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Extreme Business Warehousing: 60 Terabytes and Beyond 2008-04-01 IBM

This paper covers the design criteria and implementation of an SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP BI) system of extreme size, under massive online load, and with very demanding availability requirements. The proof of concept documented here is based on real customer data, business processes and business needs. It shows the how the application, infrastructure and middleware can scale-out to meet the most extreme business requirements, therefore the name "Extreme Business Warehousing".

Medtronic, Inc. Identifies Key Sales Priorities and Drives Executive Alignment 2008-02-01 Oracle

Medtronic, Inc. wanted to increase sales productivity and effectiveness across company's seven principal United States business divisions and provide simplified sales processes and support systems to allow Medtronic to operate as "One company" and leverage best practices. The challenge was to help build management consensus on key sales priorities and the need for common support systems and institute a comprehensive approach to business intelligence that provides all sales professionals with better, more relevant, real-time information on specific performance metrics to increase business insight and enable key action. Medtronic worked with Oracle Insight to form a Medtronic Sales Field Working Group with senior business representatives from all sales divisions to provide input and validation for all Insight findings.

Tags: Sales - Marketing

Momentum Webcast: Is Your Business Ready for the New World of Work? (Level 100) 2008-01-23 Microsoft

With the relentless pressure to reduce costs, one must learn to do more with less. But to compete, people have to stay connected, and increasing regulatory requirements make organizational transparency a must. The presenter of this webcast will help IT managers understand how Microsoft technology can help teams to work better together with collaboration solutions like shared workspaces and unified messaging. Empower people to work smarter with solutions that securely deliver the business intelligence, teams need to make informed decisions.

Tags: Collaboration Tools

Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus With SOA 2008-01-01 Oracle

As one is most likely aware by now, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a design approach that allows developers to construct business applications and business processes out of loosely coupled, independent services provided by distributed applications. By basing the application infrastructure on SOA-enabled products such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle JDeveloper, and Oracle Database 11g, the user will be able to develop applications that reuse existing functionality within the organization, adapt easily to changing business priorities, and present users with compelling, Web 2.0 - style interfaces built using a framework of events, services, business rules, and application logic. Business Intelligence (BI), too, offers many benefits to organizations that look to gain better insights into their operations and financial performance.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

Reporting From Your Browser 2008-01-01 Oracle

Web applications are of limited value if users can view the information they need on the screen but have no way to put that information into a suitable format for sharing with others. If the application displays 15 records at a time out of a total of 50 but users can't e-mail all 50 in a printable attachment or distribute them in slick hard copy at a critical meeting. .. Houston, there is a problem! Oracle Application Express solves this dilemma by tightly integrating with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher to provide high-fidelity printing capabilities.

Tags: Web Reporting

Introducing Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Smart Space 2008-01-01 Oracle

Maximizing performance across an organization often requires employees to make decisions quickly, efficiently and appropriately to meet the ongoing challenges of everyday business. However, in reality most organizations couldn't be further from this ideal. Research by Cindi Howson suggests that 75% of business users in current organizations do not have access to the necessary information for them to perform well. As a result, Business Intelligence (BI) investments have often failed to realize their promised ROI, or satisfy wider expectations regarding improving decision making and raising performance. This situation is surprising given the advances in technology. Vendors continue to offer and organizations deploy BI tools to users that are simply too difficult for most people to use. Arguably this situation is getting worse.

Live Meeting Webcast: Key Solutions for Your Business 2007-12-13 Microsoft

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to help the teams work better together with collaboration solutions like shared workspaces and unified messaging. It also explains how to empower people to work smarter with solutions that securely deliver the business intelligence the teams need to make informed decisions. The presenter helps to understand the basics of Microsoft licensing so that one can maximize the IT investment with a single license agreement that enables the organization to save money.

Tags: Strategic Planning, Collaboration Tools

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer With the OLAP Option 2007-12-01 Oracle

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (OracleBI Discoverer) is a suite of business intelligence tools that enables users to query and analyze data stored in Oracle and other databases. Included as part of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, OracleBI Discoverer complements the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, which extends the analytic capabilities of the Oracle database to include a logical dimensional model and specialized multidimensional datatypes. This paper explains the benefits of adding the OLAP Option to the OracleBI Discoverer reporting and analysis, describes the Analytic Workspace Manager 10g tool, and describes the steps OracleBI Discoverer administrators can take to make OLAP reporting available to their users.

HP Business Intelligence: Software Part 4 2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

With the explosion of information, the need to access data with stricter compliance has companies asking how to turn information challenges into competitive advantage. The presenter of this webcast tells how.

