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 Database: Technical Overview White Paper
Vertica is a general-purpose relational database system designed to provide extremely good performance on read-intensive query workloads.

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

Global Positioning System For Business
by Jonathan G. Geiger
This paper is focused on integrating strategic, operational and predictive business intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Transforming Telecommunications: Real-Time, Comprehensive Analyses for Proactive Business Decisions
Learn how the Netezza Performance Server (NPS®) system is transforming the telecommunications industry by enabling analysis of billions of CDRs in real-time, resulting in better business decisions.

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

Knowing Sooner Rather Than Later: Cost Analysis of Low-Latency Data in Enterprise Data Warehousing
by Jack Garzella, Richard Hackathorn
The study explores five typical architectures for acquiring real-time data from transaction systems and estimates the cost factors for each.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.