Business Intelligence
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 these Business Intelligence white papers and sponsored resources for the latest on this critical topic.
Hot White Papers
Guidebook: Leveraging Value from SAP with IBM Cognos
Read this Nucleus research report to learn why this BI software, combined with SAP, has less costly deployments, a faster time to benefit, and greater productivity improvements for end users.
Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations
This white paper explores the full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) tools, including an overview of BI, its benefits, implementation approaches, and what to look for in a BI product.
Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment, Reduce Your TCO, Increase Your ROI
Read this white paper to learn how the right BI solution lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
From Business Intelligence to Business Optimization
This Hurwitz and Associates white paper discusses the journey of moving from business intelligence to business optimization, and how this leads to increased business benefits.
Maximizing Operational Efficiency with Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications
This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.
Beyond Reporting: Requirements for Large-Scale Analytics
This white paper provides a comparison of basic reporting vs analytics; an overview of the components, benefits and challenges of analytical tools; the technology requirements for analytical platforms; and four best practices to implement when optimizing your analytics environment.
Reaping the Benefits of Next-Generation Dashboards
This white paper explores how organizations are demanding more integrated and flexible business intelligence solutions that facilitate more timely and informed decisions, as well as how the next generation of dashboards solves these challenges.
The Importance of an Information Strategy
Today, important business decisions depend on having up-to-date, trustworthy information. This white paper discusses what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one.
Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding of Information
Check out this Web resource to learn more about a single-platform solution with capabilities to discover, cleanse, transform, integrate and deliver high quality information to BI and performance management applications throughout the enterprise.
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Professional Users
Read this white paper to learn about a BI solution that includes Web-based reporting tools that allow individuals throughout the organization to join in the creation and delivery of BI reports that are richly detailed, customizable and easy to distribute.
Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation
This white paper examines the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA), along with how enterprise SOA can deliver new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.
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Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
This white paper describes how the latest power and cooling systems not only provide effective support for a virtualized environment, but also efficient support — significantly leveraging the IT-layer efficiency gains that are the signature benefit of virtualization.
The Alignment-Focused Organization:
This white paper discusses how businesses can implement these best practices using strategy management software — one of the cornerstones of effective performance management — to systematize these practices across a department or the entire enterprise consistently.
Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications
This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.
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Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure Through Virtualization
This white paper describes how virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization.