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whitepaper Maintaining the Buzz in Media: Better Business Intelligence Helps ITV Keep on Top2007-10-17 Microsoft Tips
  ITV is the largest commercial TV company in the United Kingdom (U.K.), with almost 50 per cent market share and an annual spend of around £1 billion (U.S.$1.98 billion) on programming. ITV worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IMGroup to create a business intelligence platform offering highly sophisticated analytics and reports. The platform comprises Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and Microsoft Office Excel.

Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: Efficient Data Mining With Log Parser 2.2 (Level 300)2007-10-15 Microsoft
  This webcast take a look at Log Parser, a powerful tool for queries against text-based data such as log files, XML, and Comma Separated Value (CSV) files. Log Parser is also a great tool for key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the registry, the file system, and the Active Directory directory system. It introduces Log Parser version 2.2, describe the input and output formats it can handle, and demonstrate how to use it. It also shows how to use Log Parser functions, output templates, and the check point functionality..   
whitepaper The Location Intelligent Enterprise2007-10-09 Quocirca
  With enterprises having access to ever greater volumes of historic data, to get maximum value from it they need to make use of the location element in order to drive deeper business insights to improve competitiveness and business performance.

Tags: Data Visualization, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Microsoft Drives Corporate Performance With Office PerformancePoint Server 20072007-10-08 Microsoft Tips
  With hundreds of internal organizations and business groups, Microsoft Corporation found it challenging to ensure that everyone through every level of the enterprise was aligned with its business goals. Microsoft's business process relied largely on the various groups sharing targets and results by emailing standalone Excel files. This created concerns around data inaccuracies, inconsistencies and security. The perfect solution presented itself in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, an integrated performance management application with comprehensive capabilities that include budget and forecasting, which are essential for establishing the targets to support the company's strategies and objectives. Based on Microsoft Office and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also offers scalability, data management and security, and a familiar, easy-to use-interface for data entry using Microsoft Excel.

Tags: Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Effective Conditional Formats Using Excel 2007 (Level 300)2007-10-05 Microsoft
  This webcast shows how to create effective conditional formats using the new capabilities in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. This webcast gives more tips and tricks for summarizing data, discovering business intelligence (BI), and designing effective information dashboards.

Tags: Spreadsheets, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Turbo-Charging Spreadsheets: Accessing SAS Forecast Server From Microsoft Excel2007-10-01 SAS Institute
  According to major surveys of organizational forecasting practices, there is continued widespread use of spreadsheets for forecasting, despite major advances during the last 20 years in the availability, performance, and ease of use of business forecasting software. And, forecasting is not just for supply and demand planning anymore. Elements of forecasting are incorporated into a broad range of business problems covering every industry. Automotive manufacturers and consumer product companies care about warranty claims and returns. Phone companies and credit card issuers care about the churn of their customer base. Lenders care about risk and bad debt provisioning. Airlines care about reservation center and flight crew staffing. Manufacturers care about predictive maintenance in their factories.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Spreadsheets		   
whitepaper Microsoft Office System Webcast: Analyzing Data Dynamically Using Excel 2007 PivotTable Reports (Level 300)2007-09-27 Microsoft
  The presenter of this webcast demonstrates how Microsoft Office Excel 2007 PivotTable reports can enable to analyze spreadsheet data effectively. This webcast gives tips and tricks as it show how to create a PivotTable report, format a PivotTable report to make its data easier to understand, and rearrange the data dynamically so that one can discover vital information about business.

Tags: Spreadsheets		   
whitepaper M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Unlocks Critical Patient Data With Informatica2007-09-14 Informatica
  The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is located in Houston, Texas, on the campus of the Texas Medical Center. The company wanted to integrate patient data from five major disparate sources to improve analysis capabilities, operational planning and research. M. D. Anderson decided to develop a fully integrated patient centered data warehouse and selected the Informatica as part of a strategic initiative focused on re-designing its reporting infrastructure for patient data analysis.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration		   
whitepaper Dial Improves Sales Performance With the Informatica Data Integration Platform2007-09-14 Informatica
  The Dial Corporation, headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., is $1.7 billion company and is one of America's leading manufacturers of consumer products, including Dial soaps, Purex laundry detergents, Renuzit air fresheners and Armour Star canned meats. The company wanted to create a more sophisticated, robust method for conducting enterprise business analysis. In 1997 Dial selected the Informatica data integration platform to develop a centralized data warehouse and several supporting data marts. This has enabled Dial to improve sales performance, establish more effective sales promotions and product distribution strategies, and reduce IT support - ultimately improving the company's overall performance.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration		   
whitepaper Henry Schein Gains More Visibility Into Sales Using the Informatica Data Integration Platform2007-09-14 Informatica
  Henry Schein, Inc. is the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The company wanted to integrate customer and sales data from a variety of relational and non-relational systems into a central repository for strategic analysis. The company deployed Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Sharing and Integration