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Business intelligence (BI) has been referred to as the process of making better decisions through the use of people, processes, data and related tools and methodologies. The roots of business intelligence are found in relational databases, data warehouses and data marts that help organize historical information in the hands of business analysts to generate reporting that informs executives and senior departmental managers of strategic and tactical trends and opportunities. In recent years, business intelligence has also come to rely on near real-time operational data found in systems including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain, marketing and other databases. “Operational” BI is meant to provision many more functions in the organization with role-specific dashboards and scorecards and is increasingly tied to the topics of performance management and business process management. Inherent to any form of BI is the notion of data quality, consistent and dependable data and the processes involved in its creation and maintenance.

Are We Still Business Focused?

Business intelligence should be seen as a business initiative and a business ownership venture

Ensure the Lasting Success of BI

The business intelligence competency center is becoming a top priority to ensure a BI program is being more strategically driven with a long-term vision

10 Red Hot BI Trends

Business intelligence is an integral part of the software glue that binds relevant information to intelligent decisions across organizations

4 Steps to Create an Effective IT and Business Partnership

Undertaking business intelligence, data quality or an enterprise data management project without full cooperation and collaboration between IT and the business is a formula for frustration

D’ORDS: Dimensional Operational Reporting Data Store

Ruldofo Espinosa explains his new twist on operational data store - D’ORDS, and its execution at a small startup

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Opposites Do Attract

Operations and analytics combine to fully exploit business intelligence

BI - The Healthy Habit

Health care providers take BI best practices to heart

Transforming Health Care with BI

A scorecard will provide visibility and consistency for value-based health care nationwide

Web Analytics: What's the Goal?

Web analytics may still be a distant prospect but should not be ignored

Does On-Demand BI Make Sense?

Strategies to increase the viability of outsourced solutions

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Sybase® IQ: The Economics of

Why Midsize Companies Need Business Intelligence Solutions in this uncertain global economy

Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business

Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices & Technologies on Your Path to Success

Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards

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Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business

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Building the Information Asset

By Joseph Kokinda

Successful Business Intelligence

By Cindi Howson

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• White Paper: Data Warehouse Appliances: Achieving the Business Value
  The data warehouse appliance marketplace has moved beyond early adopters into the mainstream with many companies searching for the appropriate use of a data warehouse appliance and the compelling justification to the business for using a data warehouse appliance. This research report, authored by Richard Hackathorn of Boulder Technologies, Inc., clarifies the marketing claims and the expected business value.
• White Paper: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms, Q1 2009
  In A Down Economy, EDW Appliances Come To The Fore. Expanded scalability, flexibility, and affordability are the dominant requirements in today’s budget-stressed EDW platforms market. I&KM professionals are under the gun, trying to keep EDW and business intelligence (BI) costs under tight control while preserving the flexibility to grow and repurpose these investments to support an ever-changing array of decision-support requirements.

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White Papers

• Sybase® IQ: The Economics of
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Web Seminars

• Discover A New Kind of Intelligence. . .how the information you have can get you the results you need
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eLearning

• Data Resource Quality: Turning Bad Habits into Good Practices
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Books

• Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business
• Building the Information Asset
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