Business Intelligence (BI) is now moving beyond strategic and trend analytics, permeating all aspects of the enterprise. This explosion in query volume of increasing complexity means underlying technologies are feeling the strain. Discover how new tools are overcoming these challenges.

When cost reduction becomes the priority, the CIO must show leadership. This first document in the “Managing IT In Uncertain Economic Conditions” series shows how with with good management, adapting IT to lean times is easier

Read what DM Review had to say about Sun World International improving their financial reporting process from hours to seconds – no more time-consuming, error-prone process of manually entering data.

A spreadsheet-based approach to data and performance management is wholly inadequate to meet the challenges facing a growing midsize business. Are you looking for a complete environment for Financial Performance Management? If you answered yes, Cognos has the solution for you.

Keys to Effective Dashboards: Data, Data, Data An oftenoverlooked aspect, data is one of the most important things to consider in designing dashboards. It is also important to ask yourself: Is the data reliable? Is it timely? Is any data missing? Is it consistent across all dashboards?

Based on an IBM survey of financial institutions, this paper looks at risk management from a financial perspective, focusing on sustainability of profits and the benefits of accurately linking risk to decision-making in your business strategy.

What will the Enterprise of the Future look like? To answer that question, IBM spoke with more than 1,000 CEO s from around the world. These conversations, together with the statistical and financial analyses, provide a unique perspective on the future of the enterprise.

Microsoft Dynamics™ AX is an integrated, adaptable business management solution that helps you and your people make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like and with familiar Microsoft software, automating and streamlining business processes and connecting you with global customers, business partners and subsidiaries in a way that helps you drive business success.

Because F5 application delivery products are modular, they're extensible by design and can easily incorporate new functions and quickly adapt to changing application/business challenges. The following are available Product Modules and Feature Modules for BIG-IP application traffic management products.

With Enterprise Manager, you can archive and safeguard device configurations for contingency planning, configure new devices from a central location without manually working on each device, reduce your labor costs for managing multiple F5 devices and easily and quickly roll-out software upgrades and security patches.

BI enables your organisation to track, understand, and manage your business in order to maximize enterprise performance. This white Paper looks at the framework for measuring the benefits of Business Intelligence.

This White Paper contains an in-depth overview of how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your organisation, regardless of size through the effective implementation of a Business Intelligence (BI) solution.

Forrester assessed 10 leading business performance solutions (BPS) vendors across 83 criteria in a product evaluation. Download this report now to read their findings.

Are you managing your company’s performance as effectively as possible? This white paper discusses how a lack of integrated enterprise performance management (EPM) results can make it difficult to identify which areas of the business are reaching
full potential.

Cognos Planning is an integrated solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, consolidation and financial reporting. It lets you create clear-cut performance strategies, turn strategy into discrete plans and budgets, provide real-time feedback to planning process participants.

No matter how good its products, or innovative its services, no organisation can perform to its full potential without an adequate planning structure in place. Allowing enterprises to allocate their most precious (and finite) resources — money and people — in response to changing conditions and objectives, todays enterprise planning solutions facilitate a dynamic planning process that both promotes best business practices and spawns new ones.

This white paper demonstrates how an Enterprise Performance Management system connects people and
processes, metrics, businesses, and systems. It introduces important criteria for successful design and implementation while also exploring the far-reaching benefits of EPM: improved decision-making and greater competitive advantage

First Horizon wanted to improve the speed, quality, and reusability of its process automation projects, so it created a business process management (BPM) project methodology and leveraged a business process management suite (BPMS)

Our solutions include SunSystems Vision, Microsoft Reporting Services, Microsoft Analysis Services and Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager to help our customers make better, faster decisions, based on relevant information.

An educational White Paper that looks at the issue around the neglect of business intelligence and performance management in the mid market. Whilst the enterprise is still seen as having richer pickings, this focus has created opportunities for those vendors who have not abondoned their routes