Software Universe EMEA: Ben Barnes - Business Intelligence 2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

This webcast discusses how HP is helping enterprises use business intelligence to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Extreme Business Warehousing: 60 Terabytes and Beyond	2008-04-01	IBM
This paper covers the design criteria and implementation of an SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP BI) system of extreme size, under massive online load, and with very demanding availability requirements. The proof of concept documented here is based on real customer data, business processes and business needs. It shows the how the application, infrastructure and middleware can scale-out to meet the most extreme business requirements, therefore the name "Extreme Business Warehousing".
Medtronic, Inc. Identifies Key Sales Priorities and Drives Executive Alignment	2008-02-01	Oracle
Medtronic, Inc. wanted to increase sales productivity and effectiveness across company's seven principal United States business divisions and provide simplified sales processes and support systems to allow Medtronic to operate as "One company" and leverage best practices. The challenge was to help build management consensus on key sales priorities and the need for common support systems and institute a comprehensive approach to business intelligence that provides all sales professionals with better, more relevant, real-time information on specific performance metrics to increase business insight and enable key action. Medtronic worked with Oracle Insight to form a Medtronic Sales Field Working Group with senior business representatives from all sales divisions to provide input and validation for all Insight findings. Tags: Sales - Marketing
Momentum Webcast: Is Your Business Ready for the New World of Work? (Level 100)	2008-01-23	Microsoft
With the relentless pressure to reduce costs, one must learn to do more with less. But to compete, people have to stay connected, and increasing regulatory requirements make organizational transparency a must. The presenter of this webcast will help IT managers understand how Microsoft technology can help teams to work better together with collaboration solutions like shared workspaces and unified messaging. Empower people to work smarter with solutions that securely deliver the business intelligence, teams need to make informed decisions. Tags: Collaboration Tools
Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus With SOA	2008-01-01	Oracle
As one is most likely aware by now, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a design approach that allows developers to construct business applications and business processes out of loosely coupled, independent services provided by distributed applications. By basing the application infrastructure on SOA-enabled products such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle JDeveloper, and Oracle Database 11g, the user will be able to develop applications that reuse existing functionality within the organization, adapt easily to changing business priorities, and present users with compelling, Web 2.0 - style interfaces built using a framework of events, services, business rules, and application logic. Business Intelligence (BI), too, offers many benefits to organizations that look to gain better insights into their operations and financial performance. Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development
Reporting From Your Browser	2008-01-01	Oracle
Web applications are of limited value if users can view the information they need on the screen but have no way to put that information into a suitable format for sharing with others. If the application displays 15 records at a time out of a total of 50 but users can't e-mail all 50 in a printable attachment or distribute them in slick hard copy at a critical meeting. .. Houston, there is a problem! Oracle Application Express solves this dilemma by tightly integrating with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher to provide high-fidelity printing capabilities. Tags: Web Reporting
Introducing Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Smart Space	2008-01-01	Oracle
Maximizing performance across an organization often requires employees to make decisions quickly, efficiently and appropriately to meet the ongoing challenges of everyday business. However, in reality most organizations couldn't be further from this ideal. Research by Cindi Howson suggests that 75% of business users in current organizations do not have access to the necessary information for them to perform well. As a result, Business Intelligence (BI) investments have often failed to realize their promised ROI, or satisfy wider expectations regarding improving decision making and raising performance. This situation is surprising given the advances in technology. Vendors continue to offer and organizations deploy BI tools to users that are simply too difficult for most people to use. Arguably this situation is getting worse.
Live Meeting Webcast: Key Solutions for Your Business	2007-12-13	Microsoft
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to help the teams work better together with collaboration solutions like shared workspaces and unified messaging. It also explains how to empower people to work smarter with solutions that securely deliver the business intelligence the teams need to make informed decisions. The presenter helps to understand the basics of Microsoft licensing so that one can maximize the IT investment with a single license agreement that enables the organization to save money. Tags: Strategic Planning, Collaboration Tools
Using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer With the OLAP Option	2007-12-01	Oracle
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (OracleBI Discoverer) is a suite of business intelligence tools that enables users to query and analyze data stored in Oracle and other databases. Included as part of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, OracleBI Discoverer complements the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, which extends the analytic capabilities of the Oracle database to include a logical dimensional model and specialized multidimensional datatypes. This paper explains the benefits of adding the OLAP Option to the OracleBI Discoverer reporting and analysis, describes the Analytic Workspace Manager 10g tool, and describes the steps OracleBI Discoverer administrators can take to make OLAP reporting available to their users.
HP Business Intelligence: Software Part 4	2007-12-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
With the explosion of information, the need to access data with stricter compliance has companies asking how to turn information challenges into competitive advantage. The presenter of this webcast tells how.
Software Universe EMEA: Ben Barnes - Business Intelligence	2007-12-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
This webcast discusses how HP is helping enterprises use business intelligence to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.