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Report:Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes

HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning

Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...

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Blog:Make data confidence index part of your BI architecture

I often see two ends of the extreme when I talk to clients who are trying to deal with data confidence challenges. One group typically sees it as a problem that IT has to address, while business...

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Report:How Forrester Clients Are Using Big Data

These data charts are based on the June 2011 Global Big Data Online Survey.

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Blog:Key Questions To Ask Yourself Before Embarking On A Big Data Journey

Do you think you are ready to tackle Big Data because you are pushing the limits of your data Volume, Velocity, Variety and Variability? Take a deep breath (and maybe a cold shower) before you...

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Blog:RFQ For BI Software Pricing Research

On my Q3 research agenda is a document reviewing typical BI software pricing configurations. Unfortunately, I find that just asking vendors whether they have this or that pricing policy (by...

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Blog:How Do You Sell BI To The Business Executives?

Whoa! Hold your horses. If this is indeed a key challenge that you’ve tried to address in the past without much success, consider switching jobs. This is not a joke. Business intelligence (BI)...

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Tool:Yearly Trend In The Number Of Forrester BI And BI-Related Inquiries

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Blog:Oracle Leapfrogs BI Competitors By Acquiring Endeca

This is a very smart move by Oracle. Until the Siebel and Hyperion acquisitions, Oracle was not a leader in the BI and analytics space. Those acquisitions put them squarely in the top three together...

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Blog:BI on BI Or How BI Pros Must Eat Their Own Dog Food

  BI professionals spend a significant portion of their time trying to instill the discipline of datadriven performance management into their business partners. However, isn’t there...

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Report:Trends 2011 And Beyond: Business Intelligence

Agility Will Shape Business Intelligence For The Next Decade

Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...

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Report:Build An Agile BI Organization

Organization: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Earlier-generation business intelligence (BI) support centers — organized along the same lines as support centers for all other enterprise software — fall short when it comes to taking...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010

Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind

Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...

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Report:Updated 2012: BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool

Create a shortlist using our tool to find the right set of providers based on your technology requirements, industry, project size, and geographic scope.Eliminate or add partners based on factors...

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Report:Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook

In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

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Report:BI On BI: How To Manage The Performance Of BI Initiatives

Performance Management: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Business intelligence (BI) is often defined as processes and technologies to manage business performance, with the ultimate goal of making more informed decisions based on real data, not hunches. But...

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Report:A Practical How-To Approach To Mobile BI

Mobile Tablet PCs, Not Phones, Will Create Critical Mass For Enterprise Adoption

Mobile devices and mobile Internet are everywhere. Over the past few years, Forrester has tracked continuously increasing levels of adoption and maturity for mobile business applications, but not so...

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Blog:Trends 2011 And Beyond: Business Intelligence

Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...

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Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

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Blog:What Does R Integration Really Mean For BI Platforms?

I just received yet another call from a reporter asking me to comment on yet another BI vendor announcing R integration. All leading BI vendors are embedding/integrating with R these days, so I was...

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Report:Trends In Business Intelligence Organizational Structures

This set of data charts presents the results of the May 2011 Global Business Intelligence Organization Online Survey.

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Blog:Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About BI

How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, and Oracle Lead, With Information Builders, SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy Close Behind

In Forrester's 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders , SAS, Microsoft, and...

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Blog:Key Findings From Forrester's Latest Enterprise BI Maturity Survey (2010 Update)

Here's what the latest numbers from Forrester's 2010 enterprise BI maturity survey show. Organizations that use BI show increased (+5.7% from 2009) levels of maturity. However,...

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Tool:BI Adoption Trends From 2008 To 2009

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Blog:Best practices for using spreadsheets as BI tools

By Boris Evelson We all know that the war of fighting the proliferation of spreadsheets (as BI or as any other applications) in enterprises has been fought and lost. Gone are the days when BI and...