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

Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives. 

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error. 

Join moderator Gary Beach, publisher of CIO Magazine, and Michael Corcoran, Information Builders CCO, for an informative panel discussion on operational business intelligence (BI) and the keys to a successful deployment. They'll speak with technology experts from Pershing LLC and Holland America Lines about their BI projects. 

Predictive analytics enables you to predict the ideal course of action for every decision, delivering the best outcome every time. IBM SPSS Analytical Decision Management combines business analytics, rules, optimization and data management to automate your daily decisions. Read this paper to learn about its architecture, design and more. 

This white paper provides a road map for Web delivery teams to reduce operational expenditures, and shows how to improve the effectiveness of critical information required for decision making for Internet services. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

Read this expert e-zine from the teams at ebizQ.com and SearchSOA.com to learn how business process management (BPM) technologies have evolved over the past year and what the latest, most effective strategies are for implementing them. 

To help IT decision makers evaluate their options for addressing datacenter complexity - Dell posed the following questions to Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service. Learn answers to today's most pressing datacenter questions regarding cloud computing, virtualization, provisioning and more. 

Organizations often limit business intelligence to a few back-office analysts, using tools that cost too much and are more complex than the average information worker can handle. Attend this Webcast to learn about new, innovative technologies that will help deliver timely, accurate information to everyone from managers to analysts to customers. 

The Solvency II Directive was rolled out to protect consumers by promising that insurance companies maintain sufficient funds to meet all claims. Complying with the risk management portion of the initiative can be difficult for insurance companies. This paper details how Unum implemented an operational risk management solution to address this.