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Making Flow Happen: How to Build Dashboards That Persuade, Inform, and Engage

In data visualization, flow is crucial. Your audience should smoothly absorb and use the information in a dashboard without distractions or turbulence. Lack of flow means lack of communication, which means failure.


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3 Shifts in the Modern Data Environment

This paper seeks to outline three major thought shifts concerning the modern data environment that Information Technology leaders need to understand in order to support data-driven decision making within their organizations.


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Real-Time Legacy Data Use Cases

Download this white paper to explore four real-time legacy data use cases.


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Best Practices for Data Integration in Hybrid Cloud

Download this e-book to learn more about data integration challenges and three best practices for data integration in hybrid cloud.


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What Is Augmented Analytics? Powering Your Data with AI

In this report, we precisely define what augmented analytics is, explain best practices for deploying augmented analytics, and show how you can use augmented analytics practically within real-world case studies.


TIBCO Data Virtualization: A Security Layer for Analytics

This white paper provides information about how data virtualization can be used as a security layer for analytics.


Enterprise Dimension and Hierarchy Management for BI and Big Data

When it comes to understanding the rationale behind managing enterprise dimensions, attributes, and hierarchies, many people are at a loss. This is a problem because neglecting the management of enterprise dimensions, attributes, and hierarchies will result in erroneous analysis.


The Forrester Wave: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019

Download the report to learn why Forrester believes IBM Security Guardium is a good fit “for buyers seeking to centrally reduce and manage data risks across disparate database environments.”


Is Your Company In Peril If Critical Data Is Breached?

Delegating data security to IT teams does not absolve the responsibility business leaders have to protect data. Forrester Consulting surveyed 150 IT, security, and risk decision makers and examined their approach to protecting their company’s critical data and information and communicating data risk to senior business executives.


Data Privacy Is The New Strategic Priority

This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting evaluates the state of enterprises’ data privacy compliance in a shifting regulatory landscape.


The 2020 Vision: The Next Decade for Mobile Intelligence

Business professionals today expect their work environment to be as user-friendly as their consumer life, offering a simple experience and readily available information. It's not surprising that organizations have made mobile devices and integral part of the working toolkit of their employees.


Six Strategies for Data-Centric Decision Making

This checklist report focuses on six strategic issues that organizations need to address to push beyond barriers and set the stage for greater speed, confidence, and quality in data-driven decision making.


Constellation's AstroChart: Data to Decisions

Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. Data to Decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations.


Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study

This report from Dresner Advisory Services examines user attitudes and experiences when it comes to choosing and using from among the wide range of current business intelligence tools and platforms available.


7 Card Use Cases For The Intelligent Enterprise

This whitepaper explains how HyperIntelligence helps organizations operationalize their existing investments and arm everyone across the organization with intelligence.


Microstrategy 2019: The Platform for the Intelligent Enterprise

In a landscape defined by major skill gaps, hectic schedules, and ever-shortening attention spans, it takes both technology and technique to arm everyone with the data and intelligence they need to thrive.


5 Enterprise Mobility Trends to Watch in 2019

With trends such as big data, artificial intelligence and IoT dominating today’s business technology headlines, the buzz around enterprise mobility (now considered known and familiar) may have lessened, but its importance has not.


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The Data Warehouse Lives On: An Information Island Within a Data Lake

This report explores eight areas where the appropriate combination and placement of functionality and data across data warehouses and data lakes optimally supports multiple business and technical needs.


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Leveraging the Cloud for Data Warehouse Modernization

This report describes the five key technical architectural requirements that any platform for data warehouse modernization must satisfy.


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Gartner and Qlik Attunity Report: Enabling DataOps for Analytics

Data and analytics initiatives are failing because yesterday’s processes and systems can no longer meet today’s business requirements. Data pipelines are breaking and data quality is suffering. DataOps seeks to right the ship with processes and technologies that improve the speed, efficiency, and flexibility of data pipelines. Read this report to learn how DataOps applies DevOps, agile, and lean manufacturing principles to data management.


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3 Steps to a Stronger KPI Strategy

Every business leader today understands the importance of using KPIs to measure progress against goals, but with data overload, choosing metrics that matter can be a challenge.


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The Essential Guide to Data Lakes: Designing Data Lakes to Optimize Analytics

Learn how a modern data lake architecture can be designed to optimize advanced, enterprise-ready analytics.


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How to Build a Data Analytics Platform to Support your End-to-End Data Journey

In this whitepaper, we outline the key tenets of a data analytics platform.


