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Driving Management Excellence in Financial Services: Oracle's Analytic Applications in Financial Services

For over fifteen years, Oracle has delivered industry leading analytic solutions to help financial institutions grow profitability and optimize performance. While continuing to deliver solutions to meet customers' needs, the author is developing new products and integrations to address the challenges that financial institutions face now and in the years...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial Service, Financial Company, Analytic Application, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance

White papers 2009-01-01

Closing the Loop in a Consolidated World: Evaluating Packaged Analytic Applications

Analytic applications are the business complement to enterprise applications, although they have always taken a backseat to their operational brethren until recently. While enterprise applications run a company's back- or front-office operations - for example, tracking accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger activity in a finance department - analytic...

Tags: Financial, Analytic Application, Enterprise Application

White papers 2009-01-01

Worldwide Analytic Applications Software Market to Reach Over $4.8 Billion in 2007

The worldwide analytic applications software market is forecast to reach over $4.8 billion in 2007, according to IDC. To capitalize on the growth of this market, vendors centered in one sector of analytic applications should consider expanding their presence to all three sectors customer relationship management CRM analytics, financial business...

Tags: analytic application, analytics

Blog posts 2003-08-29

MSDN Architecture Webcast: Putting the "Smart" in Smart Client: Building Custom Analytical Applications Using ADOMD.NET (Level 200)

Embedding business intelligence in applications can create powerful customer experience. Analysis Services has several APIs that make it easy to create data-driven applications. This webcast focuses on ADOMD.NET, the new managed object model for accessing multidimensional data in Analysis Services. ADOMD.NET is the fastest way to build cool WinForm applications...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Analytic Application, Analysis, ADOMD.NET, Analysis Services

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Getting Started With Operations Analytics

Even sophisticated organizations are sometimes unsure how to proceed with analytic applications. This paper uses a case study to define an analytic application and characterize the problems analytic applications are good at solving. It then shows how analytics can deliver value to the operations function. As organizations mature in their...

Tags: Analytics, Analytic Application, Investcorp

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Additional Resources

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Apple App Store to be bigger than Wal-mart?

A developer of mobile application deployment and analytic tools says project starts for the iPhone show no sign of slowing. According to its figures, Apple's App Store could have more than 100K titles by the end of the year, putting it into Wal-Mart territory. by David Morgenstern

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc., Mobile Application, Mobile Applications, Wireless And Mobility, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-08-10

DontForgetTheMilk 1.2 (Mobile)

If you'd like to better manage your time spent shopping and save money too,this market basket web clipping application is for you. You can easilycreate shopping lists for multiple stores using your Palm VII or atwww.dontforgetthemilk.com. Right in the store using your wireless Palm youcan then check items off your...

Tags: Mobile, Item, Palm Inc., List, Isaac Davis, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Open letter to all HR software vendors

HR products haven’t really evolved much the last decade. Sure, many have changed their business and delivery models to become SaaS software as a service vendors but the functionality is still little changed from the 1990s. Yes, I know that talent management has seen some changes over the last few...

Tags: Human Resources, Boss, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks

SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...

Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Yahoo as desktop application: The next frontier?

Yahoo has launched a project called Sideline, a Twitter monitoring tool built on Adobe's AIR platform. The effort is notable for three primary reasons: Sideline shows how Yahoo can meld user interface and programming to create a multiplatform application.  This approach could be a way to...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Twitter, Desktop Application, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Portuguese Words 3.0 (Mobile)

Every day this application will teach you a new word in the Portuguese language. Better than competitor apps, this application actually gives you sentence examples in both English and Portuguese. Version 3.0 made No Internet dialog more clear, added analytic, and fixed a few bugs on the flip view.

Tags: Mobile, Ethan Productions, Internet, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-03-09

Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?

(I'm taking a weird or, to make that more polite, unusual step and publishing this at both PGreenblog and ZDNET because it impacts both audiences. Honestly, I'm not being lazy. I swear....okay, maybe a little) For the last several weeks, I've been thinking over what CRM 2.0...

Tags: Customer, CRM, CRM 2.0, Marketing Claim, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Google allowing developers to charge for their Android apps

Google allowing developers to charge for their Android appsBut will you buy?Here is the thing. Linux for the love or hate of it has shown one thing, people are cheap skates. Yes enterprises pay, and so do corporations. But let's face the facts Redhat the poster child of Linux after...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Mac, developer, Linux, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-14

The Case for Investing in Business Analytics Technology

The business analytics technology functionality must provide support for a range of decision-maker needs, including standalone ad hoc, exploratory, and predictive analysis. But business analytics technology will also form the basis for the next "Killer App" - if such a thing exists - which is a hybrid analytic/operational application that...

Tags: Business Analytics, International Data Group

White papers 2009-02-01

Gemstone Gemfire Enterprise

I had the opportunity to speak with Gemstone Systems' Richard Lamb, President, and Raj Kulkarni, COO, about Gemfire Enterprise. This product appears to take lessons from the grid computing world to expand levels of performance and scalability dramatically. They appeared to deal pretty well with my bad puns and I...

Tags: Gemfire, Data, GemStone, Data Fabric, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-01-21

System z - Delivering on the Full Promise of Business Intelligence

As Business Intelligence BI continues to evolve from a specialised back-office function and expand into front-line business operations, a 'Modern' class of mainframe has emerged as a viable and compelling platform on which to run BI and analytic applications. This paper explains how the hallmark strengths of System z -...

Tags: Ovum, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-01-07

Workday - Where HR and Finance Do More than Interface

Workday update Workday hosted a conference call for the Enterprise Irregulars bloggers recently. The firm was announcing a number of functional enhancements to their integrated Finance and HR product line. What did we learn? The company now has...

Tags: Human Resources, Workday, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was

Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Environment, Data Federation, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Achieving a Superior Ownership Experience for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Business Intelligence BI is no longer the domain of a few power analysts or a point application used by a small target audience of middle and upper management. BI has evolved into a mission critical application that is being used by many thousands of users across the broad expanse of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Business Intelligence

White papers 2008-08-01