Now more than ever, organizations need to operate efficiently while being able to track, monitor, and improve business performance. This report features UNIT4 Business Analytics, a solution for business performance management that provides ERP users with a single purpose, subscription-based set of solutions for solving a large number of data analysis requirements, including pre-packaged applications to easily track, monitor, and act upon core business performance issues. Download the report now.
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Becoming a real-time business requires managing daily business transactions of your core business processes in real time, and capturing data from new sources like social media or mobile apps. And you need to be able to analyze all this data. Ultimately, it requires people to be able to access real-time information on any device for immediate action. Read this white paper to learn about an in-memory platform and how it can you help create new business value.
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BI is a complex solution that involves new concepts, new procedures, and a learning curve. Management with knowledge of BI must assess whether there is a real need for a new BI solution and whether a chosen solution would provide any measurable benefit. This white paper assesses the results from a recent BI survey of 2200 end users of BI software. Considerations to take into account when selecting a BI solution are followed by a look at the future of BI.
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In a highly competitive world, businesses seek differentiation based on the quality, range, and accessibility of their information assets. It’s not enough to simply capture and maintain the larger data categories and volumes that every organization encounters today. Instead, transforming all of this raw data into strategic superiority requires an information management infrastructure that satisfies essential prerequisites. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to get the right information to the right people at the right time, and business managers are facing a shrinking “decision window.” With many companies also dealing with increasing volumes of data, this gives rise to an opportunity for innovation in analytics. This article uses the results of an agile business intelligence (BI) survey to examine the performance of organization that provide business users with visual tools that let them freely and easily explore data to discover new insights.
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Spend analytics and performance management software can deliver valuable insights into savings opportunities and risk management. But to make confident decisions and take the right actions, you need more than just software—you also need the right data. This white paper discusses a solution to help ensure that your applications process reliable data so that your spend analyses and supplier risk assessments are accurate, trustworthy, and complete.
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With the revolution of in-memory computing already under way, the question isn’t if this revolution will impact businesses, but when and how. This paper details how in-memory computing can change the way you manage business intelligence (BI). For business and information technology (IT) executives, the paper furnishes substantial information and business examples about what changes they can look forward to and how those changes can catalyze their strategic initiatives.
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Over the past several years, the priorities of IT teams have shifted. IT staff used to focus on building an integrated enterprise to optimize business processes. Today, an additional priority is extending the enterprise and improving engagement with customers, partners, and suppliers to maximize efficiency and take advantage of new opportunities. See how innovations in IT have allowed market leaders to extend their reach.
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Business data is growing at an unprecedented speed, and organizations of all sizes, across all industries, have to face the challenge of scaling up their data infrastructure to meet this new pressure. Advances in server hardware and application design have led to a potential solution: in-memory computing. Read Aberdeen's Analyst Insight report and see how in-memory computing can address two of the "three Vs" of big data.
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The job of business operations is to optimize assets under financial constraints, meeting customer requirements, and supported by relevant technology. Applying technology innovation is critical to achieving optimization across a range of business operations functions. Read this white paper from IDC and see how analytics and other technological innovations are helping organizations improve their business performance.
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Small or midsize businesses need powerful yet affordable analytics, business intelligence (BI), and mobile functionality— to get the information required for making better business decisions. You need trustworthy data from your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, to derive insights and deliver information when and where your employees need it. For a road map for better datadriven decisions, read this report.
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Enterprise information technology (IT) and business leaders urgently seek to solve the "big data" and "time‐to‐insight" problem. Doing so will require off‐the-shelf data management and business analytics products that simplify collaboration while enabling real‐time reporting and rapid, ad‐hoc querying from diverse devices, especially mobile. Download this white paper to discover the key to unlocking the value of big data.
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Data is growing at unprecedented rates. Data on customers, producers, underwriting, claims, and service providers is just part of the picture. This increase is being driven by social media and mobile devices adding text and other nonstructured, as well as structured, data. Read this report to find out about the tremendous payback that comes from managing huge repositories of data.
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Prompted by volatile markets and a troubled economy, the need to contain or reduce costs is key for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs are turning to enterprise resource planning (ERP) or business intelligence (BI) solutions to provide control and visibility. Each provides value, but the marriage of the two becomes the perfect storm, igniting improved performance and visibility. This report discusses their synergistic relationship.
