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. 

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. 

In this paper learn how companies can overcome the limitations in marketing, sales, and service processes by pursuing communication-enabled business processes (CEBPs)–enabled by communication systems that are integrated with business applications. 

Global Knowledge keeps up to date with trends in IT careers, certifications, and compensation. In this, our inaugural quarterly report, we offer a look at salaries for the top 25 IT jobs, organized by region. We also offer a look at the top certifications and in-depth analysis from our resident market research analyst. 

The partnership with SAP gives VMware the opportunity to address an additional large segment of the enterprise market, and enables SAP to sell its products on the industry-leading virtualization platform. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

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. 

As the number of applications generating data increases, so does an organization's need to give users access to that data through a unified system compatible with multiple interfaces. Oracle Data Service Integrator is a solution that allows organizations to build data services that unify business processes for improved customer service. 

Read this white paper and discover the benefits of running the HP DL980 on the Linux operating system. Chief among these is the lower cost inherent in a clustered Linux environment. 

Intranets and portals are too complex for everyone in your company to adopt - not to mention the costs to build and maintain them. This webcast explains how to store your critical business information in one location, share confidential information with the right people, and empower business users with the ability to access the data they need. 

This podcast, the third in a series of studies examining the impact that emerging online media have on B2B technology marketing, shows how three mainstays of the Web 2.0 culture are evolving into B2B information delivery tools: Online video, Social networks and Wikis. 

Connecting Through Content, Issue Two examines how technology buyers search for content and how marketers deliver content to them. Content distribution channels, user search techniques, content registration behavior and other aspects of content distribution and syndication are evaluated.