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Business Intelligence

ALSO CALLED: CI, eBusiness Intelligence, BI, EBI, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Business Knowledge
DEFINITION: Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications include the activities of decision support  … 
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Leveraging the Edge: Delivering Unmatched Performance for Large File Downloads
sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper describes how a distributed architecture is vitally important to achieve performance and reliability in the delivery of large electronic files.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 06 Jan 2009
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Tom Davenport Study: Linking Decisions and Information for Organizational Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The study focuses on the relationship between information and decision-making obtained from interviews with a number of organizations.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009
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Efficient Partner Management: How Will It Contribute towards Success?
sponsored by Comarch
WHITE PAPER: This article discusses the business benefits that (partner relationship management) PRM will bring to operators.
Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Published: 06 Jan 2009
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Convergence in Network and Service Management
sponsored by Comarch
WHITE PAPER: The Comarch OSS Suite includes the Network Inventory Management solution, which allows for dividing the network into domains with different user groups and roles assigned.
Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Published: 06 Jan 2009
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The New World of Fault-Tolerant Solution
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper discovers a new solution for business-critical, 24/7 computing environments that dramatically increases performance, reduces costs and complexities and uses energy efficiently.
Posted: 31 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008
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Real-Time Adaptive Security
sponsored by Sourcefire
WHITE PAPER: Real-time adaptive intrusion systems integrate with network access controls and user data repositories for tracing events to systems and specific users dynamically monitor traffic patterns to mitigate threats and leverage vulnerability assessment.
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
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Application Delivery Challenge
sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This report explains various topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center, Foundry Serveriron application delivery controller, transforming data center into a dynamic delivery center and managed services to complement ADC.
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
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Ovum Examines How IBM Meets the Challenge of Delivering an Effective Unified Information Platform
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Having launched its "Information on Demand (IOD)" initiative few years ago. IBM has been among the most aggressive vendors in building an end-to-end unified information management (UIM) capability.
Posted: 22 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Be an Influencer
sponsored by ZoomPanel
WHITE PAPER: At ZoomPanel you earn ZoomRewards by completing online surveys. ZoomRewards can be spent on gifts, prizes, or charitable donations. Signup for surveys now.
Posted: 20 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Reducing Complexity by Simplifying the Enterprise Data Center Network
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how organizations can centralize and consolidate the data center environment, allowing IT administrators to oversee and manage resources in fewer locations while still providing global access and reducing operating costs.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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How to Use Six Sigma to Communicate Data Quality Improvement
sponsored by Baseline Consulting
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of how the Six Sigma methodology can be applied to your efforts, with particular emphasis on communicating improvement needs and progress to executives and other stakeholders.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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The Case for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) in Proactive Network Defense
sponsored by TriGeo Network Security
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains precisely how real-time analysis, combined with in-memory correlation, and automated notification and remediation capabilities can provide you with unprecedented network visibility, security and control.
Posted: 15 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Dec 2008
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Get the Facts: Real-Time, On-Demand Information for Business Intelligence and Data Integration
sponsored by Vision Solutions
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how a software-based data replication solution can drive value by providing simplified, on-demand enterprise-wide data sharing and right-time data integration for any business.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008
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Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The combination of high performance and efficiency make the PowerEdge R900 an excellent Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization server.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008
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Operational Excellence Is Key to Maximizing IT Investments
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Investigating the critical need of operational excellence in challenging economic times, this CIO2CIO research brief provides an analysis of how IT leaders can play a critical role in delivering value to an organization by committing to excellence.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Secure and Effective Data Extraction from the SAP® ERP System
sponsored by Winshuttle, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: 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.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Invest and Innovate Today, Grow Your Business Tomorrow
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Learn how integrated software solutions help you invest and innovate to sustain your company's growth by differentiating products and services keeping your costs down and prices competitive and more.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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The New Microsoft IT Pro Certifications and Exams
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: The MCITP assures that anyone possessing Microsoft certification has a breadth of knowledge on various products and is concerned with the network architecture and design.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Qos: What Is It? Why Do We Need It?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: QoS can be used in converged networks to provide voice packets priority access to resources, or it can be used to differentiate data packets from different application stream and provide access to resources according to policy.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows servers is the gold standard in Windows® data protection, providing cost-effective, high-performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008
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How Does Ping Really Work?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this paper is to resolve any lingering questions you may have about ping and to take your understanding to the next level.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008
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Managing SharePoint in an Enterprise Environment
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other SharePoint technologies are excellent tools for a modern, web-based office environment. This white paper gives pointers on managing them.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008
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Beyond Reporting: Requirements for Large-Scale Analytics
sponsored by Aster Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: To apply analytics against large volumes of data, organizations need a purpose-built analytics platform that runs on a massively parallel processing environment and supports custom-built analytical programs that can be invoked via SQL.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008
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Growing Revenue with Frontline Data Warehouses
sponsored by Aster Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and data warehousing for organizations building competitive advantage through analytics.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008
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The Time Is Now: Making Information Security Strategic to Business Innovation
sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
WHITE PAPER: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, produced this report that presents seven strategies of ten security leaders from around the world that are critical to making information security decisions.
Posted: 08 Dec 2008 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): …  systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Business intelligence applications can be:

  • Mission-critical and integral to an enterprise's operations or occasional to meet a special requirement
  • Enterprise-wide or local to one division, department, or project
  • Centrally initiated or driven by user demand

This term was used as early as September, 1996, when … 
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