Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment. 

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. 

The Cincinnati Zoo is a shining example of how analytics and business intelligence (BI) can be used to derive valuable insight on your customers and turn it into smarter and better decisions. This case study shows how the zoo capitalized on a BI and analytics platform to increase revenue across all facets of its operation. 

Read this case study to learn about a medical software device development company that needed to meet the compliance standards and regulations put forth by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and did so through comprehensive software development lifecycle management that integrates risk management with principles for software validation. 

Read this paper to learn how Sage Fixed Assests software eliminates the need for spreadsheets and is designed specifically for the tracking of fixed assets to reduce over payments on taxes and insurance while improving your bottom line. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

Use this resource as a guide to selecting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform within your budget without the headache. Additionally, learn how a small food seasonings producer cut through the clutter to find the right ERP system and get tips for reviewing and selecting a platform for you with limited IT resources. 

Measuring, monitoring and maintaining a data centre has often been viewed as a purely technical project. Business value can be significant - and explaining this can unlock budget for DCIM investments. 

The key to achieving cost-effective savings in the supply chain is to exchange information accurately and quickly in real-time. 

Manual data entry can be cumbersome and time-consuming. This case study outlines how Wales & West Utilities successfully streamlined its SAP data loading and extraction process across multiple business areas. Discover how it uploaded over 750,000 transactions to save 2,284 working days over the course of just six months. 

In this case study, learn how Follett Corporation was able to overcome their risk and compliance challenges by replacing existing processes with a single enterprise platform for all GRC programs that enabled streamlined and automated compliance, better visibility, and more. 

Not long ago, the average executive’s idea of a business forecast was a simple, spreadsheet-based extrapolation of previous performance. Today, however, business executives are recognizing the need to use the billions of data records stored within their company’s IT systems for more advanced analytics.