This Presentation Transcript, featuring Forrester Research, explains how Software as a Service business intelligence can deliver a more cost-effective way to get relevant information to those who need it faster than traditional business intelligence can. 

This webcast, featuring Forrester Research, explains how Software as a Service business intelligence can deliver a more cost-effective way to get relevant information to those who need it faster than traditional business intelligence can. 

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error. 

This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement. 

This Case Study examines how Culver Franchising Systems turned to the RedPrairie-Microsoft Business Intelligence solution to make better decisions and improve store operations, while vastly reducing reporting time. With the RedPrairie-Microsoft solution in place, Culver now gets early warning of underperforming stores. 

The concept of BAM revolved around the notion that data could be gathered at critical points and information produced that could give businesses the ability to make better decisions on a near-real-time basis. 

This paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools. 

Learn how your organization can integrate analytics with business processes to become a Predictive Enterprise that employs insights to make intelligent decisions. This webinar will show you the fundamentals of combining industry knowledge and business rules with powerful analytics to improve revenue generation and business performance. 

With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be. 

This paper examines performance metrics and focuses on the nature, identification and use of Key Performance Drivers to enhance business success. It illustrates how these KPD metrics can be visualized and logically related to the Key Performance Indicators that measure those outcomes. 

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns? 

This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet. 

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.