Your Business Intelligence Home Base
Welcome to the Information Management Resource Center, a unique gateway to BI-related content designed for IT professionals dedicated to helping your organization collect and produce ever-increasing volumes of data to provide decision makers with timely, high-quality information.
We will regularly refresh this site with new white papers, Webcasts, user case studies, technology briefings and much more - all geared to helping you manage information with optimal effectiveness. Spend some time with any of these knowledge-rich resources and reap these benefits:
- Provide high quality data throughout your organization, and do it faster
- Improve the value of information
- Ensure regulatory compliance
- Reduce costs and mitigate risk
Coming Attractions
Stay tuned to the Information Management Resource Center in the coming weeks and months to access exciting new additions to be presented, including:
- A four-part Webcast series featuring analysts, thought leaders and tell-it-all user case studies - all highlighting various information management strategies
- A multi-article Technology Briefing focusing on the themes of Business Intelligence Competency Centers and Performance Management and Data Visualization, and how the topics interrelate
Webcasts
Pathways to BI Success: The Information Management Series
Webcast: Focus on SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform
Find out how a complete business intelligence (BI) platform - integrating BI, data integration and analytics - can transform your organization. You will come away with a clear understanding of the key components that comprise an effective BI platform.
White Papers
Computerworld Report: BI @ the Speed of Business
Business Intelligence (BI) as we know it is fast-transitioning into a new world of operational BI. In this next iteration of BI, the tools and solutions are embedded deeply into the fabric of the organization's operational processes and applications, thereby touching an order of magnitude more knowledge workers and influencing thousands of business decisions daily.
Information Management Initiatives at Midsize and Large Organizations
In September 2007, Computerworld invited IT and business leaders to participate in a survey to better understand the issues surrounding information management implementation. The survey was commissioned by SAS, but data was gathered and tabulated independently by Computerworld Research. This report represents top-line results of that survey.
Computerworld Technology Briefing: Speeding the time to intelligence
Time To Intelligence -- a concept defining how long it takes to get accurate and timely information into the hands of workers who need it most. Do it slower than your competitors and your company is toast. Do it faster, you scorch them. Business Intelligence is the key to optimizing Time To Intelligence, and success there is a combination of people, policies, and technology.
Better Information for Winning Decisions
Thanks to ever-dropping storage costs and the surge of new business regulation, corporate data is proliferating at an astonishing rate. That data contains critical competitive information, but it's useless unless companies can access and leverage it. Much of the data—such as free-form text—is unstructured and defies the rigidity of database management systems. Enterprise architects, IT managers, and analysts all need a coherent information management strategy, a business intelligence competency center, and a comprehensive software platform.
Implementation of Business Intelligence and Performance Management Tools and Solutions
In January 2007, Computerworld invited its online visitors to participate in a survey on business intelligence (BI) and performance management tools/solutions. The goal of the survey was to better understand the issues surrounding BI and performance management implementation. The survey was commissioned by SAS, but data was gathered and tabulated independently by Computerworld Research. The following report represents topline results of that survey.
Business Intelligence Maturity and the Quest for Better Performance
In March 2007, SAS conducted research to assess current trends in the use of business information -- specifically business intelligence and competency centers -- and the effect on organizational performance. In response to an e-mail invitation to take an online survey, 175 business professionals provided their perspectives on business intelligence in their organizations, representing a diversity of sizes and industry classifications from across the globe.
