Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

CASE STUDY - Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Activity Monitoring | Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | SOA | TCO | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Health Care Industry | Master Data Management | Metadata | Metrics

WHITE PAPER - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Benchmark Testing | Best Practices | Business Processes | Financial Services Industry | Fixed Assets | Performance Testing | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Databases | ERP | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Collaboration | Data Collection | Data Warehouses

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 18, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | CRM | ERP | Manufacturing | Mergers and Acquisitions | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | CIOs | ERP | Middleware | Product Life Cycles | SOA | Supply Chain Management | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution.
Posted: March 24, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | IT Best Practices | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents IDC’s framework for implementing operational excellence (opex) and helps the reader move toward an effective op ex implementation while avoiding potential pitfalls.
Posted: January 31, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Processes | Information Management | IT Infrastructure | LAN | SAP (Product) | SMBs