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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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Actional Enterprise: Free return on investment (ROI) E-kit
By : Progress Software BTA Financial Published Date: Oct 26, 2009
Learn how-and how much-you can gain in benefits from using Actional Enterprise for managing the operations of your distributed, interconnected applications. This E-kit will help you understand in measurable terms-such as the costs, cost savings, and ROI-of deploying Actional. Simply register and you will receive the resources required to help you build and communicate a business case.
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Progress Software BTA Financial
Find out how 200 of the top retailers are staying competitive.
By : IBM-America Published Date: Oct 23, 2009
The IBM white paper, "A Best-in-Class Roadmap For Performance Improvement," includes the results of an Aberdeen survey of over 200 retail companies. In it, you'll see the critical Business Intelligence strategies and capabilities that best-in-class retailers are employing to increase performance.
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IBM-America
Transport & Logistics: Event Processing in Transport and Logistics
By : Progress Software Corporation CEP Published Date: Oct 23, 2009
In the transport and logistics market where timing is critical, a matter of minutes can make or break a performance-based contract. Your success will depend on your organization's ability to visualize, monitor and act on internal events and external events that effect your operations.
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Progress Software Corporation CEP
The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009
By : Progress Software Corporation CEP Published Date: Oct 23, 2009
Forrester Research has named Apama as a standout leader in the complex event processing (CEP) platform market in The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009 Report. The Report evaluated nine CEP platform vendors based on a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria.
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Progress Software Corporation CEP
Complex Event Processing Opportunity Analysis and Assessment of Key Products
By : Progress Software Corporation CEP Published Date: Oct 23, 2009
IDC Report: Complex Event Processing Opportunity Analysis and Assessment of Key Products Read this excerpt of the 2009 IDC study by Maureen Fleming and Jeff Silverstein looking at complex event processing. The excerpt includes IDC opinion on the market for CEP, what defines CEP and independently profiles Progress Apama, which was ranked "Top CEP Innovator" in the report.
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Progress Software Corporation CEP
Scandanavian Airlines Modernize Business Intelligence Capabilities While Lowering Costs
By : Micro Focus Published Date: Oct 19, 2009
Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is the largest airline in Scandinavia. It flies to 150 destinations, employs 32,000 staff, and carries 40 million passengers annually. The mainframe data warehouse had become expensive to run and maintain and it was becoming difficult to deliver the Business Intelligence vital to competing within the airline industry in a timely manner.
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Valero Revamps Applications to Reduce Risk and Increase Business Agility
By : Micro Focus Published Date: Oct 19, 2009
Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is one of the top U.S. refining companies, with about 22,000 employees and revenues of $119 billion. A market leader, Valero has approximately 5,800 retail sites and operates on a retail and wholesale basis across 44 U.S. states, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean region. Valero needed to reduce the risks and costs associated with their core systems that were running on a mainframe and to increase competitive advantage in the delivery of energy services for both retail and wholesale. They chose to migrate to UNIX, achieving 50% increased performance and reducing system complexity.
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Get real-time visibility and make smarter decisions
By : IBM-America Published Date: Oct 15, 2009
In the ForwardView article, you'll learn how Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provide greater visibility across the entire business to help you spot trends in real time.
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IBM-America
Data warehousing with DB2 family for IBM System z customers (293)
By : IBM-America Published Date: Oct 14, 2009
Discover the unique support for data warehousing and business intelligence offered by the IBM DB2 portfolio. This white paper shows how an IBM System z server, integrated with the IBM DB2 family of solutions, can help you meet requirements for data warehousing and business intelligence.
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Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
By : Oracle Corp. Published Date: Sep 29, 2009
The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by protecting data at the source - the databases in which it resides. Historically most organizations have relied on network perimeter and application level security to restrict access to sensitive data, leaving their databases and the sensitive information inside exposed.
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Oracle Corp.
