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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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BI tools provide graphical analysis of business information in multidimensional views. ...
Published:
2005-06-28
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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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2009-03-23
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The University of Illinois provides a good example of extensive integration of its business intelligence (BI) solution and
data warehousing environment with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. (...)
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The University of Illinois provides a good example of extensive integration of its business intelligence (BI) solution and
data warehousing enviro...
Published:
2006-10-27
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Despite the logic behind combining customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) elements, the implementation
of marketing automation (MA) has been stunted by slow markets, and pessimistic investors. Vendors in CRM and BI are building
alliances in order to gain market share and il (...)
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Despite the logic behind combining customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) elements, the implementation
of marketing...
Published:
2005-08-17
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Why are some companies still managing their prices with spreadsheets—and leaving their single most important profit lever
to such inadequate if not harmful practices? TEC principal analyst P.J. Jakovljevic finds out and sits down with two vendor
execs to see how B2B pricing software allows companies to (...)
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Why are some companies still managing their prices with spreadsheets—and leaving their single most important profit lever
to such inadequate if no...
Published:
2012-01-16
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Surado Solutions aims to provide a complete customer relationship management suite. We'll analyze Surado CRM 5.0 from the
perspectives of core functionality, its distinguishing factors, and the challenges users may face when considering the Surado
solution. (...)
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Surado Solutions aims to provide a complete customer relationship management suite. We'll analyze Surado CRM 5.0 from
the perspectives of core fun...
Published:
2006-08-17
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While SAP and Microsoft are concurrently partnering for certain initiatives, they are still dueling about who is bigger,
better, smarter, whose user screens are prettier and more user-friendly, and so on. But the major question is whether the
market and users are ultimately going to be better for it. (...)
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While SAP and Microsoft are concurrently partnering for certain initiatives, they are still dueling about who is bigger, better,
smarter, whose us...
Published:
2009-01-05
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The need for quick responses to changing business environments has resulted in the growth of business process management
(BPM). Thus, BPM vendors are embarking on merger and acquisition strategies to meet the functional requirements of businesses. (...)
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The need for quick responses to changing business environments has resulted in the growth of business process management (BPM).
Thus, BPM vendors ...
Published:
2006-05-29
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... on to the spend analysis short-lists, especially for those selections with smaller IT
budgets to spend (no pun intended). These specialist BI tools are agile ...
Published:
2011-08-30
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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...
Published:
2000-06-16
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TEC principal analyst P.J. Jakovljevic interviews the SAP Retail Industry team to shed some light on SAP’s strategy with regard
to the retail industry. Can SAP, a market and technology leader in business management software, translate its success in
the manufacturing industry to retail? TEC principal an (...)
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TEC principal analyst PJ Jakovljevic interviews the SAP Retail Industry team to shed some light on SAP’s strategy with regard
to the retail indus...
Published:
2012-01-05
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Despite technological advances, users are dissatisfied with customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Ambiguous terms
do not provide the vocabulary for concrete action and measurable expectations. Thus, CRM is perceived to be about intangibles,
and is approached with a let's-hope–for-the-best men (...)
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Despite technological advances, users are dissatisfied with customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Ambiguous terms
do not provide the voc...
Published:
2008-09-29
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During its international e-business conference, SAPPHIRE, SAP displayed a bullish attitude, contradicting the current market
malaise. SAP touts a multi-pronged answer to prevailing heterogeneous IT environments. The company is staking its future on
five pillars - exchanges, portals and the three extended (...)
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During its international e-business conference, SAPPHIRE, SAP displayed a bullish attitude, contradicting the current market
malaise. SAP touts a ...
Published:
2001-08-01
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Previously price management was an overlooked area by vendors because they lacked the native capabilities to meet this need.
However, through partnerships and acquisitions, they are creating viable products, which are enabling enterprises to see greater
return. (...)
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Previously price management was an overlooked area by vendors because they lacked the native capabilities to meet this need.
However, through part...
Published:
2006-05-03
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Within its marketing and proposal automation product, Deltek espouses an emerging CRM derivative known as client relationship
management, which should help firms track client relationships in a more sophisticated manner than through methods such as
referral or word-of-mouth, which were appropriate during (...)
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Within its marketing and proposal automation product, Deltek espouses an emerging CRM derivative known as client relationship
management, which sh...
Published:
2004-01-12
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Knowing the history and evolution of ERP is essential to understanding its current application and its future developments.
Each step in the evolution of ERP is built on the fundamentals and principles developed within the previous one. (...)
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Knowing the history and evolution of ERP is essential to understanding its current application and its future developments.
Each step in the evolu...
Published:
2000-12-25
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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is one of the hot-button issues in IT for the Year 2000. Information Week Research's
survey of 300 technology managers showed nearly 75% of respondents said EAI is a planned project for their IT departments
in the coming year. According to a survey conducted by Ba (...)
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... Directory tools (for locating other applications on different platforms ...
for metadata management, preferably distributed and bi-directionally synchronized. ...
Published:
2000-02-01
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Intelligence. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. The ability to extract and present information meaningfully is vital for business management. Indeed,
business intelligence tools enable companies to ma (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Intelligence. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-...
Published:
2010-03-11
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... A typical main-screen user interface lists the above ... is part of
a new class of BI offerings, where the ... as opposed to providing programming tools
to generate ...
Published:
2008-12-19
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Jeeves has retained the concept of having a single innovative product with broad and reliable functionality, and an open
architecture. But beyond the solid nature of the product, Jeeves also takes pains to communicate effectively with both customers
and partners. (...)
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Jeeves has retained the concept of having a single innovative product with broad and reliable functionality, and an open architecture.
But beyond ...
Published:
2006-04-18