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Beyond Survival: Thriving Through the Turbulence: BI in the Retail Industry

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Overview Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, and efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.

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Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Parallel Processing, Software Engineering, Security Tools, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Cyber Security

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Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers

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Publisher:
IBM

Trend Watch: Mission Critcial x86

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Publisher:
IBM

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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Get more from BI by understanding your analysis needs

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Butler on: Integrated business intelligence

Adopting a process-centric view can actually help resolve the problem. Giving credit where it is due, it is my observation that the leading vendors have worked extremely hard to facilitate this change - and continue to do so at pace.

Cognos beefs up consulting portfolio

Softa, which is based in Oxford, offers consulting services to launch corporate performance management projects, or initiatives aimed at improving specific business processes. Analytical software maker Cognos announced Tuesday its acquisition of UK...

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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why do we still travel?

On another level, travel has always been necessary to facilitate business and commerce. Given all the advances in communications technology, shouldn't we be able to videoconference and telecommute instead of showing up in person?

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LANs
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paperless office

Oracle snaps up Hyperion for $3.3bn

It also provides "dashboards" or applications for that visually represent how a company is performing on a set of measurements, such as improving customer response time or meeting a sales objective. Oracle announced on Thursday that it has agreed...

What made Microsoft open up to Linux? Ask Novell

Microsoft decided to release the drivers to support broader adoption and facilitate better performance of Linux running as a guest operating system where Windows Server 2008 is the host," Ramji said. Because GPLv2 is the licence of the Linux kernel...

How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out

Another big impact technology according to Forrester will be increasingly people-centric collaboration technologies where profiling, tagging and communities are used to improve the way people in the business interact with each other.

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