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Spend Analytics: A Foundation for Procurement Performance Management
sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2008 | |
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Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.
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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size
sponsored by SAP AG
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.
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Deploying Business Intelligence on Sun Fire X4275 Servers
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.
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Get More from Business Intelligence (BI) by Understanding Your Analysis Needs
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Jul 2009 | |
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A companywide business intelligence deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. This whitepaper outlines four styles of analysis and explains how to build deployment plans around these key pillars to get the most return on your BI investment.
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ROI Evaluation Report: IBM Cognos Software
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 May 2009 | |
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Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.
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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Professional Users
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Jan 2009 | |
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Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information at business speed. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.
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Competing on Innovation - A Guide to Next-Generation BI Appliances
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 25 Aug 2009 | |
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IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase “in the moment” insight and business agility without disrupting current operations.
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How the Fastest Growing Companies Use Business Intelligence
sponsored by Information Builders
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 19 Jun 2009 | |
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This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage.
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Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 14 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more.
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IDC Technology Spotlight: Everyone's a Genius: SaaS-Delivered Business Intelligence Tools Put Decision Making in the Hands of Decision Makers
sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Inexpensive, easy-to-deploy SaaS BI can help companies put easy-to-use data mining and reporting tools for smart decision making into the hands of more employees and uncover the real “geniuses” of decision making hidden in every department.
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Selecting a Visual Analytics Application
sponsored by Tableau Software
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 20 Apr 2009 | |
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Visual analytics is the process of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Its becoming the fastest way for people to explore and understand Business Intelligence data of any size. This paper will introduce you to the seven essential elements of true visual analytics applications.
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Designing Great Visualizations
sponsored by Tableau Software
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 20 Apr 2009 | |
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Visual representations are a fundamental component of human learning and understanding. To study the impact of data visualization, we must first look to the past and see how our ways of shaping and representing data have changed over time. This paper traces the history of visual representation, from cave drawings to the computer revolution.
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Hard Hat Area: Myths and Pitfalls of Data Mining
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 20 Feb 2009 | |
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The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte." Myths and misconceptions create their own risks and need to be debunked. This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and provides some protective "hard hats" for data miners.
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Building the Business Case for Predictive Analytics: Nucleus Research
sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 20 Feb 2009 | |
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Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. In this Nucleus Research report, learn how your company can achieve ROI from Predictive analytics applications.
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