White Paper Library: Enterprise Business Intelligence and Web Reporting

Analytics

Advanced Data Visualization and Analysis

Learn how turning raw enterprise data into intuitive and visually perceptive illustrations can make it easier to measure and compare information while spotting critical trends, patterns, and relationships.

Leveraging Real-Time Information to Enhance Financial Planning, Management and Control

Learn how comprehensive financial analysis can help you obtain a complete, consolidated view of corporate performance and deliver timely, accurate financial information.

A Snapshot of Integration in Upstream Oil and Gas Operations

In the upstream oil and gas industry, integration of business and production systems is becoming a critical part of doing business and remaining competitive. This report produced by Advertas and Upstream CIO Newsletter interviews producers of various sizes and an industry-standards group to form a picture of the challenges as well as potential solutions for successful systems integration in the oil and gas sector.

Data Visualization: Gaining Perspective

Explore the benefits of using a data visualization tool to identify business problems that are hidden in large volumes of data. WebFOCUS Visual Discovery uses color, isolation, and chart interactions to reveal masked conditions. Data visualization tools like WebFOCUS Visual Discovery make relevant information pop out, using unique chart types like paraboxes, cone charts, and scatter plots. Once abnormal conditions are exposed by data visualization, traditional BI tools can then be deployed to investigate and monitor situations on a regular basis.

Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics

This paper discusses the incorporation of predictive modeling capabilities into the WebFOCUS BI platform and highlights how this advanced functionality can dramatically improve decision-making, thus reducing risk and costs while increasing revenues and profits.

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.

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.

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.

Worst Practices in Predictive Analytics

In this white paper, we investigate worst practices in predictive analytics. We discuss why these actions can derail predictive analytics initiatives, what steps can be taken to avoid making such mistakes, and the key steps required for building and deploying effective predictive applications.

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.

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.

Architecture

Scalability: Ensuring Long-Term Value for Business Intelligence and Reporting Investments

This paper examines the connection between scalability to enterprise BI and reporting value, and recommends strategies for ensuring BI scalability.

Scaling Business Intelligence to Leverage Server Consolidations

Server consolidation delivers the dual benefits of reducing costs and improving performance. And once servers are consolidated, they can dramatically improve the company's access to -- and use of -- its business intelligence systems.

Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture: The WebFOCUS 7 Data Integration Framework

The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source: the systems that run the business.

The Foundation of High-Value Business Intelligence: A Description of the WebFOCUS 7.1 Architecture

This paper, written by Information Builders CEO Gerald Cohen, discusses the benefits of a modular architecture for BI: applications can be scaled with less hardware; server environments can be managed with fewer human resources; and analytical business intelligence, end-user information delivery, electronic publishing, and operational business intelligence applications can be implemented with a single system. This leads to easier installations, lower maintenance costs, and shared re-use of common components.

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.

Business Strategies

The Cost of a Question: Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions

Reduce the purchase, maintenance, and implementation costs of business intelligence by standardizing on a single solution that meets all of your reporting and information delivery needs. Compares the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of BI solutions from Cognos, Business Objects, and Information Builders.

Information Now by Gerald D. Cohen

Information Builders' CEO Gerald Cohen describes how successfully mastering the three dimensions of business intelligence scalability will provide universal access to real-time information and improve decision-making across your organization.

Integrated Business Intelligence Suites Positioning Paper

Read about the emergence of enterprise business intelligence suites and how they satisfy the information requirements of users across the enterprise and beyond

Establishing a Culture of Measurement: A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence

This paper serves as a synopsis of Information Builders' philosophy of business intelligence. By using this paper as a model, you'll learn how to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization.

Architecture of the WebFOCUS 7 Server for Autonomic Operation

The autonomic server is Information Builders' next-generation WebFOCUS architecture.

Strategic Delivery and Management of Enterprise Information

Discusses how WebFOCUS information delivery and management solutions help organizations dynamically deliver vital business information to the right people at the right time, and effectively store and manage it for future use.

Achieving Compliance -- Meeting Today's Reporting Requirements With Business Intelligence Technology

Learn about the challenges and solutions for meeting the reporting requirements of government legislation, industry-specific standards, or corporate governance.

