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Microsoft and Ingenix Offer Leading-Edge Decision Support Technology for the Healthcare Industry That Can Improve Performance 2007-10-05 Microsoft

For a health plan provider looking for ways to identify opportunities for improvement, watch this webcast, during which Microsoft and knowledge driven healthcare partner, will present an integrated solution that incorporates leading-edge decision support technology with proven analytic methodologies. The presenter will explain how to gain a deeper understanding of utilization trends, patient outcomes and provider performance. This webcast will show how to boost the quality and performance of your health plan, enhance the health and well-being of your members and optimize provider network. Impact Analysis offers the organization the flexibility to analyze and dissect data by utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Analytics and reporting services to generate customized report views so users can focus on the data they need most.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Database Applications

White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization 2007-10-01 IBM

We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we're called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis.

In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Strategic Planning

Using Real-Time Customer Intelligence to Enhance the Customer Experience: How SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Helps Organizations Implement Four Key Components of a Successful Real-Time Decision Strategy 2007-10-01 SAS Institute

SAS Real-Time Decision Manager allows organizations to enhance customer experience across inbound channels while controlling project costs and risks. The solution enables organizations to find superior ways to capitalize on customer interactions. By employing innovative interactive marketing tactics, organizations can realize significant gains in sales and retention, revenue and profitability, and improve the overall customer experience. The purpose of this white paper is to provide a technical overview of SAS Real-Time Decision Manager. The paper discusses four key components of a successful real-time decision strategy - intelligence, agility, performance and control, and integration and coordination - and how SAS Real-Time Decision Manager provides the capabilities one needs for that strategy.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

Community College District Upgrades to Centralized, Scalable Student Database 2007-09-28 Microsoft

The Maricopa Community Colleges (MCCCD) in Arizona relied on 10 individual mainframe computers, one per college, to handle its business processes and its Student Information System (SIS). The complex mainframe environment not only required a great deal of customization but also kept student records at multiple sites. Seeking a centralized solution that would provide each student with a single data record, MCCCD contacted Hewlett-Packard (HP), Microsoft, and Intel. Representatives from the three companies, through the HP Microsoft Frontline Partnership, recommended HP hardware, Itanium technology, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to build a new Student Information System and a Decision Support System. The solution has helped the Maricopa Community Colleges build a reliable infrastructure that can grow with expanding enrollment and improve support services.

Tags: Application Development, Database Management

Follow the Trend or Make a Difference: The Evolution of Collective Opinions 2007-09-25 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

No aspect of the massive participation in content creation that the web enables is more evident than in the countless number of opinions, news and product reviews that are constantly posted on the Internet. Given their importance their temporal evolution was analyzed in a number of scenarios. It was found that ignorance of previous views leads to a uniform sampling of the range of opinions among a community. Exposure of previous opinions to potential reviewers induces a trend following process which leads to the expression of increasingly extreme views. When the expression of an opinion is costly and previous views are known, a selection bias softens the extreme views, as people exhibit a tendency to speak out differently from previous opinions.

How SAP Education Is Playing a Key Role in Helping Royal Mail Group Manage Its Business More Effectively 2007-09-14 SAP

In its quest to become more efficient and competitive, the Royal Mail Group embarked on a major SAP implementation in 2001, completing the successful roll-out of SAP R/3 across 18 business units and over 10,000 users. Having standardised and merged the organisation's internal processes and moved all legacy systems on to a single consistent platform, the next phase of development is well underway - the enhancement of the decision support capabilities to help Royal Mail Group manage its business more effectively. The ongoing SDS (Strategic and Decision Support) project - which comprises major SAP SEM and SAP BW implementations - is already delivering significant benefits to the business, and SAP education has been a crucial success factor.

Tags: ERP, Business Management

Europcar Reduces Development, Administration, and Maintenance Costs With Informatica Data Integration Platform 2007-09-14 Informatica

Founded in Paris in 1949, Europcar is the leading car rental company in Europe. The company needed effective and rigorous decision-support facilities. Europcar needed a complete data integration solution that provided: real-time data, better analysis capabilities and greater reliability and availability. Europcar chose Informatica PowerCenter as an enterprise data integration platform for its ability to ensure data quality and to scale to support Europcar's operations in seven countries.

