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BI Grows Up: IT Moving Past Integration Woes

IT has finally figured out how to make the back-end BI connections work, according to new Aberdeen Group BI research. The next big BI challenge: Ensuring ease-of-use for end users.

May 6, 2009 3 mins
Business Intelligence Enterprise Applications Project Management Tools
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Analytics: Unlocking Value in Business Intelligence (BI) Initiatives

Most companies are making a colossal mistake in how they are approaching the business intelligence challenge because they fail to realize data does not equal information.

Apr 14, 2009 4 mins
Business Intelligence Outsourcing
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Good Business Intelligence Can Help With the Right Cuts

Good data from business intelligence systems is essential to deciding where to make reductionsn

Mar 25, 2009 2 mins
Budgeting Business Intelligence
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How Xcel Energy Plans to Help Customers Cut Their Electric Bills

An online dashboard aims to provide Xcel Energy electricity customers with tools to fine-tune their power consumption and their bills.

Mar 24, 2009 3 mins
Business Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy
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Can Technology Help Retailers Survive 2009 and Thrive in 2010?

Retail has always spent less on IT than most other industries. But as some big-name retailers decide to check out for good, the question arises: Are retailers putting technologies such as BI in the right hands? Analysts say it's time for retaile

Feb 2, 2009 7 mins
Business Intelligence Enterprise Applications Supply Chain Management Software
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RIAs: The Missing Link in Your BI/CRM Strategy

Rich Internet Applications aren't just useful development design tools for enterprise software developers. RIAs can improve relations between IT departments and end users and, therefore, customer relationship management, argues Actuate's Ma

Dec 19, 2008 7 mins
Business Intelligence CRM Systems Developer
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Cool Programmer Challenge: Football Algorithm = $50,000

TopCoder is running a developer contest for ESPN to write an algorithm that predicts the outcomes of college football games for the sports network. The winner gets $50,000. Score.

Sep 16, 2008 4 mins
Business Intelligence Data Management Developer
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Black Gold, Green IT

Oil companies use BI to increase profits. You can, too.

Jun 11, 2008 2 mins
Business Intelligence
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Gas Prices: How Oil Companies Use Business Intelligence To Maximize Profits

Every day, oil companies harness gushers of data to assess market conditions for a gallon of gas. Learn how they match the right tools rnwith information to maximize profits.

Jun 9, 2008 20 mins
Business Intelligence IT Leadership
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Report Says Enterprise Mashups On The Rise

Mashup platforms that allow business users to build a Web 2.0 site with no technical experience will enable better uses of corporate data that has generally been divided all across the enterprise, says a Forrester report. If it sounds like business i

May 6, 2008 3 mins
Business Intelligence Internet