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...

Ovum - Business Process Optimisation

a noble but woolly concept Getting the most from BPO and BPM By Ian Charlesworth, Principal Analyst, Ovum It seems that everyone is interested in business process management (BPM) at the moment. The notion is compelling, the software generall...

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...

Ark Group - Business Process Management

Insights and Practices for sustained transformation Understanding the key components By Imre Hegedus Ark Group Australia As a term, business process man-agement (BPM) is enjoying unprecedented popularity across the globe. The term ‘proc...

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...

BIR - What is Data Warehouse Appliance?

There have been many developments in the appliance marketplace, including the release of new products and the appearance of several new appliance vendors. In the 2007 Business Intelligence Network research report Data Warehouse Appliances: Evolution or...

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 - Data Warehouse Appliances: Evolution or Revolution?

by Richard Hackathorn, Colin White Published: June 26, 2007 Introduction This study examines the nature and importance of the data warehouse (DW) appliance to the area of business intelligence (BI) and specifically to data warehousing. We con...

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. ...

Informatica - Operational Data Integration for the Real-Time Enterprise: Business Agility in a Constantly Changing World

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. C...

Informatica - Timely, Trusted Data Unlocks the Door to Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Executive Summary It’s not easy to predict today’s complex, changing business climate. Organizations face unprecedented numbers of legal, regulatory, and business policy directives, as well as value chain requirements that affect nearly ...

Teradata - Big Brother: Making Data Warehousing a Customer’s Friend

If you asked the next person you met about the impact data warehousing has had on their everyday life, confusion would be the most likely response. On the other hand, if you were to ask whether they’re worried about the organisations they deal wi...

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 - Turning BI into active intelligence

Turning BI into active intelligence Reports abound that the time is now for Business Intelligence: driven by the necessity for faster, better decision-making, enhanced customer intelligence and the need to leverage data for competitive advantage. A...

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...

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...

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...