Simplified BI for the Masses
Analyst whitepaper reviews technology that enables employees at all levels of the organization the ability to perform ad hoc business analysis as well as search for existing reports through the familiar search box interface.

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.

The Vertica Analytic Database – Introducing a New Era in DBMS
As businesses become more analytical to gain competitive advantage and comply with new regulations, they are changing the demands placed on data warehouses and driving demand for new query-intensive database applications.

From the Management Control to Corporate Performance Management: what is changing
Massimo Solbiati and Gianluca Meloni - Accounting, Control, Corporate and Real Estate Finance Department - SDA Bocconi The development of CPM systems responding to the evolution of roles, information sources of the control system, and compliances.

Corporate Performance Management: the value of processes unification
The document traces developments in CPM tools, laying out the path towards unification within which the Tagetik CPM solution is positioned.

Compliance and Industry-Specific Process Requirements: Challenges and Opportunities for CPM Solutions
Tagetik CPM incorporates vertical and horizontal processes, delivering the unification of cross-industry finance processes in a single operating environment, responding to target markets with a more vertical approach.

Unified Vs. Integrated CPM
Discover how to differentiate between integrated CPM suites and truly unified CPM solutions, the advantages of a unified CPM solution.

Delivering Useful BI Tools for the Masses
by Dr. Larry Harris
A closer look at business intelligence technologies available for operational employees.

Data Warehousing, Next-Generation Business Intelligence and the Evolution of Data Quality
by David Loshin
David Loshin explains how embedding data quality services directly into applications can help meet key challenges involving: unstructured data; globalization; the explosion of raw data and the need for real-time synchronization between data sources.

From Data to Decisions to Profit
by Piyush Govil
By linking product sales with service sales companies are able to deliver advanced networking solutions and successfully translate insights into a dashboard.

Model Driven Data Warehousing
This white paper is intended for people who want to understand how the design and implementation of data warehouses and data marts can be improved dramatically by using model driven methods and tools.

The HP Business Intelligence Maturity Model: describing the BI journey
HP’s Information Management Practice has developed a BI Maturity Model as a context for describing the evolution of our clients’ BI capabilities.

Improve your Applications with Simplified Data Access
A significant competitive advantage can be gained by providing access to your application data for nontechnical users, in a completely intuitive way.

Simplified Data Access through Everyday English
A natural language query solution simplifies the process of accessing information trapped within business applications.

Data Search and Discovery
by Susan E. Aldrich
This paper highlights benefits of search meeting reporting.

Brains Over Brawn: Six Steps to Smarter BI
by Neil Raden
Driven by changes in the business environment and the relentless pressures of technology and competition, BI now has to solve a whole new set of problems.

DB2 Warehouse Performance Monitoring and Optimization
by Santosh Chitakki, Paulo Pereira
This paper discusses IBM's solution to manage the complete lifecycle of BI and data warehousing with comprehensive monitoring and optimization.

Streaming Analytics™ with the Netezza Performance Server® Appliance
Bringing appliance simplicity to advanced analytics.

Large Scale Use of the Netezza Performance Server® System – Prepared by Winter Corporation
Winter Corporation reports the findings of its interviews with three large Netezza customers who validate large scale implementations of Netezza’s appliance.

Elemental Development - A Unique Paradigm for Developing Reporting Applications
The purpose of this paper is to describe LogiXML’s unique and innovative paradigm for report application development. This paper is for report developers who would like to learn more about the technical details and benefits of this unique approach.

How Web-based Is a Web-based Smart Client?
Users expect applications to be delivered via the Web. Microsoft’s response to this need was the “smart client.” This paper defines smart client and pure Web-based approaches for delivering applications over the Web.

Business Intelligence for Small and Mid-sized Businesses
This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal.

Ad Hoc Reporting: Self-service, Personalized Reporting for any Business User
Ad hoc reporting has become a critical component of the BI environment which provides ease of analysis. This paper explores a case study as well as Ad hoc reporting features and functionality.

