Implementing an effective analytics strategy has never been more important, yet remains a challenge as traditional BI tools struggle to meet the demands of today's dynamic environments. Agile Business Analytics offers an alternative by enabling flexibility in the technical, operational and economic aspects of BI. BI that is agile delivers actionable content to its users and enables organizations to derive maximum insight and benefit from its BI infrastructure and data. Sponsored by: Gleanster Request Free!

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CRM's enable organizations to manage interactions with prospects and customers on a real-time basis. Technology is leveraged with CRM to manage marketing techniques, lead flow, prospect information and customer data. Download this white paper and learn about the Top 4 Benefits CRM and Sales Software can provide to your company and receive price quotes from leading CRM and Sales Software Vendors. Request Free!

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Expansion is often one of the most daunting challenges a successful business will face, whether its growth is organic, or via Merger and Acquisitions (M&As). Regardless of the form expansion takes, businesses can struggle with management and visibility issues across three areas in particular: business processes (including localization and compliance requirements) analytics information systems This report explores these pitfalls and identifies what you can do to avoid them. Request Free!

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This approach is equivalent to applying a band-aid to the injury, where the focus is on recovery but not necessarily on the avoidance of risk-prone scenarios in the future. This myopic approach to risk management only adds to costs and frustration in the long run. Companies therefore need to adopt a holistic view when it comes to reducing and managing risks. Read this newly released Aberdeen Group Analyst Report Enhancing GRC Through Effective Access Control. Request Free!

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The Washington State Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) is an independent state agency that awards about US$80 million per year in grants to city and county street projects. In order to track projects and business performance with greater accuracy and transparency, TIB built a performance management dashboard using Xcelsius® software from the SAP® BusinessObjects? portfolio. Request Free!

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Few, if any, organizations exist whose management does not at least review periodic financial performance reports. Such reporting or analysis is often conducted with standalone spreadsheets, basic reports from accounting, or sales applications or static paper reports. This fact suggests that Business Intelligence (BI) is already pervasively available at organizations of all sizes and that viewing such reports is enough to manage performance and compete in one's industry. Request Free!

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To meet these changing conditions, companies of all sizes are progressively more dependent on increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. However, the workflows, tool sets, and skills that these knowledge workers are using are more grounded in Industrial Revolution-era thinking and have not been modernized to adapt to the business realities of today. As a result, many of these workers are at a breaking point, spending more and more time looking through and sorting information and less time adding value to it. This current state creates a potentially tremendous opportunity for breakthrough productivity gains for companies that confront this rising time of information chaos. Request Free!

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When a company transitions from a small to a midsize business, growing pains are inevitable. So, how do you continue to grow while still providing the same (or better) customer experience that you did when you were a small business? In this Focus Experts' Guide, they've recruited some Customer Relationship Management (CRM) thought-leaders to explain in detail what you must consider in your growth. Request Free!

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Prompted by volatile markets and a troubled economy, the need to contain or reduce cost is key for small to medium size enterprises. In the pursuit of cost reductions and in the struggle to sustain and grow revenue and profits it becomes more and more important to preserve the level of visibility that becomes elusive as SMEs grow in both size and complexity. SMEs are turning more and more to both ERP and BI solutions to gain visibility and control. Request Free!

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You'll discover the basics of customer analytics, how it is being applied in today's banking environment and the benefits it can deliver for your organization. You'll also learn about the proven IBM solutions for customer analytics that banks around the world rely on to improve customer profitability. Request Free!

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