BI Megatrends: Our 7th Annual Special Report
by
Neil Raden
What are the latest directions in business intelligence? In our seventh annual report, we take a look at the major drivers impacting how you'll architect and implement BI in your organization. Could search, semantics and master data management push BI over the top?
The Seven Pillars of BI Success
by
Cindi Howson, BIScorecard
Business intelligence tools may be getting better, but technology is only part of the story. To succeed you must develop measures, set a strategy, manage effectively, ensure executive support, choose the right tools, standardize on a platform and align the BI strategy with business. Here's how to make it happen.
Staying a Step Ahead of Fraud
by
Michael Voelker
The perpetrators of fraud change tactics faster than conventional methods of detection can track. Predictive analytics, authentication and rules engines will help detect and fight crime before the losses mount.
Departments
Review: Palisade Systems Protects Against Insider Threats
by
Test Center
The technology's filtering system can be used to block unauthorized applications such as Skype and instant message clients, as well as dangerous text such as Social Security and credit-card numbers.
Letters: CDI Is Not MDM; Defining Web 2.0
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IGE Readers
Reader Colin White contends, "While there is no question that a bidirectional CDI hub is valuable technology for integrating customer data, it is important to realize that CDI is only one step and one possible starting point in the journey toward managing enterprisewide master data."
Change Agent: Don't Bank on Reusing Services
by
Bruce Silver
Some service-oriented architecture evangelists make reuse out to be some sort of Holy Grail. Yet other practitioners on both the SOA and BPM sides believe that reuse is a 'phantom,' something not really there after all. So is reuse real?
Q&A with Rodney Masney, President of the Americas' SAP User Group
by
Doug Henschen
As president of ASUG and global IT architect at packaging giant O-I, Rodney Masney stays on top of the current enterprise resource planning opportunities and pain points. Here's his take on some of the hottest topics for ERP users.
Breakthrough Analysis: Search Is Not the Answer
by
Seth Grimes
Few users are looking for the hit lists of dubious relevance returned by the major search engines. The question-and-answer approach will beat out search in spotting the information we're after. How long before we see this technology in enterprise and Web tools?
Put to the Test: Pegasystems' SmartBPM Suite 5.1
by
Derek Miers
With this latest version, Pegasystems has made its powerful product easier to use for process participants, business analysts and developers.
Short List: Data Warehousing; Rights and Records Management
by
Intelligent Enterprise Editors
This edition examines the Sun Microsystems-Greenplum appliance-based data warehouse system. Plus, brief looks at Information Builders' WebFocus, the Pentaho BI Project, Movaris' OneClose Account Reconciliation and more.
Mission Intelligence: BI Beyond the Big Dipper
by
David Stodder
An expanding data universe, intelligent systems and analytical power have the BI community on the spot to redevelop the mnemonics that enable business users to understand and share what they've learned from their galaxy of information resources.
BI Megatrends
by
Neil Raden
What are the latest directions in business intelligence? In its seventh annual report, Intelligence Enterprise magazine takes a look at the major drivers impacting how you'll architect and implement BI in your organization. Could search, semantics and master data management push BI over the top?
The Seven Pillars of BI Success
by
Cindi Howson, BIScorecard
Business intelligence tools may be getting better, but technology is only part of the story. To succeed you must develop measures, set a strategy, manage effectively, ensure executive support, choose the right tools, standardize on a platform and align the BI strategy with business. Here's how to make it happen.
Staying a Step Ahead of Fraud
by
Michael Voelker
The perpetrators of fraud change tactics faster than conventional methods of detection can track. Predictive analytics, authentication and rules engines will help detect and fight crime before the losses mount.
Google, Competitors Look Toward the Ultimate Search
by
Susana Schwartz
As the use of artificial intelligence by Google and enterprise-focused rivals grows, searchers remain consistent in one way: They want information based on what they do not yet know.
Dashboard: IBM Eyes FileNet
by
Doug Henschen
Enterprise content management consolidates as Microsoft and Oracle move in.
Dashboard: Briefs
by
IE Editors
Oracle partners with IDS Sheer; IBM makes third SOA acquisition; HP buys Mercury Interactive.
Dashboard: Bucking the Hype, IT Security Losses Decline
by
Robert Richardson
Given a general security climate in which vulnerability is climbing and reports of computer crime get more alarming, we have to wonder how it can be that respondents to security surveys keep reporting lower numbers.
Dashboard: Event Streams Gain Open Option
by
Seth Grimes
Esper issues the first production release of its open-source Esper event-stream processing and event-correlation engine.
Change Agent: Don't Bank on Reusing Services
by
Bruce Silver
Some service-oriented architecture evangelists make reuse out to be some sort of Holy Grail. Yet other practitioners on both the SOA and BPM sides believe that reuse is a 'phantom,' something not really there after all. So is reuse real?
Q&A with Rodney Masney, President of the Americas' SAP User Group
by
Doug Henschen
As president of ASUG and global IT architect at packaging giant O-I, Rodney Masney stays on top of the current enterprise resource planning opportunities and pain points. Here's his take on some of the hottest topics for ERP users.
Short List: Data Warehousing; Rights and Records Management
by
Intelligent Enterprise Editors
A brief look at the Sun Microsystems-Greenplum appliance-based data warehouse system, Information Builders' WebFocus, the Pentaho BI Project, Movaris' OneClose Account Reconciliation and more.
Breakthrough Analysis: Search Is Not the Answer
by
Seth Grimes
Few users are looking for the hit lists of dubious relevance returned by the major search engines. The question-and-answer approach will beat out search in spotting the information we're after. How long before we see this technology in enterprise and Web tools?
