Big data, combined with predictive modeling tools, increases the potential to improve business strategies and gain competitive advantage. This expert e-guide offers insight on the best practices of combining big data and predictive analytics. 

According to analysts, the greatest impediment to a successful predictive analytics project is creating a culture that values data-driven decision making and encourages people to have faith in the findings. In this e-guide, readers will learn more about overcoming these challenges and getting people to keep the faith in predictive analytics. 

Watch this webcast and join James Kobielus of Forrester Research, Sybase and Fuzzy Logix to learn how to put the power of complex, advanced analytics into the hands of non-technical knowledge workers and clients. You will learn why companies are turning to in-database analytics to gain faster insight into data. 

Improved business processes, powered by optimized technology, can help many companies significantly improve their profitability. Read this paper released by BPM Partners to see how a business can take advantage of new trends and tools for profitability. 

This guide helps organizations assemble the right people, make the right investment in a solution and helps finance create best practices to ensure a successful XBRL compliance. Read this now and learn what XBRL is, how it works and why it’s mandated, best practices to prepare for an XBRL mandate, who to involve in the mandate process and more. 

Scorecards help you define, monitor and manage your company's critical metrics. By translating tactics and strategies into specific, measurable objectives, scorecards help you link corporate strategy to operations and ensure that your company's goals are consistently defined, understood and communicated. 

While the consensus around the benefits of ITIL is virtually universal, ITIL initiatives run the gamut – both in terms of costs and benefits. Learn how your service management platform can play a huge role in the degree to which you realize the potential benefits of ITIL in your organization. 

This white paper outlines a methodology for comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of endpoint management technologies including IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager. Learn why the TCO of Tivoli Endpoint Manager is much lower than other solutions on the market, delivering superior functionality at a fraction of the cost of competitive offerings. 

This e-book offers insights on the benefits and value that financial reporting automation solutions can offer. Read on and learn about: High-performing organizations and their ability to automate financial reporting, low-performing organizations and why they are mired in complex and manual processes, and more. 

As the global economy slowly heals, finance leaders are looking to fulfill the promise of the last 20 years. Much of the hard work has been done, the infrastructure largely in place. The challenge is to build upon this platform to drive dramatic improvement in the quality and value that finance delivers. 

Despite being so important, the process to create the annual report, the 10-K and the 10-Q is still stuck in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the history of annual reporting, the process of manually creating the annual report, and how to bring this process into the 21st century. 

Dell claims that its management solutions, based on Altiris, do more than HP's to simplify management. Are these claims valid? Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC (PNA) explored the logic behind these claims. Read this paper to see what the research reveals. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges.