In response to these challenges, savvy businesses are increasingly turning to visualization-based data discovery tools, which promote self-service business intelligence (BI). This informative paper provides valuable information about visualization-based data discovery tools and how they can help IT decision-makers derive more value from big data. 

This white paper describes a revolutionary approach to business intelligence that combines reporting, analysis, modeling, planning, and collaboration, allowing for analytics-driven decision making. See how you can get started on the road to smarter business planning by reading on now. 

The industry leading data modeling tool and an enterprise modeling and design solution, PowerDesigner, helps implement effective enterprise architecture and brings powerful models to create and manage your IT infrastructure. 

This case study examines Vontobel's implementation of the UC4 Workload Automation Suite to manage the business processes that span Avaloq and surrounding IT applications in support of its banking operations. 

Often times Business Intelligence (BI) projects miss the mark with their business users because the proper documenting of required data and related business rules is not executed. This paper looks at fast-tracking data warehousing and BI projects using data modeling. 

Learn how you can visually query and interpret information in databases and transform raw data into informed business decisions with interactive visualizations. 

In the following paper, we briefly describe, and illustrate from examples, what we believe are the “Top 10” mistakes of data mining, in terms of frequency and seriousness. Most are basic, though a few are subtle. All have, when undetected, left analysts worse off than if they’d never looked at their data. 

IPv4 addresses are running out and service providers need to make immediate decisions regarding deployment of IPv6. This paper will outline strategic considerations and approaches to the transition to IPv6 in a service provider environment. 

In this executive report from MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute for Business Value learn how the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action and out-perform the competition, recommended actions organizations can take to bolster their analytics capabilities to achieve long-term advantage. 

Read about how Mayflex used IBM Cognos Express to replace a complex spreadsheet system, improve time-consuming budgeting and forecasting processes, compare actuals against budgets at various levels and save time for end-users through automatic system updates. 

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. 

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