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Modernize Your Data Warehouse

Download this e-book to learn how you can modernize your data warehouse in the cloud and improve overall efficiency.


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2019 IT Architecture Modernization Trends

While the new world is exciting and full of potential, IT executives must first make the decisions on how to invest in innovation and new solutions without reducing support for existing business-critical technology. The only possible way to meet both objectives is through modernization of IT architectures.


4 Fundamental Ways Data is Changing the Face of Business

All of today's data represents massive – and unprecedented – opportunity for business. Intelligence. Optimization. Innovation. Profitability. Growth. And competitive edge. So where do data-driven insights have the most impact? And what types of benefits can you expect to see?


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Fueling Digital Transformation with Data: 4 Approaches That Get You There Faster

The digital world has revolutionized the way we live, work, play, and shop, and every business is facing the mandate to transform. If you want to compete, you have to find ways to reinvent every aspect of your business.


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3rd-Generation Business Intelligence

No matter what it’s called, the challenge has always been the same: How can businesses analyze data to make discoveries that lead to competitive edge?


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Evaluation Guide: How to Choose the Right Modern BI and Analytics Platform

This evaluation guide aims to support IT organizations as they evaluate and select a modern BI and analytics platform suitable for a broad, enterprisewide deployment.


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What Finance Leaders Need to Know About Machine Learning

For most finance executives, machine learning and other AI tools are not topics for which school or work experience has offered any preparation.


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Success in Healthcare

Information Builders partners with healthcare firms to optimize care quality, improve cost control and revenue cycle management; increase visibility into asset utilization; improve the accuracy and consistency of patient data by helping to identify at-risk populations, and more.


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5 Ways to Boost Adoption of BI and Analytics

Download this white paper for five effective ways to promote widespread adoption of business intelligence and analytics across your enterprise.


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Success in the Mid-Market

Information Builders partners with mid-market firms to create a unified information architecture that supports core activities across the business.


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How Community Banks Achieve Profitable Growth With Data and Analytics

This white paper highlights the benefits community banks can achieve and the challenges they face when selecting and deploying analytics solutions to support their business strategies.


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Achieving a Force Multiplier and Improving Organizational Effectiveness in Law Enforcement

Can law enforcement agencies at local, state, and federal levels utilize advanced technologies to boost organizational effectiveness and promote higher levels of public safety?


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Improving Value-Based Care Through Strategic Use of Data

Healthcare professionals face many challenges when collecting, managing, and exchanging data in support of value-based care.


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Trends in Modern Data Integration

In this white paper, we’ll investigate some of the modern integration techniques that are emerging in response to new demands.


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KLAS’ Key Layers of Population Health IT

This white paper, examines the six layers of population health IT as outlined by KLAS, and discusses how enterprise success requires both a solid data management foundation and a robust analytics platform.


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How Credit Unions Achieve Profitable Growth With Data and Analytics

This white paper explains how embracing advanced analytics technologies can transform credit union operations and finance.


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Achieving Digital Transformation Using IoT and Big Data

In this white paper, we'll show you how to use IoT and big data strategically, through use cases, real-world success stories, and discuss where our technology fits in.


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Making a Case for Embedded Business Intelligence

Download this white paper to learn why your organization should embed business intelligence tools and how to select the right solution.


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Five Steps to Harnessing Data for Business Value

Download this white paper for a proven approach to deriving lasting value from your data, including building the foundation for renewable insights and measurable business success.


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IoT Analytics: From Data Integration to Actionable Intelligence

Download this white paper for an exploration of the challenges associated with implementing actionable Internet of Things analytics and the critical role integration plays in the process.


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Dirty Data, Broken Trust

Download this white paper for an examination of how losing trust in your data destroys economic value.


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Busting 10 Myths About Data Quality Management

This white paper deconstructs 10 myths about data quality management and offers practical alternatives that can help your organization design and implement an effective data quality management strategy.


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The 8 Worst Practices in Master Data Management and How to Avoid Them

Download this white paper to get your organization on the right path toward a successful master data management program.


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Four Actions for a Chief Data Officer's First Year

Download this white paper to learn four key ways a CDO can demonstrate value to company leaders, as well as prove to stakeholders that data is an asset worthy of time and money investments.


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Customer-Facing BI and Analytics

Download this white paper to learn how customer-facing technologies help companies increase efficiency, reduce costs, boost customer loyalty, and even increase revenue.