Summer Webcast Series

When it comes to business intelligence and integration, Information Builders provides a solution for every challenge. Our summer Webcast series offers resolutions to the most common problems facing organizations.

Business Intelligence

How BI Should Work – Recording Now Available

This Webcast will explain how the three levels of BI – strategic, analytical, and operational – and associated initiatives should work together to drive continuous improvements across an entire organization. Management and project-leaders will especially appreciate the insight and the real-world examples that come from the speaker's 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

Motivate Your Employees With Performance Management – Recording Now Available

Perhaps the most important benefit of performance management is the consistent communication of strategic goals to operational workers and the resulting performance achievements of associated people and processes. Peter Drucker, the acclaimed management expert, once said, "That which is measured is managed". A similar statement can be made regarding motivation of employees, "those that are measured are motivated."

This Webcast will examine the inherent features and benefits of the Performance Management Framework (PMF) and its ability to monitor and communicate performance statistics and motivate employees to meet and exceed their goals.

Excel-Centric Business Intelligence – Recording Now Available

Many business intelligence users prefer to view and interact with information through Excel. However, many organizations look at Excel as promoting error-prone, chaotic environments – propagating hundreds of un-verifiable sources of information. How can an organization create an Excel-centric BI environment to appease users and control the chaos?

This Webcast will show you how it is possible to have a consistent widely deployed business intelligence environment based on Excel and still leverage every data source and application in your organization.

Pervasive Business Intelligence: The Key to Better Decision-Making
– Recording Now Available

Everyone needs information to perform their jobs well, however few companies have been able to break down the technical and cultural barriers to wide deployment of business intelligence. Information Builders has the widest deployments of business intelligence systems in the world. This Webcast will examine the characteristics of a BI platform that provides for wide adoption by enterprise business users.

Integration

Exchanging Data and Messages With Partners – Recording Now Available

B2B channels are arteries through which all business flows. Unfortunately, implementing B2B in an enterprise is a complex task. A typical company with a few dozen suppliers, consumers, and business partners might use hundreds of transaction types, with each transaction including four to eight messages – a daunting constellation of interactions to manage effectively.

Know Thy Enterprise: Increase Effectiveness With Business Activity Monitoring
– Recording Now Available

iWay Activity Monitor's unique features - including an embedded WebFOCUS BI platform – takes activity monitoring to the next level in the modern enterprise and sets it apart from the competition.

Wires and Formats and Apps, Oh My! Understanding Managed File Transfer
– Recording Now Available

The objective of a Managed File Transfer (MFT) platform is to coordinate and manage the movement of information, data, or transactions from a source system to a destination system. Multiple protocols, security implementations, and file types are common. MFT tools on the market can handle that. But what happens to the data after you've got it? How do you get it into SAP?