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 ...
Improve Your Vision and Expand Your Mind with Visual Analytics
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
April 2009-
Learn why data visualization is important to overcome the limits of short term memory, and how it can result in finding what’s meaningful in your data and then making sense of it.
You will learn how visual analysis can allow you to:
• Identify what’s meaningful in the data in ways that your eyes can see and brain can understand
• Keep focused on what’s important and not ...
Data Visualization Tools Help Traders Achieve Best Execution in Today’s Ultra-Fast Moving Markets
[ Source: Panopticon Software ]
May 2008-
Security traders today face two major challenges: the markets in which they operate have become highly complex and ultra-fast, while at the same time the fiduciary duty of best execution is viewed more seriously than ever. Wayne Wagner explains how data visualization applications help traders achieve best execution by informing them of developing situations quickly enough to prevent sub-standard executions.
Advanced data visualization software platforms have emerged in recent years as solutions to the “needle ...
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 ...
Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management Strategy, Theory Of Constraints
[ Source: Hitachi Consulting ]
May 2008-
Business Intelligence is more of and art than a science. In exploits of science one knows exactly what to expect in the end. In exploits of art one knows the end but the end could be different for different people with different experience, maturity, methodology, and technology.
Business intelligence is more of an art than a science because everyone knows what they need in the end but how they achieve the end result depends on ...
Data Mining with Qualitative and Quantitative Data
[ Source: SAS ]
May 2011-
Having moved beyond the hype stage, data mining is now delivering real, measurable results for businesses. This white paper from the International Institute for Analytics will show you how data mining can be used for qualitative as well as quantitative data, allowing decision makers to solve complex problems, and provides broadly-applicable lessons on data mining.
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.
Project Portfolio Management: An Overview
[ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
August 2009-
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is about how the business manages projects as short-, medium-, and long-term strategic investments. It helps the business establish a clear line of sight from the top right down to the individual project layer -- giving you the ability to spot project redundancies before they happen. From the strategic viewpoint, it allows stakeholders, business leaders, and executives to see clearly and understand how effective their strategies are and, if necessary, which ...
Business Intelligence For Manufacturing
[ Source: MAIA Intelligence ]
July 2009-
With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, manufacturing is never easy. Use of BI can significantly improve both the performance and power of manufacturing reporting. BI is very effective for all types of manufacturing, be it process, discrete, or automotive. BI can close the “fact gap” by improving the availability and delivery of actionable data with minimal IT involvement. Manufacturers should carefully consider using BI as a cost-effective way to improve operations. BI for ...
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 ...