Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture, it also delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management.
Posted: October 29, 2008 | Published: October 29, 2008


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | ERP | Reporting Software | Self-Service Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - Managing imports is more complex, difficult, and error-prone than it initially appears. This white paper explains three points for inventory managers to consider.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: June 19, 2008


Topics:  Apparel Industry | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | ERP | Imports | Inventory Management | Inventory Management Software | Manufacturing Systems | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - This Guide to IT Search is your first step to choosing an IT Search solution. In it, you'll find questions to ask yourself before deciding on criteria and priorities. Whatever the scale of your infrastructure, whatever your budget, we can help
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Indexing Software | ROI | Security | SOA | Storage Management | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - CommVault's customers participated in an online survey in March 2008 which documented the ROI across infrastructure, software, and services spending; backup reliability; administrative time; and backup and restore performance.
Posted: September 20, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | CRM | Data Centers | Data Management | ERP | ROI

WHITE PAPER - As companies experience "data explosion", the value of data reporting becomes obvious. This paper examines the challenges IT departments are facing when it come to keeping up with reporting needs, as well as efficient solutions to these issues.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Visualization Software | Data Warehouses | OLTP | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this CIO guide on ERP in the Midmarket to get a better understanding of the various options companies have when choosing, implementing, securing, and measuring the ROI from their ERP systems.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Service Management | CRM | ERP | ROI | Security | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Governance | Data Quality | Information Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | IT Spending | Master Data Management | Project Management | Risk Management | SOA | Software Development Tools | Software Implementation

WHITE PAPER - Oracle's EPM system includes a suite of performance management applications, and business intelligence (BI) applications. Learn how organizations have optimized business processes by using enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other applications.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Balanced Scorecards | Business Intelligence Software | Collaboration | Enterprise | ERP | Financial Management | Reporting Software | Risk Assessment

WHITE PAPER - In this Expert E-Guide, we arm those responsible for managing smart phones and PDAs with strategies that can and should be applied now to reduce risk, contain cost, and increase productivity.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Mobile CRM | Mobile Device Management | Mobile Workers | PDA | Productivity | Security | Smart Phones

WHITE PAPER - An operational BI system should be focused on influencing the interaction with your customer to provide benefit to both the customer and your business. It also lends itself to a fairly direct ROI.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Business Performance Management | Customer Service | Dashboards | OLAP

WHITE PAPER - This E-Guide offers a few guidelines that can be employed when making decisions about long-term archiving, retention and disposal of customer data.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Content Archiving | Data Management | Email | ERP | ERP Software | Spreadsheets

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the changing IT services market and why IT service providers need to improve the way they do business.
Posted: September 15, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Interoperability | Patch Management | Security | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explains how IBM Cognos 8 BI, IT can provide organizations with an open, service-oriented, enterprise-class platform that provides a complete and consistent view of all data–without requiring implementation of multiple tools.
Posted: September 11, 2008 | Published: September 11, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Collaboration | Dashboards | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - Until organizations start to shift the responsibility to business data owners, it is IT that has to enforce rules for who can access what on shared file systems and keep those strictures current through data growth and user role changes.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Security | Spreadsheets | Unstructured Data