The Real-Time Enterprise: IT Becomes Strategic Again

Learn how companies are quickly moving to build flexible systems architecture so they can accommodate more dynamic business processes and accelerate information velocity throughout the enterprise.

Managing Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence

Learn how you can reduce the total cost of business intelligence and reporting for your organization.

Delivering on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Mandate – Success Factors for a Standardized Solution

This white paper explains the specific business and architectural success factors to consider when selecting one enterprise business intelligence suite to serve as the enterprise standard.

Fostering the Culture of Accountability: Three Approaches to Creating a Performance Management System

Using technology, companies create a culture of accountability by involving everyone, at all levels. Read comparisons among the three current technical approaches to managing performance.

Worst Practices In Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail

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. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives.

Business Intelligence: The Strategic Imperative for CIOs

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.

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.

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? Seven Styles of Data Integration

There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.

Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain

A firm’s supply chain is the essence of how it delivers value to its customers. Deploying a supply chain performance management solution is a challenging process. This paper outlines critical steps and key factors in optimizing performance management for your entire supply chain.

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.

The Most Widely Used Business Intelligence Paradigm - Enabling Pervasive BI with Guided Ad Hoc Reporting

Guided Ad Hoc solutions are used in thousands of companies of all types and sizes. These businesses have been able to recognize the true impact that BI can have, by putting the power of reporting right in the hands of their end users.

Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance With U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards

The XBRL standardization initiative requires that all terms in financial reports be submitted in an approved taxonomy so comparable terms are used across different companies. This paper discusses the pitfalls of using manual steps that are currently common for transposing financial documents into compatible XBRL files, looks at the advantages of substituting an automatic process using WebFOCUS, and illustrates that process.

Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: Ensure Your M&As Through Strategic Use of Integration Technology

The risks associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are high. Various obstacles exist that, without proactive planning, can set the stage for failure. At the top of the list is the need to bring together disparate IT infrastructures to support the new, combined entity. In this white paper we will examine the importance of integration as part of any M&A strategy, and discuss those factors that need to be carefully considered when defining and implementing an integration plan.

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.

The Convergence of Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence

Combined, business intelligence and enterprise search can serve as a key enabler of optimized operational performance, providing decision-makers with a single, simplified point of access to the broadest range of data and content that offers insight into data and information that had not previously been possible.

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.

Eight Reasons Why Partnership Works

Without access to a mix of capabilities such as business intelligence, performance management, data quality, extensibility, analytics, location intelligence, and SaaS, organizations will be hard-pressed to optimize efficiency, performance, and the bottom line. A partnership with Information Builders combines that access with a proven record of leadership.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

Effective data governance enables organizations to access the full value of data and creates a framework for the use of that data that fits into an individual enterprise. There are seven key steps that use a repeatable technological framework to ensure effective data governance.

Developing an Information Strategy in the Insurance Industry

An information strategy defines how an insurance company will use the data it collects to achieve a competitive advantage. A well-executed information strategy is a comprehensive, constantly evolving plan that encompasses five distinct actions: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize. This white paper explores how these five actions can help insurance organizations develop an effective and broad-reaching strategy that drives positive change.

Developing an Information Strategy in the Retail Industry

An information strategy defines how a retailer uses the data it collects to achieve a competitive advantage. In this white paper, we explore how retailers can develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy that drives positive change using five distinct actions: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize.

Leverage Information Builders for Successful Health Information Exchange

Information Builders, specialists in the field of health integration, offers a health information exchange solution that creates a portal where hospitals, physicians, and other providers can engage in the meaningful use of electronic health records.

Making Social Networking Work for You

The rise of social networking at the professional level is a clear indication that companies of all sizes and in all industries need faster and more effective ways to communicate. In this white paper, we discuss how the same concepts that have transformed personal communication are now being applied to enhance enterprise collaboration.

Making Smarter Manufacturing Decisions With Business Intelligence

Even though manufacturers have the raw data they need, transforming that data into real information and insight that fosters better decisions requires powerful processing. Business intelligence helps manufacturers by integrating technologies and data from across the enterprise to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.

