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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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 >
Desire to Reveal Hidden Insights Driving Growth in Text Analytics
Ann All spoke with Seth Grimes, owner of and principal consultant for Alta Plana , a company that provides business analytics strategy consulting and implementation services with a focus on advanced analytics (BI, text mining, data visualization, analytical databases, complex event processing)... More >
Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper identifies the key capabilities a database management solution needs to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of IT budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.
The Fast-Payback SAP Projects for Saving Money in 2009
Read this detailed research report to find opportunities to reduce the total business expenses associated with your substantial and mission-critical investments in SAP technologies.
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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