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Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools
and suites. Portlet standardization, enterprise information integration, and corporate performance management are among the
proposed solutions, but do they really deliver real time i (...)
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Demand for instant access to dispersed information is being met by vendors offering enterprise business intelligence tools
and suites. Portlet sta...
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2005-06-29
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Information Builders plans to spin off its middleware technology group (which develops and supports the EDA middleware product)
into a new wholly owned subsidiary named iWay Software. The move is supposed to allow Information Builders (IBI) to concentrate
on the WebFocus and Focus business intelligence (...)
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Information Builders plans to spin off its middleware technology group (which develops and supports the EDA middleware product)
into a new wholly ...
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2001-03-06
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Tools under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella combine to convert data into information, and information into decisions
for action. Dashboards and scorecards are two such tools. Though often confused, they have functional difference, especially
in modern BI suites. (...)
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... In general, contemporary BI tools provide graphical analysis of business
information in multidimensional views. Most companies collect ...
Published:
2005-06-28
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) and business intelligence (BI) supplier, Vanguard Solutions Group's business strategy
focuses on selling with and through enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise application vendors. Over the
last few years, the strategy has proven to be successful (...)
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Enterprise performance management (EPM) and business intelligence (BI) supplier, Vanguard Solutions Group's business strategy
focuses on selling w...
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2005-07-19
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The BI market is ripe for consolidation, but not necessarily for the reason of capturing the scarce remaining market share
like in the ERP case, but more likely for the reasons of garnering the most complete CPM portfolio. (...)
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The BI market is ripe for consolidation, but not necessarily for the reason of capturing the scarce remaining market share
like in the ERP case, b...
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2003-08-09
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The need for business intelligence (BI) is real for all enterprise software users. It is rare to find a user who feels they
get the information they need from their enterprise software system and even those who do want more. The need is not just
reporting; they need business monitoring, analysis, an unde (...)
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The need for business intelligence (BI) is real for all enterprise software users. It is rare to find a user who feels they
get the information th...
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2004-03-19
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information. (...)
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic medical products needed to support its worldwide need for sales information.
Published:
2001-09-25
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Every Angle is a BI solution that can deliver SAP data analysis with ease. Hundreds—even thousands—of transactions could represent
a great challenge when trying to analyze data and obtain results. Every Angle is a tool that can deliver SAP data analysis
from every angle. (...)
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... An ERP data analysis requires handling enormous amounts of information, not to mention
understanding its complex data structures. ...
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2010-02-09
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Business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process by allowing
a company to manipulate corporate data for decision-making. But what exactly are the primary components of BI? (...)
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Published:
2009-03-23
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A growing measure of business performance is financial performance management. Leveraging business intelligence (BI) to map
business performance goals requires integrating and consolidating information. Systems Union is embarking on a strategy to
triumph in this market. (...)
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A growing measure of business performance is financial performance management. Leveraging business intelligence (BI) to map
business performance g...
Published:
2005-07-18
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Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager 2005 has allowed Microsoft to enter the business intelligence (BI) market by using its
client base to expand its offering. Microsoft offers a complete solution with its SQL Server platform, OLAP, reporting analysis,
and scorecarding capabilities. (...)
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Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager 2005 has allowed Microsoft to enter the business intelligence (BI) market by using its
client base to expand ...
Published:
2006-06-30
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The distinction between business performance management and operational business intelligence is sometimes unclear. Many
vendor offerings overlap in terms of features and functionality, making it difficult to distinguish between the two. However,
there are some differences worth exploring. (...)
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The distinction between business performance management and operational business intelligence is sometimes unclear. Many vendor
offerings overlap ...
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2009-07-31
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Information Builders Inc., (IBI) has released a new suite of business intelligence tools designed to support e-business.
Release 4.3 of the product has been re-engineered and enabled for wireless and XML, in addition to integration with Microsoft
Office 2000 and BackOffice 2000. Announced at their Summ (...)
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Information Builders Inc., (IBI) has released a new suite of business intelligence tools designed to support e-business. Release
4.3 of the produ...
Published:
2000-06-13
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In today's highly competitive business climate, the quality and timeliness of business information for an organization is
not only a choice between profit and loss, it is a question of survival or bankruptcy. No business organization can deny the
inevitable benefits of business intelligence. (...)
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... about BI lies in the flurry of acronyms relating to analyzing business information.
... They are all dependent on BI tools, but it should be noted that BI
is not ...
Published:
2009-04-29
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Typical explanations given for increased spending in business intelligence include, meeting government regulations, managing
information overload, tracking corporate goals, and improving competitive response. However, a deeper drive for BI stems from
the need to quantify the intangibles that underlie the (...)
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... BI tools are like a lab full of chemistry equipment: it's all good
for measuring and reporting information from events, but if you don't have a hypothesis to ...
Published:
2005-03-11
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One of the biggest mistakes users often make with BI is forgetting the big picture, the strategic goals of what they hope
to accomplish by accessing this information, while breaking out of traditional silo-ed metrics. BI is not a panacea, and enterprises
must organize and prioritize their business needs (...)
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One of the biggest mistakes users often make with BI is forgetting the big picture, the strategic goals of what they hope
to accomplish by accessi...
Published:
2005-07-16
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Business Objects and TopTier Software have teamed to provide a unified enterprise portal to unite ERP, CRM, and supply chain
information with business intelligence. Given that the market for analytical applications is estimated to mushroom at a compound
annual growth rate of 28 percent to more than $6 b (...)
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Business Objects and TopTier Software have teamed to provide a unified enterprise portal to unite ERP, CRM, and supply chain
information with busi...
Published:
2001-02-27
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If the ultimate objective is to win and retain customers, one must consider the entire chain, which includes traditional
enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) functions as well as the once considered more remarkable
and supposedly more relevant CRM and e-commerce activity. (...)
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If the ultimate objective is to win and retain customers, one must consider the entire chain, which includes traditional enterprise
resource plann...
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2004-04-05
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Keeping detailed historical information is a great idea in theory, but how can it be merged with current data to enable split-second
decisions? Two companies partner to solve a significant problem in e-commerce. (...)
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Keeping detailed historical information is a great idea in theory, but how can it be merged with current data to enable split-second
decisions? Tw...
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2000-06-16
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There is a great deal of confusion over the meaning of data warehousing. Simply defined, a data warehouse is a place for
data, whereas data warehousing describes the process of defining, populating, and using a data warehouse. Creating, populating,
and querying a data warehouse typically carries an ext (...)
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... 36 books and more than 350 articles in major ... BI
can be broken down into four broad fields ... Multi-dimensional Analysis Tools: Tools
that allow the user to look at ...
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2002-08-18