Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | PLM | Product Development | Product Life Cycles | Product Management

WHITE PAPER - The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Business Processes | ERP | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | Manufacturing Systems | PLM | Product Life Cycles | Product Management

CASE STUDY - Find out how Picis incorporated business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis technology from SAP BusinessObjects in the development of the Picis CareSuite family of products. You'll also learn how they comprise best practice applications for automating and documenting their business and clinical processes in their acute care departments.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: October 13, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Process Automation | Business Processes | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Health Care Industry | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

ANALYST REPORT - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Communications | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Performance Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Business Systems | CEOs | CFOs | CIOs | Communications Networks | Financial Management | Financial Reporting

WHITE PAPER - Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Reengineering | Business Processes | Corporate Governance | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Resource Management | Lean Production | Marketing | Supply Chain Management

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 - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Processes | CRM | Customer Satisfaction | ERP | Metrics

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 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Asset Management Services | Business Process Management | Business Processes | ERP | Master Data Management | SAP (Product) | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - This Report offers guidance on developing an overall corporate strategy for maintaining an ERP system by providing practical advice for planning and managing an ERP upgrade project.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Processes | Business Systems | ERP | ERP Software | Supply Chain Automation | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses about how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration.
Posted: May 19, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Tools | Business Processes | Consumer Package Goods | Data Management | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise GRC solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.
Posted: February 1, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Processes | CobiT | Compliance (Finance) | Data Center Management | Data Governance | Data Security | Database Administration | Database Security | Databases | Financial Reporting | IT Infrastructure | Risk Management | Secure Content Management | Security Policies

WHITE PAPER - Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.
Posted: January 31, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Business Processes | ERP | Manufacturing Execution Systems | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - Gain access to accurate information and visibility across your small to mid-sized company from efficient integrated IT systems - and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions.
Posted: January 31, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Management | Business Processes | Databases | SAP (Product) | SMBs | Systems Management