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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...
Mariner Improves Business Performance Management With Balanced Scorecards
The Balanced Scorecard solutions transform data into information that can be easily and quickly accessed to make better, timelier decisions. Balanced scorecards can also be used to automate the creation and management of subordinate, departmental scorecards, giving employees real-time visibility into business operations and the knowledge needed to make faster,...
Most Executives Unable to Take Balanced Scorecards From Concept to Reality
The paper outlines that balanced scorecards can be powerful tools, providing concise, predictive and actionable information about how a company is performing and may perform in the future, and world-class companies are 159 percent more likely than typical companies to have mature balanced scorecards in place. Companies report an average...
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...
Data Professionals Broaden Their Skills
A Recent survey among members of the International DB2 Users Group IDUG finds that many data managers and professionals are expanding their range of expertise to provide higher-level services to enterprises. However, many feel that data professionals are not receiving the training and support needed to improve their skills base....
Columns In The Clouds
Vertica Systems CEO Ralph Breslauer was already in the software business when he left South Africa 20 years ago to pursue a career in the U.S. In stints including major roles at Informix, Ardent Software and eRoom now a part of EMC, Breslauer always tended to evangelize the practical side...
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...
From The Editor
Dear Readers,One major theme resonated in DM Review editorial during 2007: the focus on ways for business and technology to work together better. Aligning vision and mission strategies, learning new communication tools and creating respect for different mind-sets are some best practices to ensure single-mindedness of purpose and successful operations....
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