Competitive Advantages Of Business Intelligence - KnowledgeStorm

Data Governance: A Business Value-Driven Approach

DataFlux Corporation — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This white paper by Dr. Walid el Abed, CEO of Global Data Excellence, discusses how an effective data strategy embedded within the business strategy can turn data into a real competitive advantage, deliver short and longer term value and enable business success and sustainability.

Enabling Software and SaaS Vendors to Gain Competitive Advantage: Partnering with SAP for ...

SAP America Inc — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!

Advancing your SAP Netweaver: Maximize the value of SAP Netweaver with Atos Origin

Atos Origin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Enterprises that embrace SAP NetWeaver early will gain a tremendous competitive advantage. And by using the proven experience of Atos Origin, nothing is left to chance. Atos Origin will provide transparency regarding the costs and benefits and help turn your vision into results using our proven global SAP expertise and integration experience.

Deploying Oracle & reg; Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.

Webcast - Turn Your IT Plan into a Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Market: Harnessing ...

IBM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.

Secure your future now: run your business critical applications on industry standard platforms

Microsoft, Intel and HP — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast explores the business benefits of migrating from expensive, proprietary server architectures to cost-effective, industry-standard architectures. Gain insight into how this transition can enable your organization to increase reliability, availability and serviceability.

Presentation Transcript: Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting

Sybase, Inc. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This transcript of the Sybase webcast, "Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting" explains why Sybase IQ is the #1 column-based analytics server for business analytics and reporting. Read on to learn how Sybase IQ can relieve the pressure on your transaction systems without creating extra workloads or breaking the bank.

Cashing in on Customer Intelligence in the Financial Services Industry

Infor CRM — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this 1to1 Executive Dialogue, Don Peppers and Steve Muran talk about the importance of customer retention, the need to integrate disparate sources of data, and the opportunity for financial institutions to rebuild customer trust as a means to competitive advantage.

The Technology of Innovation: Using CRM to Enable Customer-Centric Innovation

Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper highlights the important role technology can play in the innovation process and looks at how a customer-focused approach to innovation can be supported by flexible customer relationship management tools. It explains how businesses can use CRM to foster and implement customer-centric innovation, enhancing the customer experience.

Informatica 9. Transform your business. Transform your world.

Informatica — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This webcast will show you how to access and deliver relevant, trusted data to your business to drive competitive advantage. Discover how to get business and IT on the same page, make data quality issues a thing of the past and leverage SOA effectively.

Reinventing Your Infrastructure with IIMv3

CompuCom Systems, Inc. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper is the first in a series of white papers designed to provide a complete view of IIMv3 and its value proposition to the enterprise. Look for additional white papers on IT transformation, the IIMv3 architecture, and the Next Generation Data Center.

Smarter Products for a Smarter Planet

IBM — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join us to learn how to leverage IBM’s software, hardware and services to achieve competitive advantage.

Webcast: Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace

BlackBerry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webinar, you'll learn about the rapidly changing state of law firms, how law firms must pay closer heed to business management issues to remain competitive. You'll hear the voice of the client and what law firms must do to succeed in the face of change.

Better Data Management brings Competitive Advantage

IBM — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This on-demand webcast discusses how data growth, test data management, data privacy and other information management solutions can create the opportunity for companies to make IT their competitive differentiator.

Making Strategy Real

SAP America Inc — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.

Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors: Top-line performance that’s bottom-line efficient

HP, Vmware and AMD — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Unlike competitive products focused on raw performance, AMD technology-based servers deliver one platform to support the top-line demands of your business with a total cost advantage you can take right to the bottom-line.

Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency ...

SAP AG — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.

How Financial Firms Can Improve Business Integration Capabilities and Increase Straight- ...

Sterling Commerce — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper discusses the increased demand placed on financial services organizations to improve their straight-through processing (STP) levels across all business units.

Optimizing The Value of Your Subscriber Data

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mobile network operators are not exploiting the full value of their most valuable asset—their subscriber information. While mobile network operators may be sitting on a gold mine of subscriber data, they do not have the tools they need to exploit it. This paper explains the avenues available to take advantage of their subscriber information.

