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Business Intelligence<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="5" height="1">
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<FONT COLOR=blue FACE=Verdana SIZE=2><B>Business Intelligence</B> can be defined as "deriving Information from Data".
<LI>Current Best Practice includes tailored User <B>Portals, Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators</B>,('KPIs').
<LI>For a Business Intelligence System, an enterprise needs to manage the data from End-to-End.
<LI>This requires quality assurance from the Source to the Target.
<LI>It is becoming more important for a <B>'Data Steward'</B> to assume <B>ownership</B> of data at each stage in its processing.
I have just (April 10th.2006) bought a
<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471724173/sr=8-1/qid=1144577114/ref=sr_1_1/103-5254545-9659059?%5Fencoding=UTF8" TARGET=_NEW>
<B>book on Performance Dashboards</B></A> by Wayne Eckerson,of TDWI, that gets 5 stars on Amazon.
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="8"><a class="cell" href="http://www.actuate.com" TARGET=_NEW>Actuate</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Siebel integrates with Actuate to provide a complete BI solution.</td>
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<A class="cell" HREeeeF="bi_training.htm"><B>BI Training</b></a><IMG SRC="images/new.gif"></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Arrives next week</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.brio.com" TARGET=_NEW>Brio</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Offers Dashboards and here are some
<A HREF="http://www.brio.com/products/brio_metrics_builder/brio_metrics_4.html" TARGET=_NEW>Screen Shots</A>.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.businessobjects.com" TARGET=_NEW>Business Objects</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Provides Performance Management Dashboards.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.cognos.com" TARGET=_NEW>Cognos</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Provides Dashboards and claims to be the leading Scorecard Supplier.
<BR>Online Training is available from Cognos for
<A HREF="http://support.cognos.com/en/training/certification/index.html" TARGET=_NEW>
Certification</A>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.crystaldecisions.com" TARGET=_NEW>Crystal Decisions</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Acquired by Business Objects in July, 2003.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.dyhnasight.com" TARGET=_NEW>DynaSight</a> </td>
<td class="cell" width="70%"><B>Build your own Dashboards</B>.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.essbase.com" TARGET=_NEW>Essbase</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Offers Dashboards,Key Performance measurement, also Publish and Subscribe.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.hyperion.com" TARGET=_NEW>Hyperion</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Acquired Brio at the end of July, 2003 - offers Dashboards and Scorecards.</td>
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<td class="cell" VALIGN=top width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.ibm.com" TARGET=_NEW>IBM</A></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Includes WebSphere Portal.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.informationbuilders.com/" TARGET=_NEW>
Information Builders</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%"><B>A well-established Supplier</B> offering
<a class="cell" href="http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/index.html" TARGET=_NEW>WebFocus</A>
a very comprehensive BI Solution with dashboards, performance management
framework and scorecard, plus OLAP and visualization tools.</td>
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.microsoft.com" TARGET=_NEW>
Microsoft</a></td>
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1) Provides a <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" TARGET=_NEW>Sharepoint Portal</A>, including a Digital Dashboard.
<BR>2) Also provides OLAP Analytical Services and Reporting Services.
<BR>3) <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/compare/lotus_dashboardpaper.asp" TARGET=_NEW>Compare offerings from Microsoft and IBM</A>.</td>
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<a class="cell" HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/" TARGET=_NEW>Microsoft</A>
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Microsoft presents their <A HREF="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174783.aspx" TARGET=_NEW>
Unified Dimensional Model</A> for BI and KPI.</td>
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<td class="cell" VALIGN=top width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.oracle.com" TARGET=_NEW>Oracle</a></td>
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1) <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/broadband/showondemand.html?1320023" TARGET=_NEW>
Watch a WebCast</A> on building a Digital Dashboard and Portal</A>,.
<BR>2) Use Oracle <B>Portal</B> to <A HREF="http://portalstudio.oracle.com/pls/ops/docs/FOLDER/ONLINE_HELP/ONLINEMANUALS/DOC_CASEBOOK/repostry.htm" TARGET=_NEW>build an Information Repository</A> !!!
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<td class="cell" width="30%"><img src="images/white-point.gif" width="17" height="7"><a class="cell" href="http://www.sas.com" TARGET=_NEW>SAS</a></td>
<td class="cell" width="70%">Offers an
<A HREF="http://www.sas.com/solutions/riskmgmt/" TARGET=_NEW>'Executive Dashboard'</A> for Risk Management.
An Online M.Sc. in Business Intelligence is offered by
<A HREF="http://www.sas.com/offices/europe/uk/newsletter/feature/6dec_jan04/distance_learning.html" TARGET=_NEW>
Sheffield University</A> (UK).</td>
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