Tags: Data Quality, Data Sharing and Integration

Financiera Finsol Increases Process Efficiency, Reducing Errors by 50% 2007-09-05 Oracle

Financiera Finsol is a financial bank founded in 2003 to grant credit to micro, micro-small, and medium-sized companies. The company wanted to implement a technology system that allows for rapid growth and supports the company's transaction volume. The challenge was to reduce errors by automating processes and exerting strict control over operations and enhance the speed of generating indicators to support decision making. The company implemented Oracle Database Standard Edition 10g and several financial modules from Oracle E-Business Suite, raising the efficiency of administrative and financial processes in all 85 branches. The company implemented an information management system developed internally to generate portfolio indicators and support decision making.

Tags: Bank Management, Finance

Coop Tyrrhenian District Leverages Organizational Synergies With Integrated IT Infrastructure 2007-07-11 Oracle

Coop is Italy's largest supermarket chain, which includes Coop Italia, its central procurement and marketing division, and various regional cooperatives. The company wanted to increase operational efficiency and drive higher profitability by creating a centralized purchasing center. The challenge was to enable individual cooperative organizations to conduct customized promotional initiatives while remaining consistent with corporate directives and procedures. Coop implemented Oracle infrastructure software to create an integrated IT environment that gives Coop Tyrrhenian District the ability to centralize and improve purchasing processes, leverage and enable the creation of more flexible promotional campaigns, and optimize strategic synergies.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

Next Generation Data Warehousing: Get More from Your Information with IBM Dynamic Warehousing 0000-00-00 IBM

Are you running traditional data warehouses that provide a rear-view look at your data with the basic ability to query on structured, historical information? Are you applying data mining and online analytics to this retrospectively?