Business Rules with JBoss: Value Overview and High-level Technology Summary

JBoss, a Division of Red Hat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this webinar you will learn about the features, capabilities, and value offered by JBoss Enterprise Middleware in the management of business rules. We'll introduce business rules management concepts and value, explore use cases, and dive deeper into the JBoss Enterprise business rules management technology.

Red Hat Service-Oriented Architecture

JBoss, a Division of Red Hat — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Red Hat can alleviate common infrastructure problems by moving organizations toward service-oriented architectures (SOA). High-quality, low-cost, SOA-enabled solutions from Red Hat and JBoss let customers focus their resources on the applications and business processes that differentiate their business and give them a competitive advantage.

Gaining a Competitive Edge: Streamlining AP and Business Process Automation

Esker Inc. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper is designed to assist CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Accounts Payable managers and ERP system administrators in learning, planning and evaluating automation of accounts payable processes to gain added efficiency in today's competitive business environment.

Understanding the Components of Business Confidence

IBM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.

Increasing Business Efficiency and End-User Productivity

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The following report features Michael Fauscette, group vice president of IDC's Software Business Solutions research, answering questions posed by Oracle's customers regarding business efficiency and end-user productivity.

Business Intelligence Standardization

SAP BusinessObjects — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper gives an overview of the advantages of implementing business intelligence (BI) standards. Learn how successful organizations have standardized on, and benefited from BI solutions from SAP - and why you should join them.

How the Fastest Growing Companies Use Business Intelligence

Information Builders — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage.

Managing Enterprise Information: Architecting for Survival and Positioning for Success in ...

SAP BusinessObjects — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information.

Reinforce Business Objectives and Achieve ROI with Internet Identity Security

Ping Identity Corporation — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this white paper to learn how after deploying PingFederate or PingConnect your organization will yield a high return on investment and run more efficiently and will have distinct competitive advantage over companies that do not leverage Internet Identity Security Software.

10 Ways Predictive Analytics Can Really Help You

SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This whitepaper details how predictive analysis can help your business. We give you 10 really good reasons on how predictive analytics help you make better, faster decisions, giving your organization a significant competitive advantage in the technology sector.

How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP To Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough Economy

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

For midsize enterprises, now is the perfect time to invest in a significant IT expansion – despite the economic climate. Please read this case study to find out how installing the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 helped Gavina Coffee improve efficiencies, cut overall costs, and make the business more competitive.

Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.

Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.

Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

SAP America Inc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.

Operational Excellence: The New Lever of Profitability and Competitive Advantage

SAP America Inc — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.

Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy

IBM — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.

Optimizing Information Insight: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated ...

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business decisions is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data.

Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value

SAP America Inc — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.

The Information Agenda: Rapidly Leveraging Information as a Trusted Strategic Asset for ...

IBM — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services

SAP America Inc — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.

Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for Business ...

SAP America Inc — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This paper discusses about how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration.

Consultancy Deploys Productivity-Enhancing CRM Solution to Gain Competitive Advantage

Microsoft — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

After an extensive search for a solution, Lure Executive Services chose to implement Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM Online.

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance

IBM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.

A Better Bottom Line - Implementing Efficient Business Solutions

SAP AG — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Efficient operations help you better control costs and enable you to offer more competitive pricing and terms to your customers. SAP Business One, a single, affordable application designed for small businesses, lets you streamline operations, access accurate information quickly, and get a 360-degree view of key business areas.

Ready Access to Real-Time Data Helps Small Businesses Thrive

SAP AG — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Today there is new and affordable technology that enables small businesses to access current data from any location, respond quickly to change, and thrive in a volatile business environment. A good example of this technology is the SAP® Business One application. Read this white paper to learn more!

Business Network Transformation: Rethinking Relationships in a Global Economy

SAP America Inc — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

The ability to operate effectively in business networks, be they coordinated or collaborative, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage in a commoditizing global economy. By focusing on their unique core capabilities, business network participants spend less on duplication and more on innovation, resulting in higher degrees of..

Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs

Information Builders Inc. — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.

Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage

SAP America Inc — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.

Process-Driven Business Intelligence: Building Smarter Business Processes

Information Builders Inc. — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

Most organizations strive for efficiency because it ties to cost savings and better performance, while helping to anchor competitive advantages. However, improving efficiency requires organizations to continually seek new methods of managing increasingly complex business processes.

Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation

SAP America Inc — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.