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Create a Telescopic Lens for Your Finance Function: Budget season has arrived at most companies, which means that it's time to integrate operational and financial planning, ratchet up forecast accuracy, fatten your bottom line, and look ever deeper into the future. [more]
Marketing Plan Helps Promote BI Initiative: How can you promote your business intelligence (BI) initiative? [more]
A Path Through the Information Maze: Businesses churn out vast volumes of information; the average management report contains 12,000 to 15,000 data points. [more]
BI Moves to the Classroom: If you don't have employees trained in using business intelligence (BI) technologies, it's difficult to get full value from the tools. [more]
BI Competency Center Aids Implementation: As the amount of data companies must store continues to grow, managing the information effectively has become more important than ever, according to a new report from IDC. [more]
Getting to Grips With Spreadsheet Risk: Sarbanes-Oxley was a wake-up call, but few companies had the time to get methodical about spreadsheet risk management. [more]
Weather the Economic Downturn with BI and BPM: In an economic downturn, cutting costs may not be enough to keep you in the black. [more]
Search Engines Improve Business Intelligence: The Internet has changed people's perspective on how they should be able to access information, including their expectations for business intelligence (BI) search capabilities. [more]
Your Allies in Tough Economic Times: BI and BPM: As they chart a course through today's choppy economic waters, companies often overlook two of their most powerful navigational instruments -- their business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) systems. [more]
Enterprise Systems Create Value: Successful implementations of enterprise systems drive corporate financial performance, according to new research from Accenture. [more]
Software as a Service -- Overhyped?: Hosted, pay-as-you-go business software has been aggressively marketed, not least to finance departments, as cheaper, easier to run, and less risky than in-house systems -- but is it? [more]
Spreadsheet Risk Management: A Guide for the Perplexed: Spreadsheets are everywhere, and everybody knows they're a risk. [more]
Spending on BI and BPM Should Reach $57.1 Billion: Despite a weak economy, the business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) technologies and services industry continues to grow. [more]
SEC Proposal: XBRL Mandatory Within 3 Years: Support for the SEC's decision to mandate the use of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for some regulatory filings has been subdued, but the Commission will push ahead regardless. [more]
Can BI Help You Go Green?: Business intelligence software provider SAS Institute Inc is now offering a module that it claims will help companies measure and manage their environmental impact. [more]
How To Deploy Operational BI: Operational business intelligence (BI) is different than traditional BI in its effort to make data analyses, trends, and plans more accessible to employees at all levels in an organization. [more]
XBRL Europe Established: In an effort to promote XBRL adoption and cohesion across the European region, XBRL International Inc has formed nonprofit XBRL Europe. [more]
The Difference Between Scorecards and Dashboards: The terms scorecard and dashboard are often used synonymously, yet each tool provides a different set of capabilities, according to Gary Cokins, global product marketing manager for performance management solutions at SAS. [more]
How to Make the Business Case for BI: Greater operational efficiency, lower costs, competitive advantage, better customer service -- the potential benefits from a business intelligence software initiative run broad and deep. [more]
Matching BI Tools to Users' Needs: Predictive analytics, dashboards, business query tools, scorecards, spreadsheets, OLAP, interactive reports -- with so many business intelligence (BI) tools available, how does a company choose which to deploy? [more]