That leads us to a basic question on what constitutes a success or a failure in a BI system. There are two fundamental indicators of a successful BI implementation. First, is BI institutionalized in ...

More than half of healthcare organizations have yet to implement business intelligence systems. And with shifts toward pay-for-performance, that could leave their bottom line open to financial hits.

Business intelligence (BI) tools merge data from marketing, finance and sales into one system to produce reports based on real values from the company’s CRM and sales data (including data on returns ...

Editor's Note: Kevin McGirl, is President of sales-i, a provider of sales intelligence software to supply chain companies. Supply chain companies are typically overloaded with data. They need to ...

Business Intelligence (BI) systems are used to improve an enterprise's decision making by combining tools for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing business data. While traditional features for ...

All businesses thrive on information. That's true for the smallest sole traders and the biggest multinationals. But what works for one could be too little, or too much, for another — and their needs ...

Hoping to undercut the prices of business intelligence (BI) appliances offered by other vendors, Sybase and Hewlett-Packard have posted a reference architecture for building a BI system that could ...