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Analytics: The Art and Science of Better Summary
This briefing presents a series of insightful, timely articles that highlight how people, culture, process and technology combine to overcome analytical challenges. Learn how analytics can help you make better decisions faster.

Topics: Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence
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26-04-2010
How Organizations Make Better Decisions Summary
Decisions, whether tactical or strategic, are critical to the success of every organization. This research study investigates the decision-making processes of 57 organizations and their use of business analytics to support and improve decision-making.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics
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22-04-2010
The Search for the Elusive ROI: Tracking Down Value in a Jungle of Enterprise Management Products Summary
In the enterprise management space, ROI research provides a glimpse into “real world” IT and the experiences of a variety of companies. Every IT organization is on a quest to deliver high value to the business in the most cost effective way possible. While ROI is important in all areas of the business, skillful product selections within IT can yield particularly high levels of quantifiable value.

Topics: Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Data Acquisition and Delivery, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, ROI (Return On Investment), Data Management
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10-03-2010
Integrating Content Across the Enterprise: An Introduction to ASG-Total Content Integrator Summary
Research shows that enterprise content is growing by as much as 200% per year, and the risks of not managing it effectively are growing even faster. This paper examines the business and technical challenges of integrating disparate enterprise content and offers an elegant solution to address these issues.

Topics: Data Integration, Compliance, Content Management, Data Modeling and Design, Data Management
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10-03-2010
BPM: The Intelligent Assembly Line: An Introduction to Business Process Management and Workflow Summary
Though we are well into the Information Age, knowledge workers can still be found using processes and procedures designed decades ago to provide a physical product, service or transaction. Learn how business process management and content-enabled workflow allow organizations to do the right things in the right ways.

Topics: Performance Management, Business Process Management (BPM)
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10-03-2010
OEM Dashboards: 5 Ways to Make Good Software Better Summary
Adding a dashboard at the point where product meets people makes a solution easier to use, and the value of your product far more apparent. This white paper can help you leverage a desktop dashboard to increase performance and profitability for your customers.

Topics: Performance Management, Dashboards, Business Intelligence
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08-03-2010
QlikView 9 for Business Answers Summary
QlikView 9 changes everything. It’s a new kind of business intelligence tool that’s easy to use and delivers rapid time to value. With unprecedented customer success and a money-back guarantee, it’s no wonder so many organizations are switching to QlikView, the world’s fastest-growing BI product. QlikView makes the powerful simple, and enables users to slice and dice their data without limits. With QlikView, there’s no more waiting for outdated reports or lengthy deployment hassles. For the first time, the power of real-time business answers is in the hands of all users – so they can make better decisions and take action now.

Topics: Business Intelligence, CRM, Analytics, Strategy
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13-02-2010
Usage Landscape Enterprise Open Source Data Integration Summary
Enterprise data integration needs are growing exponentially over time, as is the interest in open source technologies and the adoption of open source solutions. Talend conducted a survey to define the usage landscape of open source data integration and to profile users of this technology. This white paper discusses the most commonly used data integration technologies, their benefits and the associated decision criteria. It also highlights the types of projects open source data integration is used for and how it complements other data integration technologies.

Topics: Open Source BI, Data Quality, Business Intelligence, Data Integration
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07-12-2009
The Power of a Common Business Language Summary
This white paper explains how companies create and standardize their common business language – terms, definitions and related metrics – to prevent “metrics confusion”, accelerate deployment and maintenance of enterprise information systems and increase focus on analyzing and decision making instead of collecting, debating and reworking numbers. The result is improved quality of enterprise information systems and greater efficiencies in the deployment, maintenance and consumption of information.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Best Practices, Performance Management, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Decision Management
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12-10-2009
Unlock Information Management Summary
This paper describes enterprise information management (EIM) as a significant enabler of higher competitiveness and introduces an agile EIM implementation approach.

Topics: Information Management
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08-10-2009
Business Analytics for the CIO Summary
This white paper discusses the key infrastructure challenges that IT faces in meeting the increasing demands for intelligence across organizations – and provides an overview of how SAS Analytics helps overcome those challenges.

Topics: Analytics, Query & Reporting, Data Integration, Predictive Analytics, Text Analytics, Text Mining, Business Analytics

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01-09-2009
The State of Data Summary
Learn how to harness exploding volumes of unstructured information and discover true business value.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Unstructured Data, Data Migration
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12-08-2009
IDC Case Study: The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Cornell University Summary
Read IDC’s findings about how Cornell University embarked on a path toward pervasive BI and is well on its way to providing the right information to the right people at the right time using the right tools.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Strategy, Visualization
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26-01-2009
Dashboards: The New Face of Business Intelligence Summary
Gabriel Fuchs outlines some best practices for business-driven dashboard implementation. Avoid some of the common pitfalls for a successful deployment strategy.

Topics: Performance Management, Dashboards, Visualization
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12-01-2009

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