Definitions, Benefits & ROI

IDC - The intelligence on Business Intelligence

Make or break BI strategies By Melissa Martin, IDC Senior Market Analyst IT Spendiding & Verticical Markets and Ullricich Loeffler, IDC Program Manger Software Research. Today’s markets are faster moving, more diverse and more competiti...

CIO Institute - The data quality Management Plan

By Danny Davis, Executive Director, CIO Institute of Australia Two wrongs don’t make a right. The quality of data held in corporate systems is an IT problem. The business can ignore it – wrong. The quality of data held in corporate syste...

IDC - Business Intelligence: A status quo of technology adoption

The ANZ state of play By Ullrich Loeffler , Senior Analyst , IDC Over the past few years, the majority of industry analysts (including IDC and other industry commentators) have nominated Business Intelligence (BI) as one of the top concerns and i...

IDC - The life of your enterprise: how Sydney Water Corporation leveraged BI

How Sydney Water Corporation Leveraged BI Information is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. Unfortunately information in the enterprise does not course effortlessly through electronic veins. It lives in thousands of disks associated with thousa...

CIO Institute - Converging Communications: a Looming Data Quality crisis ...

... and how to prevent it By DANNY DAVIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CIO INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA A perennial problem for IT departments is getting business buy-in to the accountability for data quality. Poor data quality impairs the business ability to m...

Strategic Path - Effective Data Warehouse Governance (Part 1)

Portfolio and initiatives By MONICA TYSON, MANAGING PARTNER, FORMATION DATA PTY LTD Governance is an important topic for any company or organisation. Governance takes many forms, such as business governance, project governance and IT governance....

Strategic Path - Insights to Effective Data Warehouse Governance (Part 2)

by Monica Tyson This is the second of two-part series exploring effective data warehouse governance.  The first article introduced a framework for data warehouse governance and discussed a potential structure for organising related oversight co...

BIR - Using Enterprise 2.0 for Business Intelligence, Part 1

by Colin White Enterprise 2.0 does not replace current approaches – it simply provides innovative ways of quickly building some urgently needed business user capabilities. The use of Web 2.0 techniques and technologies in enterprise systems...

Teradata - Business Transformation: the time is NOW

Is your business operating to its full potential? By Noel Pettit, Teradata Agility is now recognised as a crucial capability for any business: in an era of real-time communication on multiple channels, slow responses to new conditions can cripple...

Informatica - The Real Time Enterprise Attains Business Agility

Overcoming the Challenges of Global Uncertainty A company may be compared to a large ship that must be effectively steered at a strategic level as well as an operational level to reach its destination despite navigation through treacherous waters. ...

Teradata - Eyes Wide Open: Ten ways to generate rapid ROI with analytical CRM Technology

By: Judy A. Bayer, Ph.D., Director of Advanced Analytics Teradata Europe, Mideast, Africa Marketing specialists are under more pressure than ever to manage customer value streams upward, reduce marketing costs, identify new opportunities, find and ...

Teradata - Enterprise Business Intelligence

May 2006 Prepared by Dr. Claudia Imhoff Intelligent Solutions, Inc. What is Business Intelligence? Most corporations today are inundated with data – from their own internal operational systems, their vendors, suppliers and customers, and...

B Eye Network - Operational Analytics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Operational Analytics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Embedded operational analytics help applications and business users take close to real-time action. However, there is another class of applications where even close to real-time analytics are not su...

Strategic Path - Beyond the hype

Beyond the hype What is the real value of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing? What are the main “road blocks” to successful implementations? What best practices will counteract them? To assist you with these key issues, Ullri...

IDC - Information is Money in the Digital Age

Information is Money in the Digital Age IDC’s Ullrich Loeffler explains why ‘timely information is money’ – and how business intelligence software is evolving to better support the need for timely, accurate and relevant informa...

"Business Intelligence Roundtable" - three market leaders give insight

Business Intelligence To discuss current opportunities and future directions in BI, the Strategic Path welcomes Panellists: Alex Payne, Group Product Manager, Office Business Applications, Microsoft Corporation, Thomas Palmer, Oracle and Garth D. L...

Siperian - Master Data Management: A Plan for High-Speed Business Value

Master Data Management: A Plan for High-Speed Business Value Now that master data management (MDM) is on the short list for many CIOs, it is worthwhile to consider how MDM projects are spawning and how organisations can evaluate their potential f...

AIIA - "Optimising Opportunities" - an interview with Sheryle Moon the CEO of AIIA

Optimising Opportunities Strategic Path talks with Sheryle Moon, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) about how business process optimisation is vital not just to individual businesses, but to the broade...

Business Objects - The information age 'revolution' has started

The information age ‘revolution’ has started Currently, most people in business probably think of Business Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) as traditional database-driven reporting tools, but that is yesterday’s technology...

Strategic Path - Building BI strategies for the real world

Building BI strategies for the real world Business intelligence technology choices are becoming both more limited and more interoperable, but planning carefully to match your data needs remains the most critical step. As a catch-all label, business...

SPI - A Roundtable on BI & BPM

The Strategic Path To help bring you the best advice from market leaders we asked Aberdeen Group’s Peter Kastner to craft some questions for our panel: Rob Wells, Business Objects local MD Gord on Clubb, SAS local MD Howard Dresner, Hype...

The Future Of Enterprise Software

The Future Of Enterprise Software Growth Will Slow, Prices Will Drop by Andrew Bartels, John R. Rymer with Merv Adrian, Kyle McNabb, Connie Moore, Katherine Brown EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The enterprise software industry of the next five years will ...

Siperian - Insight from Joe Dos Santos, Practice Manager on Mastering Data Management

How to sell sceptics on the ROI of Master Data Management Every company seems to have some business and/or IT manager who may be quick to shrug off master data management (MDM) as a feel-good initiative lacking quantifiable benefits at best, or as a...

Gartner - Re-Thinking Business Intelligence

Rethinking Business Intelligence CIOs face a unique opportunity to make BI central to their strategy. For 30 years IT changed the world by creating new industries, altering business and dramatically improving performance. Now powerful external forc...

Forrester Research - Software as a Service

Software as a Service Is it the right delivery model for Business Intelligence? Synopsis Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or a service provider and made available to custome...

Forrester Research - Best Practices in BPM

Best Practices in BPM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Forrester interviewed 15 user companies with experience in business process management suite (BPMS) implementations, and we uncovered vital best practices for any organization embarking on a BPM initiative....

Cindi Howson - The Pillars of BI

The Seven Pillars of BI Success Business intelligence tools may be getting better, but technology is only part of the story. To succeed you must develop measures, set a strategy, manage effectively, ensure executive support, choose the right tools, st...

B Eye Network - Enterprise System Consolidation benefits for BPM and BI

The Benefits of Enterprise System Consolidation for Business Performance Management and Business Intelligence by John Colbert Published on B Eye Network on December 11, 2006 Consolidating your vendors will help you increase the likelihood of succe...

B Eye Network - Are BI & BPM more important than ERP

Business Intelligence & Business Performance Management: More Important than ERP? by John Colbert Published on B Eye Network on February 21, 2007 Business performance management (BPM) has gone, in just five short years, from a silo of data in ...