WHITE PAPER - Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. This IDC white paper discusses the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Spend Management

WHITE PAPER - With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. This white paper from Business Objects, explores the growth trend of unstructured data and examines the many benefits of unstructured data analysis.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Visualization | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Decision Support Databases | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Knowledge Management | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture. It outlines requirements for a software platform for supporting such an architecture, and, as an example, reviews the BusinessObjects“ Data Services XI Release 3 platform.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Management | Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Workgroups

WHITE PAPER - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational, financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Content Management | Customer Data Management | Data Auditing | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | ROI

WHITE PAPER - The need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. But increasingly, it is not just C-level executives and upper management who need access to business intelligence.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Customer Data Integration | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Visualization | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software

WHITE PAPER - EIM is the effort and practice of reaching across all data and application silos embedded in the organization's operating infrastructure; then binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Information Management | Information Technology End Users | IT Infrastructure | Productivity | Query Tools | Reporting Software | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Database Management | Direct Marketing | Direct Sales Channels | Enterprise Resource Management | SAP (Product) | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Migration | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | Information Management | Information Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Database architects and administrators need to discover, document, and re-use data assets; reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases; and design to comply with regulatory requirements and organizational standards.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Modeling | Data Warehouse Architectures | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Model Driven Architecture | Operational Support Systems | Regulatory Compliance

PRESENTATION - Do you know what data transport technology options are available in today's market? This paper will help you assess economic, operational, and security factors involved in selecting data transport technology and present Ethernet carrier services as an attractive data transport option.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: April 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Security | Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | Ethernet Networks | Information Management | Information Security | Knowledge Management | LAN | WAN

WHITE PAPER - The macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever for corporate executives and end users to access critical information to make effective business decisions. This paper will examine how a new generation of SaaS-based BI solutions is responding to the escalating challenges facing companies of all sizes.
Posted: May 10, 2009 | Published: May 7, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Access Control Software | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Integration | Data Migration | eCommerce | Globalization | Query Tools | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Software as a Service

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Whether organizations hard code between core legacy applications and various data sources or employ a looser service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, data integration and visualization remains a persistent challenge.
Posted: March 13, 2009 | Published: March 13, 2009


Topics:  Application Integration | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | SOA