Using Grid Technology to Build and Hub-and-Spoke Data Warehouse Architecture
by Stuart Frost
Learn how you can leverage the high performance and low cost of data marts while keeping centralized control of your data using DATAllegro’s new grid-enabled data warehouse appliances.

The Next Generation of Data Warehouse Appliances
by Lori Nichols
Understand the benefits of standards-based data warehouse appliances over their proprietary counterparts and learn how you can benefit from the market disruption caused by data warehouse appliances.

Index-Light MPP Data Warehousing
by Curt A. Monash, Ph.D.
Learn how index-light MPP data warehouse appliances beat their index-heavy SMP counterparts on key criteria such as performance, reliability and cost.

Social Media: Customers are Talking and You Need to Listen.
Lexalytics offers insight into how blogs, online media outlets and other community forums influence reputation management and how to capture key information.

Know More Quickly, Act More Directly
by Verix, Inc
Operational analysis is the key to acting on business events.

Intuitive Business Intelligence
IDC outlines the trends in the Business Intelligence market, describes the challenges facing organizations deploying BI software and examines one vendor’s strategy and offering in the BI market.

Business Intelligence in a Real-Time World
Netezza’s data warehouse appliance optimizes BI queries for maximum performance, while providing simple administration and low TCO. Easier and faster access to information helps business users make better decisions.

The Critical Shift to Flexible Business Intelligence: What Every Marketer Wants – And Needs – From Technology
by Claudia Imhoff, Dr. Raymond Pettit
An Intelligent Solutions White Paper by Claudia Imhoff and Raymond Pettit.

Terascale Data Warehouse Appliances Overcome the Technology Bottleneck
Effective use of Business Intelligence can make or break a company. Learn how Netezza’s data warehouse appliance provides an expandable, affordable solution to the ever-growing demand for fast and comprehensive analyses.

Overcoming the Challenges of Exception-Based Reporting for Pharmaceutical Sales Companies
by Verix, Inc
Many organizations are turning to exception-based reporting to manage potential information overload. However, exception-based reporting introduces its own set of problems.

Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
The role of the CIO has changed dramatically in recent years by becoming more strategic as organizations look to use information to create a competitive advantage.

Process-Driven BI: Building Smarter Business Processes
By injecting business intelligence technology directly into critical business operations, you can ensure that the right people get involved at the right time to make decisions that impact your bottom line.

Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail
by Kevin R. Quinn
Insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence with guidance on how to avoid or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI.

Business Intelligence Gadgets
by John Harmann
Convergence of web services and desktop gadgets optimize business intelligence dashboards and alerts.

The Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets to a Packaged Application
This report offers SMBs a concise roadmap from the inefficiencies of spreadsheet budgeting to the packaged application essential for long term development.

Outperform With Accurate, Meaningful, and Fast Cash Flow Analysis
Forecasting cash flow has become an essential element in SMB growth strategy. This report analyzes various financial tools available to you, and offers the solutions that allow companies to incorporate cash flow reporting.

The CFO Guide to Budgeting Software: 10 Key features that make a big impact on mid-sized companies
An in-depth look at the dimensions of financial planning tools currently available; the limitations and opportunities new solutions provide for financial management and planning.

Become More Agile: Put Operational BI to Work
by Colin White
New research from Colin White reviews different types of operational BI applications and discusses techniques for building an operational BI environment.

Faster…Must Go Faster
by Claudia Imhoff
Businesses today are under increasing pressure to do more with fewer resources, the need for truly operational business intelligence is real.

Extending the Scalability of Your SQL Server BI Investment
Companies looking to enhance their SQL Server BI performance and scalability are no longer limited to selecting between increasingly expensive platform upgrades or an even more expensive platform migration.

IDC analyzes successful SaaS BI implementation
Read this report from IDC to learn how multi-channel retailer Zones, Inc., achieved a 50% increase in sales productivity and ROI of 1,065% by implementing a SaaS (Software as a Service) Business Intelligence solution.

