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.

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.

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

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

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.

Designing Executive Dashboards
by Tomas Gonzalez
How to create an effective operational dashboard, and the associated design best practices.

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.

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

Going Beyond Spreadsheets
by Loren Abdulezer
How visual modeling can enhance decision analysis.