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Better insights and alignment with Business Intelligence and Scorecards
By Oracle | 8/3/2012
Business Intelligence systems have been helping organisations improve performance by providing better insights, better decisions and faster actions. Key Performance Indicators, or KPI’s, are measures with targets that help manage business and individual performance. Scorecards help organisations define strategy, identify goals and objectives, achieve alignment and monitor performance in context of business goals and objectives. Read on.
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Securing Vital Infrastructure
By Clearswift | 8/2/2012
A unified approach to information security can help modern vital infrastructure providers deal with evolving IT threats without compromising on communications or the demands of an increasingly mobile workforce. Flexible policies, combined with quality inbound threat detection, deep content inspection and encryption capabilities can help organisations to mitigate the risks – not just from outside the organisation, but also within it. Read this whitepaper.
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BI Optimisation: Building a Better Business Case for Business Intelligence
By Oracle | 13/1/2012
"Business Intelligence helps you make better decisions." This is how the business value of Business Intelligence (BI) is often described. How do you measure the effect of better decisions? How do you determine the quality of a decision to start with? And how can you predict how other decisions might have played out? Read on.
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Bend or break: Flexible Policy
By Clearswift | 1/12/2011
DON’T. PANIC. Aligning business and IT needs has always been a challenge. Finding the right balance between ensuring the safety of sensitive data and enabling the free flow of information is increasingly difficult in today’s evolving regulatory and threat environment. Read on.
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Best Practices for SharePoint Development and Customisation
By Quest Software | 20/10/2011
SharePoint enables developers to quickly deliver prototypes and solutions to users. However, just as quickly, users respond with enhancement requests and new requirements, often overwhelming the development team. This white paper explores the challenges that SharePoint developers face and details a set of best practices for responding to those challenges, so that you can make the most of your SharePoint investment.
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Better Insights and Alignment with Business Intelligence and Scorecards
By Oracle | 12/10/2011
Business Intelligence systems have been helping organizations improve performance by providing better insights, better decisions and faster actions. Key Performance Indicators, or KPI’s, are measures with targets that help manage business and individual performance. Scorecards help organizations define strategy, identify goals and objectives, achieve alignment and monitor performance in context of business goals and objectives.
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The Value of Information: Business Decisions
By Oracle | 12/10/2011
Traditional data-storage approaches are geared toward delivering structured data to management and knowledge workers through business intelligence and performance management applications. But CIOs need to look at the enterprise information taxonomy in a much broader context. External and internal information has to be collected, managed, and provided to many internal and external stakeholders. In addition, storage capacity is challenged by an almost exponential growth of unstructured data, such as audio and video files.
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Watson – A System Designed for Answers: The future of workload optimized systems design
By IBM | 3/3/2011
Watson is the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This white paper explains Watson’s workload optimized system design, how it’s emblematic of the future of systems design, and why this represents a new computing paradigm.
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Business Intelligence and Performance Management Publication: Organizing for Management Excellence, Part 2
By Oracle | 15/12/2010
People, process, and technology. These are the three pillars of change management that Ravi TNC identifies in his article about centers of excellence. Indeed, in this third edition of the Journal of Management Excellence, we again focus on how to organize for management excellence. Read on.
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Quick Answers from Faster Dashboards
By Qlikview | 1/10/2010
To have maximum impact, above all else, business intelligence (BI) dashboards must be fast. They must be created fast, perform fast, and adapt fast to find quick answers and ultimately make an important difference. Dashboards collect all of the information and analytical tools needed to support a person playing a specific role in a business. Although dashboards have always been part of BI, new developments have made them the center of the action. Read More.
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