Automated Analysis Technology
by Verix, Inc
Automatic detection of threats and opportunities is a very complex task and neither business intelligence nor data mining technologies can address this specific task.

The ‘Easy Mart’ Approach for Scaling Up your Reporting
Having a ready source of information optimized for analysis and reporting is the preference of every IT manager and business user. Read about a solution that quickly provides the scalability and performance you need.

12 Essential BI Features that Deliver Immediate Value to your Applications
Want to add more power and overall impact to your business applications? Read About 12 essential BI features that can reduce development time and increase user adoption all at the same time.

The Next Generation of BI
The focus, of BI 2.0, is on people, empowering users to express their creativity, allowing them to freely access information and produce something meaningful from it while focusing on information sharing, communication and collaboration. Find out how you

Increase Productivity and Lower Costs by Implementing a Unified BI Platform
A Unified BI platform opens the door for any business user to access, analyze and share business information across the organization. Find out how you can reduce costs by simplifying your IT portfolio while increasing productivity.

Joins and Aggregates Are Critical for Achieving Faster Data Retrieval in a Dimensional Data Warehouse
The process of preparing data for a dimensional data warehouse can be significantly reduced by the effective use of aggregation and join processing, performed by a tool optimized for fast sequential processing.

Speeding ETL and Processing in Data Warehouses
Today’s real-time business world demands the capability to process ever-increasing volumes of data at lightning speed. This white paper describes how DMExpress speeds long-running ETL processes so that applications finish faster saving you time and money.

Converging Text and Business Intelligence
by Clarabridge
This content mining platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis.

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.

Top-10 Reporting Tool Essentials for SAP R/3
by Geoffry C. Houze
An overview of SAP R/3 reporting tools as well as examination of the general reporting opportunities SAP R/3 clients have before them.

Data Quality First: It’s Just Logical
by Michael Schiff
The importance of trusted information to successful data integration and business intelligence.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence
A framework for measuring the benefits of business intelligence solutions.

Implementing A Business Intelligence Strategy
Explaining why standardizing business intelligence is critical.

Linking Strategic Plans to Operational Goals: A Practical Guide for CFOs
This paper explains how the newest offering from Cognos can help organizations avoid fatal flaws.

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.

Know What You Don’t Know But Should
The information access market is experiencing a fundamental shift because enterprises are trying to extract more value from their information assets, thus demanding more features from their search vendors.

The Faces of Intelligence
A theoretical discussion of the process of gathering, analyzing, and communicating intelligence, and the basics needed to improve this process.

The Next Generation of Business Intelligence: Operational BI
by Colin White
This paper discusses the role of operational BI, and looks at the business case and requirements for building and deploying an operational BI system.

Enterprise Business Intelligence
by Claudia Imhoff
Better competitive advantage, stronger customer relationships and more efficient operations are just a few of the major benefits from integrating BI into your operations.

SAND/DNA for SAP BI
Helping Meet the Challenge of Enterprise-Wide Data Explosion.

Report Mining: An Easier Way to Access Corporate Information
This Datawatch white paper looks at the common approaches to providing enterprise information and introduces a solution called Report Mining.

The Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time: Making it a Reality
A look at the unique way in which truly successful organizations view technology. With this best practice in mind, you will discover how you can achieve effective enterprise information delivery and data ETL at a small cost.

Removing the Data Archive Bottleneck
by Joshua Greenbaum
SAND/DNA for SAP Business Information Warehouse.

Beyond the Dashboard
by Gabriel Fuchs
This whitepaper explores the benefits of enabling key business processes with analytics to better support rapid analysis and leverage business user expertise.

Foundations of Analytics - Ten Principles of Enterprise Analytics
by Neil Raden
This whitepaper will define analytics, contrast it to business intelligence and provide a framework to understand specific requirements of an enterprise analytics solution.

Information Availability: How to Solve Downtime Challenges to Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations
Lakeview Technology explores how the power of an information availability solution can enable your organization to immediately tap into the unused value - downtime - that exists within your IT infrastructure.