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.

Twelve Things to Consider When Implementing Mobile BI

In this paper, we discuss the most critical factors to consider when selecting a solution to support a mobile BI environment.

Implementing Real-Time Data Quality Management

In this white paper, we compare the real-time approach to data quality management with higher-latency approaches, demonstrating the superiority of real-time efforts compared with batch and near real-time techniques when it comes to time, money, and corrupt data.

Complementary Solutions

Geographic Information Systems and Business Intelligence: Perfect Together

Laden with examples, this paper presents a vision of the synergistic power of integrating geographic information with business intelligence applications.

An Integrated Justice Solution From iWay Software

This paper defines the elements of information sharing within the Integrated Justice community. iWay Software's Integrated Justice Suite facilitates the collection, transformation, integration, formatting, delivery, and analysis of justice information.

Tackling the Data Management Challenge Through Server Consolidation

Obtaining the best data for specific applications requires more than simply the ability to connect to like sources using similar semantics. It means making decisions about how fresh the data must be, where it must ultimately reside, and in what forms users need it. Navigate the challenges of data and server consolidation with help from Unisys and Information Builders.

Best Practices in Enterprise Reporting for Growing Businesses

For growing organizations that own iSeries, AS/400, or System i5 hardware, Information Builders offers a unique range of platform-optimized solutions that access and integrate any database or application in order to provide enterprise reporting and business intelligence. Learn how companies such as Eastern Mountain Sports, Collections Etc., and Bradley Corporation use WebFOCUS for System i5 to make informed business decisions.

Controlling Excel Chaos With Business Intelligence

Providing direct, secure access from Microsoft Excel to corporate data presents a significant challenge. This paper first outlines the vulnerabilities of Excel, and explores strategies to counteract these shortfalls. It then describes push solutions that serve up corporate data from centralized Excel sourcebooks and add-in desktop functionality that lets expert Excel users pull data directly from corporate data sources. And finally, it proposes structured ad hoc applications that are flexible and agile in answering the impromptu questions of non-expert Excel users. This paper was updated in August 2007 to include information about WebFOCUS Quick Data, our add-in feature for Excel.

Where Integration Meets Business Intelligence: Creating an Actionable BI Environment for Monitoring

What's still lacking for many companies is the ability to gain unique insights or make decisions faster by deriving actionable information from routine business processes. That's what the next generation of BI will entail and it's emerging now.

iWay SOA Middleware: An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments

Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems. With each new project, a company can gradually strengthen its SOA foundation without force-fitting all aspects of an operation into a Web-based service model.

Business Intelligence on the Mainframe: Mission-Critical Applications Require a Mission-Critical Platform

WebFOCUS, Information Builder's fully-integrated enterprise BI platform, leverages the advantages of IBM's System z to deliver a highly reliable, scalable, mainframe-based operational reporting environment that maximizes performance and minimizes risk.

iWay Software Secure Messaging Option

iWay Service Manager's Secure Messaging Option allows buisness users, and their partners, to enhance the security and harden the integration infrastructure used to exchange messages between organizations.

Everyone Sells: The Value of Business intelligence in Retail

Business Intelligence can help retail executives, warehouse staff, customer services agents, and everyone in your retail organization realize new retailing innovations, improve margins, and propel profits to new heights.

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements – Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities

iWay Activity Monitor integrates BAM and BI technology to capture end-to-end transaction and workflow data across multiple applications and business units, summarizing and displaying trading partner metrics to help managers make informed decisions.

Structuring the Haystack: Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions

Make enterprise search solutions work for you by planning, collecting content, managing index processing, creating interfaces and navigation, providing analytics, and ensuring secure information.

A Prescription for Healthcare: Optimize Performance and Quality Now

Read how Information Builders customers have been able to reduce labor costs, improve asset utilization, improve collections, speed revenue cycle, and drive growth with new revenue opportunities, through performance management and business intelligence (BI) tools.

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.

Take an Intelligence-Led, Proactive, Predictive Approach to Law Enforcement

This paper illustrates how various police departments implemented successful crime center solutions via Information Builders' Law Enforcement Analytics (LEA), using BI, analytics, and GIS mapping to improve critical decision-making, increase efficiency, and make their cities safer.

