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. 

BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment. 

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. 

This SearchSQLServer.com E-Guide offers expert insight about what organizations can do to improve the performance of their BI system and new ways to improve BI performance and scalability. In addition, you'll learn how to meet BI performance challenges. 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

<p>Discover 6 energy and sustainability trends impacting the business world, why they are important for CIOs and IT executives to consider, and simple steps CIOs can take to implement these practices in their enterprise.</p> 

This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable. 

Read this white paper to learn how to integrate your operations into a new structure acquired through mergers and acquisitions; align your IT operations into a single platform; enhance customer service; increase the productivity of your global workforce; and bolster supply chain efficiency. 

This paper explains how ProStrategy Colman, an IBM Business Partner, helped BMR become the first company in Europe to implement IBM Cognos Express – an all-in-one business intelligence and planning solution designed for mid-sized companies. Continue reading to learn how BMR toned up its sales performance with advanced analytics. 

This white paper offers a rapid, flexible and simple approach to connect your enterprise and cloud applications in mere days. 

This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs. 

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. 

Following nine other surveys, the BI Survey 10 analyzed the platforms of six of the largest BI vendors and asked 2,961 organizations across 80 countries many of the same questions as previous years. Read this now and learn how organizations view certain aspects of their BI tools, such as response time, performance, business benefits and more.