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This Evaluation Centre provides information on data warehousing software, business intelligence software and corporate performance management (CPM) software:

1. Go to Strategy for an up-to-date overview on this vital first stage in your data warehousing software, business intelligence software and corporate performance management (CPM) software project including data warehousing, business intelligence and CPM articles by expert authors.

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3. Go to Implementation for information about the remainder of the data warehousing software lifecycle featuring management briefing articles by top consultancy and analyst firms.

4. Go to Service Centre if you need any other support or information on data warehousing software, business intelligence software and corporate performance management (CPM) software. The Evaluation Centre is here to help with all your data warehousing software and business intelligence software requirements.

 

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Data warehousing and business intelligence: seeing the wood for the trees

Evaluation Centre's overview of the data warehousing software, business intelligence software and corporate performance management (CPM) software market

...Companies are awash with data on their customers, suppliers and business activities. This represents a valuable commodity that needs to be used to influence the organisation’s decision-making processes and ultimately improve its whole business performance.

It’s probably true to say that those organisations who manage their data more effectively, who produce useful insight into their business, will be more successful in the long term and be the survivors as we negotiate this difficult economic period. In short, the more you understand the mechanics of your business, the better able you are to steer it in the right direction.

Organisations have appreciated this, some more than others, and have used data warehouses and business intelligence (BI) software applications to try and convert organisational data from their myriad sources into meaningful information. However, there have been many false starts and some failures in this process and it has taken several iterations of systems before companies have started to reap real benefits.

The use of data warehousing and business intelligence tools has developed in different ways in organisations for a variety of reasons including the size of the company and the focus given to the technology.

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New Strategic Briefings

Is the mid-market missing out?

Corporate performance management and business intelligence software is meant to be as useful to mid-tier companies as large corporates. Clive Longbottom of Quocirca wonders whether the message is getting through.
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Science of appliance

Appliance solutions are currently a hot topic in data warehousing. So what do users gain from these next-generation systems? John Donoghue of Steria investigates.
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Into analysis

As business intelligence requirements develop, more companies are going to need special ‘analytic’ data warehouses, says Philip Howard of Bloor Research.
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