With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article will examine the role of this new star in the business world. 

Listen to this podcast to hear Tony Velcich, from Oracle’s Communications Product Management team, discuss the benefits of this solution. 

This white paper gives an overview of the IT service management (ITSM) market and provides criteria for for successful vendor assessment and product implementation. 

This Q&A video is an in-depth look at Pentaho's BI 4 Enterprise Edition, a user-driven BI system. Watch to learn about the latest features including: interactive reporting, data discovery capabilities,  and new user interface. 

This Magic Quadrant will help CIOs and business and IT leaders that are analyzing their Web strategies to assess whether they have the right Web Content Management offering to support them. Use this Magic Quadrant to understand the fresh vitality in the WCM market and how Gartner rates the leading vendors and their packaged products. 

What exactly is business analytics and how can it help? Business analytics is, simply put, the application of analytical techniques to resolve business issues. It provides organizations with a framework for decision making, helping organizations solve complex business problems and more. 

This white paper details how in-memory computing changes the way organizations can operate and gain value from their business intelligence (BI). Particularly, discover how this method can bring together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications. 

After briefly considering and rejecting an open-source tool, Harvell and his team selected Vertica Analytic Database 2.0, as it is a high-speed, relational SQL database management system. 

For T-Mobile USA, creating sophisticated offers to bring valuable innovation to its customers and determining the right customers within its base to target with these offers requires rapidly crunching numbers from massive data sets in order to seize often fleeting opportunities. Learn how real-time analytics has made this possible. 

This e-guide from SearchHealthIT.com highlights the importance of data analytics in the success of today's ACOs. Read now to learn the difference between collaborative and captive ACOs and discover how predictive analytics can provide the information necessary to dramatically improve patient care. 

Access this brief video to learn how you can build a next-generation information strategy that will help you identify patterns and trends in human information and machine to machine data so you can act on insights in real time. Learn where to get started today. 

In this white paper, learn how to leave the guesswork behind and go beyond Web analytics with user experience management tools that give you the insight on the 'whys' behind your online retail customers' behavior that you need to ensure you're delivering a superior customer experience and optimal business results.