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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BI Pros Not Yet Convinced of Value of Social Data
Ann All spoke with John Thompson, CEO, U.S. operations, of Kognitio , a provider of solutions to business problems that require the acquisition, rationalization and analysis of large or complex data. Kognitio's WX2 is a recipient of the 2009 BeyeNETWORK “Vision Award” and... More >
The Intersection of Business Intelligence and Identity Management: Identity Governance
This past summer, analyst firm Burton Group published a report entitled “Access and Identity Governance: Leading to Transparency and Visibility.” The report, authored by Gerry Gebel, describes how an access and identity governance layer has emerged to address enterprise needs for... More >
Blend of Departmental, Enterprise BI Often Works Best
Ann All spoke with Cindi Howson, author of "Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App" and founder of BI Scorecard , a consulting company that helps companies evaluate and implement business intelligence solutions. BI Scorecard recently released its second... More >
A Complete View of the Enterprise: Linking Operational and Financial Planning in Global Organizations
Read this white paper from CFO Research Services that examines why and how chief financial officers are looking to create "highly integrated" organizations by moving from standalone spreadsheets to integrated planning, budgeting, and forecasting systems.
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 >
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 >
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