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Business Intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions. The term implies having a comprehensive knowledge of all of the factors that affect your business. It is imperative that you have an in depth knowledge about factors such as your customers, competitors, business partners, economic environment, and internal operations to make effective and good quality business decisions. Business intelligence enables you to make these kinds of decisions.

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Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Mar 13, 2008
The business intelligence (BI) “boom” of the 1990s was something BIG: big projects designed to give big companies with big budgets a competitive advantage. And while BI delivered big returns for some companies, for others it was nothing but a big headache. An estimated 50% of all data warehousing projects failed to meet their goals. Why? Because many companies underestimated just how big an undertaking BI really was.
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Oco, Inc.
Financial Management and Business Intelligence Solutions for a High-Performance Workplace
By : Microsoft Published Date: Apr 16, 2007
Sound, responsible financial management is at the heart of business success. Download this webcast to learn more about the Microsoft solutions for financial management and business intelligence (BI) that can help you transform your business into a high-performance workplace. We describe how Microsoft business solutions are designed to help you work more efficiently by focusing on the tasks that add the most value to your business and enable you to make more informed decisions based on timely, accurate information.
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Microsoft
ROI Analysis for Intelligent File Virtualization
By : F5 Networks Inc Published Date: Oct 09, 2008
A Closer Look at the Financial Benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 ARX
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F5 Networks Inc
Using Financial Management Solutions to Make Intelligent Business Decisions
By : Microsoft Published Date: Dec 04, 2006
In this webcast, we discuss how companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward. While strategies, organization, motivation, and leadership all set the stage for business success, you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities to see results—because ultimately success is determined by your people. Learn why we call a business that fosters a winning environment a "people-ready business."
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Microsoft
Using Business Intelligence to Gain an Advantage
By : Microsoft Published Date: Nov 07, 2004
The people in your organization have access to volumes of information that was once unimaginable. Success or failure can hinge on whether or not people can use this information to make wise decisions quickly. But without the ability to make sense of information, a knowledge gap exists, and the best anyone can do is guess or follow a hunch. Business intelligence helps you decipher and extract meaning from data so you can make informed decisions.
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Microsoft
An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.
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iWay Software
Acquiring Business Intelligence is Crucial
By : Netsuite Published Date: Nov 08, 2007
But what is "BI" and how do small/mid size business owners acquire it without too much cost?  This Executive White Paper will outline the issues and solutions for the "BI" requirements of growing companies.
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Netsuite
Butler Group on iWay Service Manager
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006
iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.
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iWay Software
Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform
By : Clarabridge Published Date: Mar 06, 2006
This white paper describes how the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform avoids the pitfalls of previous approaches to unstructured analysis, and capitalizes on lessons learned from solving similar problems in the structured domain.
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Clarabridge
Achieving Compliance- Meeting Today's Reporting Requirements With Business Intelligence Technology
By : Information Builders Published Date: Nov 24, 2004
Learn about the challenges and solutions for meeting the reporting requirements faced by today’s organizations, with attention to formal government legislation, industry-specific regulations, and internal corporate governance.
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Information Builders
Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
By : IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure.
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IBM
Achieving Efficiency and Effectiveness With Your Master Data
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 01, 2008
Read this article to identify the 5 phrases of an EDM implementation you need to achieve efficiency and effectiveness with your master data.
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SAP
Automating Data Flows to your Business Intelligence System
By : Tidal Software Published Date: Jun 09, 2008
Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process.
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Tidal Software
Building a Business Case for Customer-Centric Master Data Management: Don’t Forget the ROI
By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 24, 2007
Discover the essential steps to delivering a solid business case for the right customer-centric MDM architecture and achieve maximum ROI.
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Siperian
Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants
By : BusinessObjects Published Date: Jan 25, 2007
Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You'll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.

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BusinessObjects
Balanced Scorecard Design Toolkit
By : AKS-Labs Published Date: Mar 14, 2007
Business professionals lack essential information about real-life metrics and information on how to build a Balanced Scorecard, which supports weights and scores, which allows calculating the performance values. This whitepaper is a Balanced Scorecard design toolkit, which contains some "how-to" ideas.
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AKS-Labs
BI 2.0: The Next Generation of Business Intelligence
By : LogiXML Published Date: Jan 26, 2007
The term Business Intelligence 2.0 (BI 2.0) is cropping up more and more in the industry, generally referring to the next generation of BI just as Web 2.0 has come to refer to the next generation of the Web.
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LogiXML
Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs
By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 01, 2007
The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.
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Information Builders
Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Your organization's focus has been on acquiring customers, increasing revenues and profitability, and outpacing the competition. And while your organization has continued to improve its operating efficiencies (sometimes by quickly learning from past mistakes), you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what’s going on and planning for the future.
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SAP
Business Intelligence for Consumer Products: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
While historically consumer packaged goods (CPG) organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration, much of the data stored in their IT infrastructures has not been analyzed or deployed to further the firms' business performance.  Those enterprises that learn to effectively harness the vast quantities of information generated by their IT systems - both within and outside the corporation - will enjoy a substantial competitive advantage.
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SAP
Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration (through data warehouses and the like), it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its accumulated data to actually drive business performance.  In the years to come, as globalization and increased reliance on the Internet further complicate, accelerate and intensify marketplace conditions, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.
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SAP
Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
The Retail sector was one of the first sectors to make significant investments in collecting and integrating customer data in data warehouses. In the future, firms will need to continue to be cost effective but increasingly will need to focus on using data to drive revenue by better understanding their customers' needs. Enterprises that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.
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SAP
Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. One side effect of these investments has been the creation of vast stores of valuable data.  achieve insight, transparency and competitive advantage.
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SAP
Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design
By : Information Builders Published Date: Sep 27, 2007
Dashboards help organizations make better business decisions. The way in which they are created is not trivial and attention must be paid to the details. Employing visual design standards and principles are important, but are only part of the journey. The way in which data is integrated from the enterprise is just as important.
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Information Builders
Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence
By : Information Builders Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
This paper describes how to leverage WebFOCUS business intelligence software to generate Excel spreadsheets directly from enterprise data sources, consolidating large amounts of data, performing complex calculations, and creating advanced structures like PivotTables.
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Information Builders
 
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