Business intelligence (BI) is the number one investment priority among CIOs.1 Organizations worldwide demonstrate that BI improves the decision making process and directly improves the bottom line.

As they strive to decrease their costs and the complexity of their reporting environment, professional report authors have been looking for a single, collaborative, Web-based reporting solution that can address how to deliver information at business speed.

To drive and monitor performance against the competition, market leaders deploy business analytics systems that enable them to rapidly implement, modify, and expand their applications for strategic planning, sales, marketing, operations analysis and reporting.

IBM Cognos 8 BI has proved itself to be a robust and scaleable platform, which is creating ad hoc and regular reports for bookshops and publishers across nine countries.

Read this case study and find out how Caffe Nero has more insight into the business and the performance of individual products,
branches and staff. More confidence to make quick, informed decisions as the information is based on fact, which drives better business and customer service.

Scorecards are being recognised as critical when striving to achieve compliance; however there is clear need for a greater understanding. As part of this paper, you will be given guidance on the right approach as well as what to look for in a scorecarding application.

Scorecards and dashboards are being recognized as critical in performance management; however there is clear need for a greater understanding. This white paper discusses the dangers of implementing either without a detailed understanding, and offers guidance on these matters.

Read this white paper from Quest Software which explains how control frameworks such as COSO and CobiT can be part of a SOX compliance initiative. The notion of internal control has acquired a new importance for public companies.

In this white paper, we’ll explore how the foundation of continuous, event-based data integration—a technology called “change data capture” (or CDC)—allows IT to create business value for organizations both large and small.

You no longer have to forgo enterprise functionality to have an open source solution. This white paper lists the key requirements that are needed for most enterprise environments. So, what does enterprise open source mean in your environment?

Most successful companies use a performance management system to ensure the effectiveness of their business strategy, and the balanced scorecard system has emerged as powerful tool in the
drive for competitive advantage.

Internet and wireless technologies are continuing to advance rapidly quickly changing customer preferences, disrupting traditional communication methods and forcing prices downward.

This white paper looks at the combination of JasperSoft's BI software Suite with Ingres' hardware: delivering business intelligence as an appliance using open source.

BI enables companies to track, understand, and manage their business in order to maximize their performance. With BI, organizations can improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings.

In this case study learn how BT stays ahead of the game using powerful dynamic “what-if” analysis that enables them to perform fast, clear and dynamic re-pricing and analysis in the fiercely competitive telecommunications sector.

Leading UK pub company TCG wanted to look into their business data to validate the decision-making process in all of their houses. This case study reveals how correlating data across the business, TCG have realized immediate savings which have gone straight to the bottom line.

As Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to gain traction over traditional software, this white paper helps in better understanding all the different cost factors and includes a simplified calculator that will help influencers and decision makers to better estimate the true TCO of a SaaS

Read this case study and learn how to maintain high levels of customer service, processes required to run its business, from order management and service activation to those processes involved in the operation of its core network, needed to run smoothly and in sync with each other.

If Gordon Moore’s law of performance improvement and cost reduction applies to processing power, why hasn’t it worked for data warehousing?

Within the confines of the enterprise, there are significant opportunities to save money by optimising business processes and focusing decisions. This paper will review the importance of increased analytical performance, data management improvements and reduced cycle times.