Analytics
Decision Support Systems in the Twenty-First Century: DSS and Data Mining Technologies for Tomorrow's Manager
This book helps users learn to make and support managerial decisions wisely and successfully, providing a thorough understanding of the support aspect of DSS.
Developing Analytical Database Applications
This book presents a complete, "best-practices" methodology that enables database developers to focus on their application's goals, and includes a formal mechanism for reviewing and modifying those goals when necessary. It gives formal dimensional modeling techniques for building analytical applications in a data warehouse environment.
Clinical Decision Support Systems in Theory and Practice
The book includes an overview of diagnostic computer applications, past, present, and future, and the authors examine the impact of practitioner and patient use of computer-based tools.
Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems
This book is widely known for its comprehensive treatment of decision support theory and how it is applied. Through four editions, this book has defined the course and set the standard for up-to-date coverage of the latest decision support theories and practices by managers and organizations.
Corporate Information Factory, 2nd Edition
The father of the data warehouse incorporates the latest technologies into his blueprint for integrated decision support systems Having invented the corporate information factory (CIF) to help IT and database managers cut through the jungle of information technologies out there, bestselling author Bill Inmon again teams up with experts Claudia Imhoff and Ryan Sousa to show you how to integrate all key components of the modern information system architecture in a way that meets your evolving business needs.
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses
Employing many real-life case studies of data warehouses, Ralph Kimball provides clear-cut guidelines on how to model data and design data warehouses to support advanced multidimensional decision support systems.
Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support
Completely revised, expanded, and updated, this second edition gives extensive new coverage of data integration, management, indexing, cleansing, and transformation.
Data Warehousing in the Real World: A Practical Guide for Building Decision Support Systems
Written in "cookbook" format, this book covers all stages of implementation from project planning and requirements analysis, through architecture and design, to administrative issues such as user access, security, and back-up/recovery.
Building Executive Information Systems: And Other Decision Support Applications
This book combines research findings and the practical experiences of the authors to present a comprehensive look at Executive Information Systems (EIS) and other decision support applications.
Microsoft Data Warehousing: Building Distributed Decision Support
Helps map the process for you, particularly if you're planning to build your warehouse around Microsoft SQL Server 7 and its related technologies.
Data Warehousing: The Route to Mass Customization
Explores the most pressing issue in business today - the means to improve strategic decision making. Represents a map for a new way of looking at data and information.
The Future of B2B: Just How Rosy? (PDF download)
With everyone pondering the worth and the how-tos of entering and investing in the e-business marketplace, it’s a good time to step back and take a look at what’s coming up. In this bundle of reports, Giga analysts consider a variety of issues around the B2B industry. Andrew Bartels maintains that the run-up in valuations in B2B Internet companies bears a striking resemblance to the run-up in B2C dot com valuations in 1998 and 1999, and that the B2B stock bubble has plenty of room for deflation. He cites three erroneous assumptions, includes a table of stock fluctuations, and offers some recommendations. Erica Rugullies examines market-making software for building a vertical industry hub site. She identifies four categories of market-making solutions and includes a helpful figure. Ken Vollmer answers the question, What do organizations need to focus on in order to develop an effective B2B e-commerce strategy?
Enabling the Suppliers: Australian B2B Sell-side Applications Forecast, 2001-2006 (PDF download)
In this detailed report, IDC will size the Australian B2B sell- side applications market, and provide a four-year forecast for growth. The report will also investigate the key trends driving and inhibiting the forecast growth. IDC defines B2B sell-side as those applications that enable and support an organisation to make their products/services available for sale to business customers via the Internet. This includes both end-user businesses as well as distributors and resellers. In addition, the report will profile each of the major software vendors operating in Australia -- Baan, Blue Martini, HAHT Commerce, i2, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Siebel and position them against named criteria on the IDC Leadership Grid.
Enterprise Knowledge Portals
Far beyond simple data archives and streamlined access, enterprise knowledge portals represent the future of corporate information management. Seamlessly interweaving three essential principles -- people, content, and technology -- an effective portal is the ultimate roadmap to every conceivable permutation of the components in a business's landscape.
digiMine - Application Service Provider of CRM-Centric Analytic Applications: Mining the Data Asset (PDF download)
This document discusses how organizations can take advantage of the vast amount of data generated daily through their interactions with customers and visitors.
