Business intelligence software ROI

Overviews: Selling business intelligence

• Learning Guide for Business Intelligence
  This guide introduces business leaders to the fundamentals of business intelligence software. It provides a "quick start" approach through articles, case studies, white papers and expert advice.

• ROI calculator: Business intelligence
  This tool will help you assess the value of a business intelligence (BI) effort in your customer's environment.

• The value of business intelligence
  How can BI help a customer? This tip points out the BI benefits, risks and costs.

• Compliance and BI: Same mission, different approaches

Both BI and compliance initiatives are used to help manage a company's assets. But they offer completely different approaches to the same goal. This column discusses the differences and similarities between BI and compliance and how they can complement each other to achieve the same goal.
• Embedded analytics: The next wave in business intelligence
  Business intelligence software has many strategic benefits to offer organizations. However, it is often not used to its fullest potential. This column reviews the benefits of embedded analytics and how they will take BI to the next level.

How-tos: Delivering business intelligence

• Seven master data management best practices

Master data management's early adopters share best practices and potential pitfalls.
• Don't just calculate ROI. Help deliver it.

Show your customers how to justify business intelligence software spending, and prove the value of your analytic products while you're at it.
• SearchDataManagement.com Topic: Business intelligence
  Get help implementing and simplifying BI for your customers with the tips and guides in this topics section.

• Quarterly Updates: ITSM
  This Quarterly Update features the most current news, views, and analysis on ITSM and ITIL.

Case studies: Meeting customer needs

• Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide
  Read this excerpt from Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide and learn "what the savvy manager needs to know about how to coordinate a business model information flow."

• Getting BI with a little help from your friends
  The IT manager for a prominent legal auditing firm explains what he learned during a yearlong Oracle BI implementation process.

• Driving ROI with dashboards
  Eastern Mountain Sports CIO Jeff Neville says smart dashboards can lead to positive ROI and happy CEOs.

• BI tools give beer maker reason to toast
  Guinness maker Diageo had a major supply chain problem -- only it didn't know it. See how it fixed the problem and boosted ROI in the process.

• Business intelligence aids health center
  Jefferson Medical Center used business intelligence software to measure and improve employee productivity while maintaining a high level of patient care.

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