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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

Business Requirements for BI

Business intelligence today is undergoing a transformation.

Structuring Unstructured Data to Support Business Intelligence

The foundation of any successful BI project rests on accurate, clean data.

Built For a Purpose

Citigroup Global Consumer Group builds IT architecture for real-time customer insight.

Perfect Pitch

Cox Communications improves selling strategy with predictive analytics.

Making a Sociable BI Strategy in Nine Steps

BI applications ranked as the top technology priority in the 2008.

Columns

The Song Remains the Same - Data Shadows Systems Continue to be Pervasive for Reporting and Analytics: BI and DW Trends, 8 for ’08

BI may not be pervasive, but spreadsheets are.

The BI Ensemble, Part 1: Weak Ties, Diversification and the Wisdom of Crowds

Weak ties thus facilitate the exchange of information across disparate networks of dense and strong relationships.

The Role of Packaged BI Applications in Delivering Enterprise-Wide BI and DW

This column explores addressing the role of packaged BI applications in an enterprise BI/DW architecture.

Eight Best Practices in Dashboard Design

With the excesses of raw data all around us, the competitive advantage shifts to those with ordered actionable information.

Open Source BI: The Venture Capital Perspective - Intel Capital Does the Math

This column includes the thoughts of Patrick Walsh,investment manager for Intel Capital, on open source and super-crunching.

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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