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Intelligent Document Integration Automates Insurance Policy Forms for Big Cost Savings
Field Report: Farmers Home Mutual, Bloomington, Minn.
One of the World's Largest Brewers Taps BPM as a "Silver Bullet" for Faster Customer Response
Field Report: Molson Coors, Golden, Colo.
Spring's Integration Rites
The integration marketplace heated up a little more in the last week. Is Web analytics next?
Application Landscaping
Enterprise applications have a new visual front-end.
Information Builders Announces WebFocus 7
Integration of iWay technology tightens BI suite and targets operational BI.
Business Objects Touts 128-bit Encryption
An important benefit has surfaced, but is it a significant differentiator?
Alaska Airlines Charts Its BI Course
The airline's use of a business intelligence instrument panel powered by Siebel boosts the software firm's new claim that it's a legitimate player in the BI market.
Predictive Analytics: March Madness Style
Two university professors used predictive analytics to predict "at-large" NCAA basketball tournament invitees with 94 percent accuracy this year, and they're developing ways to predict actual game winners.
An Affordable Escape From Spreadsheet Hell
Adaptive Planning is a new performance management ASP that can rescue a business from the mayhem of Excel-based planning models.
Open-Source Thinking Taps a Rich Vein
Open-source thinking helps Goldcorp mine a rich vein -- literally.
Where the Neon Lights Are Bright
Bringing real time to center stage involves more than faster processes and more software. Business and IT have to be completely in sync.
Shortlist
Attensity Workstation; Versata 6; Hyperion Applications Suite 4; AfterMail 3.0; Sarbanes-Oxley Readiness Toolkit
Letter Drop
Long Live .Net Remoting!
Enhancing the User Experience
MicroStrategy 8 adds user appeal to an IT favorite.
It's Not Just Semantics
The Worldwide Web Consortium's Eric Miller says the Semantic Web is the enterprise's best hope for sustainable data interoperability.
Intelligent Documents: The Missing Link to Customers
Conventional integration technologies have missed a big problem: difficulty communicating with customers. Dynamic, interactive forms are an emerging option for self-service, offering built-in business rules, data validations, personalized help and audio synchronization with back-end systems.
Ask Dr. Data
Welcome to the millennium: endless clones, swarming nanobots and black-mail for beginners.
Keyword-Driven Testing: Content Reuse in App Development
If you've spent any time around software QA, you've probably heard of data-driven software test automation, but how about "keyword-driven testing"?
Manufacturers Seek Salvation From BI-Powered IT Solutions
Manufacturers face increased energy costs while the "China factor" is pushing down the prices their products can fetch. The result is that razor-thin profit margins are narrowing. Still, this downtrodden industry sent 35,000 people to the recent National Manufacturing Week trade show. Why?
Inside the Firewall: Will Bigger Encryption Keys Keep Your BI Data Safe From Harm?
With a solid firewall, you may think your sensitive data is safe, but have you prepared for an attack from within? "Significant numbers of attacks are now coming from inside the firewall," says Yankee Group analyst Jim Slaby.
BI Hiring Heats Up as Strategic Projects Hit Front Burner
It's a good time to be in business intelligence.
Headsup: Vendors, Heal Thine Own Performance
Business performance management customers aren't ecstatic about their software vendors. That's the conclusion of an annual user satisfaction survey recently released by vendor-unaffiliated consultancy BPM Partners.
Governance Gauge: Only You Can Model Your Content
Mandates for periodic reports containing certain elements of information, proscribed report presentation formats and requirements for archiving and on-demand retrieval create needs best answered by content modeling.
Prime Time for Real Time
Companies that get to market first and respond to customers fastest win. But the same old time-consuming software development approach won't deliver the real-time dream. Here's why process management is key to speedy customer service and turn-on-a-dime product and service delivery.
Keep Up With Streaming Data
Technology proven in stock trading can tap the details in the flood of streaming data coming your way.
