business intelligence resources

Vendor Articles

This section of our site has been developed to provide a vehicle for vendor authors to share their expertise with you.

Turning Sustainability Strategies into Competitive Advantage
by Alyssa Farrell
Issues such as climate change, energy consumption, labor practices, food safety, pollution and waste management are strong factors in the impressions that companies make with consumers, investors, regulators, watchdogs and other stakeholders.
Read

The Greening of Corporate Social Responsibility
by Val Haskell
Measuring “Green” and Corporate Social Responsibility
Green initiatives are taking a strong hold in American business today because business is realizing that green is not just a “hippy-dippy” idea, but instead good business with financial benefits to be gained.
Read

Optimizing Human Capital: Every Business Leader’s Imperative
by Becca Goren
Businesses can gain competitive edge by focusing on and optimizing use of its human capital, integrating the human capital strategy within the larger business strategy.
Read

Activity-Based Costing Under Fire
by Tony Adkins
Five Myths about Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Time-driven activity-based costing should be considered complementary to, not a replacement for, traditional activity-based costing.
Read

Budgeting Concerns of SMB/SME CFOs
by Jim Nauen
A recent survey conducted by Centage and IOMA revealed an overwhelming dissatisfaction with budgeting tools and processes among most of the C-level executives surveyed.
Read

Virtualize Your Data to Jumpstart Stalled Operational Business Intelligence
by Robert Eve
Operational BI requires up-to-date data from multiple sources – data that can be accessed, combined and delivered rapidly as end-user reports and dashboards, or as alerts and triggers within the automated business processes themselves.
Read

Visualize This: A Fresh Perspective on Business Intelligence Systems
by Angela Shen-Hseih
In most companies, the speed of the decision-making cycle is directly related to the availability of information. And yet, most business tools lack the visual feedback to deliver insight into the data on which decisions depend.
Read

Keys to Data Governance Success – Teamwork and an Iterative Approach
by Martin Moseley
Even with legislative motivators such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, data governance is at best inconsistent. Most businesses require a guiding hand to assist them with the best ways to achieve success.
Read

Technology as the Relationship Doctor for Business
by Martin Moseley
Understanding Business Relationships within an Organizational Hierarchy Framework
Organizational hierarchy management helps companies clearly and consistently understand how their affiliates, business divisions, and contacts in a single enterprise fit within a broader, multidimensional, global context.
Read

Understanding the “Iceberg Effect”
by Max Kay
How to Strengthen Corporate Performance Management Selection and Implementation
The primary challenge that a corporate performance management software purchase is designed to address typically represents only about 10% of the larger and more complex collection of performance management problems submerged throughout a company.
Read

Results 1–10 of 24  « Back | Next »

ADVERTISEMENT
business intelligence resources
showing all