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Business Intelligence (BI) Channel

Channel Sponsored by
Netezza

Information fuels the new economy and plays an essential role in developing and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. The demands on a business today - increased global competition, lower barriers to entry, lower profit margins - are creating an ever-increasing need for access to data. The ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time is, therefore, more important than ever; however, the sheer volume of available data makes such a proposition more challenging than ever. Organizations that are the most successful at collecting, evaluating and applying information are consistently the leaders in their respective industries. The ability to act faster and more effectively than the competition can be the defining advantage in today’s marketplace and the means for successfully managing customer relationships in the long run.

As companies look to BI solutions in order to address these challenges, business intelligence software has become a multibillion dollar market. Business intelligence offers tremendous promise to company leaders - too often though, this promise has not been fulfilled.

In partnership with DM Review, Netezza is proud to sponsor this research portal as an excellent source for the latest information on business intelligence.

Articles

Making Role-Based Business Intelligence Meaningful

Role-based BI is only effective if it delivers role-based information within the context of a value stream.

Embarking on an Environmental Path: Keys to a Successful Strategy

With a green initiative you must have a plan, a goal and a means to measure and manage the success of your program.

Business Intelligence at a Small or Midsized Business: It's More than Just Spreadsheets

SMBs are now discovering that BI tools are needed for fact-based decision-making.

Laying the Foundation for Agility and Differentiation in the Oil and Gas Sector

With the integration of information sources and core work processes, relevant information becomes more readily accessible, allowing time previously spent looking for information to be spent taking action.

Driving Marketing Performance

With lots of data resident in most companies, marketing executives have the capability to determine which marketing activities are driving performance. Armed with this knowledge, executives can more easily develop budgets, forecast sales and demonstrate marketing accountability.

Columns

A Scoring and Choice Model for Multistage Cross-Selling in the Insurance Industry, Part 1

In this column, I introduce a chain of data mining and predictive modeling techniques to identify the probable shopping patterns of customers buying related insurance products.

Emerging Trends in the World of Business Intelligence, Part 2

Part 2 continues to address trends within BI and data management by exploring the convergence of unstructured data and BI. This column also discusses data integration and data governance concepts.

Epidemiology and BI: Help for Designing Effective Intelligence

Sitting at the summit of the evidence hierarchy, companies who routinely use randomized experiments to develop and test their BI strategies can enjoy confidence in their findings.

Emerging Trends in the World of BI, Part 1

Part one discusses the increasing emergence of data warehousing appliance vendors and emphasis on columnar databases to increase efficiencies for analytics.

Relative Versus Absolute Predictions

The successful consumers of predictive models in business are those who appreciate the limitations of their models as much as their power.

Ask the Experts

Where is the best place for a BI application to reside?

Should the metadata layer that sits between the data marts and the query/reporting tools be owned by the business or IT?

Is there a good book for BI project management that you would recommend?

Where do I start with the charter to create a BI team, and will this work since the warehouse and other BI tools (such as ETL) are on a different team?

How do you decide on the roles and responsibilities of operational or analytical reporting teams?

White Papers

HP ERP Business Intelligence

By Hewlett-Packard

Business Intelligence for Tax Planning: Value, Strategy, and Vision

By Alan Y.C. Yong

Single Sign-On for Webintelligence

By Wipro Technologies

A Structured Method for Specifying Business Intelligence Reporting Systems

By BI Pathfinder Pty Ltd

Business Intelligence in a Real-Time World

By Netezza

Books

Business Intelligence: The IBM Solution: Data Warehousing and OLAP

By Mark Whitehorn, Mary Whitehorn

Data Warehouse Design Solutions

By Christopher Adamson (Editor), Michael Venerable

Building the Operational Data Store, 2nd Edition

By W. H. Inmon




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