing Director Bruce...

6. JasperSoft Delivers OLAP

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 07/10/2006

   By Dan Everett Take On June 28 JasperSoft announced the general availability of JasperIntelligence 1.0. The release includes a new relational online analytical processing (OLAP) engine called JasperAnalysis that is compliant with the MDX and XML for Analysis languages and enhances...

7. Open Source BI Makes Inroads

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Open Source Enterprise Software | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 07/24/2006

   By David Waddington Summary A study by Ventana Research reveals that midsize and large companies increasingly are evaluating and deploying open source business intelligence (BI) software. Many have had positive experiences with the software and intend to expand their use of it. Although...

8. Tableau Empowers Visual Analysis

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Data Modeling and Visualization | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 08/04/2006

   By Dan Everett Take If you have ever tried to make sense of a graph created in Excel or a traditional business intelligence tool – one that shows two measures across five dimensions and down three hierarchical levels – you know the pain that Seattle based Tableau Software intends to...

9. Companies Have Aggressive Plans for Business Intelligence Services

   [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: SOA | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 02/20/2007

   By Dan Everett Summary Results from Ventana Research’s survey on service-oriented architecture (SOA) for business intelligence (BI) show most companies actively planning to implement BI services in the coming year. In particular, at least half of all organizations plan to implement...

10. The Business Intelligence Market: Mature, Yet Evolving

    [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: AnalystPerspectives | Date Published: 11/15/2007

    We are pleased to be partnering with Analyst Perspectives and offering an excerpt of their high valued content. Click here to download the full report.    In today's aggressive and fast-paced business environment, timely knowledge has become a crucial asset for organizations wanting to develop...

11. Six Sigma Business Intelligence: Why Measure BI Quality?

    [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: DorothyMiller | Date Published: 12/03/2008

    Clear definitions for business intelligence and business intelligence quality incorporate the voice of all of our BI customers, and lead the way for effective BI management. Business intelligence has generated a lot of well-deserved attention over the last few years and there is general...

12. Measuring the Return on Investment for Business Intelligence

    [ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: DorothyMiller | Date Published: 02/24/2009

    Business intelligence quality is different from the return on investment (ROI) for BI. A business intelligence project or system is designed to deliver specific information. BI quality is, most often, an IT-based assessment of the results of a business intelligence project. includes the basic...