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Gartner: Business Intelligence
Leverage technology and best practices to deliver management insight from enterprise applications and data. Combine business intelligence tools and applications with effective structure, quality improvement and information governance and learn to maximize payback while minimizing risk.
- Findings: More Than 70% of BI and Performance Management Projects Are Delivered On-Site
An early 2008 Gartner poll shows to what extent U.S. and Western European organizations are using offshore sourcing for business intelligence projects. Offshore sourcing is playing an increasing role, but potential consulting and system integration services buyers must beware of many issues. - Roundup of Business Intelligence and Information Management Research, 4Q08
Gartner's 4Q08 research for business intelligence and information management leaders provides advice on tackling enduring challenges, such as analytic applications, and new challenges, such as the economic downturn. - Maturity Model Overview for Business Intelligence and Performance Management
To help companies improve their business intelligence and performance management initiatives, Gartner has created a maturity model to assess current maturity levels, and to chart a road map for any improvements. - Predicts 2009: Business Intelligence and Performance Management Will Deliver Greater Business Value
This year's business intelligence and performance management predictions describe how this space will evolve beyond a focus on technology to delivering greater business value from both existing capabilities and innovations coming into the market. - SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence: Customers at a Crossroads
SAP's acquisition of Business Objects forces customers to re-examine their business intelligence strategy. Customers must determine what role NetWeaver BI will play as a data warehouse and a business intelligence platform. - The Growing Maturity of Open-Source Database Management Systems
Open-source database management systems continue to mature and with the global desire for cost savings, are gaining increased visibility for production systems. - Microsoft's Business Intelligence Conference 2008 Reveals a BI Road Map, but Not Completely
From 6 through 8 October 2008, Microsoft held its second BI conference (BIC2008) in Seattle, attended by approximately 3,000 IT professionals, Microsoft partners and staff. Microsoft's product road map announcements partially revealed its future BI road map, which places little emphasis on corporate performance management enhancements. - The First 100 Days: The New BIPM Leader
A new business intelligence and performance management leader needs to use his or her first 100 days to set the framework for an effective enterprise BIPM strategy, and to support initiatives. Here's a step-by-step guide to how to do it. - Using CPM Suites for IT Performance Management
Corporate performance management has had a major run in the finance organization. Many IT organizations are turning their attention to CPM suites, including net new implementations and those that are repurposing these applications toward IT performance management. - Leveraging Financial Analytics
More analytic applications are focused on providing critical analysis and reporting of financial activity to the office of finance, encompassing the corporate performance management market, analytics focused on transactional applications, controls monitoring and embedded analytics. - Roundup of Business Intelligence and Information Management Research, 3Q08
Gartner's 3Q08 research for business intelligence and information management leaders delves into critical issues, projects and activities. The research highlights the dependencies between the various initiatives and projects. - SWOT: Microsoft, Business Intelligence Platforms, Worldwide
Microsoft offers good business intelligence platform capability at a low price. This combination will be attractive, particularly to organizations committed to a Microsoft information infrastructure. However, some individual component functionality lags behind other leading vendors. - Customer Experiences With Packaged Analytic Applications
Gartner interviewed reference clients of four major analytics vendors. Their experiences provide valuable lessons in how to evaluate and implement packaged analytic applications. - Introduction to the Gartner Maturity Model for Web Analytics
Gartner has created a maturity model to help companies develop their Web analytics initiatives, and to chart a road map for improvement. - Case Studies for Business Intelligence Excellence Award
The finalists and the winner of Gartner's 2008 Business Intelligence Excellence Award offer case studies that measure the success of BI by the business value it delivers. These companies demonstrate best practices that can be applied in various industries. - Top View: Definition of, Issues With and Uses for an Information-Centric Infrastructure
Interest in information architecture is accelerating. Organizations are seeking new ways to share and exchange information beyond traditional application-centric methods. This series describes the emergence of an information-centric infrastructure that will transform the modern enterprise. - Tutorial for Understanding Scorecard and Dashboard Architecture
IT managers still are being asked by executives from across the enterprise to provide key-performance-indicator-based dashboards and scorecards. IT managers must have a good grounding in the nature and composition of the solutions that are used to measure corporate performance. - Key Issues for Selecting an Information Access Vendor and Products
Selecting a vendor, delivery model, timetable and scale for enterprise search projects is a substantial challenge. We recommend a deliberate approach to choosing platform, specialist and tactical vendors. - Who's Who in Open-Source Business Intelligence
A handful of open-source business intelligence platform vendors have gained visibility and developed technology platforms to be heard over the general market noise. While those open-source vendors still have little market share, they will increase their presence in certain industries and regions. - Take These Steps to Develop Successful BI Business Cases
Developing business cases for business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) initiatives has been difficult for many enterprises. Here are five critical factors to help you develop a winning business case. - Predicts 2008: Emerging Trends Expand Collaboration and Human Performance
Emerging trend predictions for 2008 include the evolution of virtual worlds and social network analysis in the corporate context, and the start of a long-term trend toward the surgical augmentation of human abilities. - Predicts 2008: Business Process Management Alters Business and IT Collaboration
Burgeoning adoption of BPM disciplines and technologies fundamentally alters the way in which companies approach business process improvement and the way in which they develop, integrate and manage applications. - Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence and Performance Management, 2008
This Hype Cycle includes various domain-specific performance management applications. Many business intelligence technologies have become more mature so have moved along the Hype Cycle, while new technologies such as software as a service and Web 2.0 are slowly gaining traction. - Hype Cycle for Analytic Applications, 20