Key trends driving global business resilience and risk - Findings from the 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2011-
Integration, cloud, security and company-wide participation are among key elements of successful business resilience and risk management strategies that deliver business value and competitive advantage - as detailed in the new 2011 IBM Global Business Resilience and Risk Study research report.
Secure Business Intelligence on Apple Mobile Devices
[ Source: Microstrategy ]
March 2011-
Mobile Business Intelligence (“BI”) applications offer compelling ways for enterprises to share information with employees, customers, and partners wherever they need it. Due to the nature of mobile devices, these applications (“apps”) present new security challenges that must be addressed by both the BI platform and the security capabilities of mobile devices. Data access, data transmission, and data storage must all be considered when deploying a complete and secure solution.
This paper will ...
Making Sense Of Search Positions
[ Source: Ambergreen ]
June 2009-
What does monitoring your Google organic search positions mean to you? Grant Whiteside, technical director of Ambergreen, looks at the new developments that mean you can now work out exactly what the value of each organic search query was worth to you.
Insights: Looking Outside Your Industry for Innovation
[ Source: Satyam Computer Services Ltd. ]
March 2008-
Executives at most companies recognize that today's need for innovation is greater than ever, and tomorrow's will be higher still. Customers are better informed, more demanding, and more likely to take advantage of increased market transparency. They see alternatives everywhere; if another company provides a better solution or product, they will know it, and switch to it quickly.
Unfortunately, innovation does not happen on its own. Some of the world's most powerful and ...
World Class Dashboard for Better Business Outcomes Revealed
[ Source: myDials ]
January 2010-
Companies are examining operational performance more closely as they strive to improve efficiency and effectiveness across all aspects of the business. Traditional measures of business success are primarily financial in nature and tend to report historical outcomes. While these measures enable some understanding and analysis of past performance, they are not sufficient to determine the practical actions required to optimize operational performance.
Additional performance metrics have been used to address the issue of ...
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision ...
The New Era of Mobile Intelligence: The Convergence of Mobile Computing and Business Intelligence
[ Source: Microstrategy ]
March 2011-
Computing is entering its fifth generation with desktop Internet applications giving way to a new generation of Mobile Internet applications. The use of the Internet on smartphones and other mobile devices has changed the way people communicate and consume information, creating an exponential rise in the acceptance, adoption, and usage of data. With the ability to access information at any time, in any location, on a hand-held device, consumers can now make more and more ...
Cross-Functional Warranty Management: A Closed-Loop Approach to Boost Profitability
[ Source: Tavant Technologies ]
September 2010-
For gaining competitive edge in every single deal, it has become essential for manufacturers to differentiate themselves in terms of product quality, price, and customer service. Warranty performance of an organization elects an opportunity for cost reduction and product improvement. End-to-end deployment of an automated warranty system, integrated with critical business functions, helps close the loop and remove functional silos within the organization. It enables all stakeholders to work in coordination to achieve common objectives, ...
IDC White Paper: Advanced Business Analytics Enable Better Decisions in Banking
[ Source: SAP ]
September 2011-
This white paper considers the use of analytics and business intelligence in the banking industry for improving decision making and the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this objective across many functions in a banking organization.
The Exponential Rise of the Dashboard
[ Source: Microstrategy ]
March 2011-
Dynamic Dashboards have changed the way that we consume data. Discover the pervasive impact of dynamic dashboards, how they have evolved and the magnitude of their explosive growth. Best of all, learn how dashboards are the ideal solution to satisfy the unmet information needs of most decision makers.