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Direct Marketer Hiring Plans Remain Strong
The employment picture looks bright for direct marketers this winter with nearly three out of four direct marketing companies planning to add to staff, according to the latest job survey by Bernhart Associates Executive Search. Among companies responding to the survey, 70 percent said they plan to add to staff...
Empowering the Store: A Framework for Measuring Store Performance
Store teams first and foremost need a structured method of goal setting and tracking. The store manager and the leadership team in the operations function need to be able to monitor the health of the function. They need to be aware of exception events - out of stock situations, for...
For the Orchestra There Is a Conductor, for Your Business There's Rosetta Stones' Performance Manager
Performance Management is just one of the management tools which can be used to measure what the business is doing and to help align the activities of people and processes to achieve the desired goals. Many organizations have started down this route by trying to determine their business strategy because...
Balanced Scorecards in the Business-Centric BI Architecture
More and more companies are using the balanced scorecard as a management tool to improve business results are measured as profits in the private sector and as productivity and service in the public sector. This trend has spawned balanced scorecard software, an analytic application that automates collecting and displaying performance...
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Survey: Concurrent Use of Business Analytics Systems by Multiple Workers Soars in Popularity, Implementation
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey of business intelligence professionals shows overwhelming support for the concept of allowing multiple workers throughout an organization to concurrently access a company's data warehouse DW to help them in their jobs. Almost half of respondents say their companies have...
DM Review and the MDM Institute Announce "MDM SUMMIT - Fall 2008"
SourceMedia and DM Review are pleased toannounce the third annual "MDM Summit - Fall 2008" conference to be held atthe New York Hilton hotel on October 19 - 21, 2008. Working closely with SourceMedia's Conferences and Events Group and DMReview is Aaron Zornes. As chief research officer for the...
The Simplified Version of Lagging and Leading Indicators
Lagging indicators are metrics that are normally the results of other actions and metrics. Financial metrics are the most common form of lagging indicators as they are almost always the result of some other action and resulting metric in an organization. Leading indicators are metrics that have a...
Build the Information-Empowered Organization
Peter would like to thank Glyn Heatley of Palladium Group for his contribution to this column. Last month, I discussed the broad issues that must be addressed in building an information-empowered organization and described five steps to achieve that state. The first step is mobilization. To mobilize, a...
Checklist for a flexible SOA-based integration strategy:
1. Stay loose - loosely coupled, asynchronous, message-basedarchitecture. 2. Choose an agile integration middleware platform - powerful visual design interface, support for process flows as SOA services, reusable open source metadata layer, a single code base, wide connectivity to legacy as well as modern distributed and SaaS applications....
Dividing the World
In my November, December and January columns and the data quality article published in the October issue of DM Review, I laid a solid foundation for building a data warehouse. We have done a careful job of gathering all the overlapping design constraints; we have established a good set of...
Mastering PIM
By nature, many CEOs don’t speak for the products their companies produce and prefer to steer a purely financial course. Barbara Mowry, President and CEO of Silver Creek Systems, outwardly fits this role, with entrepreneurial and previous officer credentials at two Fortune 500 companies and current board seats at a...
From The Editor
Dear Readers, An old sentiment says that “all roads lead home,” and in that spirit I am thrilled to rejoin the DM Review community where my business journalism career took root some eight years ago. Some of you will remember me as the magazine’s managing editor until last...
Companies Improve Time-to-Decision, Customer Satisfaction and Employee Productivity with Operational BI
According to research presented in a recent report from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, entitled “Operational BI: Getting Real-Time About Performance,” best-in-class BIC companies using operational business intelligence BI have increased their customer retention rates at more than four times the levels of industry average companies. BIC organizations showed significant...
From The Editor
Dear Readers, We all know that many New Year’s resolutions don’t materialize or are short-lived at best. That is not the case at DM Review. We are celebrating our 18th year as a premier niche publication with a slew of new projects and a new online emphasis to...
Data Fit to Compete
You expect senior executives like DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher to be upbeat in prosperous times, but to know Fisher is to understand that his attitude doesn’t change with the business barometer. Since 1986 when he joined SAS to his last seven years heading up DataFlux, Fisher’s upbeat energy...
What is a Smart (Enough) Business Anyway?
DM Review welcomes James Taylor as a columnist. James helped create the emerging enterprise decision market and will share his passion about decision management each month. Welcome to the first installment of my new column. As you can see, the column is called smart enough business, and each...
Data Demands More Attention
DM Review welcomes Stephen Gallagher as a new columnist. He has more than 20 years of industry experience and will share his expertise on corporate business intelligence strategy for data management. Data is the lifeblood of an organization when it is timely, accurate, complete and secure because it...
Netezza Customers and Executives Set the Bar for Industry Innovation and Success
Recent Awards Underscore Commitment to Innovation, Performance and Results, and Build on Netezza's Record of Industry Accolades FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in analytic appliances, today announced that the Company and its customers have recently received awards for success...
Ventana Research Findings Confirm Love-Hate Relationship With Spreadsheets
Benchmark Research on Spreadsheet Use Finds Inefficiency and Risk; Uncovers New Approaches to Increase Productivity SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Ventana Research's new benchmark research, "Requirements for 21st Century Spreadsheets: Uses and misuses of a critical business technology" confirms the widespread use of spreadsheets and details...
Magma Design Automation Wins DM Review's Innovative Solution Award Using Cast Iron Systems Integration Appliance
CastIron Systems , the fastest growing integration appliance vendor, announced today that Magma Design Automation isthe winner in the Enterprise Application Integration category of DM Review's first annual InnovativeSolution Award, created to recognize groundbreaking solutions that provideclearly quantifiable business value. A long-standing Cast Iron customer,Magma...
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