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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies - Improving Your Company's Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size

Overview This paper offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of company with business intelligence. Business intelligence allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in the overall environment and in their company. BI helps organization turn data into useful and meaningful information and then distribute this information to those who need it, when they need it, wherever they need it - so that they can make timely and better informed decisions. It allows organizations to combine data from a wide variety of sources and see an integrated, up-to-date, 360-degree view.

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Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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