Taking Operational Decision Management to the Next Level

This paper explores why your business needs the latest operational decision management (ODM) solutions to help turn data insights into action. Discover how IBM Operational Decision Manager software and the IBM Business Process Manager platform work together to:

*Recognize patterns that suggest opportunity or risk
*Create and shape business events by automating decisions
*Bring more dimension and precision to decision making by applying analytics to big data
*Help you implement the right business processes by understanding data in context.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics: Key Drivers for Enterprise Adoption

This Pulse white paper from Slashdot Media, sponsored by IBM, looks at the key benefits of BI solutions, the challenges to adoption, the ways by which advanced BI capabilities like predictive analytics are being applied in the enterprise, and the factors that are most important when considering a new BI or analytics solution.
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Gartner Report: The Rise of the Operational DBMS Market

Are your business owners experimenting with NoSQL databases? Learn what use cases are changing the landscape for enterprise-class database systems as they transform from classic OLTP to Operational DBMS. This report is written by Gartner Distinguished Analyst and VP Donald Fienberg and Research VP Merv Adrian.
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The OFAC 50% Rule: When Government Lists Are Not Enough

Revised guidance requires that businesses stay away from or limit their engagement with entities where subjects on the OFAC list have a 50% or greater ownership interest individually or in the aggregate. The catch: OFAC was not going to aggregate those interests or proactively publish them on any list. This new requirement necessitates a significant amount of research to map these holdings, which is something that most compliance departments and list providers do not have the resources to do. It also requires experience to conduct due diligence in multiple languages given the global nature of such holdings. This paper will help shed light on these new requirements and what you need to do to stay compliant.
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CDO Data Vision to Analytics Value

Studies show that one-fourth of all large global organizations have appointed Chief Data Offices (CDO. Why? The CDO creates and manages data and business analytics strategies to drive business value - extremely important as IT transforms from cost center to innovation and creation center. Ultimately, CDOs are the data shepherd of the organization. This brief guide highlights key factors and best practices to help navigate the enterprise data maze.
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Quantifying the Impact of Self-Service Analytics

Much has been made about the promise and business value that self-service analytics solutions can provide. By removing the onus from IT of constantly responding to analytics requests from the line-of-business and empowering individual business users to perform the analysis they need, self-service analytics can often present an attractive investment. However, influencers seeking to make investments in such solutions find difficulty in quantifying downstream business benefits. To facilitate this evaluation process, Blue Hill Research provides the following framework for assessing the relevant value that such investments might have on their organization. In building this framework, Blue Hill Research draws upon deep qualitative and quantitative interviews with 21 end-user organizations across a range of size and industry.
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Enhancing Your Application with Mobile BI – Five Easy Steps

Business intelligence is a technology that has held a spot within the consciousness of nearly all IT department decision-makers and professionals for the past several decades. More recently, as innovations have given rise to mobile technology in the enterprise sector, software and applications developers are looking to include mobile BI functionality into their existing offerings.
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