Across the mid-market, inefficiencies are compounded by the lack of visibility into pertinent data, of processes being adequately and flexibly automated, and for the performance of the business to be monitored on a constant basis. Without such capabilities, businesses will find it difficult to survive the current financial conditions - yet creating an environment where information can be easily aggregated and viewed has never been easier. Also, business performance can be easily monitored with small proactive, and even reactive, actions ensuring effective responses to market forces and enabling organisations to compete with local and more global business threats. ...
02/07/2009 | IBM Cognos final.pdf | VIEW
Measuring how well an organisation is performing is a basic need, requiring full visibility of various processes and workflows including the needs and inputs of partners and other stakeholders, as well as an effective means of monitoring and measuring how these variables work to produce an end result. The research behind this report shows that most organisations still have much to do, with disconnects between key steps and a lack of inclusion of essential stakeholders across processes. ...
03/04/2009 | Oracle_EPM_cycle_1_March_2009_final.pdf | VIEW
As an employee, you trust that those responsible for the processes that help support the organisation - such as financial reporting and analysis - have them fully under control. ...
16/05/2009 | st-epm.pdf | VIEW
Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency. However, despite the proliferation of data that businesses generate today, the potential value of this location dimension is often overlooked in the business intelligence process. With enterprises having access to ever greater volumes of historic data, to get maximum value from it they need to make use of the location element in order to drive deeper business insights to improve competitiveness and business performance. ...
01/10/2007 | PB_MapInfo_Location_Intelligence.pdf | VIEW
"Knowledge is power" as the old saying goes, and many an organisation has been built and prospered on that pretext. In the old days, information percolated through highly formalised structures to a group of people who made decisions based on the information provided to them. This was all fine when the decision process could take months without impacting the business - but times have changed, and only those organisations that respond rapidly to the knowledge contained within changing information can now be successful in the mid to long term. ...
04/10/2007 | BI for All, not BR for the Few.pdf | VIEW
Ever since I first started following the customer relationship management market in the dim and distant past, the lack of attention paid by companies to the quality of the data they hold has always galled me. From a customer point of view, I'm sure that all of us have received letters sent to a misspelt name, or where the gender title has been assumed, and has been assumed wrongly. ...
26/09/2007 | The Importance of Data Quality.pdf | VIEW
This report covers research carried out across 8 geographies, analysing the changes in perceptions and usage of enterprise performance management (EPM) over a 10 month period. ...
19/02/2010 | Oracle EPM II final 1.pdf | VIEW
Business intelligence (BI) has been the focus for many technology vendors over the past year or so - to the point where it has possibly been overblown and overhyped. With the number of pure-play BI vendors shrinking rapidly as the mainstream technology vendors buy them up (for example, Oracle with Hyperion, IBM with Cognos, SAP with Business Objects), you would have thought that the onslaught of information would by now have meant that the market was fully aware of what BI offers, and purchasers would have made up their minds on which direction to go product-wise. ...
08/04/2010 | global etm bi.pdf | VIEW
The last few years have seen a flurry of activity in the business intelligence (BI) markets. Firstly, the old-style approach of reporting against data in a relatively static manner was put under pressure by users demanding something a lot more flexible, where they did not need to approach the IT department every time they needed to create a report. ...
24/08/2011 | BI for the enterprise - cw.pdf | VIEW
Along with the increasing ubiquity of technology comes the increase in the amount of electronic data. Not many years ago, corporate databases tended to be measured in the range of tens to hundreds of gigabytes. Now, multi-terabyte (TB) or even petabyte (PB) databases are quite normal, with the World Data Center for Climate (WDDC) storing over 6 petabytes of data overall (although all but around 220TB of this is held in archive on tape) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) having over 2.8PB of available data around atomic energy research as well as physics projects and so on. ...
24/08/2011 | big data - cw.pdf | VIEW
