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The Informed Enterprise: Oracle's Business Intelligence Suite delivers real-time operational analytics that enable you to make better business decisions faster

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business management

Overview Oracle's Business Intelligence Applications Suite provides business line managers and senior executives with the most effective business intelligence solution--a proven platform that delivers off-the-shelf functionality, enterprise-wide data availability, and valuable analytics and metrics. The unified platform and easy-to-use features offered by Oracle's BI Applications Suite generate improved performance and operational efficiency at every level of the decision making process. The result is rapid and high return on business intelligence tool investment.

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Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Management, Data Mining - Analysis, Back-Office, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Decision Support - DW Front End

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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise

Based on our survey of 225 business leaders worldwide, we found that enterprises are operating with bigger blind spots and that they are making important decisions without access to the right information....

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
diagnostics and analysis

Enterprise mobility: connecting to a world of opportunity

Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain...

Publisher:
IBM

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access technologies

The business value of Web 2.0 technology.

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
broadband

HP print solutions and 3M

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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multifunction peripherals

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where tax receipts are naturally suppressed, provides very serious funding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation...

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Tags:
data mining - analysis

Pharms measure in metrics

Giga analyst, Chip Gliedman, told Silicon.com that pharmaceuticals were first to adopt metrics - a method of defining the level of success in a project - for their IT strategy and that other IT directors would be wise to follow suit.

Channel:
Applications

Old economy urged to adopt quick decision-making or die

But conversely, dot-coms will need to learn execution skills from the old economy if they are to survive. At a SAP roundtable debate in London yesterday, business leaders concluded traditional companies need one or two individuals who will champion...

Channel:
IT Director

The Bloor Perspective: Management SPECIAL - decision-making, ROI and political risks

A recent article in the FT questioned the impact of rapid communications of information on decision-making. It can be argued the wider the audience, the better the range of discussion and scrutiny of information and the ideas behind it.

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Comment & Analysis

CIO Jury: Businesses "obsessed" with IT metrics

Half of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury user panel said there is now too much focus on performance metrics and measurement simply for measurement's sake. Graham Yellowley, director of technology at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, said: "The...

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CIO Jury
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benchmarking,
cio jury

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Metrics overload

Over the past few years I have been working in companies and other organisations including those in the health and education sectors where the introduction of performance metrics has had a profoundly negative effect.

Channel:
IT Director

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics

More reasonably, I suppose, it was the point at which I became all too aware of the very real dangers of a metrics-dominated management mind. Above that number metrics become meaningless due to their rapidly reducing significance and non-mutual...

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IT Director
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peter cochrane

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