Contemporary Business Intelligence Tools

by Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic ... business users to easily author, publish, and distribute ... by allowing a company to gather, store, access ... patterns, optimize the supply chain, analyze project or ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2005/06/research_notes/TU_BI_XOT_06_28_05_1.asp - 23k - 2005-06-28 Summary: Tools under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella combine to convert data into information, and information into decisions for action. Dashboards and scorecards are two such tools. Though often confused, they have functional difference, especially in modern BI suites.

Contemporary Business Intelligence and Its Main Components

by TEC Analysts ... enable business users to author, publish, and distribute ... by allowing a company to gather, store, access ... This enables users to analyze different dimensions of ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2006/06/research_notes/TU_BI_TA_06_13_06_1.asp - 23k - 2006-06-13 Summary: Business intelligence (BI) represents the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process, by allowing a company to manipulate corporate data for decision-making. But what exactly are the primary components of BI?

Best-of-breed Approach to Finance and Accounting

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... solution, adding a facility to publish budgets as ... bring up InfoPath forms to gather information from ... give finance managers more time to analyze their finance ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_16_05_1.asp - 40k - 2005-11-16 Summary: CODA's savvy accounting and financial offerings include budgeting, forecasting, scorecards, and tools that use Microsoft Excel spreadsheets collaboratively and securely. However, CODA must defend its narrow specialist and best-of-breed approach against larger-scale integrated enterprise system offerings.