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Solvay Pharmaceuticals Enhances Worldwide Drug Development Efforts With SAS 2006-10-20 01:00:16 SAS Institute

Shortening drug development cycles is a primary goal of all pharmaceutical companies. But the need is compounded when companies lack sufficient means for sharing the data used in collaborative research efforts at locations spread around the globe. Such was the case for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary corporation of the worldwide Solvay Group of chemical and pharmaceutical companies headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, but with test facilities in the Netherlands, United States, Germany and Japan. Using SAS Drug Development, Solvay Pharmaceuticals effectively removes geographic boundaries to make information available to anyone who needs it, when they need it.

Servista Delivers Cutting-Edge Management Information Using Oracle Technology 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

Servista Ltd is a leading European provider of outsourced customer-care and billing services. Servista wanted to provide detailed, up-to-date management information to clients that enable them to develop and grow their businesses in fast-moving markets. The company wanted to analyze sales information by channel, and by individual branch, store, agent, and geography to provide a complete understanding of the performance of each and provide clients with the ability to easily manipulate data so that they can investigate the interrelationships between different parts of the business. Servista used Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Business Intelligence Beans to provide the clients with ServistaKnowlege, a highly flexible management-information solution.

JE Dunn Construction Boosts Collaboration Among Employees, Customers, and Partners 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

JE Dunn Construction is ranked among the top 10 general building contractors by ENR magazine. The company wanted to grow business and improve interaction with clients and partners by developing a vehicle to enable online document collaboration and real-time access to project information and improve internal project management performance and collaboration between departments and divisions. They wanted to streamline compliance and administrative processes and control costs and improve business infrastructure as a platform for future service-oriented offerings. JE Dunn Construction leveraged Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Portal, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Business Intelligence, and Oracle Database to create ONE DUNN, a secure standards-based, Web-based portal for employees, customers, and partners.

Flexirent customer case study 2006-10-17 01:00:14 SAS

Flexirent offers rental finance services through thousands of vendors. It implemented the SAS� Enterprise Intelligence Platform primarily as a data consolidation solution. Numerous business improvements across its business operations have resulted.

Clearing the Path to OLAP 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

The OLAP option in Oracle9i Database Release 2 introduced analytic workspaces and the true integration of relational and multidimensional datatypes in the same database. Until now, the only way developers and DBAs could use the analytic workspaces was to construct them manually by using command-line API calls. But with the recent release of the Analytic Workspace Manager (AWM), one can now make better use of the multidimensional features in the OLAP option for the first time without having to perform complex command-line programming. This paper introduces Analytic Workspace Manager and steps through the creation of a multidimensional cube stored in the analytic workspace that can be viewed via Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Beans, OracleAS Discoverer, or SQL.

Leading Provider of BI Solutions Boosts Integration and Analysis Capabilities 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Microsoft

Business Objects is a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software, offering a full BI software suite that includes query and analysis and performance management tools. In 1993, Microsoft integrated Crystal Reports from Business Objects into Microsoft Visual Basic, and new versions of Crystal Reports have continued to ship concurrently with each new release of Visual Studio and the Microsoft application environment. When Microsoft announced the pre-release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, it was natural for Business Objects to work closely with the Microsoft team to take advantage of the new features and maximize the performance of these products with its BI software.

Building BI Dashboards With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards bring together reports and graphs from several data sources and present information to users in a simple-to-understand, unified manner. The demand for BI dashboards from the user community has therefore led to numerous new features and improvements in Oracle's business intelligence tools, and the simplified creation of BI dashboards is one of the key new features of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g. This paper explains the features of a BI dashboard, discusses the benefits to users, and steps through the creation of a dashboard with Oracle Database 10g; Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (Oracle Discoverer), a component of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g; and Oracle Portal.

Building Open-Standard Portlets for Location Information 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

As integration technologies such as portals and intelligence data become critical pieces of the business infrastructure, being able to share the information used and the applications (portlets) build becomes utterly essential (if not legally required). Now a days people not only have all the ingredients needed for creating new applications that adhere to open standards but also have framework standards, such as OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168), that make it possible to integrate existing technologies and data into new applications.

Web Analytics Using Oracle Application Server Discoverer 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

This paper will offer an overview of an alternative that is available to companies running Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition. Instead of investing in another expensive information silo, these companies can apply the reporting power and flexibility of the Oracle Application Server Discoverer query and analysis tool to information-rich web server log files to produce reports comparable to those available from standalone solutions.

