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Articles
Exploiting a Business Intelligence Infrastructure in a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) as a Profit Center
This article presents several principles for running a Business Intelligence Competency Center as a profit center.
Improving Business Intelligence: The Six Sigma Way
A New Perspective: Focus on the Customer, Strive for Near Perfection and Evolve Toward Six Sigma Business Intelligence
This article describes a rigorous, audit-based approach to achieving business intelligence excellence.
Operational Business Intelligence – A Prescription for Operational Success
Business intelligence has “invaded” the operational space in a big way, offering in-line analytics, real-time or near real-time decision-making support for all employees in the
enterprise.
The Role of Librarians in Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management
Librarians, or information scientists, as they are also referred to these days, are trained precisely in the skills that a knowledge manager or a business intelligence analyst often needs.
The Three Environments of IT
The Impact of Master Data Management on Business Intelligence and Operational Architectures
This article defines a master data management environment and describes how it should interact with the business intelligence and business transactional environments.
News
Brotherhood Mutual Selects Information Builders
Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company has selected Information Builders WebFOCUS BI platform as its enterprise reporting standard to support a web of knowledge that makes the company more cohesive.
Aternity Launches Frontline Performance Intelligence Partner Program
FPI Partner Program is designed for vendors delivering products and services in the financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and retail industries.
Mississauga Selects SAP ERP Human Capital Management Solution
The City of Mississauga noted a number of benefits expected from SAP ERP HCM in the areas of human resources and payroll
HP Announces a Comprehensive Set of Consulting Services
Systems will help communications companies improve their competitiveness as they adapt to the convergence of telecom, IT and entertainment.
LucidEra Announces LucidEra Lead Insight
LucidEra Lead Insight is an analytic application that directly aligns marketing programs with sales success.
Off the Clock Podcasts Featuring Claudia Imhoff & Jonathan Wu
Receive the advice of industry gurus, Jonathan Wu and Claudia Imhoff. Let these two experts help you understand and address the barriers or pitfalls that lie in your path to BI success.
Claudia and Jonathan discuss how to implement a data quality program.
How do you help your organization implement a data quality program? How can you get it started?
Claudia and Jonathan discuss why data quality projects are often lengthy.
What do you need to do to complete the seemingly never-ending data quality project?
Claudia and Jonathan discuss the importance of having quality data in the data warehouse.
How can you quickly address the data quality issue within your data warehouse?
White Papers
The Essential Roadmap to ETL Tool Migration
Migrating from one ETL tool to another presents significant challenges to an IT organization. Here is a checklist of ETL migration issues, challenges and questions that an organization should
consider and answer before an ETL migration project begins.
Three Secrets You Need to Know About Enterprise Data Hubs
Consolidating Data Services Can Increase Data Visibility
This white paper discusses the need for enterprise data hubs, introduces an innovative, flexible framework and illustrates some ways in which some of the largest, data-intensive companies are making
use of these enterprise assets.
On-Demand BI for Insurance Organizations
Learn how to devise a strategy IT executives and data warehouse managers can quickly and effectively deploy to move large volumes of legacy data to UNIX platforms, optimize that data for efficient
and timely access, and empower users with pervasive BI.
Optimize Your Enterprise Data Warehouse
Discover proven, best practices and design options for a data warehouse that can significantly reduce system and maintenance costs by tailoring the system investment to match the value of the
resulting analytic capabilities.
Ventana Research: Open Source BI
This in-depth research report explores the market trends regarding the viability and adoption of open source BI.
Case Studies
Fire Chiefs Get Rescued
Heartland Communications needed a business intelligence infrastructure that would provide a high level of service to all agencies it serves, and the solution had to be simple, responsive and
user-friendly.
Company Improves Data Analysis and Reporting with Business Intelligence Solution
A Microsoft SQL Server customer solution case study featuring Kelly Blue Book. Employees can now quickly and easily view data and create a Market Watch report in just a few minutes.
Property Management at AIMCO
With countless properties to manage, each with its own group of rent-paying occupants, producing a cohesive budget for the entire company was a challenge.
Solution Spotlights
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Marty Moseley, Chief Technical Officer of Initiate Systems
Marty Moseley explains how Initiate Master Data Service serves as a platform for organizations to apply master data management techniques to the business problems and needs of specific markets. |
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Suresh Chandrasekaran, Vice President of Marketing for Denodo Technologies Inc.
Suresh Chandrasekaran explains how Denodo integrates structured, semi-structured and unstructured data in enterprise data mash-ups and makes it available in a composite view for analysis. |
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Trevor Hughes, President & CEO of Star Analytics
Trevor Hughes discusses the Star Integration Server as an enterprise software product that unifies financial analysis application portfolios and enables customers to extend the value of their investments in business intelligence and data warehousing. |
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