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.

Supporting pervasive BI with new technology
by Claudia Imhoff
This paper discusses how business intelligence is in more demand that ever. The paper also discusses the emergence of new data analytics and data warehousing technology that is set to help organizations provide more access to intelligence and insight usin

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Secrets to a Successful Business Intelligence Implementation
BI success is hampered by the disparity of user needs, data access, latency, resources & complexities -- learn why over 50% of BI programs fail & how to ensure program success.

Closing the Management Information Gap with Operational BI
Ventana Research discusses how to address the needs and challenges of sharing data across silos and domain expertise with Operational BI, to provide the right information to the right people, when and how they need it.

Operational Business Intelligence: A Process-Aligned Collaborative Environment
IDC Analysts detail how operational BI differs from traditional BI in supporting decision making, discuss misconceptions and shortcomings of traditional BI, and outline requirements for an effective operational BI 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.

Software as a Service – for Data Integration
by Claudia Imhoff
Discussing this new model of software delivery focusing on a particular aspect – data integration as a service.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sarbanes-Oxley – What were the Legislators Thinking?
by Claudia Imhoff
Surviving the impact of compliance on your data warehouse.

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.

The Applix Insider’s Guide to the Actuary Business
The secrets of using performance management to manage the risk industry.

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

Data Management
by Jonathan G. Geiger, Claudia Imhoff
Why your organization must understand and achieve it.