On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more! 

With more and more sensitive data moving from file servers to SharePoint sites, it's important to keep a close eye on what users can access documents, what users have permissions to change the SharePoint sites, and what documents are getting modified. 

BusinessObjects XI 3.1 solutions provide a full spectrum of BI functionality--from reporting, query and analysis, and dashboards and visualization, to intuitive discovery and advanced predictive analytics capabilities--as well as data quality and extract, transform, and load functionality. 

Tableau is Business Intelligence software that helps people visually query and interpret information in databases. It enables users to transform raw data into smart decisions using a drag and drop process that creates vivid, interactive visualizations. 

Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system. 

Making sure mission critical databases are highly availably (HA) is the main challenge of IT departments. This paper discusses the failover and redundancy capabilities of specific HA products that can be used in conjunction with PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus, and the Oracle compatible database Postgres Plus Advanced Server. 

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. 

Free, easy-to-use report writing tool for creating authentic Excel files and reports that retain formulas, formatting, live charts and data connections. 

In this podcast, learn how two leading data modeling tools compare and how utilizing advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing. 

In this webcast, learn how two leading data modeling tools compare and how utilizing advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing. 

As the use of tactical and data mart solutions expands toward strategic and enterprise data warehouse use, Analytic Appliances offer customers a lower total cost of ownership, reduced maintenance and high performance to address business analytics on growing data volumes. 

With Crystal Reports® software from the SAP® BusinessObjects™ portfolio of solutions, you can empower end users to explore reports interactively, create compelling reports with stunning visualizations, and develop powerful data "mashups." 

The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.