Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2: Transforming Data Into Quality Information [ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008- This paper discusses the concepts of data quality, their importance in an enterprise as well as the diverse advantages of performing data quality processes inside a robust data integration product - Oracle Warehouse Builder. Oracle Warehouse Builder addresses the challenges of data quality by offering data evaluation data cleansing, data integration, and data monitoring in one tool. It promotes the disciplined approach to data quality by making data quality processes easily available in the same ....

Lean BPM: A Pragmatic Approach to Automating Business Processes [ Source: Serena Software ]
March 2009- Times are tough. There is no doubt in light of the current economic and corporate downturn, businesses – and their IT departments – are actively seeking tools and methods to reduce cost and increase productivity. These goals become even more important when an organization is not able to bring additional resources (read: people) to address a need. Or worse, when they need to maintain the level and quality of work in light of a reduction ....

Flash demo: Enterprise Content Management - Strategy and Technology [ Source: IBM ]
July 2008- IBM Enterprise Content Management is both a strategy and a set of technologies to help organizations manage the volume and capture the value of unstructured content. By leveraging information, it not only assists with managing content across the enterprise, but also delivers IT solutions for business process and compliance management. It’s designed to reach submerged and scattered parts of your corporate content, delivering the right information in context by accessing, classifying and activating all sources. ....

Emerging Security Threats Demand Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring [ Source: FireScope ]
January 2008- A multi-billion dollar cyber crime industry is changing the security landscape. Targeted external and internal attacks that steal intellectual property, customer data, and money are on the rise - impacting corporations’ bottom lines and their reputations with customers. Malicious code is entering the environment more rapidly than patches can be deployed and through avenues that network perimeter monitoring can’t detect. Today’s targeted security threats evade detection by single-point security solutions and traditional network monitoring. This ....

Three Blind Men and an Elephant- The Power of Dashboards [ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-

Stephen Few, Principal of Perceptual Edge, reveals how dashboards make it easy to shift from one perspective to another while exploring and analyzing data, and pursuing every question that arises during the process.

Business people struggle every day to make sense of data, stumbling blindly, touching only small parts of the information, and coming away with a narrowed comprehension.

In this paper you'll learn how dashboards increase data comprehension through:
• Greater ....

Open Source BI to the Rescue [ Source: Actuate ]
October 2009- Follow the trials of the hero of our story as he uses open source BI to break away from the limitations, high costs and complexity of proprietary software. He saved the day with BIRT and now his company is able to make better decisions and improve productivity. Learn how to become a Business Intelligence hero in your company with this e-book.

Business Information Management Blueprinting [ Source: Capgemini ]
November 2009- Organizations continue to invest millions of dollars in technology and solutions to create, manage and store business data and yet, despite these investments, many organizations are “data-rich” and “information-poor.” In addition to navigating the changes and consolidation in the Business Intelligence market, it has become increasingly difficult for companies to know if they are properly positioned in this important arena. How do you know if your Business Intelligence investment is on track? Capgemini has developed ....

Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid [ Source: SAS ]
November 2009- Business analytics is an organization’s greatest asset in delivering insight into customer behavior, operations, financial performance, and risk management. It also gives organizations the ability to assess more complex questions, optimizing business growth and innovation.

Opportunities for grid-based business analytics solutions are on the rise and expected to increase as the volumes of data grow and the demand for fact-based decision making continues to expand across all industries. In fact, in 2008, analytics software ....

Beyond Reporting Delivering Insights with Next-Generation Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
September 2009- This TDWI research report is designed for business and technical managers who oversee teams responsible for analyzing data to support strategic decisions and ongoing planning efforts. There are many new analytical tools and technologies designed to improve productivity and preserve information consistency throughout an organization. These analytical tools and the types of users they are geared toward are the focus of this report. In-depth interviews with more than 200 BI practitioners give insight into user ....

Getting Your Buyer To Listen When Price Increases Are Detrimental To Sales [ Source: LumiData ]
November 2009- After price increases for a variety of SKUs, a Key Account Sales Manager for Malt-O-Meal noted increasing declines in sales volume for four particular items. In response, she crunched the numbers, attempted to create an Excel sheet that would tell her story and make the case to her buyer. But she couldn’t make an impact –- the prices remained unchanged. And so she tried again. Nothing. Learn how SOLYS's dashboards and fact-based demand intelligence reports ....