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Report:Drive Business Insight With Effective BI Strategy

Executive Overview: The Business Intelligence Playbook

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: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:The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market

Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

Six Leaders And Six Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The End User BI Market

In Forrester's 31-criteria evaluation of self-service business intelligence (BI) vendors, we found that IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy led the pack due to the breadth of...

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Report:Business Intelligence Market Trends In Asia Pacific

Demand for business intelligence (BI) tools, technologies, and approaches is increasing across Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ). Competitive pressures in both mature and growth markets across the...

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Report:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

Complement Your RDBMS-Based BI With More Agile DBMS Technologies

We know how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and flexibility challenges now represent BI's...

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Report:Empower BI HEROes With Self-Service Tools

An Empowered Report

In Forrester's recently published book, Empowered, Forrester Research analysts describe ways that new technologies can empower business people and make them true HEROes through individual...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Hot Insurance Tech Companies To Watch In 2010: Q2 Update

Effective vertical strategies are becoming more critical for tech vendors as they try to address the core business problems — not just the pure technical problems — of their customers....

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Report:Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch In 2010: Q2 Update

Focusing on solving the core industry-specific business problems is the next big wave in the tech industry. Nowhere is it more evident of technology's unique role in solving business problems than in...

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Report:Market Overview: The Business Intelligence Software Market

Advanced Analytics Will Drive Growth To $14 Billion By 2014

Business intelligence (BI) software is the tip of the application software pyramid. Pure functionality, no matter how sophisticated, is no longer sufficient to successfully support the changing...

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Report:Latest BI Adoption Trends -- Still Ripe In Opportunities Across Regions, Company Sizes, And Industries

This set of data charts examines BI adoption trends from Forrester's recent Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008.

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Report:BI Belt Tightening In A Tough Economic Climate

Practical Advice Applicable To Any Economic Condition

As an economic downturn becomes a sobering reality, enterprises look for various ways to increase revenues and reduce costs. While overall IT budgets become targets for cost cutting, business...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The GRC Technology Puzzle: Getting All The Pieces To Fit

Breaking Down The Complex GRC Technology Landscape

At a time when the global business community struggles to enhance internal controls and maintain long-term viability, improvements in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs can be well worth...

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Report:Topic Overview: Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Breaks Through Traditional BI Barriers

Illuminate Solutions is a young Spain-based analytic database vendor that offers a compelling new approach optimized for complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries. Illuminate's correlation database uses what...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008

In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle...

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Report:Many Users Are Satisfied With Product Offerings From Mainstream BI Vendors

Forrester surveyed 89 BI users as a part of the Wave evaluation of enterprise reporting and analysis platforms, expected to publish in Q3 2008. These data charts highlight the results from that user...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006

Business Objects And Cognos Lead In Our Product Evaluation

Forrester evaluated 10 leading business intelligence (BI), database, and application vendors across 92 criteria and found Business Objects has established early BI platform leadership, followed by...

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