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Building an Intelligent IT Infrastructure
To address the complexity of today's requirements, IT needs a fresh approach to infrastructure. New technologies are coming together to help you construct a smarter, more flexible environment. Here's how to progress toward your goal.
by
Roy Ferguson & Samuel Charrington
Data Quality Discipline
Any single data element can quickly go from a simple transformation into an explosion of new requirements: Are you prepared?
by
Michael L. Gonzales
ERP and Content Management: Harmonic Convergence?
To drive collaborative processes, businesses need embedded intelligence. BI, focused on structured data, is only half of the story: Businesses need content management for the unstructured stuff. ERP wants to be the point of convergence.
by
Naeem Hashmi
Data Warehouse Check-Ups
Periodic check-ups will help you avoid letting business intelligence and data warehousing problems spin out of control.
by
Margy Ross
Ralph Kimball
No Time to Spare: A Guide to Supply Chain Performance Management
Marketplaces are dynamic. The competition is fierce. When it comes to managing the supply chain, there's no time to lose. Here's a guide to performance management metrics that will help your organization act decisively in pursuit of business objectives.
by
David A. Taylor
Execution Systems: The Heart of Intelligent Manufacturing
Steadily evolving over two decades, the manufacturing execution system (MES) now plays a central role in achieving manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness. The MES also commands potentially valuable sources of information for strategic business applications that feed on enterprisewide intelligence.
by
Michael McClellan
You Say Metric, I Say Distraction
Metrics help, but you can't improve performance unless you know why.
by
Jeanette Boyne
Gathering Strength
In the view of Information Builders' CEO Gerald Cohen, BI platform consolidation will unleash growth, not curtail it.
by
David Stodder
Standing at the Crossroads
Should you outsource, upgrade, or simply leverage existing technology to improve ERP system performance?
by
Mark Smith
Spotlight - Plugging In with James Cates
Communications Systems CIO James Cates talks about his "Ladder of Business Intelligence."
by
Jeanette Boyne
Companies to Watch 2004
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by Michelle M. Young
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards
Business intelligence, performance management, and all forms of integration are the dominant requirements addressed by the 12 IT solution providers that make up our supreme list for 2004.
by David Stodder, Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young
Data Warehouse Dining Experience
Managing a data warehouse is similar to running a restaurant.
by Margy Ross & Ralph Kimball
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards: The Intelligent Enterprise Dozen
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by David Stodder
A Year in Perspective
A look back at the news of 2003 and a projection of trends in 2004
by Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young
The Customer Peers Back
Corporate integrity is a more valuable asset now that the world is more transparent. With abundant and free information, customers can now discern the true value of vendors and their goods and services. Business policies and processes — and the systems in which they manifest — should embrace this transparency rather than fight it.
by Don Tapscott & David Ticoll
It's Cobbler Time
Forever overlooked, IT management is now the focus of autonomics and next-generation technology
by David Stodder
2003 Readers' Choice Awards
The Readers Have Chosen: IBM, Microsoft, and SAS take the most laurels
by Editors
Predicting Software Success
Some new applications are destined for failure, others for greatness. Here's how to tell before you see a line of code
by Joshua Greenbaum
Destination Known: An Interview with Robert A. Burgelman
Strengthened by BI and performance management, businesses are focused on improving their strategy development. In an interview, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Professor Robert A. Burgelman discusses how strategy is made and analyzes the impact of technology
by David Stodder
