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Guided and Open-Ended Analytics: Serving the Real Users of Business Intelligence Summary
The focus of this paper is to describe the use of analytical applications from a cognitive point of view, examine the differences between guided analytics and open-ended analytics and propose some “best practices” for deployment and use.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Visualization
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22-10-2009
Human Process Management for Regulatory Compliance Tracking Summary
With increasing regulatory, legal and operational risk management obligations, companies face a mounting challenge to comply with an ever growing number of government regulations. This white paper suggest human process management systems (HPMS) as a solution for regulatory compliance tracking.

Topics: Governance, Business Process Management (BPM), Compliance (SOX, Basil II, HIPAA), Analytics
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22-10-2009
Visual Analysis for Everyone - Understanding Data Exploration and Visualization Summary
This white paper describes how Tableau Software solves ineffective information presentations and poor exploratory capabilities with a declarative visual query language (VizQL) that simultaneously describes how to query data and how to present it visually.

Topics: Business Intelligence
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13-10-2009
Business BI Requirements for IT: What Every IT Manager Should Know about Users’ Real Need for BI Summary
In today’s marketplace, the half-life of business intelligence (BI) is typically shorter than the life of the project needed for its implementation. This means that companies are getting a continual negative return on their BI investment. It is time to approach the problem from a new direction and empower the business owners and knowledge workers to quickly and easily find the answers to their questions.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Visualization
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13-10-2009
The Power of a Common Business Language Summary
This white paper explains how companies create and standardize their common business language – terms, definitions and related metrics – to prevent “metrics confusion”, accelerate deployment and maintenance of enterprise information systems and increase focus on analyzing and decision making instead of collecting, debating and reworking numbers. The result is improved quality of enterprise information systems and greater efficiencies in the deployment, maintenance and consumption of information.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Best Practices, Performance Management, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Decision Management
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12-10-2009
Unlock Information Management Summary
This paper describes enterprise information management (EIM) as a significant enabler of higher competitiveness and introduces an agile EIM implementation approach.

Topics: Information Management
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08-10-2009
Successfully Automating Decisions with Business Analytics Summary
This white paper provides practical advice on how to identify the best opportunities for embedding analytics into your processes to get the biggest return on your investment of time and money.

Topics: Analytics
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01-10-2009
Echo Group Case Study: Implementation of an End-to-End Performance Management Solution Summary
This case study will elaborate on the work achieved by Echo Group in collaboration with element61 in defining and executing a performance management road map and architecture. Performance managment at Echo includes managing, designing and building a data warehouse solution consisting of financial and management reporting, a balanced scorecard and an enterprise-wide planning and budgeting solution integrated in a single architecture.

Topics: Performance Management

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22-09-2009
Case Study: Groupe G. Lambert Summary
Groupe Lambert implemented a business intelligence system that was easy to use, integrated data from all back-end systems and allowed Lambert management to navigate from top-level to operational detail.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Operational Business Intelligence

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21-09-2009
The Power of Teradata at the Price of MySQL Summary
This white paper explores the reasons and issues associated with the high cost of data warehousing performance and explains how Kickfire's technology and open standards work to deliver high end performance at costs affordable for every business.

Topics: Data Warehousing, Analytics, Appliances, Business Intelligence
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14-09-2009
The CFO Guide to Budgeting Software: 10 Key Elements for Mid-Sized Companies Summary
This white paper offers small to mid-sized companies knowledge about what to look for in a budgeting and forecasting solution beyond the spreadsheets they’ve outgrown. It is an essential read if you spend more time on spreadsheet upkeep than analysis and worry over accurate profit tracking and cash flow planning.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Analytics
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08-09-2009
Recession-Proof Your Business with Better Cash Flow Management Summary
Cash is the lifeblood of most small to mid-sized organizations. You need timely, dynamic cash flow analysis to give you the definitive knowledge that leads to more informed decisions. Cash flow forecasting with spreadsheets? Impractical, inaccurate at best, with no "what-if" analysis to help you plan future outcomes. This white paper explores what a best-in-class budgeting and planning application could offer in the spreadsheet’s place.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Query & Reporting
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08-09-2009
Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks and Issues Summary
How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues your face? This Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey Report offers you an inside peak into what the financial minds at more than 200 firms are thinking and doing to impact their own bottom line.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Analytics
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08-09-2009
Business Analytics for the CIO Summary
This white paper discusses the key infrastructure challenges that IT faces in meeting the increasing demands for intelligence across organizations – and provides an overview of how SAS Analytics helps overcome those challenges.

Topics: Analytics, Query & Reporting, Data Integration, Predictive Analytics, Text Analytics, Text Mining, Business Analytics

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01-09-2009
MDM on a Shoestring Summary
Master data management (MDM) is a concept that is gaining much respect and interest in the marketplace. For many organizations, the disciplines required and the sheer acquisition costs put the adoption of MDM out of their reach. This white paper examines ways to benefit from MDM without going through the organization wrenching initiative and capital expenditures normally required to reap its benefits.

Topics: Information Management, Data Quality, Master Data Management (MDM), Governance
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22-08-2009

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