BI and Data Warehousing on the Mainframe

Improvements in technology, environmental impact, cost of ownership, and data-warehousing and BI capabilities have made IBM System z a highly desirable data warehousing platform. With WebFOCUS for System z Data Warehousing, businesses can align the advantages of the platform with the requirements of the business application.

Twelve Things to Consider When Implementing Mobile BI

In this paper, we discuss the most critical factors to consider when selecting a solution to support a mobile BI environment.

Data Management & ETL

Resource Governance and Analysis for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Demonstrates the benefits of enhancing your business intelligence system with in-depth resource analysis and preemptive governing capabilities.

Leveraging Your Data Architecture for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Find out how to leverage your data architecture in order to shorten business cycles, increase responsiveness to changing business conditions, and gain a competitive edge.

Fixing Enterprise Search

Web-centric search technologies cover only a small portion of the requirements of enterprise search. An enterprise search solution must reflect the needs of the environment and its users – the diverse multiplatform, multi-tiered, multi-application, and multi-user environment that runs the businesses of today.

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.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for State and Local Government Agencies

At a time when agencies are forced to do more with less, the accuracy and consistency of information is crucial. Data governance enables agencies to access the full value of data, while protecting that data from risk.

Eight Steps to Effective Data Governance for Insurance Companies

This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance in the insurance sector, and provides eight steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Manufacturers

Critical manufacturing information often exists in many disjointed silos and can be difficult to unify. This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance for manufacturers, and provides seven steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Financial Services Firms

Financial services firms are plagued with information management challenges, which can lead to poor data quality. This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance in the financial services sector, and provides seven steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare organizations operate very complex business systems that generate a tremendous amount of information. As a result, the need for effective, broad-reaching data governance strategies has become more urgent. This paper defines data governance, discusses its importance to healthcare organizations, and provides seven steps for taking such an approach.

Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

Effective data governance enables organizations to access the full value of data and creates a framework for the use of that data that fits into an individual enterprise. There are seven key steps that use a repeatable technological framework to ensure effective data governance.

Developing an Information Strategy in the Retail Industry

An information strategy defines how a retailer uses the data it collects to achieve a competitive advantage. In this white paper, we explore how retailers can develop an effective and broad-reaching information strategy that drives positive change using five distinct actions: strategize, align, govern, execute, and optimize.

Leverage Information Builders for Successful Health Information Exchange

Information Builders, specialists in the field of health integration, offers a health information exchange solution that creates a portal where hospitals, physicians, and other providers can engage in the meaningful use of electronic health records.

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.

Implementing Real-Time Data Quality Management

In this white paper, we compare the real-time approach to data quality management with higher-latency approaches, demonstrating the superiority of real-time efforts compared with batch and near real-time techniques when it comes to time, money, and corrupt data.

Development & Deployment

Enabling Rapid ROI: With Java Based Business Intelligence Applications

Learn how to leverage the processing efficiencies of Java-based application servers to deploy business intelligence applications to more people at a lower per user cost.

Rapid Business Intelligence: Application Development for the Web

Shows how to rapidly develop applications for all users and broadly deploy them via the web.

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.

For Partners

Deploying an Operational Business Intelligence Architecture: The WebFOCUS 7 Data Integration Framework

The best business intelligence solutions use a data integration framework to optimize data access and BI processes at the source: the systems that run the business.

Best Practices in Enterprise Reporting for Growing Businesses

For growing organizations that own iSeries, AS/400, or System i5 hardware, Information Builders offers a unique range of platform-optimized solutions that access and integrate any database or application in order to provide enterprise reporting and business intelligence. Learn how companies such as Eastern Mountain Sports, Collections Etc., and Bradley Corporation use WebFOCUS for System i5 to make informed business decisions.

A Snapshot of Integration in Upstream Oil and Gas Operations

In the upstream oil and gas industry, integration of business and production systems is becoming a critical part of doing business and remaining competitive. This report produced by Advertas and Upstream CIO Newsletter interviews producers of various sizes and an industry-standards group to form a picture of the challenges as well as potential solutions for successful systems integration in the oil and gas sector.

