Business Analytics

Did you know that four in 5 business leaders see information as the source of competitive advantage? What does that mean for your mid-sized business? You might believe you have more data than you know what to do with, but that doesn't necessarily translate into more information. Sign up for this webinar to learn how Business Analytics and Optimization can help you make relevant data-based decisions to outperform your competitors and give you a fast ROI.

Featured in SharePoint Pro magazine online, the OpenText white paper Extending SharePoint Across Your Information Architecture, by leading SharePoint consultant Colin Spence, offers valuable insights and best practices for integrating SharePoint with your full enterprise application environment.

Easily compare ERP solutions for Mid-Market and Enterprise sized businesses in our new Buyer's Guide.

IT strategies in insurance have traditionally been driven by business objectives and business strategy. But with technology advancements for mobile solutions, social media, analytics, content management (ECM), and process automation, insurers can now take a conjoinment view to evaluate opportunities and drive differentiation. Read more in this paper from Mark Breading of Strategy Meets Action.

Are you currently in the process of making line-of-business applications accessible from mobile devices or do you have plans to deploy custom mobile applications in the near future? "The Rise of the Mobile Workforce: Gain Control of End User Experience" will provide you and your team with the use cases, insight, and best practices you need for gaining control of end user experience of mobile applications.

Download this case study to learn how Constangy, Brooks & Smith, a labor and employment law firm, improved the efficiency of their IT infrastructure. With the help of solutions from Riverbed Technology, the firm consolidated and virtualized many different servers, and eliminated the expense and difficulty of remotely managing hardware and software. Learn how you can too.

SharePoint is now an important element of the information management infrastructure in many of the world's largest organizations. In many cases, these organizations must now consider how SharePoint, and the massive (and growing) amount of content it creates, will be managed as well as how it will integrate within the broader information infrastructure.

Learn how application delivery problems continue to frustrate IT managers and how to move to the cloud without losing your sanity.

This paper explores the question: what could your organization do with faster, better answers, and provides possible use case scenarios that illustrate the value this technology brings to a variety of industries.

This paper defines predictive analytics, then details ways this type of analytics can be applied to marketing, risk, operations and more. It also includes information relevant to a wide variety of industries - from manufacturing to hospitals.

This paper shows the results of the survey, as well as trends and expert opinions focusing on why some top organizations are able to successfully extract insight from "big data."

Michael Lock of the Aberdeen Group focuses on the effect of end user adoption, pervasiveness, and engagement of business intelligence on business performance. Learn the necessary steps to establishing self-service business analytics.

How does an organization make the best use of data, and what is the proper role of IT? This paper describes how organizations can foster a culture of data analytics that promotes cooperation and collaboration between IT and business.

Learn what criteria distinguished certain companies as top performers within the SMB sector, the factors to consider when assessing your organization's BI competency and the required actions to achieve best-in-class performance.

This white paper reveals the results of a Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services survey of 930 respondents globally on the current state of business analytics within organizations. You'll discover how and why the use of analytics is growing!

This Aberdeen Research Brief draws on three discrete data sets in order to understand the tangible business impact of effective analytics in the SMB market.

Learn about the emerging best practices for mobile BI usage and the framework by which you can assess your own management capabilities for enterprise mobile BI adoption.

The traditional managed reporting approach to BI is challenged to keep up with changing demand for business information. This research finds that providing business users with highly visual/interactive tools can help ensure they get what they need.

This white paper provides a top-level overview explaining what business analytics can do for your company - and the 8 key steps to accelerating product innovation, optimizing pricing and discovering drivers of financial performance.

Read this white paper to learn about 10 principles to follow in order to build an effective human capital plan for your organization.

Oracle BPEL Process Manager offers a comprehensive and easy-to-use infrastructure for creating, deploying and managing BPEL business processes.

Take a look at this Data Sheet to find out more about Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) - its key features and benefits

Whether you need to build a case for a UC system, or are ready for a new solution, this white paper offers a thorough comparison of Shoretel vs Avaya.

This must-read publication features independent research providing a wealth of information around best in breed Unified Communication systems.

This white paper explains how an integrated middleware suite helps customers create and manage effective SOA environments.