Make your Measures Count
By Ambareesh Kulkarni
Most organizations today are making significant investments in developing capabilities to measure ‘Productivity’ in areas that either directly or indirectly.... BI - Predictive Analytics
By Patrick J. Garrehy
Software for purchasing departments has tended to confine itself to automation and communication. While a few Business Intelligence applications primarily.... Techniques for Integrating BI Into The Enterprise – Part 4
By Mike Ferguson
In this final part of my series of articles on integrating Business Intelligence (BI) into the enterprise, we’ll investigate event-driven,.... 7 Simple Rules For Successful Real-Time Business Intelligence Implementation
By Jaymin Patel
Real-time data marts and business intelligence solutions are no longer a novelty or luxury. These solutions are not in their.... Understanding The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Model
By Douglas Barrett
The pace of business change has underscored the extent to which an organization’s understanding of, and control over, the entirety.... Standardization is not the answer to the challenge of globalization
By Andy Hayler
If you work in a global organization you will be aware of the difficulty of answering even basic questions like.... Customer Data Integration and Application Vendors: Don’t Paint Yourself into a Corner
By Anurag Wadehra
As the demand for Customer Data Integration (CDI) solutions is ramping up, the large application vendors (like Siebel, SAP and.... Data Piracy - The Threat from Within
By Ken Richardson
Much of the typical security budget protects against intrusion. We're prepared for malicious outsiders breaking in, searching for weaknesses.... Six steps to improving your planning and budgeting system
By Mike Bourne
For many organisations, planning and budgeting is an annual ritual. Once a year a letter goes out from head office.... Would you call a plumber to build your house?
By Anurag Wadehra
In the last few years, enterprises have added several tools to their IT data integration toolbox to improve the return.... Strategy Execution: The Road Not Taken
By Chris Bohner
Every year, companies invest an extraordinary amount of time, money and effort into the creation of the perfect strategic plan..... OLAP, an alternative technology over spreadsheets
By Shaun Stoltz
In a recent study, 81% of Finance Directors cited that their highest priority is the accuracy of revenue and earnings.... Are you master of your data, or its slave?
By Andy Hayler
The emerging field of “master data management” is simply how to deal with data that needs to be shared between.... The CIO’s Dilemma
By Mike Gilbert
As we enter 2005 , IT leaders are once more examining spending priorities to determine IT investment for the coming.... Organizational Barriers to Business Intelligence (Part 2)
By Larissa T. Moss
This is the second half of a two-part article. The first part elaborated on common organizational barriers to successful BI.... "Modeled to assume change: In search of smarter software"
By Andy Hayler
Traditional approaches to designing IT systems are based around the well-established techniques of modeling the business processes that the system.... Balanced Scorecard Best Practices: Understanding Leading Measures
By Bill Barberg
One of the concepts in the Balanced Scorecard methodology that appeals to many executives or other business decision-makers is the.... The Cost of Measuring
By Dina Gray
The proliferation of performance measures and performance measurement systems is well documented and this has raised the question of just.... Financial Services Corporate Performance Measurement: What’s Hot and What’s Not
By Don Allen Price
The goal of this article is to identify the current hot topics in financial services and specifically around Corporate Performance.... Clean Data = Clean Profit
By Len Dubois
Maintaining the quality of customer data provides the opportunity to create new services and sources of revenues. Fraud detection, for....