One to One B2B: Customer Development Strategies for the Business-To-Business World
The authors, partners in a management consulting and training firm, offer a set of tools for creating deeper and more profitable relationships with customers for B2B (business to business) enterprises. Using case studies that examine the customer relationship management efforts of five leading B2B organizations, including Dell Computer, a division of Novartis, and Bentley Systems, which sells its CAD-CAM software applications, they explore such issues as structure, channel conflict, managing multiple product lines, hiring and training, and sales attitudes and behavior. They counsel that in the one- to-one future, B2B organizations must do a lot more than just sell; they must also build relationships by concentrating on a few important tasks, such as account development, knowledge- based or consultative selling, and embracing information technology to help customers with long-term problem solving.
B2B Means Back to Basics: Whether It's the Net or Whether It's Not, Business Is Business
The eMarketplace: Strategies for Success in B2B eCommerce
As high-tech as the world becomes, the need for human interaction is still a crucial element to all business. The eMarketplace shows how to incorporate the latest technology, and still maintain that crucial element of humanity. Filled with case studies, expert, advice and an invaluable 11-step business planning process for developing your own e-commerce strategies, this book is the definitive resource for the ever-evolving eMarketplace.
A B2B Marketing: Radically Different Approach for Business-to-Business Marketers
Business buyers behave differently and it's time we marketed to them differently. B2B marketing requires a new set of strategies and tools, and business is looking for a new breed of B2B marketer. This book will give you the essential know-how to becoming a successful B2B marketer. There is growing realization that marketing consumer goods to individual buyers is very different from marketing business-to-business products to business customers. B2B and B2C marketing satisfy their respective customers' needs and wants in different ways. B2B product development is driven by technological progress, B2C driven by fashion and trends. B2B purchases are often a considered, group decision while B2C purchases are personal and more impulsive. At the moment marketing literature and courses are overwhelmingly B2C focused. It's time for a change - here is the definitive guide to B2B marketing to help you adopt a more targeted approach to getting better results with business customers.
B2B Canada
B2B Canada is an introduction to B2B e-commerce for Canadians, answering readers' questions without overwhelming them with technical information. By focusing on the principle issues, rather than the technologies, B2B Canada helps readers understand the business case and rationale for business-to- business e-commerce.
Net Markets: Driving Success in the B2B Networked Economy
B2B Exchanges: The Killer Application in the Busines-To-Business Internet Revolution
Business-to-business cyberdeals--or B2B transactions, in the parlance of the New Economy--are widely seen as the Next Big Thing. But Arthur Scully and William Woods, securities and investment professionals who have specialized in B2B for the past four years, believe the Net itself encourages an offshoot that will ultimately revolutionize the procurement, pricing, and distribution of goods and services. Today's technology enables complementary commercial enterprises to participate in a kind of online bazaar, they contend, "where multiple buyers and sellers can come together in a virtual trading space." In B2B Exchanges, they describe the makeup of several such existing networks and analyze the phenomena for prospective participants.
B2B Integration: A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-Commerce
This comprehensive guide reveals the key elements of successful B2B integration and collaborative e-commerce, by highlighting business needs, technologies, and development strategies. It equips companies with practical guidelines for quickly implementing an effective B2Bi strategy, and prepares them for the next wave of B2B integration and collaborative e-commerce. It clarifies the intricate dependencies among all the components of B2Bi, including integration patterns, enterprise application integration (EAI), business process management (BPM), Internet security, XML, Web services, middleware technologies, and integration brokers. Included are future technologies that will have a significant impact on B2Bi architectures, such as intelligent software agents, wireless technologies, and peer-to- peer computing. This reference provides a suitable framework for the design, development, and implementation of B2B integration, along with several case studies.
B2B.Com: Cashing-In on the Business-To-Business E-Commerce Bonanza
A guide to making any business an e-business that can fully exploit the opportunities that abound in the Internet communications landslide. Offers information backed by research on how to develop a winning Web site, how to market a successful e-business, and how to create lasting relationships with customers, suppliers, and other associates on the Internet.
Streamlining B2B Transactions on the Web (PDF download)
The simplest way for an organization to implement business-to- business (B2B) e-commerce is by setting up a marketplace to deal with its own suppliers and customers. There are many ways to accomplish this, including doing the development in-house, hiring e-commerce integrators, or choosing an already existing marketplace.
Enterprise Application Integration for B2B (PDF download)
More than the mere buying and selling of products and services, the goal of B2B e-commerce is total supply chain integration and automation. The techniques and technologies of enterprise application integration offer the greatest promise in achieving this ambitious objective.
