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Business Intelligence and Performance Management Analytics Report
 
What top companies are doing right with their BI initiatives, and what you can learn from them.

Spotlight on Performance
It's one thing to know that sales are down, manufacturing costs are up, and margins are eroding. Perhaps you even understand the root causes of these performance deficits. But what can you do about them? Recognizing the crucial difference between gaining insight and taking action, many organizations are now moving beyond Business Intelligence into the realm of Performance Management.

Report Table of Contents:

4 Author's Bio

5 Foreward

7 Executive Summary

7 Research Synopsis

8 Status of BI Deployments

8 Drivers

11 Pain Points

12 BI Concerns

16 Deployment

17 1.1.1 Vendor Preferences

19 Summary

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"START SMALL." It's the standard advice offered for most IT initiatives, and it's assumed that incremental successes will inevitably lead more business units to buy into approaches and technologies that have proved valuable in other departments.

What these advisers often fail to mention is that enterprises may already have several groups running around making overlapping "small investments." That's how many BI deployments gain steam: A competitor launches up-selling, crossselling, and loyalty campaigns, so your sales group reacts by commencing a BI project to segment your customer base and initiate its own campaigns. Next, your manufacturing execs catch wind of a competitor's supply-chain project, and before long they've purchased your ERP vendor's data warehouse and optimization application. Toss in an acquisition or two, and the collection of BI approaches and technologies can get really messy.

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