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! 

IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase “in the moment” insight and business agility without disrupting current operations. 

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power. 

This webcast discusses how you can accelerate your data analysis, reporting and business intelligence (BI) applications with the help of a column-based analytics server. 

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. 

Tune in to this webcast – featuring insights from Dan Vesset, IDC's Vice President of Business Analytics – and learn how business analytics drives customer retention. 

View this Webcast and learn to get all the speed, flexibility and processing power of a custom-built data warehouse. 

As a salesforce.com customer, you understand gathering data is only the first step towards success. Reports from Salesforce still require a lot of hands-on manipulation to get to the level of insight you and your executives need to make effective decisions. 

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. 

The ARRA was enacted to jumpstart the US economy and drive it out of the recession. One of the requirements of the recovery act is that organizations that receive funds for projects must report on the outcomes of those projects. Read on to learn what these executives and managers plan to do to meet the reporting and compliance mandates. 

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. 

Organizations want and need better access to information to make smarter, faster decisions in response to changing circumstances or events. Reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical. Sybase IQ infuses organizations with fast, flexible access to information.