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While the overall objective of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions may be clear, the technologies that deliver the right information to the right people at the right time for decision-making can be complex and expansive.

BI can involve database and application technologies, knowledge management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), data mining, document management, and much more.

Check out the Business Intelligence Resource Center for the latest white papers and other resources on relevant BI solutions, product reviews, vendor profiles, and valuable commentary from the IT blogosphere and beyond.

 
  Key Concepts: business decision-making, BI, dashboards, business strategic planning, knowledge management  
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Three Key Principles for Mapping out a BI Strategy

Source: eWEEK

Brent Estes, CEO of Rush Health Associates, learned a lot from a recent BI planning effort. In this article, he outlines three principles to keep in mind when mapping out a BI ...

Time Is Right for Hosted Business Intelligence

Source: TDWI

Business intelligence solutions are now ripe for the software-as-a-service model, says this article. Collaborative environments are well suited to hosted business intelligence ...

BI and Data Integration Tools Could Have Prevented Credit Crisis

Source: Informatica

Joe McKendrick makes the argument that data integration and business intelligence tools could have helped people make better decisions and helped avoid the credit crisis. A survey ...

Selecting the Right BI Vendor

Source: eWEEK

There are some advantages to selecting an independent business intelligence vendor over the Big Four - IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. This article shares three advantages to ...

Forrester Proclaims the Best Among Integration-Centric BPM Suites

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

If you're interested in business process management suites and integration, I've found a recent â€" we're talking published Oct. 6 â€" Forrester report on Integration-Centric BPM ...

Microsoft to Link Excel More Closely with SQL Server

Source: Computerworld

Microsoft's Project Gemini will greatly accelerate the company's plans to tie Excel with SQL Server and other back-end BI tools, like PerformancePoint Server or SharePoint Server. ...

Microsoft Using Excel to Win Some BI Love

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

Ah, Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet program so loved by users, so vilified by plenty of other ...

IT Could Have Aided Financial Services Industry

Source: TMCnet.com

This piece examines how information technology could have been used to help prevent the financial services mess that is currently gripping the U.S. Analytics, complex event ...

BPM Is Leading Innovation Objective of Leading IT Shops

Source: IT Business Edge Blogs

InformationWeek has released a listing of what it calls the Infoweek 500, a ...

Global Business Objects User Group on the Horizon

Source: CIO.com

The Americas' SAP Users' Group is going global with a new user group for customers of Business Objects. Membership will be free until 2010 in the group, to be officially launched ...

 
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