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How to Be a Great Business Intelligence (Internal) Customer
by Maureen Clarry
Following the five suggestions in this article will benefit you, your business intelligence initiative and your organization.

New Wall Street Drivers for Business Intelligence in Telecommunications
by John Myers
If Wall Street decides to embrace the concept of profit per employee as an evolution of the metrics assigned to invested capital, telecommunication service providers will be leaning on their business intelligence organizations in two ways.

Using Operational Business Intelligence for Intra-Day Analysis and Decision Making
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Learn how operational business intelligence (BI) optimizes the business intelligence decision cycle. Join Claudia Imhoff, Colin White and Judith Davis as they discuss the technologies for implementing operational BI.
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Driving Profits with Incentive Pay Programs
On-demand
Join CFO Magazine, Watson Wyatt, Iconixx and Varicent on a Web cast roundtable discussing the results of groundbreaking new research from CFO Research Services entitled “Sales Incentive Compensation: Issues, Problems, and Solutions.”
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The Future of Business Intelligence – Delivering Benefits Today
March 29 at 2 p.m. ET
BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services, and Colin White outline the new key trends in business intelligence (BI) and how your organization can benefit from next generation BI systems.
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Fresher Data for the Data Warehouse: What’s the Cost?
April 5 at 1 p.m. ET
What are the costs to deliver fresher data – integrated more than once a day – to the data warehouse? Join industry expert Dr. Richard Hackathorn and GoldenGate Software to hear analyses of 5 data integration architectures that offer low-latency, even real-time, data.
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The Next Generation of Data Warehouse Appliances: From Feeds & Speeds to Solving Real Business Problems
April 5 at 2 p.m. ET
First generation data warehouse appliances made many promises but failed to solve some of the challenging business issues. However, 2007 is ushering in new data warehouse technology that lives up to its expectations. Join Colin White as he discusses the differences and benefits of the next generation.
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Business Intelligence: The Right Fit = The Right Choice
April 19 at 2 p.m. ET
This Web seminar will focus on the top “Magic Quadrant” business intelligence platforms and vendors and explain how to select the BI platform that will best address your needs. Colin White will discuss key milestones in BI as he sets the stage for the discussion.
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