Articles
Making Operational Business Intelligence Work
This article is a more detailed look at how operational business intelligence can be used in the manufacturing workspace. I will be expanding on the points I raised in my last article, Reactive
and Proactive Business Intelligence.
When Data is Not Enough
Because companies are faced with the limitations of traditional business intelligence (BI), this article examines how companies can marry BI information with broad search capabilties.
Reactive and Proactive Business Intelligence
This article is aimed at those people who want to understand how business intelligence can affect how we make decisions in the workplace and looks at how information can be used proactively
throughout the manufacturing world.
Business Intelligence for “Un-Tethered” Users
Companies looking to improve distribution and analytics to un-tethered users must find solutions that are simple and intuitive or they will fail.
Driving Performance Measurement: Keeping Your Employees on Course
How to Gain Control by Getting Behind the Wheel
As companies increasingly provide metrics to their employees, they are learning that there can be some unintended consequences that are not so desirable.
News
BGF Selects SAS
BGF's products help build things as varied as hot gas filtration systems, aircraft and automotive parts, ballistic vehicle armor, bullet–proof vests, movie theater screens and surfboards.
CSC Signed a New Information Technology Outsourcing Contract Eclipse Aviation
Under the new contract, CSC will manage Eclipse Aviation's applications development and maintenance and IT infrastructure.
QlikTech and Sky IT Group form a Partnership
The partnership offers the analysis capabilities to gain merchandising and supply chain efficiencies with SKYPAD.
Premier Manufacturing Support Services Selects Information Builders
The initiative is a key component of Premier’s vision of being the preferred industrial service partner to the world’s leading manufacturers.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Previewed
Latest release offers significant enhancements across human resources, financials, supply chain and CRM applications.
White Papers
The 1% Solution: How to Drive Your Financial Performance
This executive report discusses financial performance in the manufacturing industry. The author discusses the true representation of corporate value – not share price, but return on capital
employed.
Agile Web Process Management
Mashing Up Information For Improved Automotive Industry Supply Chain Performance
This paper discusses the challenge to improving the management of risk and product and service quality by maintaining a timely and comprehensive overview of process performance.
The Hidden Challenge of Product Information Management
This paper discusses product how automating product data quality is the key to maximizing product information management performance.
Automating Product Data Quality for Trouble-Free PIM and MDM
This paper discusses product data quality & governance and how to create PIM-perfect data to maximize PIM-MDM performance.
Great E-Commerce Needs Great Data
This paper illustrates that smarter data means smarter E-commerce by discussing the unique nature of product data, its role in effective merchandising and breakthrough technology that automates
product data quality.
Spotlights
Companies highlighted in the spotlights serve the Manufacturing industry.
Christina McKeon, Director of Product Marketing, Performance Management for Infor
Christina McKeon explains how Infor's performance management software helps companies link corporate strategy to operational plans and generate actionable business insights to increase user
productivity, control costs and improve overall business performance. 
Sid Probstein, Chief Technology Officer of Attivio
Sid Probstein explains how Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and BI capabilities through its unique
ability to combine structured data and unstructured content in one universal index.
Shadan Malik, President and CEO of iDashboards
Shadan Malik discusses iDashboard's innovations in the presentation of visual intelligence via dashboards.
