The overall objective of business intelligence (BI) solutions is to gather data from numerous enterprise systems - ERP, supply chain, HR, knowledge management, financials - and present a single "truth" of how your business is performing. BI gained traction in the enterprise as a strategic tool, but businesses are looking to extend BI into real-time decision-making with dashboards and other visual tools to empower line-of-business managers and employees to make the right call.
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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 >
Desire to Reveal Hidden Insights Driving Growth in Text Analytics
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The Flawed Vision of Customer Data Integration – How to Get It Right the First Time
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... More >
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Cost-Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
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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 >
Using the Data Warehouse in Real Time
A piece by Teradata India's Ashok Ekbote on PCQuest discusses the emerging field of pervasive business intelligence, a kind of real-time merging of BI and knowledge management. In effect, it makes information from the company's data warehouse available for strategic decision-making by everyone in the company in real... More >
Athenahealth to Acquire Anodyne Health Partners
Watertown, Mass-based Athenahealth is buying out software maker Anodyne Health Partners of Alpharetta, Ga., for $22.3 million in cash, reports ModernHealthcare.com. Athenahealth provides Web-based business services for physician practices. Anodyne has 14,000 medical practices that subscribe to its Web-based... More >
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