Business Intelligent Best Practices: Delivering Real & Expected Value
by Bhupinder Ahuja
The success of any technology depends on how simple and easy it is to use. With BI getting out of the confines of PhDs and analysts, and getting into the realm of everyday business users, this dictum is more important than ever.

Fusion Centers: Turning Data into Actionable Intelligence
This paper describes best practices in achieving effective data integration, meeting federal standards for data integration, leveraging existing technology tools, and creating an infrastructure that supports your Fusion Center’s mission.

The Virtual Prototyping Warehouse
This white paper outlines the concept of virtual prototyping as a method to reduce the risk of data sharing projects.

Data Warehouse Best Practices: An Implementation Framework
by Evan Levy
Data warehousing implementation projects can end up highly complex and costly if you’re not careful. This paper provides fundamental best practices that can mean the difference between another legacy system and a business solution.

The Green Revolution in Data Warehousing
The power, cooling and footprint advantages of the Netezza analytic appliance.

Financial Planning: mastering the key value drivers
by Mario Antonio Vinzia
The paper discusses the main issues surrounding the planning and provides a detailed analysis of financial dynamics and metrics that can be used to implement effective financial planning of one’s business.

Transferring Best Practice Analytics from Experts to Everyone
Learn how TIBCO Spotfire guided analytics can capture and spread best practices for analysis and decision-making and how IT departments can benefit from a standard analytics platform.

Speech Analytics Best Practices
Discover how CallMiner provides a superior solution for reducing cost, reducing churn and mitigating risk in a contact center.

How Data Profiling & Analysis Saves Companies Millions
You can take charge of organization’s data to create a faster, smarter more competitive enterprise by improving data quality, cutting integration costs and improving the returns from data warehousing initiatives, ERP, CRM, SCM and BI/BPM.

Total Data Quality; A Business Solution for Today and Tomorrow
From a business perspective, learn how Total Data Quality offers a comprehensive strategy and a full range of tactics for turning raw data into meaningful corporate data assets.

Realizing Master Data Management
An organization's master data may well be its most valuable set of assets. Learn why companies want master data management, how to achieve it and what is required.

Solving the Source Data Problem
A strong automated data profiling process can keep IT projects on the fast track and provide for continuous data monitoring as well.

Data Quality Essentials
This new white paper describes the techniques used by successful companies to plan and implement data quality processes as part of a point solution or enterprise-wide initiative.

Wait Time Analysis Method
by Confio Software
New best practice for database performance management.

A Practical Guide to Managing BI and DW Deployments with Actionage Usage Metrics
Leverage actionable data usage and query performance metrics to improve query performance, increase service levels and productivity and reduce data management costs.

Usage Analytics as an Operational Standard for Enterprise BI and DW Management
Discussing often overlooked operational and informational challenges facing enterprise BI and DW professionals.

Best Practicses in Enterprise Performance Planning
Seven steps to make planning successful, from high participation and real-time alignment to timeframe appropriate planning.

Black Hole Management Report
This report presents the key findings and some recommendation, based on a survey carried out in the UK to examine whether companies are making the most of the information they have at their disposal.

Best Practices in Business Performance Management
by Wayne Eckerson
TDWI report series: Business and Technical Strategies

Accelerating Past the Business Intelligence Slow Down
Metapa explores the exceeding enterprise requirements in today's business intelligence systems.