Tableau Software Product Tour  by Tableau Software

February 06, 2009 - Watch a quick product tour to see Tableau's product suite for visual analysis and web based analytics. It's for discovering, visualizing, and publishing data.

TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity  by Hewlett-Packard Company

March 25, 2009 - This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs.

The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success  by FICO

May 01, 2009 - Download this paper and learn how Blaze Advisor makes it easy to bring the power of predictive analytics to bear on decisions, integrating judgmental and regulatory business rules with analytically derived models for more precise, more effective decision making. Download and learn the secrets of developing decision management applications.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence  by SAP BusinessObjects

October 01, 2007 - This document provides you with the knowledge to gain a complete understanding of all the issues you'll face when implementing a BI solution. In this paper, you'll find numerous examples of current Business Objects customers who are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organizations more responsive, productive, and profitable.

The CIO's Guide to IT Cost Optimization During the Recession  by Hewlett-Packard Company

June 18, 2009 - In today's dynamic economy it is important for CIOs to be thinking about how to strengthen their organization and position themselves for success for a future economic upturn and growth. Read this guide to learn how a company can make changes to IT that generate real business value.

The Customer-Driven Innovation Series: The Predictive Enterprise  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters

December 01, 2007 - Customer data mining and predictive analytics helps achieve customer innovation, strengthen brand and lift sales. Gain further customer insight with four attributes of a predictive enterprise so you can start putting customer innovation to work.

The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence  by SAP America Inc

June 02, 2009 - The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls

The Friendly Face of IT: User-friendly IT Management  by Numara Software

January 06, 2009 - This webinar and service catalog demo will show you how Numara FootPrints Service Catalog will help your organization quickly provide an attractive menu of services tailored to your customers while providing transparency of service costs.

The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: Integrating Business Process Management and Complex Event Processing  by Oracle Corporation

August 14, 2008 - Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business conditions in real time, providing continuous visibility-in short, an instantly responsive enterprise.

The Need for Profitability and Cost Management  by Oracle Corporation

September 01, 2008 - As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

The Operational Responsiveness of Business - a new white paper from Progress Software  by Progress Software

June 18, 2009 - Operational responsiveness is the ability of business processes and systems to respond to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur, enabling business leaders to capitalize on opportunities, drive greater efficiencies, and reduce risk. Read this white paper to learn more.

The Path toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Ferrari North America  by Tableau Software

December 02, 2008 - Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.

The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center  by Akorri

November 03, 2009 - This webcast details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.

The Top 5 Challenges in Processing Customer Orders And How To Solve Them  by Esker Inc.

July 10, 2009 - This webcast details the top five challenges in processing customer orders and gives practical expert advice on how to solve them. Host Greg Collins also gives an actual industry example and sets some key performance indicators for success.

THINKStrategies - On-Demand Business Intelligence Solutions: A New Way to Achieve Your Corporate Objectives in Today's Challenging Economy  by SAP BusinessObjects

May 07, 2009 - The macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever for corporate executives and end users to access critical information to make effective business decisions. This paper will examine how a new generation of SaaS-based BI solutions is responding to the escalating challenges facing companies of all sizes.

Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation  by SAP America Inc

January 01, 2006 - SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.

Tough Economic Times Demand Tough Choices in Business Intelligence  by IBM

July 08, 2009 - This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.

Transforming Insight into Action with Business Process Management  by IBM

December 28, 2008 - Read this white paper to learn about IBM's business process management solution, WebSphere Business Monitor software, which enables your organization to measure, monitor, and report on business process performance as well as identify and correct problems.

Turning Customer Interactions into Money: Using Predictive Analytics to Achieve Stellar ROI  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters

December 31, 2008 - This whitepaper makes the case for using predictive analytics as a catalyst for a company's growth. It includes best practices from several global companies including: Cablecom, Royal & Sun Alliance, and T. Rowe Price. Ultimately, it is about maximizing the level of understanding that can be achieved with customer data.