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TDWI is proud to maintain this library as a valuable resource for business intelligence and data warehousing professionals seeking to augment their knowledge of tools, solutions and industry best practices. The content in this repository is created by our many partners in the BI/DW hardware, software and consulting markets.

Latest White Papers:

Demand and Sales Funnel Analytics—How Forward-Thinking Marketing Organizations Deliver Competitive Differentiators

Demand and Sales Funnel Analytics—How Forward-Thinking Marketing Organizations Deliver Competitive Differentiators

03/10/10

Designed for the marketing operations manager and executive, this series of Sirius Decisions research briefs focuses on the emergence of Marketing Operations and its increasing adoption of demand and sales funnel analytics to drive best-in-class performance and deliver competitive differentiators.


Metrics-Based Sales Productivity—Delivering Dividends for Forward-Thinking Sales Organizations

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity—Delivering Dividends for Forward-Thinking Sales Organizations

03/10/10

Designed for the sales executive, this series of Sirius Decisions research briefs focuses on the advent of metrics-based sales productivity. New approaches are being embraced and delivering dividends to forward-thinking sales organizations


Sales Intelligence

Sales Intelligence

03/10/10

Examines the benefits of incorporating sales intelligence into the early portion of the sales cycle. For example, VITAS has been using IBM Cognos TM1 for over 10 years for everything from complex expansion planning to health-care regulatory compliance, realizing numerous benefits. Read how in this case study.


Data-Driven Marketing

Data-Driven Marketing

03/10/10

This report examines how organizations are using data to impact marketing performance and marketing effectiveness. For example, VITAS has been using IBM Cognos TM1 for over 10 years for everything from complex expansion planning to health care regulatory compliance, realizing numerous benefits. Read how in this case study.


Creating a Single Customer View: The Importance of Data Quality for CRM

Creating a Single Customer View: The Importance of Data Quality for CRM

03/04/10

Effective CRM demands the creation of a single, complete, accurate view of customer information that includes purchasing history, product interest, and recent support interactions. Competitive companies leverage single, trusted views of customers to drive improvements in product positioning, customer service and support, customer retention and life-time value. In today’s connected world, customer information degrades rapidly. Enterprises require a data quality solution able to profile and discover data anomalies and issues, correct and standardize all types of data, and maintain data accuracy and consistency in real time.


Data Quality Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Data Quality

Data Quality Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Data Quality

03/04/10

Any data intensive project offers an opportunity to improve data quality. Initiatives ranging from CRM, MDM, ERP, Business Intelligence, data warehouse, data governance, and any data migration, consolidation, or harmonization endeavor warrant a closer look at the quality of the data that will populate the target application or system. To provide a roadmap for optimal effectiveness and coordination, we offer a detailed guide that identifies, for business team members and IT resources, the data quality- related tasks that should be incorporated into a project plan. These data quality essentials emanate from best practices gathered from field experience resulting from thousands of data management projects and successes.


Reducing Total Cost of Ownership: Delivering Cost Effective Enterprise Business Intelligence

03/03/10

Learn how organizations can measure and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase the Return on Investment (ROI) for their business intelligence applications in this all-new white paper.


Comprehensive Business Intelligence Market Study: Summary Results from The BI Survey 7, Analytic Service Providers (ASP) for Data Warehousing

03/03/10

The BI Survey 7 offers a valuable guide to the product capabilities and support users can expect from leading BI vendors, including Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, SAP, Oracle, and MicroStrategy. Download the Summary Report for more.


7 Leading Applications of Business Intelligence Software, Analytic Application Development Tools

03/03/10

Discover the depth and breadth of business intelligence applications across seven major categories. This paper provides detailed descriptions, sample reports, key performance indicators (KPIs), and case studies from leading companies…


An Architecture for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Business Intelligence

An Architecture for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Business Intelligence

03/03/10

This white paper discusses how companies are exploring and successfully implementing SaaS to support on-demand business intelligence across all levels of their enterprise