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Bigger picture, smarter decisions: Today's BI tools | 2009-10-21 | IBM |
| With people and systems increasingly interconnected, it's hard to keep up with data. In the ForwardView article, "Bigger picture, smarter decisions: BI tools," you'll learn how Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provide greater visibility across the entire business to help you spot trends in real time. See how a midmarket company used BI solutions to make smarter decisions and increase competitiveness.
Tags: Data Tools, Enterprise Planning, Data Tools, Data Tools |
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OEM Program eBook | 2009-10-13 | SAP |
| Find out how to tap into a long-running program with over 750 OEM partners worldwide, and make SAP BusinessObjects market leading BI platform your own.
Tags: Enterprise Planning, Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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Beyond Reporting: Requirements for Large-Scale Analytics | 2009-10-02 | Aster Data |
| As organizations seek to gain greater value from their data warehousing investments, they invariably look to push the envelope of their front-end environment and supplement reporting with more powerful analytics. Providing adequate support for the analysts and analytic applications is challenging. This white paper provides a comparison of basic reporting vs analytics; an overview of the components, benefits and challenges of analytical tools; the technology requirements for analytical platforms; and four best practices to implement when optimizing your analytics environment.
Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Data Tools, Business Functions |
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Gaining Perspective on Performance: Best Practices for an Effective 360-Degree Feedback Program | 2009-10-01 | SumTotal Systems |
| When planned in advance and run strategically, a 360-degree feedback program can offer serious business value. Feedback from multiple raters provides useful data on your employees, their performance, and their development needs. But be forewarned—you can't launch a 360-degree feedback program without thinking ahead. This white paper takes a look at six critical questions to consider before embarking on the path to greater perspective.
Tags: Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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Optimizing Sales Messaging: The Impact of What You Say on Sales Performace | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| Is what you say as important as what you sell?
Download the CSO Insights research report to view the results of their recent survey and find out how creating the right sales messages can directly affect your ROI. Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Internet and Web, Business Functions |
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Database Virtualization Using Clusters: Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better | 2009-09-17 | Sybase |
| Learn how a virtualization approach that is built into the database can create deployment flexibility for better service levels, shift workloads for less downtime, and free-up valuable DBA resources to focus on high-value activities.
Guest speakers: Carl Olofson, Research Vice President for IDC Peter Thawley, Senior Director & Architect for Sybase Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Data Tools |
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IBM Virtualization Services | 2009-09-16 | IBM |
| Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at the
entire architecture and determine how to best deploy virtualization
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware |
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Centrinet case study | 2009-09-16 | IBM |
| Centrinet launched an innovative business service - Smartbunker - based on renewable energy and energy-efficient technology(efficient IBM BladeCenter servers and Cisco networking hardware), It's the UK's first managed data centre service committed to zero carbon energy. This unique proposition drastically reduces power consumption by around 60%.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Server Hardware |
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Travel Company Sails on Business Intelligence to Increase Revenues in Weak Economy | 2009-09-10 | Microsoft |
| Sportsnet Holidays needed a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution to handle data that was spread among 220 separate databases. Sportsnet implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which dramatically improved customer service, business intelligence and target marketing capabilities. The firm's revenue has doubled in the last 12 months and Sportsnet credits Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a contributing factor to the company's exponential growth.
Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools |
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MSC Industrial Direct- customer case study | 2009-09-08 | Pitney Bowes |
| "Following a company merger, MSC Industrial Direct Co. found
that duplicate customer records were disrupting the business
workflow and causing sales compensation issues. MSC Industrial Direct Co. implemented the Pitney Bowes Business Insight Data Quality Solution to cleanse its customer database and reconcile duplicate customer records."
Tags: Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |