While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence. 

This video white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems. 

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

Check out this virtual forum to access papers and podcasts pertaining to dynamic infrastructure solutions from IBM. 

To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed. 

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. 

To find out more about how organizations can take the next steps with their BI initiatives, SearchDataManagement.com turned to Boris Evelson of Forrester Research. In this videocast, Boris will reveal some of the most important emerging trends in BI today and how organizations should start planning to take advantage of next-generation BI. 

Find out how CA used the same SAP BusinessObjects tool across multiple products to reduce their customers' costs and reduce the time it takes them to create their own customized reports. 

A companywide business intelligence deployment that adapts to the analysis needs and styles of key sets of users within the organization is the key to unlocking the true potential of BI. This whitepaper outlines four styles of analysis and explains how to build deployment plans around these key pillars to get the most return on your BI investment. 

This white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems. 

One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence. 

Professional report authors need a single reporting solution that draws data from a variety of sources and enables wide collaboration yet delivers the resulting information at business speed. IBM Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence includes Web-based reporting tools that support collaboration and good decision making.