The demand for and implementation of virtualization technologies internally within organizations in the last few years has revealed significant savings and reduced risk for many businesses. Cloud is the next logical step beyond internal virtualization. This QlikView technology white paper discusses a variety of cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) options—and provides a deeper look at two significant cloud services.
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The impact of technology projects on organizations is increasingly under scrutiny. The purpose of return on investment (ROI) analysis is to provide a financial metric with which to measure such projects and provide a like-for-like comparison between initiatives that may have very different justifications and business benefits. This IDC Whitepaper provides a ROI analysis of the QlikView business intelligence (BI) solution.
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Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis allows organizations to provide a like-for-like comparison between various solutions for the same project. Assuming that the benefits of a project would be the same regardless of the solution, the solution with a lower TCO would therefore yield a higher ROI as well as faster payback. This IDC white paper provides a TCO analysis of the QlikView business intelligence (BI) solution.
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A well designed business intelligence (BI) solution provides users with a self-service environment that matches their decision-making processes. At the same time, it frees IT groups from ongoing development duties, enabling them to focus on systems management and maintenance issues, as well as data integration and data quality issues. This IDC report assesses how QlikTech’s BI solution addresses these requirements.
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On January 5, 2009, the American Design Communities presented a document to the US Congress called “Redesigning America’s Future: 10 Design Policy Proposals for the United States of America’s Economic Competitiveness & Democratic Governance.” Indeed, design is gaining importance in every area. This discussion with technologist Elif Tutuk explores how design thinking could be applied to business intelligence (BI).
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For over a decade, organizations have struggled with a gap between IT and business due to shifts in perceptions of what business intelligence (BI) should be. Often, skilled IT workers get stuck in low-level reporting roles, while business workers can’t access and analyze information fast enough to make strategic decisions. This discussion with an industry technologist offers some ideas for bridging the IT/business gap.
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To analyze enterprise application usage throughout the company, Qualcomm’s product development services team required a solution that was more rapid and analytically driven than the company’s other business intelligence (BI) systems. Learn how the team found a solution that helped speed up product testing, enable real-time access to testing data, and reduce the time required to fulfill new BI application requests.
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FiberMark, a producer of specialty fiber products, had a data problem. Even though the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system was managing data well, management still had to run thousands of pages of reports to glean any insight from that data. Learn how FiberMark’s new business intelligence (BI) solution allowed management to see and interact with data in ways that would not have been possible before.
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After expanding its product lines and accelerating product roll-outs, the Campbell Soup Company needed to align demand forecasting and supply chain planning with its new, more dynamic business model. Learn how the company’s new solution helped it improve inventory forecasting, adapt to day-to-day changes in demand, enhance long-range production planning and risk management, and spend more time on strategic activities.
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To simplify and greatly improve their BI shortlist selection processes, companies should focus on the business value and ongoing expenses that different solutions create—measured across a few key variables. This paper outlines key criteria that companies should consider when creating their business intelligence shortlists—and when making their ultimate selections.
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Enterprise software systems are critical elements of running a business. Unfortunately, they fall short when it comes to data access, analysis, and reporting. Business intelligence fills the gap. When looking at BI, start with a simple proposition: that everyone can do their job better if decisions are based on actual information rather than best guesses.
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Start with a simple proposition - that everyone in your company can do their job better if they make decisions based on actual information rather than best guesses or how-we-did-it-last-year.
What if you could have everything that ERP, CRM and now BI vendors have promised you? Immediate access to all your data, with digital dashboards that show you the Key Performance Indicators that you need to run your business.
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The lack of visibility in sales performance caused tremendous frustration. Multiplereports came from a myriad of sources – executives had to determine which report had
the relevant numbers, rather than focus on the numbers themselves. And by the time actual sales were reported for the previous month, it was too late to make necessary
adjustments with suppliers or shift promotional programs. Marketing couldn’t gauge the sell-through of product lines. The company accumulated significant excess and obsolete.
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To store its wealth of transactional data, Trail Operations employs an ERP solution comprised of JDEdwards, Process Data Historian (PDH) and EtQ systems. To ensure proactive rather than reactive business decisions, it is imperative that management at Trail Operations have reliable and timely access to this data. While their ERP solution met all of management’s data capture requirements, its cumbersome reporting capabilities proved inhibitive to providing the key performance indicator (KPI) information necessary for quickly recognizing trends and driving improvements.
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QlikTech develops and provides a complete suite of powerful business intelligence and data analysis software called QlikView (pronounced click-view). QlikView’s powerful business intelligence and analytics engine is utilizing patented AQL technology to build a non-relational, highly space-efficient associative database residing in RAM. This results in interactive, easy-to-use business analytics applications that are considerably more flexible and faster to deploy compared with traditional business intelligence and OLAP solutions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the QlikView user interface and descriptions of the various features that set QlikView apart from other database interfaces.
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