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

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper. 

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. 

Business intelligence (BI) tools can now provide deeper analytical capability, easier use, and faster speed than ever. But exploiting this power isn't as simple as you might think. Read this white paper to learn best practices for setting up a successful BI strategy within your organization. 

In this paper, discover how Sybase IQ infuses organizations with fast, flexible access to information and analytics. Explore trends, forecast supply chain inventories more accurately, and optimize marketing results in ways you never thought possible. 

Read this white paper and learn how an IBM Rational solution can help your company build better software faster, using an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution designed to support collaboration across distributed agile development teams. 

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

There may be a lot of recent innovations to data technologies but the best approach is to determine whether you can utilize these new tools for your current BI, analytics and data management strategies. This issue of BI Trends + Strategies features advice from industry experts including, Claudia Imhoff, Colin White, and Lyndsay Wise. 

As the fastest growing segment in the business intelligence software industry, analytics are red hot. This white paper introduces the big data analytics opportunity, big data integration challenges, and the data virtualization solutions that can address these challenges. 

Query performance three times faster is just one item in this top-10 list from the analysts at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Download this article to read the full top 10 and learn why Cognos 10 holds "strong value for upgrading customers and prospects." 

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

Join Timo Elliott, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, SAP BusinessObjects Solutions, in this on-demand Webcast as he discusses the intelligence future - simple, seamless, social, and strategic.