By providing the means for sophisticated analysis of corporate data, business intelligence software promises to give organisations a competitive edge. silicon.com looks at real-world examples of where this technology lives up to its potential and examines how it can be used to best effect by IT and business executives.
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L'Oréal gets business planning makeover
Cosmetics company exchanges "huge and complicated" Excel-based system for Cognos software
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Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Makers of business intelligence software are dreaming of a day when their products will run on every desktop. But will this ever come to pass?
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Leader: The cure for info overload?
Business intelligence tools are no panacea but when used properly have been shown to increase efficiency of business processes and staff productivity.
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Publisher gets smart about marketing
Wolters Kluwer has invested nearly £1m in business intelligence tools that are increasing the effectiveness of its marketing campaigns.
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University liberates users with business intelligence
Roehampton University is using business intelligence tools to enable end users to independently and quickly analyse data. Danny Bradbury reports.
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Holiday resort slashes time for data queries
Holiday resort Center Parcs is using business intelligence tools to better understand its customers' behaviour. Danny Bradbury gets the story in this case study.
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Beating fraud - can business intelligence help?
Fraud, data theft, e-crime. These may not be the first terms that come to mind when thinking of business intelligence software but, says Will Sturgeon, sophisticated analysis of data can indeed help companies beat nefarious activity.
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Compliance made easy
Business intelligence isn't just about enhancing performance, says Danny Bradbury - it can help your company keep the regulators happy, too.
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Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence
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Free wi-fi steams into St Pancras
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Slowdown on the cards for business intelligence
The mega-vendors are coming, says Gartner...
Business intelligence beefs up
Bigger revenues and "mega vendors" in 2007, analysts predict
HP taps up Russian boffins for research lab
St Petersburg facility will focus on data mining and BI...
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