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	<description>Logic Driven Performance</description>
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		<title>4 Key Questions About Business Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are four main questions one asks in relation to BI….
What is BI?
Why do I need BI?
What BI tools do I need for what purpose?
How do I select a BI solution?
What is the best way to implement BI?
I will answer each of these questions in following blogs
What is BI?
Business intelligence is a capability, supported by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/4-key-questions-about-business-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>BI Vendor SAS Top Business Performance Solution &#8211; Q4 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BI vendor SAS was designated the leader of business performance solutions in the Q4 2009 Forrester Business Performance Solutions report.
It received a perfect score for cost and profitability analysis and also the top score inproduct strategy and vision.
In spite of scaling back operations in the past year, SAS has still maintained its focus on truly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/bi-vendor-sas-top-business-performance-solution-q4-2009/</link>
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		<title>Virtualized Data and Automated Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an IT world that is rapidly becoming virtualized at the hardware and software levels it is not too much of a stretch to envision virtualization at the data level – easy to dream about, not so difficult to create, or is it?
As businesses continue to struggle to capture, clean and transform their data into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/virtualized-data-and-automated-discovery/</link>
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		<title>IBM Cognos Express &#8211; Integrated BI &amp; Planning Tool for Midsized Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Cognos Performance 2009 presentation this morning and was very impressed with the new &#8216;Express&#8217; Version, developed to target mid-sized businesses. Running on a standard Windows platform, IBM Cognos Express provides an affordable BI solution [meaning very short payback period] without compromising on the technical or functionality richness of its parent solution Cognos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/ibm-cognos-express-integrated-bi-planning-tool-for-midsized-businesses/</link>
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		<title>Benchmark Your BI Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those considering on-premise BI solutions, compared to on-demand BI solutions, estimating the cost against industry standards is a typical item in the business case. The following tool may provide you with the answers you seek.
A 2008 TDWI BI Benchmark Report, based on a web survey of 392 BI professionals, found that the median capital budget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/benchmark-your-bi-costs/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Driving BI Mashups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just completing my upcoming book &#8220;Getting to Cloud&#8221; and decided to use BI as a great example as to how Cloud computing will enable more innovative BI. 
One of the innovative developments Cloud enables, that supports self service BI is BI Mashups. Virtualization infrastructure enables a continuous background task to run searching for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/cloud-driving-bi-mashups/</link>
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		<title>Insights on Web 2.0 Adoption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want a super cool way to look at how the different Web 2.0 technologies are being engaged by businesses, and which ones have grown in adoption over the past two years? McKinsey has recently launched a user definable, interactive to allow you to gain insight into many aspects of Web 2.0. For instance, find out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/insights-on-web-2-0-adoption/</link>
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		<title>How to Set Up BI in the Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watch a lot of webinars and every now and then I come across one that really stands out. And one I really would like to recommend is:
A Guide to Building a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solution in the Cloud
Recorded on July 9, 2009 by Open-source BI vendor Pentaho, Cloud DBMS vendor Vertica and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/how-to-set-up-bi-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Cloud-based BI Stack Partnership Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new partnership recently announced between four open-source and proprietary vendors heralds a big step forward along the BI Cloud roadmap. Vendors Jaspersoft, Talend, Vertica and RightScale have formed an alliance to lead the integration stack of open source BI into cloud environments.

Jaspersoft &#8211; open-source BI
Talend &#8211; data-integration technologies
Vertica&#8217;s &#8211; analytic database
RightScale&#8217;s &#8211; management software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/cloud-based-bi-stack-partnership-deal/</link>
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		<title>Microstrategy Launches BI on Kindle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Whilst on the topic of Business Intelligence on Mobile &#8211; most BI Vendors are in the process of rolling out capability for small screen devices.
Recently, BI software vendor MicroStrategy announced that it will provide its business reports and dashboards on Amazon&#8217;s Kindle DX reader. Kindle is a simple platform for downloading and reading books provided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebusinessintelligenceguide.com/blog/microstrategy-launched-bi-on-kindle/</link>
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