Enterprise Business Intelligence White Papers and Technology Briefs

• A Prescription for Healthcare - Optimize Performance and Quality Now
• Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance With U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards
• How the Fastest Growing Companies Use Business Intelligence
• Fixing Enterprise Search
• Structuring the Haystack - Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions
• Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements – Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities

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Featured Reports and Papers

	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.

	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.

	Business Intelligence on the Mainframe 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.

	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.

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