



Madan Sheina, principal analyst, software application at OVUM, discusses 3 technologies - Web 2.0, smarter and high performance analytics, and virtualization - and how these technologies will impact the development and use of BI within the enterprise.
In an effort to improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, government bodies worldwide are mandating that hospitals track and report on core measures of quality and use them to improve processes and patient outcomes. To help healthcare organizations meet these requirements, SAP released a new business intelligence solution for quality management in healthcare.
From conversations with hundreds of successful midsize customers, six proven strategies for the successful deployment and use of business intelligence have emerged. These strategies address the challenges facing both business and IT. They involve factors from architecture and report types to scalability and accessibility. And they affect everyone from the casual BI consumer to the professional report author. Download this white paper to learn about the BI strategies that can help your organization compete more effectively in today’s economy.
SAP AG recently announced the SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution. Targeted at casual BI users currently underserved by products on the market, the solution will deliver a complete BI toolset in one flexible offering. Its ease-of-use also will allow them to be up and running with no prior experience or training.
Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Mahendra Durai, the IT CTO of BMC Software, explains the technology behind predictive intelligence and what it can do to help businesses get rapid returns on their technology investments and slash their capital and operating expenses.
Mersey Care NHS Trust has deployed 21C’s specialist Microsoft-based Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to unlock the information and data required to support operational management, the implementation of service line reporting and performance monitoring, through a self-service platform.
Analytics is predicted to be a priority area of investment among companies in 2010 as companies realize that BI tools do not give managers sufficient insight into what the data is telling them. IBM senior executives, Phillip Beniac and Mark Register, discusses the rise of analytics as the tool to help organizations accurately predict what the information is telling them.
You can have all the business intelligence tools that you need but without analytics, you can't predict with confidence what the data is saying. IBM executives, Phillip Beniac and Mark Register, discuss the implications of business analytics in today's dynamic business environment.
The number of Twitter users has climbed to a lofty 75 million, but the growth rate of new users is slowing and a lot of current Twitterers are inactive, according to a study released today.