Low Rate Financing: Get competitive rates on virtually every IBM brand
By : IBM-America Published Date: Aug 31, 2009
Get rates as low as 1.50%* for hardware, and 2.30%* for software, on transactions as low as $5,000
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IBM-America
IBM DB2 Compression ROI Tool
By : IBM-America Published Date: Aug 28, 2009
To find out how much space a company can save by using the feature, the user can use the Data Storage Analyzer that employs the exact same algorithm as the Deep Compression feature to arrive at a very accurate estimate of the size of the compressed database.
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IBM-America
Tom Davenport Study: Linking decisions and information for organizational performance
By : IBM-America Published Date: Aug 26, 2009
Because organizations' efforts and attentions were being spent on automation, to improve decision-making was never the primary focus. Today it has taken center stage.
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Unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage
By : IBM-America Published Date: Aug 26, 2009
This executive level brochure provides the strategy behind Information on Demand (IOD), the 5 entry points to IOD and includes a summary of the 2008, information market analyst Ovum's independent evaluation of IBM's Information On Demand initiative which declared IBM to be at the "vanguard of the unified information management revolution."
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IBM-America
Information on Demand and the Information Agenda: The Complete Story
By : IBM-America Published Date: Aug 26, 2009
This demo explores the Information on Demand strategy and discusses the 5 entry points to IOD - manage data over its lifetime, optimize content based operational and compliance processes, establish govern and deliver trusted information, optimize business performance, and the Information Agenda.
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IBM-America
Facing tough IT decisions? Get insight from midsize businesses like yours.
By : IBM-America Published Date: Aug 25, 2009
Facing tough IT decisions? Get insight from midsize businesses like yours.
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IBM-America
Business Intelligence for Consumer Products: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers.
By : SAP Inc. Published Date: Jul 28, 2009
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 Inc.
Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers.
By : SAP Inc. Published Date: Jul 28, 2009
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 Inc.
Overall Approach to Data Quality ROI.
By : SAP Inc. Published Date: Jul 28, 2009
Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole.
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SAP Inc.
Why Midsize Companies Need Business Intelligence Solutions in this Uncertain Global Economy.
By : SAP Inc. Published Date: Jul 28, 2009
Learn how midsize companies are putting in place a business intelligence information infrastructure - making them more likely to adhere to their budgets and deadlines, concentrate on improving the overall business rather than just one department, and reward employees accordingly.
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Data Management for Business Intelligence.
By : SAP Inc. Published Date: Jun 16, 2009
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Good To Great IT
By : Avocent LANDesk Published Date: Mar 23, 2009
Peters' and Waterman's well-known book 'In Search of Excellence', a study of some of the most well-managed companies in the United States at that time, was one of the best-known business books of the 1980s. In the book, the authors identified eight common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of the included corporations. These attributes included hands-on management, centralized values accompanied by entrepreneurial productivity, and focusing on the core business (sticking to the knitting).
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Avocent LANDesk
Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition A Technical Overview
By : Oracle Corp. Published Date: Jan 29, 2009
Integrating data and applications throughout the enterprise and presenting them in a unified view is a complex proposition. Not only are there broad disparities in technologies, data structures, and application functionality, but there are also fundamental differences in integration architectures. Many organizations address these diverse needs with a broad palette of tools and technologies, resulting in disjointed integration projects with no leverage or unity between them. This white paper provides a technical overview of a data integration tool that meets the performance, flexibility, productivity, modularity and hot-pluggability requirements of an integration platform.
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Oracle Corp.
Automating IT Configuration Controls with Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Change Console
By : Oracle Corp. Published Date: Oct 23, 2008
Managing your applications top-down from a business perspective allows you to identify business exceptions rapidly, pinpoint root cause issues using drilldowns in the underlying technologies, infrastructure, and remediate the issues automatically before they become emergencies.
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Oracle Corp.
State of the Data Integration Market
By : Oracle Corp. Published Date: Sep 09, 2008
Data integration is a critical and fundamental element in a variety of technologies, including data warehouses, business intelligence (BI) applications, service-oriented architectures (SOA), master data management (MDM) applications, and data-centric architectures. This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009. It defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations. The information presented is based on the State of the Data Integration Market Survey, a study of more than 300 global data integration users conducted by Oracle in August 2008. It also incorporates industry research and projections by leading analyst firms.
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