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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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Data Integration: Creating a Trustworthy Data Foundation for Business Intelligence
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 06, 2009
This white paper from SAP BusinessObjects discusses the importance of data integration and helps identify the key challenges of integrating data.
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Best Practices in Data Governance (Video)
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 30, 2008
Does your business need to safeguard information, keep auditors and regulators satisfied, and improve data quality? Data governance is the answer. This informative video outlines the latest challenges and best practices in data governance. IBM data governance solutions help businesses with:• Audit and reporting • Data architecture/infrastructure • Data quality • Information lifecyle management • Metadata/business glossaries • Organizational design/development • Policy/risk management • Security/privacy/compliance • Stewardship/value creation
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Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP 2 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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Basel II Compliance with Tripwire
By : Tripwire Published Date: Sep 10, 2008
Understand the issues addressed by the new international banking standard known as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS or Basel II), and find out how Tripwire can help meet all requirements of Basel II compliance even before it becomes a worldwide banking regulation.
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Hard Hat Area: Myths and Pitfalls of Data Mining.
By : SPSS Published Date: May 28, 2008
The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte."  This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and attempts to provide some protective "hard hats" for data miners in the technology sector.
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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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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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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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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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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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Achieving Efficiency and Effectiveness With Your Master Data
By : SAP 2 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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IBM Balanced Warehouse: The Flexible Foundation for Real-Time Business Intelligence
By : IBM Published Date: May 30, 2008
Businesses need a better way to leverage information, manage analytic results and glean business insights across the enterprise.  Are you seeking a simple, flexible and optimized solution?  Watch this short video to learn about IBM's Balanced Warehouse -- the complete ‘ready-to-go’ data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated system components of DB2 Warehouse, Server and Storage.
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How Graphic Packaging International Transformed Its Business With SAP
By : SAP 2 Published Date: Apr 20, 2008
Examine how GPI built a solid infrastructure based on the SAP ERP application, positioning the company for significant growth. GPI can now reach strategic corporate objectives – including improved visibility into business processes and decreased production costs through better order scheduling and reduced inventory.
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How Sauder Woodworking Transformed Its Business With SAP
By : SAP 2 Published Date: Apr 20, 2008
Learn how this furniture manufacturer used the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence composite application to integrate data from multiple sources, build team-leader and operator dashboards, and streamline production flow and efficiency on the shop floor.
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Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions from SAP and Business Objects
By : SAP 2 Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. In this light, organizations that run SAP software should perform due diligence on solutions from SAP and from Business Objects, an SAP company. New milestones in areas such as user experience and information integration, from both business-user and enterprise-IT perspectives, will be hard to ignore under such a mandate.
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Business Intelligence for Retail: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
By : SAP 2 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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Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI
By : Informatica Published Date: Oct 24, 2007
The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions – with similar results. There are thousands of business process steps in a typical enterprise where pervasive BI insights can be added. What are leading companies doing with pervasive BI?
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Informatica
The Location Intelligent Enterprise: Unlocking the Value of Location in Data
By : Quocirca Published Date: Oct 04, 2007
Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency.  However, despite the proliferation of data that businesses generate today, the potential value of this location dimension is often overlooked in the business intelligence process.
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Quocirca
IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value of Information
By : IBM Published Date: Jul 02, 2007
Organizations must adapt more rapidly than ever before - which means that they must align their IT environments with their business goals and deliver information on demand, when and where it is needed. In this white paper, the experts at IBM discuss how your company can meet this need for information on demand with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a business-centric approach to IT architecture that supports integration through linked, repeatable business tasks or services.
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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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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 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
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
Master Data Management: The Myth of a Single Vendor Platform
By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 01, 2007
Master Data Management is a cohesive strategy for managing all master data domains.  Where is your organization most likely to derive business value from a Master Data Management solutions?  This report answers these questions and details the path forward:  Adaptive Master Data Management.

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How to Sell Skeptics on the Value of Master Data Management
By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 01, 2007
This comprehensive report addresses industry-specific issues for the Financial Services sector, Insurance, Pharmaceutical companies, Retailers, Manufacturing, and High-Tech.
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