Business Intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions. The term implies having a comprehensive knowledge of all of the factors that affect your business. It is imperative that you have an in depth knowledge about factors such as your customers, competitors, business partners, economic environment, and internal operations to make effective and good quality business decisions. Business intelligence enables you to make these kinds of decisions.
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Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Improve IT Project Management
published by Crowdcast on Mar 09, 2010
Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to identify, understand, and proactively reduce risk.
Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Improve Strategic Planning
published by Crowdcast on Mar 09, 2010
Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to improve decision making, increase control, and proactively reduce risk.
Geolocation and Application Delivery
published by F5 Networks Inc on Feb 24, 2010
Learn how accurate geolocation data can provide greater business value and insight through enhanced visibility.
Master Data Management Projects in Practice - An Information Difference Research Study
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Master Data Management (MDM) has received growing attention recently as an essential component of information management alongside data governance and data quality. More and more, organizations are turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of business intelligence with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. Increasing regulatory requirements and the recent financial crisis have ensured that Master Data Management is increasingly finding its way onto the business agenda. Information Difference conducted a survey of both end-user organizations and systems integrators aimed at gaining deeper insight into MDM implementations and their success factors. This report summarizes and analyzes the results of that survey, and presents practical recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM. It also contains some enlightening findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects.
Open Source Master Data Management: The Time is Right
published by Talend on Feb 01, 2010
Many organizations consider high quality master data as a key strategy for accomplishing corporate objectives. Proper master data management (MDM) is indeed extremely valuable when available to enterprise business processes and analytics, however, master data projects are often politically challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. MDM is a natural extension to data integration and data quality. Open source MDM introduces a new, more accessible approach. It reduces implementation complexity, time to value and cost. In fact, as in many other markets, open source helps organizations overcomes obstacles and realize their goals. This White Paper provides an explanation of why the time is right for open source MDM, and predicts the effects of open source on the MDM marketplace.
BI for the CPG Industry - Supply Chain Visibility Drives Performance
published by SAP on Jan 19, 2010
Organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity. Meanwhile, these companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with their retail customers and distributors in order to manage the upstream flow of product.
Get More IT Resources - 10 Things You Can Do Today
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis DatAdvantage automates these 10 IT must do's. DatAdvantage delivers the visibility and automated auditing you need to determine who can access your unstructured data, who is accessing it and who should have access.
The Top 10 Reasons for Choosing Open Source Data Integration
published by Talend on Sep 09, 2009
Are you trying to understand your options for data integration?
Good To Great IT
published by Avocent LANDesk on Mar 23, 2009
Peters' and Waterman's well-known book 'In Search of Excellence', a study of some of the most well-managed companies in the United States at that time, was one of the best-known business books of the 1980s. In the book, the authors identified eight common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of the included corporations. These attributes included hands-on management, centralized values accompanied by entrepreneurial productivity, and focusing on the core business (sticking to the knitting).
How about Solving the Change Management Challenge with Discovery and Dependency Mapping?
published by ASG Software Solutions on Mar 10, 2010
Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.
Secrets to BSM Success: End-to-End Visibility and Customer Focus
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 24, 2010
There are success stories of businesses that have implemented Business Service Management (BSM) with well-documented, bottom-line results. What do these organizations know that their discouraged counterparts don't?
Virtualization Sanity Check: Stopping the Sprawl with Complete IT Visibility
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 24, 2010
Virtualization continues to grow at 20 percent or more per year, but it is not expected to overtake existing physical architectures at least through 2010. This white paper examines the unique challenges of virtualization and offers tips for its successful management alongside IT's physical deployments.
Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation, by EMA
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 23, 2010
Effective workload automation that provides complete management level visibility into real-time events impacting the delivery of IT services is needed by the data center more than ever before. The traditional job scheduling approach, with an uncoordinated set of tools that often requires reactive manual intervention to minimize service disruptions, is failing more than ever due to todays complex world of IT with its multiple platforms, applications and virtualized resources.
Third-Party Product Brief by EMA: ASG-Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ASG-DDM)
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 23, 2010
Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITILŪ) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: Managing Business Service Performance in a Virtual Environment
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Business Service Management (BSM) is of growing importance in the IT world. By managing IT systems according to the business services they support - like order entry, online sales, shipping, or customer service - IT is able to deliver on real business goals like providing competitive advantage, improving customer satisfaction, driving revenue growth, and increasing shareholder value.
Beyond the Hypervisor: Optimizing Virtualization Management
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Virtualization is now mainstream. Enterprises continue to heavily invest in virtualization projects and while short term hardware and cost saving benefits are being achieved, few enterprises achieve anywhere close to the full potential of virtualization as they struggle with new problems like assuring performance and availability, preventing VM sprawl, and maximizing resource utilization
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise CMDB initiative, this white paper sets expectations for ROI calculations for CMDB initiatives, provides basic ROI best practices, and gives readers sufficient insight to move forward with their CMDB project.
Third-Party Analyst Report: Budget Adjustments For CIOs In Lean Economic Times
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
CIOs have faced lean economic times before, and they will inevitably face them again. Forrester advises CIOs to base budget cuts on the impact to the business and to IT productivity. This report examines a variety of cost-reduction techniques by budget category and impact.
Optimizing The End-User Experience Across Your Enterprise
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
End-user expectations and high levels of performance against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) must be achieved or organizations risk the loss of business. This paper details key capabilities needed for successful end-user monitoring and provides critical considerations for delivering a successful end-user experience.
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: How ASG's MetaCMDB Strategy Enables More Effective BSM
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
As IT evolves towards a more business-aligned position, it must seek out new ways of working that support more effective operations, service creation, and service delivery. These include technologies, processes, and a culture that supports higher levels of accountability, as well as more dynamic responsiveness to business needs.
ASG's BSP: Beyond Business Service Management
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
For more than a decade, true BSM has been a goal for businesses, as well as a promise from potential providers. In reality, a good BSM plan goes beyond the standards of typical IT management; it fuses the goals of IT and business. This white paper introduces the use of a Business Service Platform (BSP) as the foundation of an effective BSM solution.
Tech Horizons: ASG's metaCMDB, The Technology That Rocks
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Improved business productivity often requires more efficient IT and more efficient IT cannot be achieved without a better understanding of the way business services are run and delivered. Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have emerged as a central component for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and business service management (BSM).
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: SLM and BSM: The Future of IT Management. Are You Ready?
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
SLM helps ensure that committed levels of service quality are delivered - SLM is the process of setting, measuring, and ensuring the maintenance of IT service goals. BSM is an approach to IT service management that optimizes the performance of the business. BSM provides a mapping between business objectives and the IT services that support those objectives.
Strategies to Cut Application Costs and Increase Productivity Using Application Mining Tools
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
Application Portfolio Optimization (APO) provides executives with tools and information to assess the quality and condition of application assets as well as a means for understanding the impact of proposed application changes.
Third-Party White Paper by Yphise: Succeeding with Proactive IT with ASG's metaCMDB
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.
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