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Enhance Your SaaS Application with Advanced Business Intelligence

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Sep 10, 2010

As the demand for SaaS grows, application providers can leverage advanced business intelligence to provide significant and measurable impact to the enterprise.top

Boost the Value of Information With Master Data Management

Posted in: Master Data Management - Sep 09, 2010

As companies expand, merge, and/or globalize, corporate technology environments continue to become more and more sophisticated, and the integrity of data shared within the enterprise becomes even more critical. An effective MDM (master data management) plan can allow a company gain greater visibility into core operations, improve information accuracy and consistency, mitigate corporate risk and increase overall productivity. This paper outlines both the technology and planning needed in order to successfully deploy an MDM solution in house.top

Reinventing Marketing to be the Driver of Profitable Growth

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Sep 09, 2010

The globalization of the marketplace, and the worldwide recession, have decimated corporate profits and caused a massive reduction in market caps of many of the world’s largest companies. As these companies come out the recession, the majority of them will be seeking to grow organically at an accelerated pace. The era of the blind pursuit of revenue growth at any cost has come to an end. The new corporate mantra for the 21st century is achieving sustainable long-term profitable growth.top

Software-as-a-Service for Business Intelligence: A Game-Changing Model

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Sep 08, 2010

Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) promises to be a key tool for Business Intelligence(BI) enablement in small and medium businesses and for mainstream adoption of BI in large enterprises. This whitepaper explores the drivers, challenges and opportunities of BI SaaS and provides an overview of its architecture and vendors.top

Data Thieves Walk Among Us

Posted in: Uncategorized - Sep 03, 2010

Many employees have no reservations about stealing electronic assets when they leave a job, according to a survey of more than 3,500 adults in the United States and the United Kingdom. The survey was conducted in June and July 2010 by research firm Harris Interactive on behalf of identity-governance solutions vendor SailPoint. Among those surveyed were 1,594 employees with access to their employer's/client's IT systems. Nearly half of the workers surveyed said they would take some form of company property with them when leaving a position; these workers are more likely to steal e-data than a stapler. In fact, more than a quarter say that they would take customer data, including contact information. The upshot: CIOs have to re-examine the way they balance business risk with the need for access to sensitive data and applications. - ...top