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Understanding the Components of Business Confidence
sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Jul 2009 | |
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With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
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Improving Confidence by Increasing Understanding in Information
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 May 2009 | |
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Building greater confidence in your underlying data is easier said than done. The typical organization is home to a wide variety of fragmented data sources. Organizations with a baseline of data management maturity will get better value from their BI investments. They are also more likely to outperform organizations less mature in data management.
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Software Manufacturers and Embedded BI: the Build Vs. Buy Question
sponsored by LogiXML
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper helps software manufacturers wanting to embed BI functionality into their solution whether it is best to "build" or "buy".
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Dashboards: the New Face of Business Intelligence
sponsored by LogiXML
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2009 | |
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Today's Dashboards can deliver what users and the organization as a whole need to know so as to understand their current business and even conduct informed forecasts.
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Avoid the Dragonfly's Sting: The Importance of the BI Licensing Model
sponsored by LogiXML
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper looks at end-user and server-based licensing fees for BI solutions and argues that server-based fees makes much more sense.
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Filling the Gap: Embedded Business Intelligence as an Additional Revenue Stream
sponsored by LogiXML
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2009 | |
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BI capabilities are becoming a must-have for independent software vendors. But customers and prospects are no longer satisfied with basic home-built solutions and offerings from legacy vendors.
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BI for Small and Mid-sized Businesses
sponsored by LogiXML
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal.
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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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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 07 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Apr 2009 | |
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Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.
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The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for Competitive Advantage
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 06 Oct 2008 | |
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An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.
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Getting Personal with Business Continuity: Five Critical Success Factors in Overcoming Workforce Disruptions
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 02 Oct 2009 | |
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This white paper addresses the critical factors you need to address when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics.
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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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Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Jan 2009 | |
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The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
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Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 11 Dec 2008 | |
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In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.
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