The notion that information technology departments now support, and often encourage, the use of consumer class devices for business may have seemed bizarre a decade ago, but it’s now part of the new reality of business computing—and that means mobile BI needs to be an essential element in any IT organization’s business strategy.

Big Data is everywhere—from sensors that monitor traffic loads to the flood of tweets and Facebook “likes”. But how do organizations make sense of the mountain of data that now shape how we work and live? As available data becomes more complex and extensive, weaving it into an engaging visualization that invites understanding and decision-making is a big challenge, with a bigger opportunity for payoff. Featuring articles, whitepapers, video and audio, this timely eBook:

• Shows why data visualization has become such as important tool
• Explores how data visualization techniques are becoming increasingly integrated into the decision making process for both IT and non-technical executives
• Demonstrates how to put best-practices into place to fully leverage data visualization tools

One important aspect of the “Big Data” phenomenon is that it is bringing new urgency to an age-old problem: organizations have almost always had more data than they could handle, and today’s business executives are facing the same challenges.

The axiom “better data means better decisions” is even more critical today—where data can come from a large variety of sources. Without a solid data management program in place, data can be inaccurate and unfit for purpose.

This eBook examines techniques that have been used to create and enforce higher standards for data management such as master data management and data governance. Read this and discover what you should consider to realize the full potential of Big Data.

Organizations are pushing their BI use to the limits. Now many companies want the ability to interact with analytics in a way that grants them access to the insights they want and need easily, based on their unique business needs. Data discovery gives them a way to do this by taking information access and business intelligence use to the next level. WiseAnalytics, along with sponsors MicroStrategy, Tableau Software, and InetSoft are sharing the results of their market study on data discovery and the state of the market.

Download the report to find out how organizations are applying data discovery and whether vendor offerings are meeting market demands.

This eBook is a must for data lovers looking to maximize the benefits of business intelligence dashboards. Through a diverse menu featuring articles, white papers, webcasts, and videos, learn how dashboards can help you spot business performance trends earlier.

No matter what industry they’re in, business people demand the right top-line performance information when they need it. This eBook describes how executives, line managers, and data professionals can tap the power of dashboards to leverage business analytics to enable smarter decisions. Few business technologies can match the power of the BI dashboard to drive better decision-making in today’s high-speed digital business environment.

If you’d like to find out how dashboards can be used to share key information, interact with data to obtain answers to questions, and update information to display the latest results, be sure to read this new eBook today.

Every organization wants to achieve agility in order to anticipate and respond to ever-changing market conditions, from pricing and promotion to opening up new sales channels. But agility often proves to be an elusive goal for teams that don't fully harness and exploit the growing mountain of data residing in their systems. More and more frequently, IT executives are leading the way by implementing agile data management approaches that take advantage not only of agile methodologies, but new tools that help deliver the much-sought "single version of the truth." To make smarter decisions in real time, and with the ability to make a greater imprint on the organization's key business goals, agile data management helps IT departments sift through huge, growing data volumes to deliver true business intelligence.

Read this e-book to learn about how successful organizations are using agile data management processes and technologies to get a competitive advantage.

Master data management (MDM) implementations can be fraught with risk if you aren’t using the right approach. Your implementation go live can slip from weeks to years. You may be forced to buy multiple MDM applications if your business needs expand. Your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can spiral out of control.

If you are in the process of gathering business requirements for an MDM initiative then you should download this e-book. Find out the 10 eye-opening questions you should be asking before choosing an MDM approach. Increase your chances of becoming one of the hundreds of companies to successfully implement MDM by using the right approach for your business.

It’s a common enough problem at many large organizations — how to enlist more employees to become active users of the company’s business intelligence (BI) system. Enterprises can achieve greater use of BI to enable better decision-making by taking a more strategic approach and harnessing available self-service reporting tools.

Sponsored by ActiveReports Server from GrapeCity and developed by Information Management Magazine, this eBook includes articles, Q&A interviews, and a video highlighting effective ways to boost user adoption of BI software.

Every organization wants to achieve agility in order to anticipate and respond to ever-changing market conditions, from pricing and promotion to opening up new sales channels. But agility often proves to be an elusive goal for teams that don't fully harness and exploit the growing mountain of data residing in their systems.

More and more frequently, IT executives are leading the way by implementing agile data management approaches that take advantage not only of agile methodologies, but new tools that help deliver the much-sought "single version of the truth." To make smarter decisions in real time, and with the ability to make a greater imprint on the organization's key business goals, agile data management helps IT departments sift through huge, growing data volumes to deliver true business intelligence. Read this e-book to learn about how successful organizations are using agile data management processes and technologies to get a competitive advantage.

Data Science: Turning Numbers into Insights

Data Science is an emerging field that uses data to ask and answer questions in ways that were not possible before. It involves working with different types of data and oftentimes very large volumes of data, usually in some kind of an exploratory manner. Data Science is not about delivering a standard report from a database for the thousandth time. It’s about using data and analytical methods to prove or disprove assumptions, and discover new problems and solutions along the way.

Read this eBook to learn more about what businesses can do today to cultivate their own Data Scientists.

Data Discovery
3 Steps to Better Decision Making

As Gartner reported in its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms* report, "Data discovery alternatives to enterprise BI platforms offer highly interactive and graphical user interfaces built on in-memory architectures to address business users' unmet ease-of-use and rapid deployment needs. What began as a market buying trend in 2010 has only continued to expand.".

More and more data discovery tools are helping organizations transform the volumes of data they produce and collect into a revenue-enhancing resource. Yet many organizations are only scratching the surface when it comes to employing this form of business intelligence, missing opportunities to identify trends, surface business opportunities, reduce losses, and answer critical business questions. Too often, critical data remains locked in obscurity.