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In the spotlight
Mobile Business Intelligence 101
This white paper discusses mobile business intelligence: what it is, how it is evolving, what applications exist today, and how to address security concerns. It also highlights the WebFOCUS BI platform, which provides advanced mobile capabilities, and real-world success stories.

Mobile Business Intelligence 101
Twelve Things to Consider When Implementing Mobile BI
Asking the Right Questions Can Help Ensure Your Project Is Successful.
In this paper, we discuss the most critical factors to consider when selecting a solution to support a mobile BI environment.
Twelve Things to Consider When Implementing Mobile BI
The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: 5 Common Myths Debunked
In spite of the abounding myths, mobile business intelligence doesn't have to be expensive, hard to implement, or difficult to use. In fact, companies that choose the right solution, with the right capabilities, will realize low TCO and rapid ROI, while empowering their mobile users with the ability to access and interact with timely, complete corporate information from any smartphone or tablet.

 The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked
Developing an Information Strategy : 5 Steps to Success
Five vital actions are essential steps in a well-executed information strategy: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize. When working in harmony, these actions improve processes, increase productivity, and enhance decision-making. This white paper explores how to use them to develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy.

 Developing an Information Strategy
Customer-Facing, Revenue-Generating BI:
The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications
Providing self-service access to information leads to customer loyalty, improved performance, reduced costs, increased revenue, and greater competitive advantage. When it comes to leveraging enterprise data for use in self-service applications, Information Builders' WebFOCUS has a proven track record of success.

 Customer-Facing, Revenue-Generating BI



More White Papers and Brochures
Business Intelligence
The 4 Critical Elements for Smarter Decisions :
Introducing WebFOCUS 8
Designed and built by a single vendor with a proven track record of success, WebFOCUS 8 delivers a single, comprehensive platform that supports the four main elements of an information strategy – data integrity, business intelligence (reporting and analysis), performance management, and advanced analytics. With WebFOCUS 8 companies can rely on a single framework that delivers faster, more tangible results, and helps them realize a more immediate return.

 WebFOCUS 8
Five Things You Need to Know About Your Users Before You Deploy Business Intelligence
This paper lists 5 things you need to know before you begin planning your BI application, so you can better understand the blend of capabilities needed to address end user requirements.

 5 Things You Need to Know
Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics
In this paper, we will discuss the incorporation of predictive modeling capabilities into the WebFOCUS BI platform, and highlight how this advanced functionality can dramatically improve decision-making, thus reducing risk and costs while increasing revenue and profits.

 Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics
Fixing Enterprise Search
WebFOCUS Magnify is the industry’s first real-time enterprise search solution. Its unique architecture and capabilities allow it to deliver search results with real-time accuracy across all enterprise assets.
 Fixing Enterprise Search
Worst Practices in Business Intelligence
This paper provides insight into the top four worst practices for Business Intelligence. It also provides guidance on how to avoid or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI.
How Business Intelligence Should Work
The Connection Between Strategic, Analytical, and Operational Initiatives.
In this paper, we’ll investigate the various levels of Business Intelligence, discuss the challenges organizations face with today’s typical BI deployments, and highlight how to make strategic,analytical, and operational initiatives work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage across an entire organization.
Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design
Dashboards help organizations make better business decisions. The way in which they are created is not trivial and attention must be paid to the details. Employing visual design standards and principles are important, but are only part of the journey. The way in which data is integrated from the enterprise is just as important. It requires proper planning to address what users need to see, where the data is coming from, how soon it can be delivered, and ensuring that it is accurate and consistent.
WebFOCUS - Business Intelligence Without Barriers

WebFOCUS is the most widely utilized Business Intelligence (BI) platform in the world. It offers advanced and proven integration, scalability, and usability for all enterprise users, including managers, operational employees, business partners, and customers.

 WebFOCUS Brochure
WebFOCUS InfoAssist : Robust and Intuitive Ad Hoc Reporting for Business Users
WebFOCUS InfoAssist extends the power of WebFOCUS, providing users with the most advanced - yet simple to use - ad hoc reporting capabilities available today. With WebFOCUS InfoAssist, business users have access to all the features they need to generate even the most intricate reports and analyses on their own.
WebFOCUS InfoAssist
WebFOCUS for SAP
Why not get the most out of your SAP investment today? WebFOCUS’ ease of use and ability to rapidly deliver operational business intelligence applications allows all levels of enterprise users to make fast, effective business decisions. Realize the full benefit of your SAP investment while keeping your total cost of ownership (TCO) to a minimum with WebFOCUS.		 No Barriers to Good Decisions
WebFOCUS for Google Maps

Rapid Mashup Development for WebFOCUS.
Industry experts have identified interactive visualisation among the key emerging trends in business intelligence. WebFOCUS for Google Maps, provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for rapid development of geographically aware composite applications and does not require any training or coding by developers...

 WebFOCUS Brochure
WebFOCUS Active Reports: Portable Analytics

Do you want easy access to information while on the road, whether in the airport, on a commuter train, or even in an onsite or offsite meeting? What if you could distribute reports to anyone without any constraints?
Information Builders’ Active Reports are designed specifically to deploy and distribute interactive dashboards to the masses and allow users to work either online or offline...

 WebFOCUS Brochure
No Barriers to Good Decisions! A Report on Decision Making
Is information delivered in a format that is easy to use? What is the cost of poor information access on businesses? This study provide insightful answers.We have identified some of the biggest barriers to good decision making and solutions to overcoming them. Managing the information growth is one challenge. Use business intelligence to make sense of it!		 No Barriers to Good Decisions

Integration
Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise:
How to Tackle Your Bad Information
This paper discusses some techniques companies can implement to enhance data quality across the entire enterprise. We also highlight iWay Software's suite
of data quality management solutions, which provide businesses with the ability
to effectively and economically enhance the correctness, completeness, and consistency of information in each and every system within their technology infrastructure.

Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise
Take the iWay Data-Quality Challenge
With the iWay Data-Quality Challenge, you can uncover data-quality issues across your business - at no risk or cost to your company.
 iWay Data-Quality Challenge
Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You’ll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes. You’ll also learn about iWay Software, and what makes it the ideal suite of solutions for any integration project. And, as a bonus, we’ll tell you about two innovative ways to leverage your results to put yourself in the best possible position when the expansion begins.
 Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm
Seven Styles of Data Integration. Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option for Business Intelligence?
While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Many BI projects can realise benefits from alternate data integration scenarios. This paper describes seven proven techniques for accessing BI data with real-world examples from Information Builders’ customer base to demonstrate the high-value, high-return data access options that are available to you.
iWay Software: Business Integration Without Barriers
iWay Software provides rapid integration solutions that streamline
business processes in all sizes of organizations – without making their
information investments obsolete.		 iWay Brochure
No Barriers to Integration! The Five Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Strategic alignment of IT and the business is a key factor for success. Effective integration of existing applications will allow your company to move forward to a future where IT actually encourages growth and thus empowers the business...		 The Five Pitfalls of Integration
The Five Golden Rules of Integration
Is it possible to deliver a truly flexible and integrated IT architecture to help build a bridge between business processes and IT?
This guide explores, through the Five Golden Rules of Integration, key considerations to take into account when planning and implementing a truly flexible IT architecture. A case study concludes the guide by way of an illustration.




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