Business Intelligence Worst Practices
This white paper, Worst Practices in Business Intelligence, from Information Builders, explains the following four issues that organizations often have when trying to turn their data into valuable business intelligence:
- Assuming the Average Business User Has the Know-How or Time to Use BI Tools
- Allowing Excel to Become the Default BI Platform
- Assuming a Data Warehouse Will Solve All Information Access and Delivery Requirements
- Selecting a BI Tool Without a Specific Business Need
Download the white paper here to read about the solutions to these common problems.
Business Intelligence for the Sales Force
This white paper, Delivering the Reports, Plans, & Metrics Sales Needs, from IBM Cognos, discusses the five information sweetspots for the sales force:
- Sales results sweetspot – What is driving sales performance?
- Customer/product profitability sweetspot – What is driving contribution performance?
- Sales tactics sweetspot – What is driving sales effectiveness?
- Sales pipeline sweetspot – What is driving the sales pipeline?
- Sales plan variance sweetspot - What is driving the sales plan?
Business intelligence software can deliver timely answers to all of these questions. Download the white paper here to read how.
Business Intelligence for Mid-size Organizations
This white paper, A BI Agenda for Midsize Organizations, from IBM Cognos, outlines the following six strategies for success with business intelligence in the mid-sized organization:
- Start small, but think big
- Ensure all reporting types are supported
- Enable access anywhere, anytime
- Open access to all data
- Optimize Information delivery
- Ensure easy deployment and maintenance
These strategies can and should be applied to any Business Intelligence project, but the white paper discusses issues that are specific to a smaller organization, be it an SMB or a division of a much larger entity. Download the white paper here.
New Features in IBM Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence
This article in Cognos Support Link magazine highlights some of the new features in Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence, in particular the functionality that allows users to receive targeted information. Read the article on-line here: What’s New in IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3: More Targeted Information
Seven steps for troubleshooting business intelligence software
Every phase of a business intelligence project has its particular challenges, from gathering accurate business requirements to keeping the production applications running smoothly. As business intelligence applications move into operational roles, performance and availability is continually tested against higher and higher expectations. Outages are not tolerated. In this high pressure environment, the IT staff and managers who are tasked with keeping the business intelligence systems humming need to consider carefully how best to overcome the inevitable technical issues that arise.
- How can business intelligence projects move along quicker?
- How can the productions systems be kept running with less effort?
- How can costs be kept low? How can stress be reduced?
- How can we continue to fix bugs and introduce enhancements without upsetting this delicate balancing act?
The answer lies in defining a systematic troubleshooting process specific for business intelligence applications.
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