B2B Integration
This book presents a complete and consistent architecture based on a coherent conceptual model of B2B integration (sometimes also called Enterprise Application Integration). In an unbiased and detailed manner, it discusses not only business event management, but also outlines how B2B integration standards like RosettaNet and EDI as well as integration standards like the J2EE Connector Architecture play together to enable B2B integration. The book provides solid and lasting knowledge of the field of B2B integration.
e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations
e-business inextricably aligns technological advances with business models, business repurposing efforts and organizational structures in order to support end-to-end business processes that span the boundaries of the extended enterprise value chain.
- Using lots of real-world examples, this incisive guide helps people understand the theory and practice of e-business today
- Offers a thorough examination of the relationship of e-business to business strategy, from business models, supply chains and integrated value chains to governance structures
- Covers key topics that businesses need to consider with designing an e-business strategy, from XML and business processes to electronic intermediaries and markets, e-procurement and e-business networks
- Provides a complete overview of the technical foundations of e-business, with discussions of security, middleware, component-based development, legacy applications, enterprise application integration, web service
Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Manage
Before SQL programmers could begin working with OLTP (online transaction processing) systems, they had to unlearn procedural, record-oriented programming before moving on to SQLs declarative, set-oriented programming. This book covers the next step in your growth. OLAP (online analytical processing), data warehousing and analytics involve seeing data in the aggregate and over time, not as single transactions. Once more it is time to unlearn what you were previously taught.
This book is not an in-depth look at particular subjects, but an overview of many subjects that will give the working RDBMS programmers a map of the terra incognita they will faceif they want to grow.Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SQL Server Series)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services is definitive guide to programming Analysis Services 2005. It will give you unparalleled insight into the ways in which Analysis Services functions straight from the members of the Analysis Services team at Microsoft . It not only explains ways to use Analysis Services 2005 to design and create multidimensional objects, databases, dimensions, cubes, but it also provides invaluable information about the reasons behind design decision taken by the development team.
Chapters include:
- Introduction to Analysis Services
- Creating Multidimensional Models using Analysis Services
- Security
- High availability
- Localization and Globalization
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to "out-think" your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool.
In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning , Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling.
Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS
This book was designed with businesses in mind, but the basic ideas apply easily to all sorts of research endeavors in which decision makers must gather and use data that were initially collected for some other purpose. In my opinion, the book has two great strengths. First, the technical material in the book is wrapped in a sense of purpose and an awareness of the importance of context. The second great strength is the book's organization and clarity. . . . The development of ideas and examples is clear and orderly, exactly as it should be in a work of this type. --Michael T. Brannick PhD, Professor Graduate Program Director, Psychology Department, University of South Florida
Implementing Enterprise Data Warehousing
Designing complex analytical data structures is difficult enough, but to do it for an entire enterprise becomes a real challenge. This little primer provides a simple method of preparing your people for the complexity of this endeavor. This is just like opening a new restaurant where certain components have to be designed and thought out before you start to build the kitchen. You do not have to be an "expert" to build a data warehouse. A lot can be outsourced, but you do need to be able to create your own plan according to your culture's specific requirements. Some cultures take more 'informing' and 'training' than others. The pace and aggressiveness with which you unfold your plan is something that you understand best. This primer defines the data warehouse components and helps you decide when they can be done, in what order, and by how many people.
Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business
Plug into the nonstop global economy of billion-selling products and trillion-dollar markets Jump Point is the powerful guide that will help you to challenge old assumptions, rethink your business models, and take advantage of this fast-moving, unfettered, and fiercely competitive environment.
The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management
This glossary contains over 800 terms defining a common data management vocabulary for IT professionals, data stewards and business leaders. It is in pdf format embedded with links for easy navigation between terms, and delivered to you on CD-ROM. An index is included with the dictionary, which organizes the 800 terms by topic.
Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution
Starting with a Foreword by Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton, creators of the revolutionary Balanced Scorecard approach, management gurus and business executives alike laud Drive Business Performance: 'a pragmatic guide for world-class decision making,' 'a ground-breaking book that executives and managers alike should read,' 'provides specific and easy-to-follow guidance to deliver results. A must read for any organization seeking to win.'
Business Metadata
This book is about all the groundwork necessary for IT to really support the business properly. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical--very 'how to' and a detailed approach to implementing best practices supporting knowledge management. And for the the IT or other manager who needs a guide for creating and justifying projects, it will help provide a strategic map.
