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Getting smart about ROI: measuring the impact of business intelligence

Organizations looking to return to business basics might consider business intelligence BI solutions for better decision making. BI solutions are designed to help companies efficiently access and analyze data in order to operate more efficiently. BI solutions can be valuable in analyzing the effectiveness of ongoing operations and special initiatives...

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

White papers 2009-06-01

Accelerating Retail Business Intelligence

Oracle Retail Business Intelligence Accelerator jumpstarts the business intelligence initiative in each phase of the project lifecycle, enabling a faster ROI on the project. The business intelligence solution provides retailers with packaged analytics and reports, which significantly reduces the time to value. The underlying infrastructure, with its integrated technology components,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Retail Company, Oracle Retail Business Intelligence Accelerator, Business Intelligence Solution, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Retail, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2005-09-01

New Business Intelligence Solution Reduces Customer Churn by 25 to 30 Percent

French heating and hot water system specialist e.l.m. leblanc historically managed its operational and customer data with a number of databases and analysis tools. This infrastructure could not effectively integrate data from across the entire business. As a result, it was difficult to understand the causes of lost business or...

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

Case studies

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Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Imonggo Free Web POS Software Training Guide 2.38 (Windows)

Imonggo free web POS is not just a POS system, but a complete web-based retail management solution that enables you to operate and manage hundreds of retail stores. The all-in-one Imonggo web pos software combines point of sale, inventory management, sales analysis and business intelligence functions into an easy and...

Tags: Web, Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, Imonggo POS Software

Software downloads 2009-10-08

News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18

More on Microsoft Project 2010

The Completeness of the PPM Solution Grows (More from the Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix) As the demonstrations of Project 2010 continue, I noted the following: 1) Microsoft has added a lot of functionality in its Resource Management and Time Entry...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Capability, Collaboration, Content Management, Groupware, Microsoft Project, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Travel Company Sails on Business Intelligence to Increase Revenues in Weak Economy

Sportsnet Holidays needed a Customer Relationship Management CRM solution to handle data that was spread among 220 separate databases. Sportsnet implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which dramatically improved customer service, business intelligence and target marketing capabilities. The firm's revenue has doubled in the last 12 months and Sportsnet credits Microsoft Dynamics...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Revenue, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-09-10

PerfectForms 1.10 (Windows)

PerfectForms offers a smarter way to manage and monitor your business. You can build any type of interactive web form using our drag and drop graphical editor. Then simply add intelligence to your form to automate workflow routing, set automatic reminders and escalations, and easily integrate with LDAP, databases and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PerfectForms, LDAP, Operational Planning, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-09-10

Makes sense now: eBay unloads Skype; Gets $1.9 billion in cash and keeps 35% stake

the real question is...why ebay needed skype in the first place a few years ago?It looks like only a few fat cats from Wall street lined up their pockets with comissions for nothing.RE: Makes sense now: eBay unloads Skype; Gets $1.9 billion in cash and keeps 35% stakeMy question is:...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Facilitates Decision-Making With Business Intelligence Solution

Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs MPSV wanted to consolidate data across multiple sources - including information systems used by the government's social services, employment services, and financial administrators. The challenge was to provide the ministry's administrators with up-to-date and comprehensive information in a user-friendly format and facilitate easy access...

Tags: Ministry, Oracle Corp., Decision-making, Oracle Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

Culver's Improves Operations With Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution

Culver Franchising Systems, Inc. CFSI owns eight Culver's restaurants and franchises 373 others. Getting information to make decisions involved highly manual reporting processes that bogged down staff and franchise business partners FBPs. CFSI turned to trusted partner RedPrairie, provider of Culver's retail management systems. The company was impressed by RedPrairie's...

Tags: RedPrairie, Microsoft Corp., Culver, CFSI, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Leverages Centralized Intelligence to Reduce Field Services Costs

Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe wanted to gain a holistic real-time view of the status of hundreds of jobs managed by communications field services teams in the U.K. and monitor subcontractor and partner workloads, optimize resources, and track Key Performance Indicators KPIs. The challenge was to give function heads and divisional managers...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Europe, Fujitsu Ltd., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2009-09-01

Bank Teams With Application Platform Experts to Redesign Web-Banking Infrastructure

Alpha Bank is one of the largest banks in Greece with more than 1,000 branches, more than 15,000 employees, and a presence in Cyprus, Southeastern Europe, and the United Kingdom. The database and application platform that supported the alternative banking channels of Alpha Bank grew obsolete, making it difficult for...

Tags: Bank, Alpha Bank S.A., Pricing, Real Estate, Banking, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Business Operations, Financial Services, Software, Data Management, Management, Web Services

Case studies 2009-08-24

Imonggo Free POS Software 3.58 (Windows)

Imonggo free pos software is not only a point of sale software,, but also a complete retail management solution that enables you to operate and manage hundreds of retail stores. The all-in-one Imonggo pos software combines point of sale, inventory management, sales analysis and business intelligence functions into an easy...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, Inventory Management, Imonggo POS Software

Software downloads 2009-08-18

IBM launches integrated mainframe packages for payments, data warehousing and SOA

IBM on Friday announced a lineup of integrated mainframe, software and services packages designed for specific tasks like data warehousing, service oriented architecture and transactions. The announcement highlights the latest hardware trend---vendors are increasingly pushing function specific hardware optimized for a certain task. Teradata, Oracle's Exadata machine,...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Payment, SOA, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Software Firm Provides Real-Time Data Mining Solutions Using SQL Server 2005

GSTAT provides business intelligence and data mining solutions, including real-time Next Best Offers NBO to customers across a range of industries. GSTAT developed its GSTAT Xeligence data mining solutions using the Microsoft Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software. Customers using GSTAT's Xeligence NBO solution from finance, telecom...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, GSTAT, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

Case studies 2009-08-14

Active BI Portal Manager 3.2.0.5 (Windows)

Active BI Portal Manager is business intelligence software that provides an integrated solution for designing and deploying reports and Web forms over the Internet and intranet. Active BI Portal consists of two parts Active BI Portal Manager which works on Windows only and server part which is collection of PHP...

Tags: DB Software Laboratory, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2009-08-13

Mac POS Software - Imonggo Free Point Of Sale System Tutorial 2.28 (Windows)

Imonggo free POS system can be used on any operating system. Whether you are Windows user, a Mac lover or Linux follower, you will be able to use Imonggo point of sale systems without installing anything else. Imonggo is not only a POS software, but also a complete retail management...

Tags: Software, Point-of-sale, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Imonggo POS Software

Software downloads 2009-08-03