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Compliance is crucial in establishing new grounds for business. It is important to leverage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives toward corporate growth, and to define GRC management in terms of enabling new marketing opportunities. To ensure success in managing GRC, one must provide decision makers with processes and tools that allow visibility and access to critical compliance and risk data. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Data management, access, and analysis haven’t always received the same amount of consideration, or respect, as the corporate applications that generate and consume the data. In recent years, however, information technology (IT) leaders have focused much more attention on their organizations’ data management platforms and capabilities. Download this white paper to get a better picture of the current data management landscape.
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The business world is evolving into one that rewards timely, data-supported decisions as a supplement or replacement for “gut-feel” judgments. The challenge is that most organizations have more data than they know what to do with. For software provider considering the addition of business intelligence (BI) capability and end-users exploring its business value, this brief seeks to investigate and quantify the business impact of embedded BI.
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Today, most people acknowledge that big data is more than a fad and is a proven model for leveraging existing information sources to make smarter, more immediate decisions that result in better business outcomes. Big data has already been put in use by companies across vertical market segments to improve top- and bottom-line performance. As unstructured data becomes a pervasive source of business intelligence, big data will continue to play a more strategic role in enterprise information technology (IT). Companies that recognize this reality—and that act on it in a technologically, operationally, and economically optimized way—will gain sustainable competitive advantages.
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The cloud is a revolution that is changing the way we think about business and commerce. Many business leaders feel that a failure to invest in the cloud will result in loss of market share, but they are united about the potential of the cloud to significantly improve capacity and flexibility, generate greater efficiencies, create competitive advantages, transform business prospects, and generate economic value. Read this white paper to learn about some of the drivers of, barriers to, and opportunities resulting from cloud adoption.
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At the end of 2009, SAP launched SAP HANA, an in-memory, column-row based database management system with capabilities within both OLTP and OLAP environments. In June of 2012, SAP announced that HANA had become the fastest growing technology in the company’s history. In this report, TEC Senior BI and Data Management Analyst Jorge García gives an overview of the history, functionality, and benefits and challenges of SAP HANA, and explores SAP’s strategy for the product and its place in the in-memory processing product space.
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Core Analytx is a vendor of business intelligence (BI) software solutions and services. Its BI solution is an affordable option for medium-sized organization and a flexible and easy-to-use business analytics option for large organizations, as a main provider or as a complement for those organizations already using other BI applications. TEC BI analyst Jorge García profiles the company and its core product.
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A good business analytics strategy can pay off. Learn how to grow and transform your organization with analytics and business intelligence (BI) in this newsletter, featuring new research from Gartner.
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For many organizations, IT is split between two groups. The data center facility is provided and managed by facilities management, while the IT equipment within the facility is provisioned and managed by the IT department. This can lead to problems—and an outsourced solution can allow a business to concentrate on its strategy, rather than on “keeping the lights on.” This white paper discusses the importance of a holistic approach between a data center facility and the equipment within it.
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Many organizations are turning to managed print services (MPS) and benefitting from greater expertise, lower costs, and reduced IT burden. However, some MPS engagements are falling short in delivering the expected service quality. This white paper shows how by ensuring governance is an essential part of any MPS contract, both parties can better set appropriate expectations and increase their chances of creating an effective and successful MPS relationship.
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The Cincinnati Zoo, a nonprofit 100-acre facility featuring more than 500 animals, needed to reduce its cost and increase revenues from sources such as admissions, memberships, and food and merchandise purchases. The problem was data. The zoo chose IBM Cognos BI analytics to create a more satisfying customer experience—while cutting marketing costs, increasing new visits, boosting concession revenues, and much more.
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In late 2009, Concept One, a sports, entertainment, and fashion accessory firm, decided it needed a better way to deliver reporting to its managers. Report building had become a distraction for the IT department, preventing it from helping other lines of business. Also, it sometimes took several days to fulfill a request for a custom report. Read how this firm achieved an 866% ROI in two months using IBM Cognos Express.
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See how a yacht chartering company can analyze its revenue and reservations using interactive dashboards.
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See the integrated reporting, analysis, and planning capabilities that can help your midsize business to drive greater efficiencies, manage costs, and identify growth opportunities.
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Organizations that are driven by analytics outpace their competitors. But how do you know how well you’re using analytics? Click here for an exciting new way to measure your success with analytics. Take IBM’s free analytics quotient (AQ) quiz now to learn your score. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it will put you on the path to better business outcomes, whether you’re an aspiring newcomer or a wizened analytics master.
