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Improve Business Performance and Customer Loyalty in 5 Steps by Infor September 2008 - (Free Research) Maintaining strong business performance and customer loyalty require continual vigilance and assessment and performance tools. Read this paper to learn five steps to improve business performance and increase customer loyalty.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to Get Lean with Automated Process Discovery - Live demonstration and case study presentation by Fujitsu America, Inc. March 2010 - (Free Research) The biggest challenge to improving the efficiency of your business processes often lies in knowing how these processes really work in your organization. This webcast will teach you how to visualize and analyze your business processes from historical data, expose process waste and apply lean initiatives to achieve significant value.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Secure and Effective Data Extraction from the SAP® ERP System by Winshuttle, LLC December 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the variety of tools available for such ad-hoc reporting applications and compares and contrasts these tools in terms of their ease-of-use and security.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices for Application Rationalization Podcast by HP September 2011 - (Free Research) This podcast discusses how to achieve application rationalization through proper application portfolio management. Learn about the benefits of this strategy and how it can help better align IT with business goals, as well as cutting costs and providing substantial performance gains.  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

High-Performance Analytics ServerWhat Could You Do with Faster, Better Answers?Transform Your Organization and Gain Competitive Advantage by SAS Institute Inc. March 2013 - (Free Research) This white paper reviews a high-performance analytics server that takes complex jobs and reduces the time it takes to analyze billions of records of data, delivering results in a fraction of the time required by traditional computing environments.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Agile BI Complementing Traditional BI to Address the Shrinking Decision-Window by SAS Institute Inc. November 2011 - (Free Research) This report from Aberdeen compares the performance of organizations based on the type of business intelligence (BI) technologies and approaches they choose. Read on to learn about the three different BI user and how these tools, coupled with today's complex and changing environment, are forcing businesses to make decisions faster.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

Unlocking business intelligence with collaboration by IBM May 2012 - (Free Research) Accurate decision making is key to your company's survival. Read this paper to learn how collaborative business intelligence (BI) can help streamline the decision making process. Learn to optimize efficiency and business transparency by creating a collaborative BI framework that connects BI information and decisions to business outcomes.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Performance Manager: Turning Information Into Higher Business Performance by IBM February 2008 - (Free Research) Download this white paper for an extensive summary of The Performance Manager, Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance, a book that examines the partnership between decision-makers and the people who provide them with information to drive better decisions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Analyst's take: IBM Cognos software helps schools score top marks by ComputerWeekly.com January 2011 - (Free Research) IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

BI for the People – and the 10 Pitfalls to Avoid in the New Decade by QlikTech, Inc. September 2010 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the 10 common pitfalls associated with traditional BI approaches that prevent organizations from getting full value from their BI investments. Continue reading to learn more about these 10 pitfalls and how to avoid them in the new decade.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Analysis tools and platform decisions by LEGACY - DO NOT USE - Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc July 2007 - (Free Research) Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management.  (VIDEOCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

CIO Decisions Ezine Volume 6: Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness by CIO Decisions April 2009 - (Free Research) Midmarket CIOs are always under the gun to enhance IT and business alignment, and to show how their organization is continually growing more efficient and responsive to business needs. IT Service Management aims to make both happen.  (EZINE)

Keeping the Right People: Making the Right Decisions When It Counts by Vurv Technology May 2008 - (Free Research) The purpose of this Executive White Paper is to help you avoid the pitfalls inherent in by any reduction in (work)force (RIF). It also details a solution that can assist companies in collecting employee data efficiently and keeping it secure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Oracle to Teradata Migration Case Studies: Realizing value and improving capabilities by Teradata April 2011 - (Free Research) This paper profiles four of the more than 200 Oracle customers who have migrated to a Teradata solution. The companies profiled in this paper have achieved performance improvements, additional business benefits that justify the migration cost, and successful integration of the Teradata Database with the Oracle OLTP environment.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Intelligence. It's Better Here: Why the WebFOCUS BI Platform Beats the Competition by Information Builders September 2012 - (Free Research) In today's highly competitive business environment, organizations depend on improved visibility and better business intelligence (BI) tools in order to make smarter decisions – but with the myriad of BI tools available it can be difficult to choose. Read on to learn about a cutting-edge BI platform that outperforms the competition.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Unified Performance Management: The Key to Successful Performance Management by IBM April 2009 - (Free Research) Using common performance management tools and systems efficiently is just as critical to the success of the business as using a common set of applications for accounting and human resources (ERP) and marketing and sales (CRM). Read this paper to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

6 Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them by SAP America, Inc. September 2009 - (Free Research) This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint by IBM December 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Executive Paper: Oracle Crystal Ball by Oracle Corporation September 2009 - (Free Research) Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) September 2007 - (Free Research) The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Comparing Servers for Oracle Database 11g Upgrades by HP & Intel® May 2010 - (Free Research) In this e-book, readers can View a technical comparison of four servers capable of running Oracle 11g and determine Which edition of Oracle 11g best fits their needs. Additionally, expert advice is given on in-place upgrade vs. a migration upgrade.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Better Decision Making Through Faster Analytics by Intel Corporation April 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools.  (WHITE PAPER)

Corporate networks: Business 2.0 and beyond by SonicWALL July 2009 - (Free Research) The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last five years. This brochure provides a management overview of what's changed and why. But more importantly, it shows why flexibility, visibility, agility and affordability are now the key factors in network decision-making. Read on to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc. January 2009 - (Free Research) the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Book: Five Technology Trends for Improved Business Intelligence Performance by Sybase, an SAP company November 2009 - (Free Research) In this E-Book, data warehousing and BI expert Rick Sherman explains how you can take advantage of BI trends to ensure that you get the right information to the right people at the right times, so they can make the best possible decisions.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

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