Business Intelligence

The Variable Rate Resource services approach to project or product development enables companies to jump over resource hurdles whenever and wherever they appear.

Learn how recent advances in pricing science and technology have enabled a breakthrough approach for B2B companies wanting to improve their pricing --- one that generates results in a fraction of the time, with far less organizational upheaval.

Learn how a $4.8B distributor overcame resistance-to-change by simply feeding optimized prices through the quoting tools their salespeople were already using --- achieving over 80% adoption and generating 12% more margin-dollars as a result.

Read this paper to learn how a $3.8B distributor generated 9% more margin-dollars in just 4 months by using a new technology that feeds optimized, deal-level prices into legacy quoting tools right when the quote is being created.

Read this paper to understand the opportunity for optimizing shipping fees and freight charges in B2B and learn how one $5.0B distributor used advanced pricing science and technology to generate 34% more margin-dollars on its shipping fees.

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.

In a world of growing data volumes and shrinking IT budgets, it is critical to think differently about the efficiency of your database and storage infrastructure. The Vertica Analytic Database is a high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solution that can bring dramatic savings in hardware, storage and operational costs.

For over a decade, IT organizations have been plagued by high data warehousing costs, with millions of dollars spent annually on specialized, high-end hardware and DBA personnel overhead for performance tuning. The root cause: using data warehouse database management (DBMS) software, like Oracle and SQLServer that were designed 20-30 years ago to handle write-intensive OLTP workloads, not query-intensive analytic workloads.

The research will highlight how leading companies and their key decision makers close this maturity gap to eliminate the obstacles that hinder their ability to make better business decisions and impact their companies' key metrics.

The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consultings experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies.

Learn why and how enterprises are moving to self-service business intelligence (BI). Find out how to get the right data now, while maintaining information quality and operational security. By reviewing requirements and specific use cases for a controlled self-service BI application, Forrester identifies five key findings that can transform your business.

Welcome to the HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions. This guide features HP's latest industry leading technologies - products designed to help you build and maintain an infrastructure that delivers the performance you need to drive your best business outcomes. As the world changes, many business initiatives require technology that is easy to manage and makes every dollar count. Download the full guide now, compliments of HP.

Business travel is becoming a thing of the past. Learn how Web conferencing can save money and time.

Give your sales and marketing team the competitive edge with the right CRM solution.

Return customers can account for up to 80% percent of sales. Use CRM to keep them coming back. Download your free research now.

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.

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes - while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise. In this year's report, Aberdeen's looks beyond their annual assessment of ERP usage by module and explores the preferences and decisions between point solutions and an end-to-end integrated suite and assesses the overall business value ERP brings to manufacturing.

Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. Developed through years of testing engagements across all types of platforms, the RBI methodology dramatically reduces load testing cycles while allowing more-and more thorough-testing.

Read this white paper by Don Tapscott and explore the criteria best-in-class retailers use for selecting business intelligence solutions. Companies that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.

Cloud computing is ushering in a new era of analytic data management for business intelligence (BI) by enabling organizations to analyze terabytes of data faster and more economically than ever before. The key change: cloud database software is provisioned within minutes, without data center overhead, and it's licensed on an on-demand basis.

Read this white paper by Don Tapscott and explore the criteria best-in-class process manufacturers use for selecting business intelligence solutions. Companies that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.

Phase II of barcode data collection implementation brings shipping process improvement and reduces worker stress.

In this brief guide, we review ten best practices for selecting manufacturing enterprise software. Afterwards, you'll be ready to start your software search in earnest.

Growing demand for capacity in ever-shrinking data center space has motivated some storage vendors to cram as many disks as possible in a single space to help manage capacity needs without expanding the storage footprint. However, the power/density paradox hinders end users from utilizing the very floor space that high density systems were intended to conserve. This brief explores what the power/density paradox is and how IT professionals can mitigate the risk.

Businesses, more than ever before, are relying on fact based decision-making and analytics to compete in this environment. This has given rise to "Business Intelligence," or simply BI, a broad category of applications and technologies for accessing, combining, computing and analyzing data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.