Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. 

In this research report, we examine five of the critical issues that are creating new opportunities for the accounting profession and nine key strategies for obtaining competitive advantage. 

Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service. 

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. 

This paper discusses about how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration. 

Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives. 

Manufacturers must be prepared to recognize impending change as early as possible, assess the potential impact, determine the optimum strategy for dealing with the change, and implement that strategy in the most effective way possible. In this white paper you'll learn 4 steps toward developing chaos-tolerant business processes. 

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power. 

This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position. 

Your company's ability to meet changing customer requirements and drive revenue growth in a continually changing environment is essential. This whitepaper examines the related issues of growth and flexibility from a number of perspectives. 

This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process. 

This white paper discusses key channel business trends, highlights the complexities and challenges of different channel models. 

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 organization.