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White Paper In response to research showing that many organizations have not set concrete requirements and job descriptions for their business analysts, this paper provides eight essential competencies necessary for success in this job function. [29 May 2007]
iPod is latest security risk for business, say analysts
News Analysts have warned for some time of the dangers of using portable devices, but the report points out these also now include "disk-based MP3 players, such as Apple's iPod, and digital cameras with smart media cards, memory sticks, compact flash... [06 Jul 2004]
Business Objects and MapInfo: Location Intelligence Component
White Paper The MapInfo Location Intelligence Component, a way of supplementing business intelligence (BI) with location, is a powerful solution for analysts in both business and government. Because MapInfo and Business Objects technologies embrace open... [30 Aug 2005]
Work With Web Services in Enterprise-Wide SOAs, Part 5: Optimize Web Service Applications With WebSphere Business Integration Tools
White Paper Developers should communicate with a team of business analysts on which modeling techniques and optimization schemes to use and the associated issues of each in designing Web services. Analysts also find that resolving issues up front makes their... [30 May 2008]
Dynamic Warehousing
White Paper BI began as a nice-to-have strategic and tactical decision making environment, used by analysts who had little or no interaction with the day-to day Business Transaction (BTx) systems. These analysts performed trend analysis, determined patterns of... [31 Aug 2007]
Oracle turns in results ahead of expectations
News Oracle met analysts' third quarter earnings estimates on Thursday, aided by double-digit growth in both new software licences and its licence updates and support business. The performance of Oracle's database business came out a little stronger... [12 Mar 2004]
Data Profiling: Minimizing Risk in Data Management Projects
White Paper Data profiling tools provide insurance against project delays and cost overruns due to be used by business analysts, not IT errors or inconsistencies in the data. The graphical tools make it easy for business analysts to scan 100 percent of the... [24 Jan 2007]
Razorbills: What and How of Service Consumption
White Paper To enable better consumption the author believes that people need infrastructure that allows people that may be less technical but do have domain expertise (the so called business analysts) to design and build solutions. [31 Mar 2007]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel a critical business for many high-street retailers. [18 Jul 2008]
InfoTrends/CAP Ventures Recognizes Real Savings With the Avaya IP Office Solution
White Paper Using an outsourced vendor was costly, considering the international nature of the business and the frequent need to gather groups of analysts, or analysts and customers, together for a single meeting. [03 Jul 2008]
Is the HP phoenix finally out of the woods?
News While concerns linger, analysts expect the company itself to be quite upbeat, since it's coming off a quarter in which all five of its business units posted profits. Pressures on the profitable ink and toner business remain, but analysts say the... [09 Dec 2003]
Priceline clambers on the profitability bandwagon
Comment Its business model was praised by analysts. Today, the company beat analysts' expectations again, posting a fourth quarter profit of $3.3m on revenue of $235.3m. Analysts had been forecasting a break even result. [04 Feb 2002]
Business Objects pays $820m for rival
News Addressing analysts via teleconference, Business Objects CEO Bernard Liautaud said the deal brings together two "strong and profitable companies". Microsoft announced plans earlier this year to add business reporting features to its SQL database... [21 Jul 2003]
US disaster forces Ellison to reassess Oracle's future
News During a conference call to analysts Ellison said that prior to Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon he would have predicted revenues to continue at a flat rate into the next quarter. [18 Sep 2001]
Fiorina's out... what should HP do now?
News On the business side, in particular, analysts criticised HP's current "Adaptive Enterprise" effort, which has been to sell itself as a less proprietary version of IBM. However, many analysts say HP remains in a bind, as it struggles to... [10 Feb 2005]
