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Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI
sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 05 Jan 2009 | |
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The reasons driving standardization in BI and reporting are core to every company—cutting costs, boosting revenue, and increasing profits. IBM Cognos 8 BI lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
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A Primer for IT and Business Decision Makers: Understanding the Planning and Deployment Requirements of Today’s Software-as-a-Service Solutions
sponsored by SAP
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 30 Sep 2008 | |
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Organizations are facing growing business challenges as a result of intensifying market trends. In response, THINKstrategies is finding a growing number of organizations of all sizes are investigating and adopting on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to traditional, on-premise systems to meet their changing business needs.
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Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
sponsored by SAP
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.
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SQL Server 2008 Spotlight on Cost - 12 Ways to Reduce Costs with MSFT SQL Server 2008
sponsored by Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Dec 2008 | |
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This white paper describes ways in which organizations can use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to save time and money.
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SharePoint High Availability - Protecting All Three Architecture Tiers
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2009 | |
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SQL Server is the relational database used for storing all content, data, and configuration information used by Office SharePoint Server 2007. Protecting SharePoint requires protecting each of the three architectural tiers. This whitepaper will discuss the need to protect all three tiers of SharePoint's implementation architecture.
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Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2008 | |
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This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution.
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Zen and the Art of the Balanced Scorecard
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2008 | |
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Today the use of balanced scorecards for performance management has become a hallmark of a well-run company. This paper will provide guiding principles to help your company's overall performance.
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Information Enables: Run Your Business Better – and Prove It
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 14 Sep 2009 | |
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Read this white paper to learn about Oracle’s comprehensive GRC platform and how leading enterprises are turning to Oracle’s new platform to meet the demands of increasingly challenging regulatory mandates while continuing to innovate and grow their business.
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The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 14 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2008 | |
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As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
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Business Problems Solved: With Better Business Intelligence
sponsored by Board International
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This document presents a series of business challenges, why organizations faced them, and how these problems were solved through the use of Business Intelligence best practices.
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The BI Survey 8: The World's Largest Independent BI Survey
sponsored by Board International
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.
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Leveraging Open Source Business Intelligence across Your Organization
sponsored by Actuate
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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Download this white paper to learn about overcoming the technical challenges and misconceptions around delivering open source BI, as well as developing and maximizing the use of open source BI.
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How to Cost Effectively Deploy Open Source Business Intelligence
sponsored by Actuate
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 09 Sep 2009 | |
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This white paper is intended for IT managers, project leads, and developers who must implement open source business intelligence (BI) to support the ever growing business user needs. You will learn how to add new reporting features and functions to your applications without any scalability issues and more.
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Competing on Innovation - A Guide to Next-Generation BI Appliances
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 25 Aug 2009 | |
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IT organizations are increasingly looking at business intelligence appliances to increase “in the moment” insight and business agility without disrupting current operations.
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Creating a Business-ready Infrastructure with HP and VMware
sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 05 Aug 2009 | |
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HP and VMware help you change the economics of IT by creating a business-ready infrastructure based on three pillars: standardize, optimize, and automate.
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