| Title | Date Added | Company | |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
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 |
|||
![]() |
Final Chance to Learn how Business Leaders are making IT work for them | 2009-10-12 | SAP |
| The importance of effective decision making and aligning business strategy with your daily activities is essential in times of economic crisis, but also during periods of sustained growth and success. Download these free white papers to find out just how other Business Leaders are making IT work for themselves and their organisations.
Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Data Tools, IT Infrastructure |
|||
![]() |
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Facilitates Decision-Making With Business Intelligence Solution | 2009-09-01 | Oracle |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MPSV) wanted to consolidate data across multiple sources - including information systems used by the government's social services, employment services, and financial administrators. The challenge was to provide the ministry's administrators with up-to-date and comprehensive information in a user-friendly format and facilitate easy access to information through a simple and unified interface, and provide a flexible system for reporting. MPSV implemented Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus for easy access to data - freeing staff to focus more time on value-added analysis and worked with Oracle Partner OKsystem to successfully implement the Oracle Business Intelligence solution.
Tags: Data Tools |
|||
![]() |
Powerful Business Intelligence for the University of Calgary: An IBM Cognos Solution | 2009-08-01 | IBM |
| Located in northwest Calgary, the University of Calgary (U of C) campus is home to scholars in 16 faculties and 36 research institutes and centers. It needed to consolidate complex and confusing data sources into valuable information for decision-makers. It deployed an IBM Cognos 8 BI system that integrates the University's seven data sources and generates easy-to-understand data for analysis in BI applications and dashboards.
Tags: Data Tools |
|||
![]() |
Applying Knowledge Management to Project Management | 2009-06-23 | Global Knowledge |
| Knowledge Management is a growing, interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to how we acquire, organize, manage, share, and utilize knowledge and information. This white paper will examine some of the aspects of this field of study, including what knowledge management is, why it is important, how you can apply knowledge management to project management, and how Communities of Practice can support the implementation of knowledge management in your organization.
Tags: Business Functions, Data Tools, IT Budgeting, User Satisfaction |
|||
![]() |
Enterprise Information Management | 2009-06-17 | SAP |
| Read this review of the principal points in an enterprise information management strategy, as well as EIM best practices including IT and business collaboration, building trusted information, enterprise-wide reuse and standards, and data governance.
Tags: Data Tools, Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
|||
![]() |
G and J Pepsi Satisfies Thirst for Data-Driven Decision Making With Microsoft | 2009-06-01 | Microsoft |
| G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers distributes over 300 products for leading beverage brands - including Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Lipton, and Starbucks - throughout Ohio and Kentucky. Rather than waiting days for month-end reports, employees throughout G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers can easily access critical information to gauge performance at any time. The company generates valuable insights from analyzing its finance, sales, operations, and vending data. And because data is up-to-date, management can make more informed, timely decisions. G&J Pepsi adopted a Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007.
Tags: Data Tools |
|||
![]() |
Capio Delivers Responsive and Better Healthcare With Business Intelligence | 2009-06-01 | Microsoft |
| Capio is one of Europe's leading private healthcare companies with operations in multiple countries and a diverse customer base. Operations include hospitals, specialist clinics, training and research. By building business intelligence competencies into its daily management and operational processes, Capio gained productivity, better business insights and decision-making capabilities. The company leverages these performance enhancements to offer the ultimate benefit to patients - more time and better care.
Tags: Data Tools |
|||
![]() |
Getting smart about ROI: measuring the impact of business intelligence | 2009-06-01 | SPSS |
| Organizations looking to return to business basics might consider business intelligence (BI) solutions for better decision making. BI solutions are designed to help companies efficiently access and analyze data in order to operate more efficiently. BI solutions can be valuable in analyzing the effectiveness of ongoing operations and special initiatives alike. And so BI can make an important contribution to better management. This white paper provides some approaches that will help companies evaluate BI initiatives. By doing so, they can see what value these solutions may hold for their organization and make more informed decisions about whether to implement them, and how.
Tags: Data Tools, Enterprise Planning, Data Tools, Data Tools |
|||
![]() |
Life Fitness Improves Product Insight and Decision Making With Dashboard-Based Business Intelligence | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| Life Fitness wanted to replace a report-driven Business Intelligence (BI) tool with a dashboard-focused solution to enable rapid and intuitive drill down and accelerated decision making and enable BI system users to be self-sufficient and empower Life Fitness to support a large user base with limited IT resources. The challenge was to improve the clarity of metadata across subject areas to drive more actionable reports and gain the knowledge required to drive organization-wide improvements to ensure a competitive edge in the price-sensitive and fast-paced fitness industry. Life Fitness standardized on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to simplify and improve the quality of business reporting and ensure the consistency of metadata across 125 enterprise subject areas.
Tags: Data Tools |