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ALSO CALLED: CI, eBusiness Intelligence, BI, EBI, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Business Knowledge
DEFINITION: Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications include the activities of decision support  … 
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Risk Management and Product Delivery in Consumer Lending
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) can enhance risk management, lending process streamlining and flexibility.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 2008
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Business Rule Management Systems and Financial Services: Equifax as a Case Study
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This case study examines Equifax's process of implementing a Business Rule Management System (BRMS) and the lessons learned. It provides readers with an understanding of BRMS as well best practices should they choose to implement a BRMS.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2005
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ILOG JRules 6.7 - Download A 6-month Evaluation Copy Of The Full-Featured JRules
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
TRIAL SOFTWARE: ILOG JRules is the easiest, most effective way to externalize business rules from code. It's faster, more flexible, and more reliable than alternatives like open source or home-grown rule engines. Download A 6-month Evaluation Copy Today!
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Apr 2008
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Business Process Management: Achieving Greater Process Automation
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how a business rule management system (BRMS) can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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Why Business Rules: A Case for Business Consumers of Information Technology
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the relationship between business and IT groups within the typical enterprise and explores how the implementation of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) allows both groups find common ground.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2006
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Fraud Prevention and Detection for Credit and Debit Card Transactions
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines credit card fraud and details business rules-based fraud prevention and detection.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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The Path toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Ferrari North America
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 02 Dec 2008
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Entertainment Retailer Expects Store Data Analysis to Increase Sales by $1.8 Million
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
CASE STUDY: Virgin wanted to analyze its daily operations data more quickly, and in greater depth so they used Microsoft® Windows Server System™ integrated server software and the Microsoft .NET Framework to build a business intelligence solution.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and Information Builders
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
EGUIDE: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise business intelligence capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Information Builders.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and Business Objects
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise business intelligence capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Business Objects.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Disaster Recovery Outsourcing and Services
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: This document is based on an i365/TechTarget Webcast entitled "Disaster Recovery Outsourcing and Services."
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Quality in Action: Introducing the Quality Management
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Join us as we introduce our newest Quality Management offerings that transform the way people work together to deliver enduring software quality as a strategic business competency - to improve operational efficiencies.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Actionable Enterprise Architecture
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Enterprises undergo costly efforts in defining their Enterprise Architecture (EA) to ensure their software development is flexible for their business.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Automating the Generation and Secure Distribution of Excel Reports
sponsored by Actuate
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the reasons why generating and distributing spreadsheet reports is so tedious and error prone by examining the typical steps in the process.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Email Archiving: Saving Money and Time for Small & Medium Businesses
sponsored by Metalogix Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how exactly email archiving handles problems and at the same time reduces overall costs and saves management time.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Collaborate with IT Experts on Best Practices for Managing Your Business PCs
sponsored by Intel Corporation
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Secure and manage PCs through collaboration with the experts in the Intel vPro Expert Center. Visit the Intel vPro Expert Center to learn more.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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"Ask an Expert" about vPro Technology
sponsored by Intel Corporation
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Got a question? Want to know how you can configure Intel vPro technology to remotely manage your PCs?
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Midsize Communications Solutions for Dummies
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
BOOK: Midsize Business Communications for Dummies explores the unique challenges faced by midsize businesses and how intelligent communications can improve interactions across employees, suppliers and customers.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Argo Turboserve Corporation (ATC)
sponsored by Microsoft
CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Argo Turboserve Corporation implemented Microsoft Dynamics software to produce significant cost savings.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to learn a proactive data privacy strategy that will remove the vulnerability within your SAP environment.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Premieres: 11 Dec 2008, 14:00 EST (19:00 GMT)
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Business Buy-In the Art of Project Justification
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document explains how to build a solid internal business case for your projects, examines what is important to the executive, and connects storage solutions to strategic business requirements and initiatives.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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LINX™ IPC for Distributed Systems
sponsored by Enea
WHITE PAPER: LINX is an inter-process communications (IPC) service for distributed systems and is based on OSE's LINK Handler protocol, which has been a key message passing component in OSE.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Forrester Research Oracle Database Security 11g: Data Masking Webcast
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST: In this webcast, Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn explains the importance of using data masking products, such as Oracle Data Masking, to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive or regulated data.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Application data protection: Key risks and best practices
sponsored by Ounce Labs
WEBCAST: Learn the risks to sensitive enterprise application data, explain how to avoid the top trouble spots, and look at best practices you can implement to protect your key data while still making it work for your organization.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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DEMO: Enterprise Security Reporter® for SQL Server, Version 3.62
sponsored by ScriptLogic Corporation
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Enterprise Security Reporter™ for SQL Server provides the administrator with tools to compare, analyze, query and report on the security and configuration of SQL databases, objects and schemas, server logins and database users. Free Trial.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 28 Jan 2008
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): …  systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Business intelligence applications can be:

  • Mission-critical and integral to an enterprise's operations or occasional to meet a special requirement
  • Enterprise-wide or local to one division, department, or project
  • Centrally initiated or driven by user demand

This term was used as early as September, 1996, when … 
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