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Using Customer Analytics to Make Better Business Decisions

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Sep 05, 2013

To compete effectively and keep the best customers loyal, organizations need to capture a variety of data about customers and analyze it effectively. This includes tapping new and promising big data sources such as social media data. However, if organizations cannot analyze data in time and deliver insights to business decision makers quickly, all the data in the world won’t make a difference.top

Critical Success Factors for the Creation of Self-Service BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Aug 29, 2013

Self-service BI is becoming increasingly popular as business users demand more control over their analytical assets and IT continues to be strapped by budget and resource constraints. Many information workers now expect to be able to interact with information and create their own views to address pressing business issues. At the same time, BI teams would like to offload report and analytics creation duties to users and focus on more value-added activities.top

Critical Success Factors for the Creation of Self-Service BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Aug 29, 2013

Self-service BI is becoming increasingly popular as business users demand more control over their analytical assets and IT continues to be strapped by budget and resource constraints. Many information workers now expect to be able to interact with information and create their own views to address pressing business issues. At the same time, BI teams would like to offload report and analytics creation duties to users and focus on more value-added activities.top

The Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaborative Edition

Posted in: Master Data Management - Aug 21, 2013

In January 2013, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Collaborative Edition. The purpose of this white paper is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of InfoSphere MDM Collaborative Edition on their organizations.top

Preserving Quality: Fundamentals of Reference Data Management

Posted in: Master Data Management - Aug 21, 2013

Most enterprise applications contain reference data, built into code tables, to classify and categorize product information, customer information, or even internal transaction codes. This data changes relatively infrequently -- but it does change over time, and given its ubiquity, synchronizing reference data values and managing changes across the enterprise is a major challenge. This e-book introduces five tenets of a solid reference data management strategy and how you can use them to build a consistent foundation for your business’s information management needs.top