WHITE PAPER: Very few of today's companies have a reliable way to achieve the widest profitability margins consistent with other strategic objectives, largely because no one person or organization is responsible for it. Read this white paper to find out what Ventana Research recommends as part of an effective profitability management strategy.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: To drive market share, sales, product adoption and greater efficiency, many businesses are strategically partnering with suppliers and other supply chain participants to collaborate and share information. In this white paper, find answers to three of the top concerns for organizations developing these collaborative supply chain networks.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Nearly two-thirds of manufacturers use time-consuming, unreliable spreadsheets for their business analytics, and many say the information is stale or unreliable, leading to time consuming, costly mistakes for companies. In this tip guide, readers will learn more about the shortcomings of manufacturing analytics.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Oracle’s latest business intelligence (BI) software upgrade adds prebuilt integration with Oracle’s own TimesTen in-memory database, its OLAP platform and competing products from Microsoft and SAP. In this tip guide, readers will learn the latest on Oracle’s BI update and how it compares with other vendor solutions.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) can give organizations deeper analytical views into their business performance. In this tip guide, readers will learn about five key areas organizations should focus on when implementing OBIA.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, readers will learn more about customer relationship management (CRM) analytics and what can be gained from having this in place.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

VIDEO: In the past, getting the right level of insight across your business has been a struggle. View this brief video introducing SAP's latest releases for business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM), to learn how  to improve your operational efficiency with access to mission-critical business information.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 24 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: In this brief yet informative e-guide, readers will gain expert insight into how SAP will gain the edge over Oracle through its focus on providing a high level of integration between Sybase and SAP that is highly optimized for users to scale their applications effectively.

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 | Published: 09 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this brief yet insightful e-guide, you will get a side-by-side comparison of SAP and Oracle's data quality portfolios along with expert advice.

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 | Published: 09 Dec 2011

WEBCAST: When you’re on the go, you need to do more than simple tasks. You need to tackle the same challenges as when you’re in the office. But how easy is it to do all of that on your iPad? Take this opportunity to find out for yourself. Watch this webcast and walk through the complete mobile experience using your iPad.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Premiered: Dec 2, 2011

RESEARCH CONTENT: This research report drills into many aspects of big data analytics to give users and their business sponsors a solid background for big data analytics, including business and technology drivers, successful business use cases and common technology enablers.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is exploding, according to a recent report by Boston-based AMR Research. This Tip Guide discusses two SMBs and their approaches to the need for ERP software.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Not all companies are truly ready for Software-as-a-(SaaS), and other factors could indicate that using a traditional on-premises server and ERP application might by the smartest move for some small and medium-sized enterprises. In this Tip Guide, readers will learn the factors to consider when choosing a SaaS ERP delivery model.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: A growing number of companies are going with two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for a variety of financial and logistical reasons. In this Tip Guide, readers will get a better understanding of why two-tier ERP is a growing trend among SAP shops.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: In today’s economic environment, manufacturing companies are looking for ways to reduce their long-term total cost of ownership for enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In this Tip Guide, readers will discover five ways to minimize long-term ERP software support and maintenance costs.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Delaying necessary upgrades or not taking advantage of innovations for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can impede productivity, security and regulatory compliance efforts. In this Tip Guide, ERP veterans discuss making the ERP upgrade business case using arguments that resonate with CEOs and CFOs.

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Propelled by globalization and the convergence of mobile and cloud computing, industry experts believe that although supply chain analytics has been around for a decade, it is truly on the verge of taking off. In this tip guide, readers will discover the advantages of advanced manufacturing business intelligence (BI).

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: In this tip guide, readers will learn best practices for supply chain data management to provide a successful, responsive analytics strategy for their organization.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Installing the building blocks for manufacturing business intelligence (BI) can be challenging for organizations. In this tip guide, readers will learn best practices to unify supplier and customer data for manufacturing BI.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: In this Tip Guide, readers will learn compelling reasons why organizations choose to build and support multiple dependent data marts.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Early this year, Ventana Research Inc. released a study that found supply chain analytics appears to be a poorly understood technology in dire need of some best practices. In this tip guide, readers will learn expert advice for putting supply chain analytics to use in manufacturing business intelligence (BI).

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011