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This video provides an overview of how to optimize an existing Business Intelligence (BI) solution. Optimizing your BI program means providing better information to more users at a lower cost of delivery, in other words, extending capabilities...

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This solution set will teach IT managers how to reduce the costs of BI fragmentation, build a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) to manage the BI strategy, and standardize the BI solution.

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Knowing where to start is half the battle when it comes to optimizing a BI program. Use Info-Tech's BI Health Check to diagnose the health of your BI program and discover the key areas that require improvement.

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Fine-tuning an existing Business Intelligence (BI) solution is crucial for realizing business value. Optimizing your BI program means providing better information to more users at a lower cost of delivery, in other words, extending capabilities...

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Successful warehousing strategies start with business focused requirements, the right team and a sound project plan.

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Building a data warehouse (DW) can be an extremely valuable project; however, it requires considerable up-front investment and is often fraught with risks. Is your organization ready to successfully go ahead with implementing a DW? This...

Service oriented architecture (SOA) promises to provide businesses with flexible applications that can be quickly adapted to meet evolving business. However, successful SOA projects must be built on a solid foundation of quality data. Solve data...

Managing enterprise data quality is essential for preventing poor decisions and wasting resources. To assert better management control over data quality, institute a data governance program led by a data quality team.

Getting real value from a business intelligence (BI) application depends on feeding the system high quality data that can be trusted. Improve the return on a BI investment by instituting an analytical master data management (MDM) strategy.

Many enterprise decision makers are hesitant to even consider a BI initiative because of the anticipated cost. Here are four ways to implement BI technology without breaking the bank.

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With the increase in demand for data for strategic decision making, companies are forced to collect information about customers, customer behaviors, and markets for use in decision making. Storing and managing this data in an easily accessible...

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Data volumes are growing exponentially as more companies capture information about customers, customer behaviors, and markets for use in decision making. Managing this data can be a challenge. IT leaders must build an Information Architecture...

Extract Transform and Load (ETL) is the most popular approach for loading data in a Data Warehouse (DW). As the DW becomes more entrenched in the business and more data is loaded, load times continue to get longer. With DW technologies becoming...