This Oracle white paper looks at how CEP (Complex Event Processing) is now benefiting a wide range of business processes, from transportation logistics through to customer relationship management. It provides a detailed schematic, and several deployment scenarios.

Companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). In order to ensuring the EDW get the optimal performance and will scale as data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.

Independent research suggests that the area of back-office connectivity is not adequately addressed by many CRM implementations. Where this is the case, customer data cannot be shared effectively and business processes are punctuated by errors, delays and paperwork.

For many organizations the selection of SAP packaged applications has been a strategic investment that is driven by the need to improve and underpin core operational and analytical business processes.

Borland has released Borland Management Suite (BMS) comprising TeamDemand, TeamFocus, and TeamAnalytics. In Butler Group’s opinion BMS provides a timely ALM tool support for processes and methodologies, both traditional and Agile, that have been lacking up to now.

Security experts prepare for a year of morphing malware and phished social networks as scammers find new ways to exploit emerging environments. What does it mean for your business?

Business intelligence (BI) is the number one investment priority among CIOs.1 Organizations worldwide demonstrate that BI improves the decision making process and directly improves the bottom line.

As they strive to decrease their costs and the complexity of their reporting environment, professional report authors have been looking for a single, collaborative, Web-based reporting solution that can address how to deliver information at business speed.

To drive and monitor performance against the competition, market leaders deploy business analytics systems that enable them to rapidly implement, modify, and expand their applications for strategic planning, sales, marketing, operations analysis and reporting.

IBM Cognos 8 BI has proved itself to be a robust and scaleable platform, which is creating ad hoc and regular reports for bookshops and publishers across nine countries.

Read this case study and find out how Caffe Nero has more insight into the business and the performance of individual products, branches and staff. More confidence to make quick, informed decisions as the information is based on fact, which drives better business and customer service.

Scorecards are being recognised as critical when striving to achieve compliance; however there is clear need for a greater understanding. As part of this paper, you will be given guidance on the right approach as well as what to look for in a your application.

Scorecards and dashboards are being recognized as critical in performance management; however there is clear need for a greater understanding. This white paper discusses the dangers of implementing either without a detailed understanding, and offers guidance on these matters.

Read this white paper from Quest Software which explains how control frameworks such as COSO and CobiT can be part of a SOX compliance initiative. The notion of internal control has acquired a new importance for public companies.

In this white paper, we’ll explore how the foundation of continuous, event-based data integration—a technology called “change data capture” (or CDC)—allows IT to create business value for organizations both large and small.

You no longer have to forgo enterprise functionality to have an open source solution. This white paper lists the key requirements that are needed for most enterprise environments. So, what does enterprise open source mean in your environment?

Most successful companies use a performance management system to ensure the effectiveness of their business strategy, and the balanced scorecard system has emerged as powerful tool in the
drive for competitive advantage.

Internet and wireless technologies are continuing to advance rapidly quickly changing customer preferences, disrupting traditional communication methods and forcing prices downward.

This white paper looks at the combination of JasperSoft's BI software Suite with Ingres' hardware: delivering business intelligence as an appliance using open source.

BI enables companies to track, understand, and manage their business in order to maximize their performance. With BI, organizations can improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings.