Cognos to Acquire Frango to Bolster Financial Reporting, Incease European Presence
AMR Research  8/26/2004

Frango�s flagship product, Controller, is a Web-based application that is designed to consolidate globally, multiple operating units and accounts into a common chart of accounts. In recent quarters, Frango has reported strong sales revenue and growth of the product.

The Takeaway: The global financial consolidation functionality hole is filled.

Analytic Applications and Decision-Centric BI
DMReview  6/10/2004
It's not enough to deliver information. Learn how to address decision-making processes with DCBI.

Business Intelligence: The Missing Link in Your CRM Strategy
DMReview  6/10/2004
Your customer relationship management initiative will not succeed without a business intelligence process that drives behavioral change.

BI Standardization and Consolidation for Performance Management
IntelligentPerformance   6/10/2004
BI standardization/consolidation has become a hot IT issue for two main reasons: cost reduction and simplification of the IT portfolio.

BI Scorecard: The Best BI Tool
Intelligent Enterprise  6/10/2004
Vendor demos often obscure architectural differences between BI suites. Yet, as our BI Scorecard series concludes, you dare not overlook them.

No Time to Spare: A Guide to Supply Chain Performance Management
IntelligentEnterprise  6/10/2004
Marketplaces are dynamic. The competition is fierce. When it comes to managing the supply chain, there's no time to spare. Here's a guide to performance management metrics that will help your organization act decisively in pursuit of business objectives.

Manage by metrics - Performance metrics for retail operations
EnergyPlus  2/5/2004
What metrics are essential for retail operations? In the end it all boils down to whether or not you�ve reached your goals for profitability. That will be in the monthly, quarterly, and annual financials, but so many factors can influence that final measure. The challenge is to identify and correct the problems earlier in the business cycle. To do that you have to set performance goals and establish metrics for each aspect of the business and for each relationship introduced by the restructuring of the market.

Oracle Courts Business Intelligence Community with Oracle Customer Data Hub
Internetnews.com  1/28/2004
The idea behind the new software is to consolidate customer data into a central repository, clean it up into XML forms, refer to it based on e-mail addresses and let companies export it to where they need it.

Data Analysis: A Key to Fraud Detection - Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young  1/22/2004
A quantitative review of any data stream can be an important first step in identifying irregular activity and fraud. The unprecedented availability of data in electronic form, high levels of computer processing power, and sophisticated analysis tools now provide management with a powerful arsenal of weapons with which to battle potential fraud.

78% of Fast Growth Companies Use Five or More Metrics to Track Business Performance, PricewaterhouseCoopers Finds
PWC  1/22/2004
PricewaterhouseCoopers' Trendsetter Barometer interviewed CEOs of 383 privately held product and service companies identified in the media as the fastest growing U.S. businesses over the last five years. The surveyed companies range in size from approximately $5 million to $150 million in revenue/sales.

Building Business Intelligence: Hybrid Approaches to Business Intelligence
DM Review  1/20/2004

Leveraging Innovative Finance and Performance Management Capabilities
DM Review  1/20/2004

The Performance Decade - To be competitive, companies must adopt performance management.
Intelligent Enterprise  1/20/2004

The Future of Competition and The Future of CRM
CIOInsight  1/13/2004
The trouble with today's CRM, say the two University of Michigan Business School professors and authors of the upcoming The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers, is that it assumes the company knows best what customers want. Get ready for customer relationships based on experiences rather than traditional products.

The Hard Part of BI
Line56  12/23/2003
Certive offers server-based middleware, modeling and practices for tackling the grunt work of business intelligence; analyst says new BI solutions need case studies