Learn how your organization can gain competitive advantage by leveraging the next generation of warehousing to incorporate structured and unstructured information in near real time, in the context of daily activities. Deliver information as a service so you can plan and operate more strategically.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Microsoft and Ingenix Offer Leading-Edge Decision Support Technology for the Healthcare Industry That Can Improve Performance	2007-10-05	Microsoft
For a health plan provider looking for ways to identify opportunities for improvement, watch this webcast, during which Microsoft and knowledge driven healthcare partner, will present an integrated solution that incorporates leading-edge decision support technology with proven analytic methodologies. The presenter will explain how to gain a deeper understanding of utilization trends, patient outcomes and provider performance. This webcast will show how to boost the quality and performance of your health plan, enhance the health and well-being of your members and optimize provider network. Impact Analysis offers the organization the flexibility to analyze and dissect data by utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Analytics and reporting services to generate customized report views so users can focus on the data they need most. Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Database Applications
White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization	2007-10-01	IBM
We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we're called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis. In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions. Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Strategic Planning
Using Real-Time Customer Intelligence to Enhance the Customer Experience: How SAS Real-Time Decision Manager Helps Organizations Implement Four Key Components of a Successful Real-Time Decision Strategy	2007-10-01	SAS Institute
SAS Real-Time Decision Manager allows organizations to enhance customer experience across inbound channels while controlling project costs and risks. The solution enables organizations to find superior ways to capitalize on customer interactions. By employing innovative interactive marketing tactics, organizations can realize significant gains in sales and retention, revenue and profitability, and improve the overall customer experience. The purpose of this white paper is to provide a technical overview of SAS Real-Time Decision Manager. The paper discusses four key components of a successful real-time decision strategy - intelligence, agility, performance and control, and integration and coordination - and how SAS Real-Time Decision Manager provides the capabilities one needs for that strategy. Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing
Community College District Upgrades to Centralized, Scalable Student Database	2007-09-28	Microsoft
The Maricopa Community Colleges (MCCCD) in Arizona relied on 10 individual mainframe computers, one per college, to handle its business processes and its Student Information System (SIS). The complex mainframe environment not only required a great deal of customization but also kept student records at multiple sites. Seeking a centralized solution that would provide each student with a single data record, MCCCD contacted Hewlett-Packard (HP), Microsoft, and Intel. Representatives from the three companies, through the HP Microsoft Frontline Partnership, recommended HP hardware, Itanium technology, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to build a new Student Information System and a Decision Support System. The solution has helped the Maricopa Community Colleges build a reliable infrastructure that can grow with expanding enrollment and improve support services. Tags: Application Development, Database Management
Follow the Trend or Make a Difference: The Evolution of Collective Opinions	2007-09-25	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
No aspect of the massive participation in content creation that the web enables is more evident than in the countless number of opinions, news and product reviews that are constantly posted on the Internet. Given their importance their temporal evolution was analyzed in a number of scenarios. It was found that ignorance of previous views leads to a uniform sampling of the range of opinions among a community. Exposure of previous opinions to potential reviewers induces a trend following process which leads to the expression of increasingly extreme views. When the expression of an opinion is costly and previous views are known, a selection bias softens the extreme views, as people exhibit a tendency to speak out differently from previous opinions.
How SAP Education Is Playing a Key Role in Helping Royal Mail Group Manage Its Business More Effectively	2007-09-14	SAP
In its quest to become more efficient and competitive, the Royal Mail Group embarked on a major SAP implementation in 2001, completing the successful roll-out of SAP R/3 across 18 business units and over 10,000 users. Having standardised and merged the organisation's internal processes and moved all legacy systems on to a single consistent platform, the next phase of development is well underway - the enhancement of the decision support capabilities to help Royal Mail Group manage its business more effectively. The ongoing SDS (Strategic and Decision Support) project - which comprises major SAP SEM and SAP BW implementations - is already delivering significant benefits to the business, and SAP education has been a crucial success factor. Tags: ERP, Business Management
Europcar Reduces Development, Administration, and Maintenance Costs With Informatica Data Integration Platform	2007-09-14	Informatica
Founded in Paris in 1949, Europcar is the leading car rental company in Europe. The company needed effective and rigorous decision-support facilities. Europcar needed a complete data integration solution that provided: real-time data, better analysis capabilities and greater reliability and availability. Europcar chose Informatica PowerCenter as an enterprise data integration platform for its ability to ensure data quality and to scale to support Europcar's operations in seven countries. Tags: Data Quality, Data Sharing and Integration
Financiera Finsol Increases Process Efficiency, Reducing Errors by 50%	2007-09-05	Oracle
Financiera Finsol is a financial bank founded in 2003 to grant credit to micro, micro-small, and medium-sized companies. The company wanted to implement a technology system that allows for rapid growth and supports the company's transaction volume. The challenge was to reduce errors by automating processes and exerting strict control over operations and enhance the speed of generating indicators to support decision making. The company implemented Oracle Database Standard Edition 10g and several financial modules from Oracle E-Business Suite, raising the efficiency of administrative and financial processes in all 85 branches. The company implemented an information management system developed internally to generate portfolio indicators and support decision making. Tags: Bank Management, Finance
Coop Tyrrhenian District Leverages Organizational Synergies With Integrated IT Infrastructure	2007-07-11	Oracle
Coop is Italy's largest supermarket chain, which includes Coop Italia, its central procurement and marketing division, and various regional cooperatives. The company wanted to increase operational efficiency and drive higher profitability by creating a centralized purchasing center. The challenge was to enable individual cooperative organizations to conduct customized promotional initiatives while remaining consistent with corporate directives and procedures. Coop implemented Oracle infrastructure software to create an integrated IT environment that gives Coop Tyrrhenian District the ability to centralize and improve purchasing processes, leverage and enable the creation of more flexible promotional campaigns, and optimize strategic synergies. Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing
Next Generation Data Warehousing: Get More from Your Information with IBM Dynamic Warehousing	0000-00-00	IBM
Are you running traditional data warehouses that provide a rear-view look at your data with the basic ability to query on structured, historical information? Are you applying data mining and online analytics to this retrospectively? Learn how your organization can gain competitive advantage by leveraging the next generation of warehousing to incorporate structured and unstructured information in near real time, in the context of daily activities. Deliver information as a service so you can plan and operate more strategically.