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. 

Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management. 

Discover optimization technologies that assist companies in the financial industry in making better business decisions faster. Gain insight into one strategy that enables rapid development and deployment of applications that address the financial sectors’ crucial competitive differentiators, and the 3 common challenges it resolves. 

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. 

Read this expert ebizQ.com e-zine to learn how business process management (BPM), complex event processing (CEP), case management, and decision management systems can help you boost your operational efficiency and intelligence. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Many application development teams have been distracted by shiny new technologies, methodologies, and platforms,  and have thus failed to engage design principles and talent effectively. Read this Forrester Research paper to discover seven design qualities that are key to creating better software, faster.