Analyst Reports
Today's B2B sales leaders need more than their experience to understand what's driving their results, good or bad. This research brief from SiriusDecisions highlights a comprehensive framework of sales metrics that provides both visibility into facts and sales intelligence transparency.
This Aberdeen Group report – based on direct survey feedback from 370 C-level and VP-level executives – explores how "Best-in-Class" business leaders are leveraging business intelligence and analytics to improve financial performance and customer and employee retention. The report also identifies the key drivers behind executive investment in BI.
Data visualization is increasingly an essential element of business intelligence (BI). This report from TDWI highlights the advantages of visual reporting over traditional methods of analysis using tables of text and numbers. It also offers best practices for leveraging data visualization in BI deployments.
The quality of day-to-day tactical decision making can make or break a company in today's fast-paced business climate. This report from analyst firm Aberdeen Group highlights best practices for leveraging real-time and right-time operational intelligence to improve financial and sales pipeline performance and boost customer satisfaction.
Webinars
In today’s business climate, more and more line-of-business, non-technical decision-makers are adopting an analytical mindset and leveraging BI tools in order to make faster decisions and drive substantial performance improvements. This Aberdeen Webinar highlights the tangible and measurable business improvements organizations can realize with effective self-service BI.
The use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence has grown more than 50% in the last year, according to analyst firm The Aberdeen Group. While part of the attraction is undoubtedly the promise of economic benefits, SaaS BI also delivers agility and flexibility. This Aberdeen Group webinar will highlight the performance levels that SaaS BI users have achieved, as well as the strategies and tactics that lead to success with this rapidly maturing approach to analytics.
For many C-level executives, knowing what's going on inside their company is a much harder task than knowing what's going on outside their company. This Aberdeen Group webinar highlights how Best-in-Class executives leverage BI strategies and tools in order to identify and exploit the most salient opportunities for top- and bottom-line enhancement.
John Rome, deputy CIO for Arizona State University, and Jeff Burtenshaw, director of business intelligence for Domo, speak to attendees for the Infosys Connect 2011 conference about how to turn BI from a cost center to a revenue generator.
Recent research has shown that decision makers assess business intelligence with tables and text nearly two-thirds of the time, instead of relying on more productive visual analysis. If you're still wading through stacks of spreadsheets, this webinars highlights three reasons to change…today.
Executive Briefs
Just like the Moneyball story changed the way baseball teams are managed, many sales executives are also overlooking some key “moneyball” metrics and doing business the old-fashioned way. This executive brief highlights five new measures sales leaders can't afford to ignore.
Mobile BI can help companies make informed decisions up to six times faster – but an effective solution has to follow some crucial best practices. This executive brief highlights several key elements for creating valuable, pervasive mobile business intelligence.
Too often business intelligence is the corporate oxymoron, the poster child for over-promising and under-delivering. But it doesn't have to be that way. BI has the power to deliver real value and make companies more competitive. This executive brief explores three leading reasons why traditional BI is broken and ways to fix the problems.
Today your customers, employees, investors - and even your competitors - have unprecedented access to each other. Keeping an eye on those conversions is more important than ever. To help you do so, this executive brief highlights three critical measures you may not be watching but should.
Effective business intelligence (BI) is essential for meeting the mandates set forth in M-11-29, Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. This executive brief includes four steps that federal CIOs should consider as they strive to meet the mandates of M-11-29.
For executives considering a move to a SaaS solution, asking a few key questions about potential cost savings, the impact on IT, and the promised availability and security can help you quickly identify whether a SaaS service is right for your organization.
In the new world of business intelligence, tools like dashboards need to be easy to access and easy to use for all employees, from the cubicle to the corner suite. This executive brief highlights the latest best practices for choosing and implementing an effective BI dashboard.
A lack of a transparent culture is now recognized as a detriment to an organization, while a transparent one provides a variety of benefits. This executive brief offers best practice considerations for creating a more transparent culture in your organization.
Your relationship with your data can be a lot like a love affair. How can you avoid an unhappy breakup? Be prepared. This executive brief outlines five signs that you and your data are growing apart – and best practices for finding the "magic" once again.
Whitepapers
In the new world of business intelligence (BI), the front end of an executive management platform, or dashboard, is one of several critical elements needed to maximize the value of your data and traditional BI investments. Unfortunately, too many dashboard projects fall victim to one of the common mistakes identified in this whitepaper.
Videos & Infographics
Call it stating the obvious, but the less time sales reps spend selling, the less successful they'll be (OK, the less successful we'll all be). Here's what is not so obvious: Because of time-consuming manual reporting and other distractions, most sales reps spend 7.6 hours a week – nearly 50 days a year – not selling.
Intuition and vision are fine, but businesses that make strategic decisions with data understand their market better and experience faster growth. Unfortunately, if companies have to collect and report on all their data manually, it can be a very expensive process.
According to Gartner, business intelligence (BI) is currently undergoing "arguably, the biggest shift in BI adoption since the rise of enterprise-class BI platforms during the late 1990s." As a recent study from media firm TechTarget confirms, the traditional seat of power and feature set that have defined BI for decades are changing rapidly.
Transforming the experience of business intelligence through mobile technology is helping drive better, faster decision-making and greater productivity for a growing number of companies.
During a July 2011 launch event, Founder and CEO Josh James and his team unveiled Domo, a new SaaS company that helps executives get value from the tens of billions of dollars that have been spent on traditional BI systems.
Domo is a new form of business intelligence that helps executives and business leaders transform the way they run their business.
Business intelligence (BI) is no longer only the domain of techies and data analysts. A new generation of users who have grown up with the Internet, social media, and mobile technologies is demanding BI data that is timely, easily accessed and easily visualized.
Featured
Intuition and vision are fine, but businesses that make strategic decisions with data understand their market better and experience faster growth. Unfortunately, if companies have to collect and report on all their data manually, it can be a very expensive process.
Your relationship with your data can be a lot like a love affair. How can you avoid an unhappy breakup? Be prepared. This executive brief outlines five signs that you and your data are growing apart – and best practices for finding the "magic" once again.
Recent research has shown that decision makers assess business intelligence with tables and text nearly two-thirds of the time, instead of relying on more productive visual analysis. If you're still wading through stacks of spreadsheets, this webinars highlights three reasons to change…today.