What do companies do when they need the power of analytics to be increased with decision support architecture from enterprise data?  They built business cases. Here are five business components to address in your own business case.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cindi Howson explains best practices for evaluating (and re-evaluating) your BI tool set and looks at what's cool in BI.
                    
			            - By James E. Powell
 - November 12, 2013
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Rather than worrying about new technologies, organizations should be sweating the small stuff: the bread-and-butter activities such as operational reporting or scorecards that still perplex so many enterprises.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 12, 2013
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    To explore future possibilities and opportunities that do not currently exist, enterprises must explore the capabilities of simulation.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Think of SaaS newcover Treasure Data as a kind of Hadoop-as-a-service offering, albeit one with an emphasis on data warehousing workloads.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - November 5, 2013
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    We present five important ways to make a BI program more efficient and uncover the greatest opportunities to maximize ROI. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new survey from IBM links financial performance with use of cloud computing for competitive advantage.