WHITE PAPER:
This paper looks at the historical development of BI applications and BI technology, and concludes that five common Styles of BI have evolved during the past decade - each style representing a certain characteristic usage.
WHITE PAPER:
Through the years, accounting standards have changed and older processes need to be refined with the new complexities. This paper discovers how to maintain a master annual report without the risk of inaccuracies with data consolidation.
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Many organizations have achieved dramatic performance improvements by sustaining a focus on strategy implementation. We have captured and codified a body of knowledge from these successful organizations that provides the foundation for an emerging professional function focused on the management of strategy.
WHITE PAPER:
Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.
CASE STUDY:
Read this case study and see how Business Objects helped Livewire manage their royalty stream for end-user downloads, measuring performance and the end-user experience, and analyzing trends quickly and accurately.
WHITE PAPER:
Whether or not analytics should become an integral part of an organization’s planning and decision-making seems to be beyond question However, at what level, for what purpose and how to go about deploying analytics are questions that each organization needs to answer for itself. These questions are the focus of this paper.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
In this document, Mark Smith and Bob Corson will discuss some common challenges that seen with customers in terms of getting information from SAP data.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper discusses two Oracle OLAP solutions: Oracle's Hyperion Essbase and Oracle Database 11g OLAP Option which share similar characteristics but are individuals with their differences.
WHITE PAPER:
This paper will discuss how Vertica enhances the capabilities of analytical work through the implementation of different architecture for relational database-based analytical work. By simply rotating the orientation of the database from rows to columns, dramatic improvements in load and query speed, scalability and cost effectiveness are achieved.
CASE STUDY:
This case study highlights how a global marketing and intelligence agency moved mission-critical OLTP and OLAP databases off the SAN and onto an innovative system in the database servers. This eliminated I/O delays in the transactional databases and accelerated reporting times in its data warehouse.