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Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Student Success: Best Practices for Information Delivery and Strategic Alignment in Higher Education
Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Student Success: Best Practices for Information Delivery and Strategic Alignment in Higher Education

With a clear strategic focus, enterprise-wide business intelligence, and a formal best practices process for executing strategy, colleges and universities can navigate the operational challenges of data access and performance management to increase enrollment, retention, and student success. This white paper shows you how.

Data Quality Management: The Key to Successful Predictive Analytics
Data Quality Management: The Key to Successful Predictive Analytics

This white paper discusses the importance of data quality management as it relates to predictive analytics and explores various methodologies for assessing and improving data quality. It highlights best practices in preparing data for predictive analysis purposes and how poor data quality can negatively impact predictive modeling efforts.

Cost-Effective Business Intelligence as a Service
Cost-Effective Business Intelligence as a Service

This paper highlights key requirements for successfully building and deploying SaaS-based BI applications for external users, and how some companies are using the WebFOCUS BI platform to make vital, timely corporate information available outside the firewall.

Leveraging Advanced BI to Increase SaaS Success
Leveraging Advanced BI to Increase SaaS Success

This white paper explores the types of reporting and analysis functionalities that SaaS users need, and the BI capabilities SaaS vendors must incorporate into their solutions to meet those demands. It presents some real-world successes and highlights the WebFOCUS BI platform as the ideal choice for SaaS vendors to extend their offerings with advanced BI features.

Big Data Analytics and The New Era of Data Warehousing
Big Data Analytics and The New Era of Data Warehousing

This paper discusses how customer demands have led to recent changes in the data warehouse market. As a result, companies and departments of all types and sizes can leverage advanced data warehouse solutions to facilitate effective use of innovative business analytics and support of various mission-critical BI initiatives.

The Truth About Mobile BI: Five Common Myths Debunked
The Truth About Mobile BI: Five 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.

Developing an Information Strategy
Developing an Information Strategy

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.

Customer-Facing, Revenue-Generating BI: The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications
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.

Operational Logistics/Resource Allocation: The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications
Operational Logistics/Resource Allocation: The World's Best Business Intelligence Applications

Proper resource allocation is a challenge faced by most organizations. Ineffective resource allocation can plague a business, preventing it from delivering products or services in the most efficient and economical manner possible.

Five Things You Need to Know About Your Users Before You Deploy Business Intelligence
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.



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