Articles
Retail Business Intelligence
Did You Get Any Nice Christmas Presents This Year?
While we watch numerous large corporations busily trying to digest their recent acquisitions, we all ought to keep an eye on the rapid and exciting development that is occurring at the other end of
the marketplace.
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway!
The title of this article is used with the permission of Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It anyway®.
Never Stop Moving!
The Dynamics of Retail Business Intelligence
Business intelligence needs to be flexible enough to adapt to the ever-changing questions posed by retailers.
Were You Looking Forward to 2007?
Are your business intelligence systems and processes geared to allow you to plan ahead, or is your management information still stuck in “what happened last week” mode?
Keeping a Strategic View of Your Retail Data
Beware of the status quo. Business intelligence for retail data requires strategy, as well as an understanding of critical success factors and the use of key performance indicators.
News
SAP AG Announces Strong Global Momentum for its SAP for Wholesale Distribution Solutions
The SAP for Wholesale Distribution solution portfolio has attracted more than 3,700 wholesalers, making SAP the standard software provider of choice for wholesale distributors.
Experian QAS and Retail Dimensions Announce Integration of QAS Pro and Retail Pro
The new product combines QAS Pro, a front–end address verification product, with an RDI–produced Retail ProR plug–in.
Dairy Farm Selects SAP for Retail Solutions
Joining a growing number of global retailers who have chosen SAP over Oracle to drive competitive advantage, Dairy Farm will replace multiple in-house and third–party applications with SAP.
Walgreens Selects Initiate Systems
Walgreens has selected Initiate Consumer to help manage the hundreds of millions of customer records that it maintains for its retail drugstores and e-commerce services.
Lund Food Holdings Enhances Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse
The move to a larger platform reflects increasing information needs and user base at food retailer Lund's, a business that is adding new functionality and speed to its information infrastructure.
White Papers
The Web is the Ultimate Source for Financial Research
Financial researchers and investors can use technology to data mine, mash up and analyze the Web's vast amount of information to gain proprietary insight.
Real-Time Data Warehousing
Enabling Operational and Active Data Warehouses for Improved Business Intelligence
This paper covers trends driving the data warehouse toward real-time data requirements, examples of the business value, evaluation of data acquisition technologies and approaches, and
GoldenGate’s technology solution for real-time data warehousing.
Achieving PCI Compliance with Log Management
PCI DSS states that logging mechanisms to track user activities are critical. Learn how log management can help companies track, monitor and transform log data into actionable information.
Driving Business Value with Geographic Business Intelligence
To effectively meet business requirements, decision makers must process information on demand from everywhere, visually render, critically evaluate and carefully develop accurate understanding of
their business.
Large Scale Use of the Netezza Performance Server® System – Prepared by Winter Corporation
Winter Corporation reports the findings of its interviews with three large Netezza customers who validate large scale implementations of Netezza’s appliance.
Spotlights
Companies highlighted in the spotlights serve the Retail 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.
Brad Peters, CEO of Birst
Brad Peters introduces Birst - an automated, on-demand business intelligence (BI) and analytics tool that simplifies the complexities of BI.
