Enterprise Dashboards

This white paper describes the variety of tools available for such ad-hoc reporting applications and compares and contrasts these tools in terms of their ease-of-use and security. The ability to easily and securely extract data in real-time from your transactional SAP system is critical for many business applications, including one-time use data extracts, operational business intelligence (BI) reports, or prototyping a steady-state BI report.

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Reporting 2.0 is the new web-based enterprise reporting where end-users can create, interpret, and extend their reports or analyze report data in real-time with no IT overhead. Learn more about it in this whitepaper. To manage today's dynamic business situations, business users need the ability to control the visualization and analysis of their data in real-time. Traditional reporting tools are good for static reporting, but are not interactive and cannot provide real-time...

Discover how to manage the entire IT environment from an IT Dashboard that acts as a 'single Pane of Glass' to deliver highly valuable and easy-to-use information from both physical and virtual environments. The demand for high performance and high availability of business-critical applications is fast becoming a cornerstone of business competence. Properly used, an enterprise IT dashboard can effectively track and communicate IT service availability, server performance...

This paper will help IT Managers understand the inherent love/hate relationship with monitoring and managing a virtual environment and provide essential guidelines to help choose the "best fit vendor" for specific needs. As virtualized servers continue to move from testing to production environments, the threat of process and infrastructure breakdown is mounting. At present, IT departments are precariously exposed to a growing number of virtualization risks,...

Telelogic® Dashboard™, a decision-making dashboard for project management, gives project managers quick insight into project risk, status, and trends by automating the collection, analysis, and reporting of measurement data from Telelogic® Change™ and Telelogic DOORS®. Today's organizations must meet the demands of their customers with high quality products, developed in less time than ever before. Managers do their best to meet deadlines by deciphering overwhelming and often...

This white paper will offer approaches to streamlining efforts to keep IP networks up and running for critical DHCP and DNS services, then discuss the IPControl Sapphire appliances, which achieve the next level in protecting DNS and DHCP services. Many organizations have completed at least initial deployments of voice over IP (VoIP) services within their enterprises, or as a service offering for subscribers. Many others are in the process of deployment or are in the...

This whitepaper explains how MKS Integrity, a unified platform for application lifecycle management can help your Quality Assurance team to implement a requirements-based testing process. This whitepaper explains how MKS Integrity, a unified platform for application lifecycle management can help your QA team implement a requirements-based testing process, enabling staff to:

• Know what to test and ensure all project requirements have complete test planning and

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This report articulates feedback from 220 organizations, the findings demonstrate how top performing organizations leverage more than demographics for segmentation and deliver demonstrably higher performance as a result. This report isolates best practices in customer analytics and customer segmentation. The report articulates feedback from 220 organizations. The findings demonstrate how top performing organizations leverage more than demographics for...

Is your organization recognizing SharePoint as more than just a document warehouse? Learn how you can quickly and effectively take advantage of SharePoint's advanced functionality. Read the white paper today. Many organizations are now seeing SharePoint's true potential, thinking well beyond SharePoint's function as a document warehouse and as a meeting place for your corporate teams. SharePoint's functionality can also extend to:

• Hosting simple business

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This paper seeks to help IT managers become proactive in managing their business-critical applications and drive application effectiveness in their organizations. It uncovers some of the greatest challenges found in management of business-criti... This paper seeks to help IT managers become proactive in managing their business-critical applications and drive application effectiveness in their organizations. It uncovers some of the greatest challenges found in...

As customer care spans multiple modalities requiring real-time responses, "analytics" has become an all-purpose word that embraces monitoring and recording. As customer care spans multiple modalities requiring real-time responses, "analytics" has become an all-purpose word that embraces monitoring and recording, knowledge management, business intelligence, word spotting, data mining and analysis of data from a multiplicity of sources. Yet...

The market for business intelligence platforms is moving away from a position dominated by pure-play vendors. This paper discusses why this is being driven by a trend for consolidation, from several large application and software infrastructure vendors. The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms presents a global view of Gartner's opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI...

In this paper learn how next generation security management platforms are emerging to combine the best capabilities of security information management, log management, and configuration management. Security practitioners need to think about security management along three separate axes - operations, investigations, and compliance reporting. Each of these functions is distinct, and typically involves different organizational hierarchies, which...

By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems. In a virtual server infrastructure where all resources are shared, optimal performance can only be achieved with proactive capacity management and proper allocation of your shared resources. The biggest challenge is finding the vast...

This report defines dashboards and scorecards and describes them in the context of BI and performance management disciplines. The future of dashboards and scorecards looks bright. Today, many organizations have deployed performance management systems, but the size and scope of a majority of implementations is still small. This will change as user organizations gain more experience with these systems and vendors begin to offer robust commercial dashboard and...

This white paper explains how MicroStrategy's enterprise strength, scalable platform and self-service technology enable organizations to achieve pervasive BI at the lowest industry ownership costs. Businesses today are demanding more and more out of the same amount of IT budget. As a result, many Business Intelligence (BI) buyers are seeking better ways to assess an initiative's Return on Investment (ROI). Evaluating ROI requires two components: (1) the business value...

This paper looks at the historical development of BI applications and BI technology, and concludes that five common Styles of BI have evolved during the past decade - each style representing a certain characteristic usage. This paper looks at the historical development of BI applications and BI technology, and concludes that five common Styles of BI have evolved during the past decade - each style representing a certain characteristic usage and function by end users...

This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise BI capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and SAS. What is often overlooked is that integration was not MicroStrategy's end goal; it was the starting point! They view integration not as a feature, but as a fundamental requirement for a scalable high-performance architecture. The MicroStrategy BI platform was designed from the ground up to...

SAS®9 takes you beyond business intelligence as you know it with a single, scalable platform for delivering proven predictive analytics and a consistent and rewarding user interface experience. SAS®9 takes you beyond business intelligence as you know it with a single, scalable platform for delivering proven predictive analytics and a consistent and rewarding user interface experience.

The SAS®9 Interactive Tour includes:

• An overview of SAS®9
• Customer Q&

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This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each sales user feels was built just for them. Even the best CRM system is only as valuable as the data that goes in it, making user adoption a top consideration in any CRM initiative. But if user adoption is only considered after system selection, it may be too late. The specific requirements of each of a CRM system's diverse user groups must be considered from the outset and used to...

MSA's Michael Kennelly discusses Balanced Scorecard and how tools like IFS Applications can help you implement this innovative system. While the bottom line lets you know where you are in business, according to MSA's Michael Kennelly, balanced scorecard lets you know what you are giving up to get there. In this interview, Kennelly discusses Balanced Scorecard and how tools like IFS Applications can help you implement this innovative system...

IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture, it also delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management. Reporting is a key capability within IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture. It delivers seamless reporting,...

IBM Cognos has a flexible and tiered pricing grid that enables companies to cost effectively deliver BI and PM benefits to more users, and more types of users. Too often companies assume that software for potential business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) projects is too expensive. But IBM Cognos has a flexible and tiered pricing grid that enables companies to cost effectively deliver BI and PM benefits to more users, and more types of users. Companies with a...

The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions-with similar results. For many, the dividing line that kept (DW) information isolated from the front office vanished. Going beyond reporting, visionary enterprises found ways to enhance revenue and cost efficiencies across multiple business process and knowledge user...

For analytic applications, the Vertica Analytic Database is designed to deliver high performance at lower cost and More than 5 customers have now implemented Vertica, and the experience of three is described in this report. For analytic applications, the Vertica Analytic Database is designed to deliver high performance at lower cost. More than 5 customers have now implemented Vertica, and the experience of three is described in this report. Business users looking for a lower...