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Get more from BI by understanding your analysis needs

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Overview Across your organization, different types of users - casual users, power users and executives - access data in order to answer different types of questions and then need to see the information differently.

Only when you deliver on the breadth of analysis needs in your user communities can you truly unleash the power of business intelligence to drive better decisions and results. Read "Get More from BI by Understanding Your Analysis Needs" and you'll have a better idea of how to match the right tools with the right users. This paper clearly discusses:

Why analysis is so central to your efforts to make BI pervasive
Several different types of analysis, who uses them, and why
How IBM Cognos analysis solutions map to the breadth of analysis needs in your organization

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Parallel Processing, Software Engineering, Data Mining - Analysis, Security Tools, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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