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Understanding your customers’ needs and ensuring your products and services meet their satisfaction is paramount to the success of your company. So, for most businesses, it’s fair to say that the customer is king. And getting closer to the customer is the number one priority to many business leaders for success in today’s economy. View this demo from IBM and learn how analytics can help you give your customers the royal treatment.
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BI applications aim to provide users with the technology, analytics, and user experience features needed to improve the organization’s decision-making process, and many providers now offer mobile BI software features. This report is intended to guide you through the evolution of a number of mobile BI applications as well as to provide you with an analysis of information gathered from both the mobile BI vendor and user communities in your exploration of the mobile BI marketplace.
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Moving an organization’s critical data from a legacy system promises numerous benefits, but only if the migration is handled correctly. In practice, it takes an understanding of the entire ERP data lifecycle combined with industry-specific experience, knowledge, and skills to drive the process through the required steps accurately, efficiently, and in the right order. Read this white paper to learn more.
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A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive business intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. This white paper addresses several questions that BI customers are facing.
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The pace of change is accelerating across all areas of health care with new and innovative technologies, mobile computing devices, potential changes from fee-for-service to bundled pay-for-performance reimbursements, changes to care delivery with accountable care organizations, and other potential regulatory changes in the very near future.
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This report on the Cibecs and IDG Connect 2012 business data loss survey uncovers the latest statistics and trends around enterprise data protection. Download the full results now.
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JurInnov’s director of information systems and security provides a detailed analysis of why development of a security-oriented corporate culture is imperative for companies wishing to keep their electronically stored information secure.
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An Aberdeen study from 2010 revealed that respondents were still in the early stages of mobile business intelligence (BI) adoption. But now, many companies are gearing up to deploy mobile BI throughout the organization to empower their front-line workers. This Aberdeen report highlights the challenges ahead, and brings focus to issues that organizations need to consider to successfully deploy mobile analytics to their front line.
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Creating and maintaining a successful digital experience that drives business results requires the right research insight, design, technology, and ongoing optimization. Forrester conducted an online survey of 209 digital experience professionals in the US to evaluate current practices around Web site monitoring and digital experiences. Read about the adoption, benefits, and challenges of current data-driven design processes.
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Most organisations are sitting on IT equipment that is not supporting the business optimally, yet the received wisdom is to sweat the assets to gain as much perceived lifetime value from them as possible. However, IT assets have inherent value which can change significantly through each asset’s lifecycle—whether this is through its hard resale value or just through its scrap value. By applying a full IT lifecycle management (ITLM) approach to the complete IT platform, a business-optimised platform can be created—one where business value overrides the embedded concept of sweating assets.
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Most manufacturing enterprises use enterprise resource planning (ERP) as their main business system. It has always been assumed is that companies strive to have one single ERP system to unify all their parts and processes, but a survey shows that the average manufacturing company has 1.9 separate and distinct systems. This paper looks at how overall ERP strategy relates to companies’ performance.
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This case study recaps a nonprofit organization’s business challenges and the benefits it realized upon adopting a business intelligence (BI) solution. The organization needed to combine its data and improve its reporting capabilities for various data types. The BI solution significantly improved the decision-making capabilities of the organization’s executive team, mid-level managers, and employees.
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Social media is providing organizations with a plethora of data about their customers. This paper explains how to leverage business intelligence software and advanced analytics to change the way business is conducted. The end goal should be to personalize marketing messages in a way that allows organizations to narrowly target specific customers based on the knowledge of the customer they already have.
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This guide introduces you to the key concepts of business intelligence, including data modeling, data warehouses, online analytical processing (OLAP), and more. The author debunks many of the prevailing myths that scare small to medium businesses from investigating the use of business intelligence, and explains how the very same techniques and technologies used by massive enterprises are now available to them.
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Sophisticated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence tools have made it possible to quickly calculate and report key performance indicators and metrics. In this white paper, learn about a balanced approach, applying lean and Six Sigma concepts, to business process re-engineering, assessing the alignment of your policies and strategic goals, and implementing systems and organizational structures, to support a culture of measurable improvement.
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This Aberdeen report examines the connection between collaborative knowledge sharing and analytical activity. Based on direct feedback from 231 respondents around the globe, results demonstrate that best-in-class companies are leveraging collaborative tools and techniques to share decision context inside and outside their organizations, ultimately leading to substantially improved business performance. Download this report to learn more.
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