Use Location Information in Enterprise Reporting 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

Location information is everywhere; it can be found across all lines of business, all industries, and in virtually every organization and department in the world. Although location information is essential, it is seldom ultimately used to integrate data across the systems and provide actionable business intelligence to the organization. It's not widely known, but with current technology, it is indeed possible to use location not only as an address or a point on a map, but as a way to reveal trends based on market share, population concentration, or complex location-based interactions. This paper describes a technique for meeting that goal across all lines of business using the same enterprise reporting tools that are commonly used for relational data.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Enhances Worldwide Drug Development Efforts With SAS	2006-10-20 01:00:16	SAS Institute
Shortening drug development cycles is a primary goal of all pharmaceutical companies. But the need is compounded when companies lack sufficient means for sharing the data used in collaborative research efforts at locations spread around the globe. Such was the case for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary corporation of the worldwide Solvay Group of chemical and pharmaceutical companies headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, but with test facilities in the Netherlands, United States, Germany and Japan. Using SAS Drug Development, Solvay Pharmaceuticals effectively removes geographic boundaries to make information available to anyone who needs it, when they need it.
Servista Delivers Cutting-Edge Management Information Using Oracle Technology	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
Servista Ltd is a leading European provider of outsourced customer-care and billing services. Servista wanted to provide detailed, up-to-date management information to clients that enable them to develop and grow their businesses in fast-moving markets. The company wanted to analyze sales information by channel, and by individual branch, store, agent, and geography to provide a complete understanding of the performance of each and provide clients with the ability to easily manipulate data so that they can investigate the interrelationships between different parts of the business. Servista used Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Business Intelligence Beans to provide the clients with ServistaKnowlege, a highly flexible management-information solution.
JE Dunn Construction Boosts Collaboration Among Employees, Customers, and Partners	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
JE Dunn Construction is ranked among the top 10 general building contractors by ENR magazine. The company wanted to grow business and improve interaction with clients and partners by developing a vehicle to enable online document collaboration and real-time access to project information and improve internal project management performance and collaboration between departments and divisions. They wanted to streamline compliance and administrative processes and control costs and improve business infrastructure as a platform for future service-oriented offerings. JE Dunn Construction leveraged Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Portal, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Business Intelligence, and Oracle Database to create ONE DUNN, a secure standards-based, Web-based portal for employees, customers, and partners.
Flexirent customer case study	2006-10-17 01:00:14	SAS
Flexirent offers rental finance services through thousands of vendors. It implemented the SAS� Enterprise Intelligence Platform primarily as a data consolidation solution. Numerous business improvements across its business operations have resulted.
Clearing the Path to OLAP	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
The OLAP option in Oracle9i Database Release 2 introduced analytic workspaces and the true integration of relational and multidimensional datatypes in the same database. Until now, the only way developers and DBAs could use the analytic workspaces was to construct them manually by using command-line API calls. But with the recent release of the Analytic Workspace Manager (AWM), one can now make better use of the multidimensional features in the OLAP option for the first time without having to perform complex command-line programming. This paper introduces Analytic Workspace Manager and steps through the creation of a multidimensional cube stored in the analytic workspace that can be viewed via Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Beans, OracleAS Discoverer, or SQL.
Leading Provider of BI Solutions Boosts Integration and Analysis Capabilities	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Microsoft
Business Objects is a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software, offering a full BI software suite that includes query and analysis and performance management tools. In 1993, Microsoft integrated Crystal Reports from Business Objects into Microsoft Visual Basic, and new versions of Crystal Reports have continued to ship concurrently with each new release of Visual Studio and the Microsoft application environment. When Microsoft announced the pre-release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, it was natural for Business Objects to work closely with the Microsoft team to take advantage of the new features and maximize the performance of these products with its BI software.
Building BI Dashboards With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards bring together reports and graphs from several data sources and present information to users in a simple-to-understand, unified manner. The demand for BI dashboards from the user community has therefore led to numerous new features and improvements in Oracle's business intelligence tools, and the simplified creation of BI dashboards is one of the key new features of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g. This paper explains the features of a BI dashboard, discusses the benefits to users, and steps through the creation of a dashboard with Oracle Database 10g; Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (Oracle Discoverer), a component of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g; and Oracle Portal.
Building Open-Standard Portlets for Location Information	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
As integration technologies such as portals and intelligence data become critical pieces of the business infrastructure, being able to share the information used and the applications (portlets) build becomes utterly essential (if not legally required). Now a days people not only have all the ingredients needed for creating new applications that adhere to open standards but also have framework standards, such as OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168), that make it possible to integrate existing technologies and data into new applications.
Web Analytics Using Oracle Application Server Discoverer	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
This paper will offer an overview of an alternative that is available to companies running Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition. Instead of investing in another expensive information silo, these companies can apply the reporting power and flexibility of the Oracle Application Server Discoverer query and analysis tool to information-rich web server log files to produce reports comparable to those available from standalone solutions.
Use Location Information in Enterprise Reporting	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
Location information is everywhere; it can be found across all lines of business, all industries, and in virtually every organization and department in the world. Although location information is essential, it is seldom ultimately used to integrate data across the systems and provide actionable business intelligence to the organization. It's not widely known, but with current technology, it is indeed possible to use location not only as an address or a point on a map, but as a way to reveal trends based on market share, population concentration, or complex location-based interactions. This paper describes a technique for meeting that goal across all lines of business using the same enterprise reporting tools that are commonly used for relational data.