This paper details the technology behind IBM's Watson and outlines how the content analytics software embedded within it will help your business gain valuable insight, currently trapped in unstructured information. Read this resource now to discover how this technology will inevitably help uncover insights in everything from traffic to healthcare. 

Inside this eBook, learn what you need to know to organize, structure and manage a successful business analytics program. 

This paper outlines some of the most common questions regarding BI and analytics and provides recommendations and best practices for improving your strategy. 

With speeds up to 100,000 times faster than traditional business analytics software, SAP HANA can provide your organization with deep insights into large volumes of financial data, enabling smarter financial and managerial decisions. Check out this comprehensive e-book to learn more about SAP HANA's power to transform financial processes. 

In spite of the widespread implementation of analytics, its promise of operational effectiveness has not been fully realized. This white paper examines solutions to integrate your analytic, planning, and transactional business applications systems and leverage business analytics into an intelligent business process. 

Learn how a new generation of dashboards can enrich your business intelligence solutions and become an integral part of your business analytics arsenal in this white paper. 

Forecasts never seem to be as accurate as you would like them, or need them, to be. This white paper explores why forecasting is often poorly done and provides some ways to improve it. Continue reading to learn what management must know about forecasting. 

The predictive intelligence of data mining can help your organization make accurate and profitable decisions quickly. 

Sink your teeth into this new case study.  McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants needed better insight to understand and take advantage of key business trends.  Find out why they chose IBM Cognos Express to deliver that insight and what it means for their success in a fiercely competitive market space. 

Insurers lose millions each year through fraudulent claims. This paper explains how leading insurance companies are using data mining techniques to find fraudulent claims. Read on to learn how to combine powerful analytics with your existing fraud detection and prevention efforts. 

In his presentation "Trends in Business Analytics", Colin White (Founder, BI Research) will explore the impact that trends such as analytic RDBMSes, Hadoop and MapReduce, the NoSQL movement, smarter and real-time analytics, and self-service business intelligence will have on businesses. 

Read this white paper to to uncover the 10 distinguishing characteristics that Bloomberg Businessweek has identified as factors in the success of the one in four organizations reporting their use of business analytics to be "very effective." Learn how implementing these 10 specific steps can make business analytics work better in any organization.