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Intelligent Enterprise Playbooks
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Speed and Simplicity: The Keys to Better Data Management
Data warehouses are getting bigger. Queries are getting more complex. And regulatory compliance is putting added pressure on organizations to retrieve and produce accurate data a whole lot faster. That makes information bottlenecks the last thing your business needs. Here’s what can companies do to introduce agility into their information management strategies.
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Mastering Master Data Management
At the enterprise level, master data management (MDM) isn’t a single technology but a cohesive strategy for managing all master data domains—including customer, product, asset, employee, and financial—across numerous technologies. Each global 2000 company needs to create an enterprise-wide MDM strategy, founded on the right organizational structure, data governance policies, and supporting technologies to ensure its business operates efficiently.
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The Rules and Process Management Revolution
As business rules, business process management, and SOA come together, companies are finally beginning to achieve long-sought gains in everything from accelerated cycle times and regulatory compliance to productivity and customer satisfaction. But even as the transformation of business gets under way, some organizations are struggling to settle on definitions, sort out differences, and smooth out implementation difficulties. Make sure your company is ready to take the next big step.
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The Decision Advantage: Driving Business Value
Accelerate cycle times. Reduce costs. Improve responsiveness and boost customer satisfaction—all while ensuring compliance. If it seems as if today’s businesses have a lot on their agenda, it’s because they do. And in the never-ending effort to drive value, they can use any advantage they can get. Enter advanced analytics, which can transform how companies tackle today’s challenges.
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Transform the Business: Play by the Rules
Rapid and drastic change characterizes today's competitive climate, and many companies are turning to business rules and business process management (BPM) to meet the challenge. But there's more to being agile and adaptive than simple integration. True transformation means knowing the rules of rules management, inside and out.
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Rules Management and the Business Imperative
Leading companies have learned how rules management systems empower workers to rewrite business policies as the competitive climate demands — and to align activities for better overall performance. There’s no question that removing programmers from the process makes companies better equipped for real-time business, but there are still some critical concerns to keep in mind.
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Right Here, Right Now:
New Platforms for Integration
The old methods of tying together unwieldy, elephantine applications is coming to a close. In the new era of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) platforms — flexible, scalable and inexpensive integration for the enterprise is possible here and now.
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Visualizing Intelligence:
Business Intelligence in a Microsoft Environment
This eBook is a compilation of articles on business intelligence that have previously appeared in Intelligent Enterprise, bound together for easy reading and interaction.
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Semantic Integration for Enterprise Data
Competitive excellence demands an intelligent approach to integration and information management. How can your business ensure the usability of its data? Semantic interpretation and translation processing could be the key.
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Informed Intelligence
Ensuring Financial Performance
When the operational managers who know most about the numbers can't get a fix on the facts and figures they want, they can't supply the critical financial analysis their businesses need.
The solution? Make those managers integral in the monitoring and analysis of financial performance. Give them rapid access to reliable information arriving in real time.
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SOA and ESB: The Keys to the Agile Enterprise
When it comes to extending the competitive edge, agility is the new objective. And critical to the new agility is service-oriented architecture (SOA). But implementing a flexible system of loosely coupled, reusable applications is proving difficult. That’s where the enterprise service bus (ESB) can help. The flexible integration infrastructure capability leverages Web services and XML technology to streamline SOA. Learn more by downloading this exclusive e-book.
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Complying With Sarbanes-Oxley
In the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other emerging laws and regulations, managing corporate information is a mission-critical challenge. With their integrity on the line, CEOs, CFOs and other corporate officers mean business when they demand "confidence in the numbers. But where can top executives and IT managers turn for answers? "Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley" provides just those answers.
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Other Intelligent Enterprise Playbooks:
Today's IT Systems Manager:Grasping the IT-Business Connection for Future Success
The Soul of the Data Warehouse
The Fast Track Maximizing ROI
Business Intelligence: Strategies for Success
The Fundamentals of Data Warehousing
IT Service Management: Building Blocks to Success
It's What's Inside That Counts
Sucessful Integration: Putting It All Together
Performance Management:Measuring Meaningful Results
Enterprise Data Protection
Get Real: Real Time Data Warehousing
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