Where Integration Meets Business Intelligence: Creating an Actionable BI Environment for Monitoring

What's still lacking for many companies is the ability to gain unique insights or make decisions faster by deriving actionable information from routine business processes. That's what the next generation of BI will entail and it's emerging now.

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.

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? Seven Styles of Data Integration

There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.

Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain

A firm’s supply chain is the essence of how it delivers value to its customers. Deploying a supply chain performance management solution is a challenging process. This paper outlines critical steps and key factors in optimizing performance management for your entire supply chain.

Business Intelligence on the Mainframe: Mission-Critical Applications Require a Mission-Critical Platform

WebFOCUS, Information Builder's fully-integrated enterprise BI platform, leverages the advantages of IBM's System z to deliver a highly reliable, scalable, mainframe-based operational reporting environment that maximizes performance and minimizes risk.

Everyone Sells: The Value of Business intelligence in Retail

Business Intelligence can help retail executives, warehouse staff, customer services agents, and everyone in your retail organization realize new retailing innovations, improve margins, and propel profits to new heights.

Fixing Enterprise Search

Web-centric search technologies cover only a small portion of the requirements of enterprise search. An enterprise search solution must reflect the needs of the environment and its users – the diverse multiplatform, multi-tiered, multi-application, and multi-user environment that runs the businesses of today.

Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance With U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards

The XBRL standardization initiative requires that all terms in financial reports be submitted in an approved taxonomy so comparable terms are used across different companies. This paper discusses the pitfalls of using manual steps that are currently common for transposing financial documents into compatible XBRL files, looks at the advantages of substituting an automatic process using WebFOCUS, and illustrates that process.

Enhance Your SaaS Application With Advanced Business Intelligence

As the demand for SaaS grows, providers can leverage advanced business intelligence to provide significant and measurable impact to the enterprise.

Eight Reasons Why Partnership Works

Without access to a mix of capabilities such as business intelligence, performance management, data quality, extensibility, analytics, location intelligence, and SaaS, organizations will be hard-pressed to optimize efficiency, performance, and the bottom line. A partnership with Information Builders combines that access with a proven record of leadership.

Legacy Extension

FOCUS Web Integration Using WebFOCUS

Directed to owners of FOCUS reporting environments, illustrates how leading organizations have minimized cost and time for moving legacy systems to the Web.

Mainframe FOCUS Release 7.6: CPU Performance Improvement

The 7.6 release of mainframe FOCUS employs the new IBM/C compiler to achieve CPU performance improvements of 10 and 20 percent and more compared to the previous release. In many cases, it restores performance levels to those of 7.0.8R from 1999. This paper details the benchmark process and results for various mini-applications from which you can extrapolate the gains you might achieve on your own applications by upgrading to 7.6.

Doing More With What You Have: Save Money on Your BI Applications by Using Your IBM Mainframe

This white paper looks at ways that you can save money by doing more with your current investment in IBM's z/OS mainframe.

The IBM zIIP Specialty Engine for Mainframe FOCUS

As of Release 7.6.10, FOCUS is enabled to run on the system z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) engine. This white paper demonstrates the types and approximate amounts of FOCUS workload transferred to the zIIP under various conditions, and the resulting cost reductions.

Management & Administration

Deploying and Managing Enterprise Wide End-User Reporting Environments

Learn how to deploy secure, wide scale business intelligence applications that provide the ability to personalize and specialize views of the information.

Learning Circle: Data-Driven, Decision-Making Tools for Educators

Learning Circle improves educators' capacity to make data-driven decisions, set goals based on academic achievement results and intervention strategies, and then achieve those goals.

Leverage Information Builders for Successful Health Information Exchange

Information Builders, specialists in the field of health integration, offers a health information exchange solution that creates a portal where hospitals, physicians, and other providers can engage in the meaningful use of electronic health records.

Scalability

Enhance Your SaaS Application With Advanced Business Intelligence

As the demand for SaaS grows, providers can leverage advanced business intelligence to provide significant and measurable impact to the enterprise.

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