In this white paper IDC highlights the latest research about the evidence of the competitive differentiation to be gained from investment in BI and data warehousing. The paper highlights the need to view BI and data warehousing technologies as complementary components of a decision support solution. 

This paper discusses embedded business intelligence and how it leads to improved decision making in a tough economy. 

This paper explores Sybase IQ as the smart approach for businesses who need to analyze, compete and deliver. Analytics workbenches make development, testing, implementation and management of analytics environments faster and simpler than ever before. 

This paper examines how analytics and BI can be used to get speedy insight, decisions and action at critical business moments. 

Watch this video to discover how to harness the power and flexibility of SAP’s BusinessObjects Data Services for easy access to trusted information to help foster improved decision making and maximize business performance. 

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

Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organisation. 

This issue of Enterprise CIO Decisions E-Zine highlights several success stories showcasing how today's IT leaders are finding enough success to increase BI investments and, ultimately, putting their data growth management concerns to rest. 

Findings of the Web Lead Evaluation and Scoring Study, conducted by KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group, suggest companies using the Internet to generate leads might discover that focusing on the C-suite is not the fastest route to improved lead-to-close ratios. Listen to this podcast to find out why. 

Is the C-suite really the best source of early leads that will convert to revenue for your company? New research from KnowledgeStorm unveils some surprising results that call this common conception into question, and should have technology marketers re-examining their lead targeting strategies. 

Watch this brief webcast to learn about an analytics platform that processes your complex data for insightful reporting at lightning fast speeds so your information is timelier and more valuable. 

Learn how to stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace while increasing operations and adopting real-time systems and tools to allow instant decision-making. 

This paper discusses the direct relationship of self-service BI and DI and how to build a complete self-service solution that provides enhanced visibility and flexibility for integrating, cleansing and analyzing data with ease.