Business Intelligence (BI)

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Corporate performance management market growing, but lacks challengers to IBM, SAP and Oracle
More organisations are adopting and appreciating corporate performance management tools, but Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant Report on the sector says few challengers are emerging to offer an alternative to the big three enterprise software houses.
Five ways to boost business intelligence
Learn how in-database analytics, in-memory analytics, BI appliances, data virtualization and operational BI can boost the performance of your business intelligence applications.
Gartner identifies three types of BI buyers - which one are you?
Gartner has classified business intelligence buyers into three categories. Which one fits your BI plans best?
Web 2.0 tools can unlock the power of business intelligence
Collaboration software is set to converge with business intelligence tools, making the latter more pervasive and effective.
Data modeling - and essential practice for business intelligence success
This podcast explains data modeling, a practice that lays the ground for successful business intelligence implementations.
Business intelligence boosts ambulance operations
The CEO of St John Ambulance explains how business intelligence is helping the organisation to improve its financial and medical performance
BI strategy guide
CIOs need to marry business application and BI development efforts to create a cohesive BI strategy, especially when adding analytical capabilities to enterprise applications.
Gartner's advice on writing an RFI for business intelligence products
Analyst firm Gartner offers its advice on how write an RFI for business intelligence software and why the rules have changed in this product category.
Business Intelligence goes all 2.0
Business Intelligence developers are giving their tools "2.0" style makeovers to make them more usable and spur greater adoption.
5 ways to jumpstart stalled BI strategy
Avoid stalled business intelligence implementations with five tips to get these projects back on the rails and moving in the right direction.
Can search technology improve BI?
Gartner says free search technology has little value to add to business intelligence, but that other new technologies can help.
Gartner analyses four leading BI vendors
Learn Gartner's view on business intelligence platforms from Oracle, IBM, SAP and Microsoft.
BI success comes with IT/business alignment
Learn how CIOS successfully align IT and the business to ensure the success of business intelligence projects in this report from Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit.
Novell brings social networking to CMDB
New "Web 2.0" features in Novell's myCMDB product are aimed at making CMDBs more useful to IT staff and their companies.
How to buy business intelligence software
Worried that business intelligence software won't do its job? Then check out our guide to buying this kind of software!
Data mashups meet business intelligence: "Bashups" explained
Data mashups can be an integral part of enterprise business intelligence (BI) systems. Learn the benefits of "bashups" and find out how they're developed.
Integration competency centers - a new way to improve your integration competence
Integration competency centers can make it much easier to link your applications.
Storage critical to success of BI
Overlooking Business Intelligence's dependency on storage can diminish its value, argues Hitachi Data Systems' Michael Cunningham.
Gartner: Business intelligence ROI, value a matter of mind over money
Business intelligence software ROI and the value of systems investments are difficult - but not impossible - to measure, according to Gartner.
Microsoft's bid for Fast shakes up enterprise search
Microsoft's US$1.2 billion bid for Fast is expected to shake up enterprise search. CIOs will feel a jolt or two.
BI users can't wean themselves off Excel
Spreadsheets are error-prone and unwieldy, yet business users just can't seem to break the habit, according to a new report.
SAP buys Business Objects
Months after Oracle purchased Hyperion for BI and CPM, SAP has taken its own leap into BI, buying Business Objects for US$6.8 billion.
Visionaries pitch business modeling in a virtual world
Two IT luminaries gave business the business at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco Tuesday.
The FAQs on ITIL version 3
Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is in the works and will be published in late spring 2007. This updated version will focus more on service design, versus process. In his latest column, ITIL expert Brian Johnson answers some FAQs about the focus of ITIL version 3.
Low-cost project management software hits midmarket
Traditional licensed project portfolio management software offers too much iron for the midmarket. Emerging vendors offer a middle ground for companies with fewer requirements.
SAP to focus on business process management
SAP is forming a Business Process Management Expert Community with experts and independent software vendors to address gaps in its BPM software.
Dashboards -- Not just for executives anymore
Growers supplying to NSW agricultural co-operative Batlow Apples are the latest beneficiaries of a trend that's seeing dashboard technology extended from the corner office to the cubicle -- and beyond.

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Microsoft discusses business intelligence roadmap
Microsoft has disclosed new business intelligence products while also retring some features.
SurveyWatch: Vendor unlocks secret of happiness?
In a shock move today, vendor Tower software uncovered the secret of happiness and described the entirety of human behaviour.

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Five steps to creating an ITIL-friendly corporate culture
Achieving ITIL success is just as much about people as it is about technology. ITIL expert Brian Johnson offers advice on how to get employees to positively embrace a new ITIL culture.
The five dimensions of business intelligence
Business Intelligence tools have evolved over the years from simply delivering reports to leveraging advanced visualization techniques to quickly detect key patterns and trends. In his column, Wayne Eckerson discusses the evolution of BI.

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PODCAST: BI tools vs. Excel spreadsheets
Our gurus discuss the differences between business intelligence tools and Excel spreadsheets, and how the two can be combined to analyse data.
Five essential steps to take before your next BI project
Analysts from Gartner and Burton Group offer five tips on how to prepare for a successful business intelligence implementation.
Help desk, IT processes alignment critical to success
Understanding your IT organization's fundamental processes is essential to selecting the right help desk technology.
Managed security services stop spam, deliver ROI
A managed security service provider helped ESL Federal Credit Union reduce administrative costs and free up IT staff time, resulting in high ROI -- not to mention less spam.

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ITIL FAQs, Part 1
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