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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Overcoming the Challenges of Exception-Based Reporting for Consumer Packaged Goods Companies
by Verix, Inc
Describing the properties of an advanced technology that would deliver automated analysis with practical, actionable insight directly to business users.

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.

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.

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.

Creating and Using Taxonomies to Enhance Enterprise Search
EasyAsk automatically defines a taxonomy that can be manually modeled to meet an organization's business and information-finding needs.

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.

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).

Data Search and Discovery: Search Meets Reporting
Do users in your organization require immediate access to data? Did you know that there are tools that combine search and reporting in one? Learn the 5 drivers for combining data search and ad-hoc query in this analyst report from Patricia Seybold Group.

Simplified Data Access for ISVs
Embedding data search and query into business applications provides immediate, self-service data access to non-technical business users providing a compelling differentiator for your solution while allowing your software to be more widely adopted.

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

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.

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.

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

How to Ratchet Down Errors In Systems for Planning, Budgeting, and Reporting
by Charley Kyd
Financial data errors can delay action when it's desperately needed

QueryEdge improves performance/scalability of business-critical applications
A technical introduction to improving the performance of query-intensive applications using breakthrough indexing technology.

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.

Bolt-On Strategies for Improving Data Warehouse Performance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
Every IT Organization with a successful data warehouse will eventually find itself considering how to improve query performance. A new less disruptive and less costly alternative is to employ a bolt-on capable hardware and software solution.

Solving the Load/Query Conundrum in Dimensional Design
by Neil Raden
The solutions and approaches to resolving the load/query conundrum.

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.

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