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The current recession surprised nearly everyone with its size and suddenness. Few foresaw the carnage it would wreak on Wall Street or its flash-freeze effect on credit markets. As revenues sank, many companies responded by aggressively cutting staff and budgets, including those for IT. An understandable response - but not necessarily a smart one.
Enterprise Software Adoption in Asia Pacific - Trends, Opportunities and Threats
Springboard Research conducted an Enterprise Software survey to understand how, when and where organizations are likely to seek consolidation of their Enterprise Software portfolio. This document presents Springboard Research's findings and analysis of market implications.
Metadata is found in all data, but usually it is considered most important within the confines of BI and ETL tools. It evolves as a bi-product of BI needs for two reasons: First, business oriented metadata is required for BI tools to enable access to the correct data by business users. Second, technical metadata is required to map data in source systems and data warehouses through ETL and BI tools.
Analytics have been around from the time the first computer program was written. Once the corporation began to generate data, there were financial analysts, sales analysts, marketing analysts and others anxiously awaiting to use that data in novel and creative ways.
Arguably, contracts are the most important property of a corporation. It is contracts that define obligations of the corporation to other corporations. It is contracts that define the obligations of other corporations to the corporation. It is contracts that define dates, terms, rates, collateral and other business conditions. Furthermore, if the conditions defined in the contract are not met, there are legal consequences.
IT helps the rest of the business integrate information silos and automate processes. However, when it comes to managing how software is produced, IT often has a hard time making a convincing case for integrating software development silos, because it relies too much on technical arguments.
Business should always be done on the basis of the best possible information. In the past the task of Business Analytics was seen as the analysis of historical data as a means of deciding on current strategy or possible future trends.
Business intelligence technology choices are becoming both more limited and more interoperable, but planning carefully to match your data needs remains the most critical step.
Strategic Path editor Jennifer Baker talks to Claudia Imhoff, President, Intelligent Solutions about implementing business intelligence projects
The relationship between 'the business' and IT is a hot topic. As the technology revolution gathers pace, IT decisions could make or break your business. Yet despite the hype, many companies fail to recognize IT as a strategic asset.