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- May 03, 2007
03 May'07
HP's business intelligence and data warehouse plans: A data discussion with HP BI VP Ben Barnes
Listen to a podcast with HP vice president, Ben Barnes discussing Hewlett-Packard's business intelligence strategy and HP Neoview data warehouse.
- April 05, 2007
05 Apr'07
Business intelligence case study: Gartner lauds police for crime-fighting BI
In this business intelligence (BI) case study, learn why police technology in Richmond, Va. includes a BI implementation worthy of a Gartner award.
- March 21, 2007
21 Mar'07
Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intelligence
The future of business intelligence in the enterprise may lie in the convergence of serious games with virtual worlds.
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- March 20, 2007
20 Mar'07
Business Intelligence for Revenue-Generating Processes
This article describes the use of detailed and specific business information about customers' past purchasing behavior to grow revenue and retain profitable customers.
- March 02, 2007
02 Mar'07
Business intelligence ROI: Five keys to justifying BI investments
Analysts from Gartner and Bloor, and an experienced end user, recommend best practices for calculating the hard ROI metrics and soft benefits of BI investments.
- December 11, 2006
11 Dec'06
Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Business intelligence and business performance management are both growing and will continue to show strong momentum for some time to come.
- November 02, 2006
02 Nov'06
Why project management is key to operational business intelligence
The best infrastructure in the world will not deliver the desired results from an operational business intelligence application unless the very best planning and management of the project are in place and are practiced.
- November 02, 2006
02 Nov'06
Excel in enterprises: How to deal with data integrity
Microsoft Excel in the enterprise can present problems, but there are tools and techniques for managing Excel data integrity that keep both business users and IT departments happy.
- October 12, 2006
12 Oct'06
The different types of operational data stores
What are the differences between an enterprise ODS and an e-business Web-based ODS?
- October 05, 2006
05 Oct'06
Clustering, SMP and MPP in Very Large Data Warehouses (VLDWs)
This article presents Oracle RAC and its use as a multiterabyte warehousing solution.
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- October 03, 2006
03 Oct'06
Best practices for business intelligence reporting and matrices
With a matrix, data can be grouped and structured in ways that are not possible in a standard report table, but does this result in too much of a good thing?
- August 31, 2006
31 Aug'06
Insight into Business Process Visibility
What is business process visibility - and how is it achieved?
- July 20, 2006
20 Jul'06
Compliance and BI: Same mission, different approaches
Both BI and compliance initiatives are used to help manage a company's assets. But they offer completely different approaches to the same goal.
- July 20, 2006
20 Jul'06
Business intelligence case study: Hospital BI helps healthcare
In this healthcare business intelligence case study, see how Jefferson Medical Center uses business intelligence software at the hospital to improve productivity and patient care.
- July 18, 2006
18 Jul'06
Social network analysis and business intelligence
Business intelligence must be transmitted, communicated and shared in order to be useful and actionable.
- July 11, 2006
11 Jul'06
TableLens: A Clear Window for Viewing Multivariate Data
Correlations and exceptions in multivariate data become clearly visible when explored using TableLens.
- July 06, 2006
06 Jul'06
Embedded business intelligence: Open source or commercial?
Embedded business intelligence is a new requirement for applications. Learn why developers choose to integrate commercial or open source business intelligence software.
- June 06, 2006
06 Jun'06
Service Level Agreements for Data
As more emphasis is placed on data and more data is provided by or handled outside of the institution's control, SLAs should be in place for vendor-supplied data.
- April 06, 2006
06 Apr'06
Four Key Elements of E-Government
When properly and thoughtfully implemented, e-government benefits both the government and its citizens.
- March 16, 2006
16 Mar'06
Enterprise data asset inventory: Database tables
With database tables, there is much more to understand than just the number of rows and columns.
- March 16, 2006
16 Mar'06
SAS snaps up Veridiem for MRM
Business intelligence giant SAS has bolstered its customer intelligence platform by acquiring Veridiem, a maker of marketing resource management (MRM) software.
- January 23, 2006
23 Jan'06
Simple business rules for business intelligence
For organizations to effectively eliminate confusion, they must employ standard definitions to describe simple business rules.
- December 20, 2005
20 Dec'05
Statistical Analysis in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Organizations can provide and get value from statistical analysis without an in-house consultant with a PhD in statistics.
- November 15, 2005
15 Nov'05
Business Intelligence Plays a Major Role in the Entertainment Industry
Business intelligence can mean the difference between staying relevant or becoming obsolete.
- November 15, 2005
15 Nov'05
Choosing a Data Integration Solution: ETL, EAI and EII
Although choosing a data integration product can be difficult, finding the right one can cut overhead costs and labor.
- October 26, 2005
26 Oct'05
The Deming business intelligence workout
Much like the physical therapy process, business intelligence and data warehousing can use Deming's "Plan, Do, Study, Act" cycle for improving performance.
- October 24, 2005
24 Oct'05
How Business Intelligence Can Improve Demand Management
Manufacturing companies are beginning to realize that they cannot contain the increasing need to deliver more insightful business intelligence across their supply chain operations.
- October 11, 2005
11 Oct'05
BLAST Sequences Aid in Genomics and Proteomics
History of BLAST and the key issues surrounding its use in sequence analysis.
- February 10, 2005
10 Feb'05
The data warehouse and customer profitability
This is the first article of a five-part series on competitive advantage and the data warehouse.
- October 07, 2004
07 Oct'04
Metadata, Business Rules & Semantics
Data quality can benefit from a unified theory of information intelligence.
- September 30, 2004
30 Sep'04
The army and knowledge management
Army Knowledge Management (AKM) moves the US Army to superiority in the battlefield.
- September 16, 2004
16 Sep'04
Data Warehouses for Medium-Sized Companies
Can a medium-sized company afford a data warehouse? What is the business case?
- August 17, 2004
17 Aug'04
Business Intelligence – Five Factors For Success
Business Intelligence - You know you need it but how do you get started?
- August 17, 2004
17 Aug'04
Business intelligence and e-government
To citizens, contractors, taxpayers or civil servants the promise of e-government is to be able to search for information in a self-serve mode
- August 02, 2004
02 Aug'04
Business intelligence in the federal government
Proper analysis and accurate interpretation of data are essential "In God we trust; all others bring data."