While business intelligence (BI) tools can help small to midsized businesses (SMBs) understand how their business runs and capitalize on opportunities for growth, simply installing BI software does not guarantee its effectiveness. In this white paper, find a checklist of six essential factors for SMBs to consider when implementing BI tools. 

Need to compare open source business intelligence (BI) technologies and understand which vendor leads the pack? Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT is named the leader due to its richness of reporting functionality. 

Read this guide to understand the hidden and explicit costs associated with open source BI in comparison with familiar proprietary BI solutions so that you can determine whether open source BI is a viable option for your organization. 

This paper explains how small and medium organizations can establish a competitive advantage by tapping into the power of real-time business intelligence. Discover how this strategy provides the capability to identify issues and opportunities as they arise and to confidently act on them. 

During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth. 

Dell and Intel and Microsoft have partnered to provide a high-performance, reliable, secure business intelligence platform that puts familiar applications and collaboration capabilities in the hands of business analysts while giving IT the tools it needs to efficiently manage and maintain the technology. Check out this white paper to learn more. 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008. 

This video highlights the business benefits and competitive advantages of leveraging advanced application portfolio management. Learn how making sure that your business ha all the tools it needs and none of the ones it doesn't can speed responses to opportunities and threats alike. 

With management and operations resources in such high demand, network managers need the most advanced tools to manage the network infrastructure and assure the organization remains profitable, efficient and reliable. Read this white paper to learn the major requirements for network management solutions to today’s IT challenges. 

Read on to learn more about the benefits of HP's business intelligence and data planning system and how it can reduce total cost of ownership by 30%. 

This paper explains how Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization - from front line employees to senior management - that enable better decisions, actions, and business processes.