Business Intelligence White Papers

King Fish Media: How Analytics Bring Organizations Closer to Their Customers

To succeed today, it's imperative for every business to get to know their customers much better than most have in the past - much better. Find out how IBM Business Analytics solutions can help your company turn disconnected data into information, information into insight, then turn insight into action that can boost your bottom line.

Sponsor: IBM

Reporting for Midsize Companies: Empower Your Business With Self-Service Reporting

Data is only data until it can be used to drive business outcomes. IBM Cognos Express turns raw data into meaningful information that yields insights, which can fuel business transformation. This white paper discusses reporting, analysis, dashboards, planning and other capabilities your company can use to drive business decisions.

Sponsor: IBM

In-Memory Analytics: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Business Intelligence

A recent Gartner research note highlghts the advances in emerging technologies that will have a significant impact in making it easier to build and consume analytical applications. Im-memory analytics will make it easier to build high-performance analytical applications against large data sets. In-memory analytics precludes the need for a mid-market company to invest in a data warehouse when beginning to take advantage of a business analytics solution. Instead of storing data in a data warehouse, in-memory analytics stores the data set in memory, allowing for dramatic improvements in query response and the end-user experience.

Sponsor: IBM

Why performance management? A guide for the midsize organization

By linking insights to action, performance management has enormous potential to transform midsize business. When data becomes information, it gains value as insights that fuel action, propelling business forward. This white paper shows how IBM Cognos Express is a cost-effective choice for performance management.

Sponsor: IBM

Business Analytics: Optimizing Your Operations

Larger businesses have always had the advantage of having more resources to throw at problems. Organizations - large and small - are gathering and storing enormous amounts of information. But typically, only the big companies have been able to take full advantage of this data, extracting insight for business advantage. Read this e-book to see how mid-sized organizations can now better use information to drive business decisions to lower costs and improve profit. Discover how you can overcome the barriers midsized business face and use the latest analytics tools to improve your competitive position.

Sponsor: IBM

Limelight Accelerate

Your users won't wait. Reward them with fast interactions, personalized experiences, and dynamic web pages that load in real time. Limelight Accelerate combines browser-based acceleration with a robust network platform to maximize Time to Action-the time it takes for visitors to engage with the content on your site-even on mobile devices.

Sponsor: Limelight

Big Data Analytics - What You Need to Know

This report examines the rise of "big data" and the use of analytics to mine that data. Most business intelligence (BI) tools are struggling to keep up with the demands of big data. A new unified architecture leverages new analytical technology to stage, store and process large volumes of structured and unstructured data, turbo-charge sluggish data warehouses, and offload complex analytical queries.

Sponsor: SAS

Enabling the Analytic Organization

Data is today's most competitive weapon. But how does an organization make the best use of the business data it gathers and generates? Who should drive analytic IT initiatives and how do you get management to embrace these projects? Download this white paper to see how organizations can exploit their data resources effectively for a more competitive future.

Sponsor: SAS

Aberdeen Group: The Analytical Masses: Building Self-Service Insight for Line-of-Business Decisions

An organization's analytical mindset is critical in successfully leveraging business intelligence and analytical tools to their full potential. Aberdeen Group reports on analytics adoption and best practices based on feedback from 222 executives across the globe. See what separates the best-in-class performers from the laggards and measure how your company's performance compares.

Sponsor: SAS

Aberdeen Group: Agile BI: Complementing Traditional BI to Address the Shrinking Decision-Window

This Aberdeen Group report examines the pros and cons of different BI approaches. In these survey results, Aberdeen split respondents into three groups. One used a traditional BI approach. The second group used a combination of traditional BI complemented by more visual and interactive tools, and the third group exclusively used visual/interactive. See how organizational performance compared based on the type of BI approach deployed.

Sponsor: SAS

The Current State of Business Analytics: Where Do We Go From Here?

According to a 2011 study by Bloomberg Businessweek, the use of business analytics is up 90% from two year ago at organizations with revenue of more than $100 million, but roadblocks remain. Read all research findings and learn where business analytics is delivering the most value, how it is saving money and tips to overcome stalled adoption.

Sponsor: SAS

Big Data: Harnessing a Game Changing Asset

Companies that master the discipline of big data management can reap significant rewards and, on average, enjoy a 6% boost in productivity. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey of 586 executives to analyze big data management best practices, along with the organizational characteristics of businesses that are adept at extracting value from data.

Sponsor: SAS

Integrating File Transfer with Workload Automation: Six Characteristics of an Effective Solution

File transfers have never been more important. Data delivery gone wrong can result in incomplete transfers, duplicate data, and embarrassing, and costly security breaches. Safeguard your data with integrated file transfers. Get best practices and real-world examples for using a data delivery system that works with your workload automation solution in this white paper.

Sponsor: BMC Software

School District Virtualizes Desktops, Transforms Management

Yakima School District uses Desktop Virtualization to provide secure access while increasing control and manageability.

Sponsor: Cisco

BI Optimization: Building a Better Business Case for BI

This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

Sponsor: Oracle

Optimizing Your Return on Customer Attention

Both you and your customers need and want to maximize the effectiveness of your interactions. Customers want to interact with customer-contact applications that make the best possible use of their information and tailor the experience to their needs. A business intelligence (BI) solution that facilitates real-time decisions (RTD) adds significant new capabilities to all your customer-contact applications, allowing you to decisively increase your return on customer attention (ROCA). Read this white paper to learn how BI can combine your explicitly-defined business rules and automatically-identified statistical information to deliver the best possible content to your customers for every single interaction.

Sponsor: Oracle

HR Analytics: Driving Return on Human Capital Investments

In today's economy, it's critical for organizations to make employee retention and development a major business focus, to ensure that valuable employees are not lost as the economy improves. With advanced BI solutions, organizations can be supported by workforce analytics to drive return on human capital investment and to see the value the workforce delivers to organizational performance. This white paper demonstrates how the increased power of having metrics and analytic insight can align core HR business processes with organizational goals and strategies and help ensure organizations make the right business decisions today for tomorrow.

Sponsor: Oracle

Deliver Optimal Service Quality

Telecommunications operators compete in a market defined by change and continually advancing technology. Up-to-the-minute technologies such as IP virtual private network, IPTV, and Voice over IP are must-have offerings that can make the difference between keeping a large corporate account and losing out to a competitor. New services mean new challenges for monitoring and reporting on the delivered service quality. This is possible through the process of mapping the new service to your current service quality management (SQM) infrastructure.

Sponsor: IBM

The Benefits of IBM: The Savings of Open Source

"Recently, Open Source Software has been gaining in popularity due to the ability it provides users to view and modify source code. Another attraction is the perceived cost savings. Read the white paper that takes a look at the truth about those savings. Initially, deployment environments like JBoss have an advantage - zero initial software acquisition costs. However, the white paper will show how, over time, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) win the TCO battle."

Sponsor: IBM

Best Practice Insights: ITIL Service Operation

Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and real-world examples.

Sponsor: BMC

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