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Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Amplify the Impact of Your People With Improved business analytics for Microsoft Dynamics SL (Level 100): This webcast discusses how to leverage business analytics with Microsoft Dynamics SL to improve organizational agility. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to provide actionable knowledge that is timely and accurate and focuses on a broad set of issues.; Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Business Analytics, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts 2007-11-02
A Focus on Intelligence: Oracle's Renewed BI Strategy: Organizations need to respond quickly to changes in business conditions by delivering the right information, to all stakeholders at the right time. This need for agility has spurred enterprises to invest in business analytics (which includes Business Intelligence BI tools, analytic applications, and the data warehousing platform). Oracle is again...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Business Analytics, International Data Group, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Storage, Databases, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Hardware, Management; White papers 2007-04-01
Implementation of IBM DB2 Cube Views With Siebel business analytics: IBM DB2 Cube Views is a feature of the IBM DB2 Universal DataBase UDB Data Warehouse Editions that improves the ability of DB2 UDB to perform OLAP processing. DB2 Cube Views can be used to simplify the deployment and management of OLAP solutions and improve the performance of OLAP tools...; Tags: OLAP, Analytics, Siebel Systems Inc., IBM DB2 Universal Database, Business Analytics, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Siebel Business Analytics, IBM DB2 Cube Views, Databases, Enterprise Software, Data Mining, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-11-01
IBM eServer Sizing Reference for Siebel business analytics: Many IBM eServer have on demand capabilities which are designed to lower the initial cost of implementation and simplify future upgrades. Capacity Upgrade on Demand allows installing capacity that will be needed in the future but pay only for what is needed today. As more capacity is required it is...; Tags: Analytics, IBM eServer, Siebel Systems Inc., Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-09-01
Real-time business analytics market to be worth $10 bln in 2005: Butler Group estimates the global market for real-time business analytics tools will reach $10 bln by year-end 2005. IDC puts the current UK real-time business analytics market worth at about $340 mln.; Tags: business analytics; Blog posts 2005-04-16

Real-time business analytics market to be worth $10 bln in 2005: Butler Group estimates the global market for real-time business analytics tools will reach $10 bln by year-end 2005. IDC puts the current UK real-time business analytics market worth at about $340 mln.; Tags: Butler Group, real-time Business Analytic, business analytics; Blog posts 2005-04-16
Microsoft picks up business analytics tool: Microsoft picks up business analytics toolPrelude to a Microsoft PurchaseJust watch.; Tags: business analytics tool, business analytics, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2005-03-14
Exact business analytics: Putting Power, Functionality and ROI in the Hands of Business Managers: Check out Exact Software's schedule of 60 minute e-Seminars that present the many benefits that Exact Business Analytics EBA provides, share customer successes, discuss the quick ROI, and cover technology aspects--including a live product demonstration.; Tags: ROI, Exact Software, Business Analytics, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Resource centers
business analytics Podcast: Maximize your business analysis and reporting capabilities and get the most out of your ERP system with Business Analytics. Join Tony Balio and John Fandl from the Vanguard Business Analytics division of Exact Software, Joseph Burke from Exact Software and Paul Sanneman of NetCast Central for an...; Tags: Exact Software, Business Analytics; Download resources
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: business analytics: Delivering Compliance and Competitive Advantage: While 65 percent of large companies still rely on manual processes and Excel spreadsheets to comply with the financial monitoring and reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX, most CFOs recognize that such methods, though acceptable in the first phase of SOX adoption, won’t sustain their compliance efforts over the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Competitive Advantage, Siebel Systems Inc., Business Analytics, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers
Improved business analytics Solution Enables Faster Decision Making: Microsoft deployed an internal tool called Rhythm Of the Business ROB to help its financial analysts and top executives support global sales and marketing strategies with up-to-date progress reports for key business metrics. The team upgraded the solution to take advantage of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, which helps business users...; Tags: Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Business Analytics, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Office Suites, Software, Marketing; Case studies
The Most Comprehensive BI from the Worldwide Leader in business analytics: Oracle Business Intelligence BI is the most comprehensive portfolio of technology and applications for enabling the insight-driven organization, including leading BI applications, BI platform technology, and data warehousing. With the #1 market share in business analytics, Oracle BI enables organizations to gain complete and timely insight, distribute intelligence pervasively, and...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Leader, Business Analytics, Oracle Business Intelligence, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management; Resource centers

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Review: CardIris 3.0 scanning software: I've been using the tiny IRIS Business Card Reader II for about two years and love it. A colleague, Ryan Kaplan, recently shared his experience with CardIris scanning software: Having purchased several scanners in the last year to make my life more paperless I finally decided to take the...; Tags: Software, Card, Business Card, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-17
The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities: I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. While these projects aren't strictly green technology initiatives, they ARE being pushed forward by advances in alternative energy and...; Tags: Community, Green Technology, Siemens AG, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-16
RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working: RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...; Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics; News items 2008-05-16
Photos: Video cameras eye Richmond Port: Northern California's busy Port of Richmond has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system.The Port of Richmond, located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco, has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system with the help of security firm ADT and a $2.3 million...; Tags: Video Surveillance, Richmond, Video Camera, Video, Photograph, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-16
Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?: Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...; Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email: Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Open Source in 2013: <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...; Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner â€” more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16