Getting More from Your Spreadsheets with Business Objects
Business Objects

Spreadsheets are here to stay. You depend on them to analyze data, to perform rapid calculations, and to easily model and format information.…

Enterprise Information Management: Tentative Past, Promising Future
Business Objects

Some four decades after early “data processing strategists” realized the importance of a comprehensive, manageable approach to truly integrated…

Bridging the CRM Analysis Gap
Business Objects

On any given day, your interactions with a few strategic customers will make a huge long-term difference. But which few customers? A new type…

An Enterprise Approach to Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Business Objects

As is generally the case with such issues as the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the quick fix is often too good to be true. Leading companies are…

SAP and Business Intelligence
Business Objects

Chances are that SAP applications play a role in your enterprise. SAP’s prowess at managing large volumes of transactional data has made it the…

Enabling Business Insight, Agility, and Performance
Business Objects

Today’s markets are faster-moving, more diverse, and more competitive than ever before. But if you could only pick one critical factor in…

Enterprise Performance Management
Business Objects

To realize the benefits of enterprise performance management (EPM), the focus needs to be on facilitating collaboration between senior management…

Business Intelligence Standardization
Business Objects

Business intelligence (BI) is often an area of friction between information technology (IT) (who provide information) and the business users…