In Focus: Why Search Trumps Management
You've no doubt heard the estimate that 80 percent of information in the enterprise is unstructured. But have you also heard that only 5 to 10 percent of that unstructured information is managed?
Review: Go From Paperwork to PDF With the Greatest of Ease
The ScanSnap fi-511EOX2 combines many features that make scanning far less difficult than a back flip.
Informatica Enters EII Pact With Composite Software
The development and OEM deal adds enterprise information integration capabilities to Informatica's chief software platform.
An Old Celko Puzzle
If you go over to http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/666711.htm, you will find a letter to the editor from someone named PV about an old column of mine. Here is the jist of it:
Back in June of 1996, Jack Wells submitted this SQL problem to my SQL FOR SMARTIES column.
BI Tools Power Utility Giant's Rise
As the Dutch energy market deregulates, Eneco Energie finds BI indispensable for attracting customers suddenly armed with the power to choose their own utility providers.
De-Fragmenting Data
Hey, I have an idea. Let's rename March 'Data Integration Month.'
FCG Completes Implementation of Organon’s Electronic Document Management System
FCG's FirstDoc R&D solution will ensure regulatory compliance and create a secure document repository for users in the US, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Implementation of SAP NetWeaver Expands IDS Scheer’s Global SME Presence
IDS Scheer Canada has expanded its relationship with Mold-Masters.
Business Objects Gets eXtreme
Fast-growing and increasingly profitable BI vendors are filling out and integrating their product lines according to how they see the markets evolving over the next few years, and eXtreme Insight is no exception.
Improving Query Performance for Data Warehouses
IT thinks it’s important, but can’t quantify the value.
In Focus: EMC Claims the Lead in 'Unified' Architecture
When EMC announced the release of Documentum 5.3 yesterday, the company put its stake in the ground and claimed to offer the most unified enterprise content management (ECM) suite available.
Analysis: Simple Workflow Begets Better HR, IT and SOX Compliance
Trucking company Cardinal Logistics is using Web-based workflow to automate IT requests, equipment purchasing and, next up, Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant financial reporting.
Informatica Joins Grid Computing Group
Informatica's server-grid capabilities in its PowerCenter Advanced Edition are designed to optimize and distribute workflow across multiple networked CPU nodes.
Build a Business and IT Foundation for BI
Align people, processes and systems for business intelligence.
Syndera: Driving Intelligence in Operational Performance Management
Bringing the performance management value of BI and process management to operational intelligence
Reportive: Solution for Sales Performance Management
The new Reportive 2005 release focuses on improving sales effectiveness.
Adopting Sales Performance Management
A new approach for increasing sales effectiveness
The Integration Shuffle
IBM bought itself a ready-made basket of goodies designed for taking care of data warehouses. Next we'll see what the rest of the data integration market decides to do about it.
Computer Associates Simplifies Business Process Management
The release of CleverPath Aion r10 introduces new opportunity at CA.
In Focus: 'The O'Kelly Factor' on Microsoft, Groove and Collaboration
Who better to talk to about Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks, announced last week, than Peter O'Kelly, senior analyst with Burton Group's application platform strategies service?
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INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE once more changed format at the end of last year and my long-time column went away. However CMP asked me if I would like to do a blog on SQL, databases and the other things that interests me.
Review: Extreme Insight, Business Objects Edition
Business Objects' new XI release of its combined Crystal and Business Objects product line fulfills its commitment to the market to provide an integrated product.
Extreme Insight: Business Objects Edition
Business Objects/Crystal team delivers renovated, integrated product suite.
ERP: It’s a Platform, Stupid!
ERP domination is now a battle of platforms.
Embedded Idea Management
Raising the organizational footprint of idea management
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
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2021 Top Enterprise IT TrendsWe've identified the key trends that are poised to impact the IT landscape in 2021. Find out why they're important and how they will affect you.
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