See this demo spotlight from IBM Business Partners. View demos on planning, profitability analysis, interactive dashboards and more. Look at real-world examples of how your midsize company can improve performance with IBM Cognos Express. 

This paper discusses the improved functions of portals, specifically SAP NetWeaver, and how you can make the most of them within the enterprise. 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

This white paper discusses approaches for enabling greater product agility and efficiency in credit decisions, improving customer retention and attracting a higher number of new consumers. 

This industry leading and innovative data virtualization approach to data integration enables you to more efficiently and effectively leverage valuable data that is scattered throughout your organization. 

This white paper details five actual business rule management systems deployments, providing a before and after view for each credit and lending application. 

Using a Visual Data Analytics Platform to Monitor and Manage Positions/Exposures in Real-Time Firms that engage in financial trading are exposed to counterparty risk (i.e., credit risk), market risk, and operational risk. 

Financial institutions are under pressure to make better decisions. Real-time decisions depend on access to information and the technology available to analyze it. This paper outlines an option that aggregates all of the content from across the entire organization to enable a holistic view of each case, reduce risk and support accurate decisions. 

Companies are successfully leveraging IBM's Smart SOA™ Approach based on IBM's experience of working with more than 6550 customers worldwide. 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

Amid the ongoing impact of the sub-prime meltdown and the ensuing credit crunch, lenders are facing a much tougher market than has been seen for some time. Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) can enhance risk management, lending process streamlining and flexibility. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.”