What Every IT Manager Needs to Know: Using Information Availability to Solve the Time is Money Challenge.
Lakeview Technology explores the costs of unplanned IT downtime and strategies that utilize information availability solutions to prevent unplanned downtime.

Business Intelligence - The Way It Should Be
QlikTech explains how everyone in your company can do their job better if they make decisions based on actual information.

Creating Your Shortlist - Criteria for Selecting a BI, Reporting and Analysis Solution
QlikTech explores company data quality improvements through different approaches to short-list selection processes.

Simplified Data Access for the Enterprise
EasyAsk explores why "search" or "query" by themselves fall short of delivering true enterprise data access and Business Intelligence (BI).

Managing Master Data with KALIDO® 8
by Andrew Davis, Andrew Ellicott
Enabling business people to collaboratively define, consolidate, manage and authorize master data - without needing to modify the operational (ERP, CRM, SCM, et al) and analytical systems, from across which master data is sourced.

Turning Data into Decisions: MIS DecisionWare and SAP BW
MIS front ends enhance SAP software through top-down planning, modeling, simulation, tailored reports and sophisticated business analyses supported by data mining techniques.

Bringing BI to More Users Faster with MIS Plain and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
Through collaborative solutions for planning, reporting and analysis, MIS empowers companies to drive performance in a constantly changing marketplace.

Closing the Loop - Improving Corporate Performance with MIS DecisionWare and Microsoft SQL Server.
MIS DecisionWare and the Microsoft platform work together to improve data quality, simplify information access and streamline business processes.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Siebel business analytics delivers compliance and competitive advantage.

Sales Analytics: Driving Greater Sales Effectiveness and Increased Results
Siebel drives greater sales effectiveness and increased results.

Siebel Contact Center Analytics
Driving greater efficiency, higher revenue and increased customer satisfaction.

Leveraging Microsoft Excel for Effective BPM
by Mike Morini
Spreadsheets are user-friendly, easy-to-manage and a cost-effective option for implementing enterprise-scale performance management.

Actionable Planning
OutlookSoft evaluates financial planning and performance analysis processes that provide business advantages.

Unified Business Performance Management and the Application of Predictive Analytics
OutlookSoft explores BPM and the application of predictive analytics for optimal planning, reporting, analysis and decision-making.

Essential Ingredients for an Effective Business Performance Management Solution
OutlookSoft explores an optimal BPM Strategy.

BPM and the 'Big Three'
OutlookSoft explores planning, budgeting and forecasting for sucess.

Cogito Knowledge Center Solution
New graph technology eliminates data analysis barriers.

Cogito Public Safety Intelligence
Intelligence related problems drain organization resources and lower productivity.

Implementing TM1 In Your Computing Environment
Applix provides what every IT executives needs to know about TM1

The Applix TM1 Platform
Taking Business Intelligence to a New Dimension

Applix OLAP Data Scalability
Ignore the OLAP Data Explosion at Great Cost

Corporate Performance Management: Technology Audit
by Andy Kellett
The marketplace for performance management technology is rapidly changing and evolving.

BPM Spells Relief
by David Menninger
Business Performance Management Provides Unprecedented Insight.

An Insider's Guide to Business Intelligence in the Insurance Industry
How Applix Business Intelligence Helps Actuaries.

TM1 Teamed up with SAP
Today’s managers ERP systems lack analysis and response levels Applix explains

Achieving Business Intelligence Query Performance
Mcknight Associates explores new technologies and software for indexing that accentuate the positive qualities of indexing, while minimizing the negative aspects.

Reducing the TCO of Business Intelligence
by Colin White
The growing size of the BI user community has led to demands for new and improved BI applications and capabilities.

The Where of Business Intelligence
by Michael L. Gonzales
Reach is a critical component for PBI not only with regard to information, but also analytic tools. Architects must provide a seamless integration of technology that offers a broad range of reporting and analysis.

Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Platform
This white paper describes the Pentaho Business Intelligence Platform: a solution-oriented framework that integrates Open Source applications and open standards with a process-driven engine.

Beyond BI: Building intelligence into your operational decisions
by James Taylor
Enterprise Decision Management differs from traditional BI because it is focused on the execution of decisions and actions rather than reporting.

Clareos CrossCut Technical White Paper
This white paper introduces the architecture and feature set of Clareos CrossCut, a Fast Query Database software platform for interactive data analytics, multi-dimensional analysis and standard reporting.

The Future of Business Intelligence from Hyperion
by Vijay Lal
An understanding of performance is needed to make better and more informed decisions in the future.

Creating the Smart Consumer: Quantum Impact on Today’s Retail Experience
This white paper focuses upon an important component of the supply chain often forgotten in the boardroom: customer education. It focuses upon how using IT-supported processes to assist the consumer benefits the entire selling process.

Developing a BI Strategy for CRM/ERP Data
by Colin White
An in-depth TDWI report providing vendor-neutral research.

The Hyperion Insatiable Enterprise
Leveraging the Essbase analytical engine to successfully and cost-effectively satisfy information-based business BI demands.

Hyperion Performance Suite 8
Scalability and performance benchmarks on sun solaris operating system.

New Horizon in Business Intelligence For The Financial Sector
by Ken Neal
Pervasive business intelligence can provide people the information they need to make better decisions faster.

Beyond OLAP
KXEN Data Mining and Predictive Analytics combined with Business Intelligence applications will deliver on the promise of increased ROI and business performance.

Winning Strategy Delivers Value and Reduces Total Cost of Ownership
by Mark Albala, Glenn Peipert
Most companies don't receive the maximum benefits from business intelligence and data warehouse initiatives.

End-to-End Business Intelligence with Business Objects Data Integrator
Business Objects provides a best-of-breed data integration platform that can satisfy the demanding needs of today’s most complex IT infrastructures.

The Fact Gap: The Disconnect Between Data and Decisions
A Business Object's commissioned study identifying obstacles that impede critical business decisions.

Implementing Business Intelligence Standards
by Timo Elliott
Business Intelligence technology gives business users the ability to track, understand and manage information within an organization.

QlikView Business Intelligence - The Way It Should Be
The exponential gains from BI come from improving the quality of the information that business leaders use when making decisions.

The Critical Shift to Flexible Business Intelligence
by Claudia Imhoff, Dr. Raymond Pettit
What every marketer wants and needs from technology.

SAS9
by Philip Howard
The first enterprise-class business intelligence platform.

Beyond Business Intelligence
SAS9 places organization's intelligence operations into the broadest possible user population - more efficiently and at a lower cost than ever before.

Reaping the Benefits of Integrated Business Intelligence
by Mike Ferguson
Introducing the SAS9 Intelligence Platform

Tera-Scale Data Warehouse Appliances Overcome the Technology Bottleneck
Organizations have spent billions of dollars on general-purpose solutions, but these solutions are unable to effectively handle the demands of in-depth analyses on large amounts of enterprise data.

Applying Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence to Insurance
by Sriram Krishnan
Proper use of Data Warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) can give the insurance sector a number of advantages like easy data acquisition, cost reduction in information delivery and a lot more.

Business Intelligence and Insurance
by Pawan Kuumar S, Saurabh Swarup
The insurance industry is extremely divided in its adoption of business intelligence environment based on technologies like data warehousing, OLAP and data mining.

Knightsbridge Measures the value of BI and DW Initiatives
Understanding and quantifying each initiative's cost and benefits is necessary to make an informed decision. Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing are no exception to this rule.

Underwriting Transformation
by Arup Ghosh, Subhobroto Ghosh
Underwriting transformation is the analytical solution for underwriting process improvement and is geared to help bring down the loss ratio.

Overcoming Data Warehousing Challenges with Appliance Technology
by Kim Stanick
Appliance technology can dramatically enhance data warehouse environments to overcome existing scalability challenges.