In the last few years some organizations have found that their sales processes have become more challenging while the performance of some of their sales professionals who were past stars has deteriorated, selling complex products and services, versus selling commodities, has always been more difficult and sales professionals must have different skill sets. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
Technical staff frequently talk about the need for service-oriented architecture (SOA), but rarely in terms that business managers understand. We can sum up the benefits of service-oriented architecture and show you ways to avoid the danger of implementing technology for technology's sake.
Information Builders is the first vendor to offer a scalable web-based BI platform that supports production-level BI applications. The proof of this is in the myriad applications with more than 100,000 users in operation today. But we do not intend to rest on these laurels. Our 24-month product development plans for WebFOCUS will allow us to break down the barriers to pervasive BI and between decision and action. We define our goals with three words - reach, simplicity and timeliness. Development plans to attain these goals are underway.
A firm's supply chain is the essence of how it delivers value to its customers. Deploying a supply chain performance management solution is a challenging process. This paper outlines critical steps and key factors in optimizing performance management for your entire supply chain.
Companies of all sizes can reap significant benefits with new data replication technologies for IBM AIX environments, including CDP (continuous data protection). Read more in this informative white paper.
Federal, state and local government agencies face many operational challenges at all levels. With strict budget and performance goals and reporting requirements, as well as diverse and demanding constituencies, government agencies need information management solutions that allow them to make better decisions, keep tight tabs on their operations and control information security. This White Paper details how MicroStrategy can outfit government agencies with software to maximize their information gathering and make the best use of their data to improve operational strategies by optimizing budgets, increasing staff productivity and effectively allocating resources.
El pasado 22 de septiembre Gartner publicó un nuevo cuadrante de integración de datos. En esta nueva entrega se han producido algunos cambios, como podríes comprobar en la comparativa entre el 2007 y el 2008, algunos fabricantes como Syncsort y Hummingbird han desaparecido del cuadrante y otros como Business Objects y Cognos ahora aparecen junto a SAP y IBM, respectivamente, después de que estos David Sotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09184251930252126155noreply@blogger.com0
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Are you a DB2 Certified professional? If you are, are you planning on attending IOD in Las Vegas next month (October 26 - 31, 2008)? If that's another YES, I have what I think is some very cool news for you.
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I've been thinking about risk lately. This topic has surfaced mostly due to some work I've been doing with the folks over at
Astia, a terrific organization for assisting women-led businesses.
I was lying in bed before the sun was up and I realized I was thinking about risk. I would rather have been sleeping, but sometimes I do my best thinking when I'm not quite
The largest impediment to success in this case study is The Team. It is led by someone who takes development theory marketing to heart above all else and who has little real development or design knowledge. Therefore he subscribes to the notion that, in a project such as this, there is no design; it is designed by committee in 30 day increments.
I'm going to be honest about The Team. It is comprised
I have recently been trying to work with someone on how to accomplish a task in SQL. The task involved a Parent/Child or Master/Detail table pair and developing the SQL involved with inserting the data (correctly) into those tables. As is my general custom, I believe in leading the horse to the water and letting the horse decide how to drink rather than fetching the water and forcing the horse to
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is an open international standard for Next Generation Networking. It supports the delivery of Voice over IP (VoIP) and various multimedia services. IMS is not in itself a service, but an architecture for service delivery.
As a manufacturer, you know your money is made on the shop floor! Your shop floor is the next great frontier in the quest for truly lean and competitive operations and the best way to utilize that data is by transmitting it directly to your ERP immediately.
The development of analytics-based models for business productivity improvement or optimization has always relied on the analysts' understanding of both the data and the tools used for model development. Analytics are the product of a series of iterations in developing theories based on the available variables, seeking correlation or even causality, and then refining the variable set. This iterative nature of the analytic process is too often impacted by the production cycle time for model development, and when the lions share of time is spent wrestling with the tool, it decreases the time spent in analyzing and building effective models.
The future of business intelligence demands visualization capabilities that let users see the relationships among data, interactivity that lets them manipulate the data, and an intuitive manner of working that suits the way business users think. Enterprise analytics enable business users to access the information and metrics relevant to their particular roles to assist the company in reaching its current goals and setting new ones for the future. Learn what analytic capabilities you need to make relevant decisions based on the latest input, how to bridge the gap between departments and information architectures, how enterprise analytics can help solve access problems by providing a common infrastructure that can be configured for various users needs, and how enterprise analytics are more adaptable, run faster and are organized around the user's experience, not the structure of the data. Be on the way to improving your bottom line today by reading this whitepaper.
I was fortunate to have been interviewed by the Business Software Advisor for their blog, CRM Buzz.
Larry Ellison revealed a new boat and new Oracle Hardware in cahoots with HP.