WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Management | Data Visualization Software | Database Management Software | Decision Support Systems | Query Tools | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Cloud Computing | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | ERP Software | IT Management | IT Services | IT Systems | SAP (Product) | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes ways in which organizations can use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to save time and money.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: December 18, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Server Software | Databases | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - SQL Server is the relational database used for storing all content, data, and configuration information used by Office SharePoint Server 2007. Protecting SharePoint requires protecting each of the three architectural tiers. This whitepaper will discuss the need to protect all three tiers of SharePoint's implementation architecture.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Configuration Management | Content Management | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Security | Downtime | High Availability | Indexing (Information Management) | Microsoft Office | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Data Management | Financial Reporting | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Oracle (Product) | Software

WHITE PAPER - Today the use of balanced scorecards for performance management has become a hallmark of a well-run company. This paper will provide guiding principles to help your company's overall performance.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Dashboards | Data Management | Oracle (Product) | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn about Oracle’s comprehensive GRC platform and how leading enterprises are turning to Oracle’s new platform to meet the demands of increasingly challenging regulatory mandates while continuing to innovate and grow their business.
Posted: September 15, 2009 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Management | Data Management Software | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
Posted: September 14, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | IT Auditing | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending | Oracle (Product) | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This document presents a series of business challenges, why organizations faced them, and how these problems were solved through the use of Business Intelligence best practices.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Processes | Dashboards | OLAP | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Customer Loyalty | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | OLAP

WHITE PAPER - Download this white paper to learn about overcoming the technical challenges and misconceptions around delivering open source BI, as well as developing and maximizing the use of open source BI.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Dashboards | Data Warehouse Software | Open Source | Open Source Software | Reporting Software | Web 2.0 | Web Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This white paper is intended for IT managers, project leads, and developers who must implement open source business intelligence (BI) to support the ever growing business user needs. You will learn how to add new reporting features and functions to your applications without any scalability issues and more.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  AJAX | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | IT Managers | Open Source | Open Source Software | Reporting Software | Web 2.0 | Web Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase “in the moment” insight and business agility without disrupting current operations.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Published: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Information Architects | Query Tools | Reporting Software | Sybase (Product)

WHITE PAPER - HP and VMware help you change the economics of IT by creating a business-ready infrastructure based on three pillars: standardize, optimize, and automate.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | VMware