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	Best of BI Editor's Choice Awards 2012 These 10 honorees were selected for their ability to make better business decisions using BI and predictive analytics tools. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BI & Analytics Perspectives BI & Analytics Perspectives Conference, Sept 9-11, Phoenix When you attend, you'll not only gather contemporary viewpoints and takeaways in sessions, but you'll also have ample networking opportunities to consult with expert practitioners who can offer direction and guidance in optimizing your BI portfolio. Register now. In this Issue Best of BI: Booz Allen's $50 million BI investments pays rich dividends Best of BI: Cancer Treatment Centers examines clinical data with BI Best of BI: Celestica uses BI to open a lucrative revenue source Best of BI: Parallon Business Solutions consolidates its BI data streams Best of BI: Seminole Gaming boosts bottom line by millions with BI Best of BI: Maverick Transportation centralizes data to make real-time decisions Best of BI: Minnesota Department of Education creates user-friendly dashboards Best of BI: City of Richardson, Texas, finds BI value across agencies Best of BI: Volunteers of America Chesapeake uses BI to boost donations Motorola Mobility workers wary of Google INSIDER Data center hub arises in central Oregon city The Grill: Ramon Baez on outsourcing challenges at Kimberly-Clark. Bart Perkins: The value of skeptics (of the right kind) Mars rover gets interplanetary tech support IT services deals decline 20% in second quarter Wearable tech market on the upswing Google hit with fine, bad press for tracking users Thornton May: Futuring should be job No. 1 for IT Career Watch: New ways to find a job Security Manager's Journal: Closing off a hole in Outlook WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. Best of BI: Booz Allen's $50 million BI investments pays rich dividends Predictive analytics and modeling are helping executives at Booz Allen Hamilton shape the direction of the firm to better meet future demand, anticipating which practices will see the most growth. Read More Best of BI: Cancer Treatment Centers examines clinical data with BI This healthcare provider's new BI system has enabled workers to analyze data and generate reports much faster than they once could, but its true value is in its contribution to improving patient outcomes. Read More Best of BI: Celestica uses BI to open a lucrative revenue source A new revenue source was born for Celestica, an electronics manufacturing services provider, when it analyzed several sources of product life-cycle data to help a client understand why certain products were repeatedly returned for repairs. Read More Best of BI: Parallon Business Solutions consolidates its BI data streams Business managers at Parallon Business Solutions, a division of healthcare company HCA, used to spend two or three hours pulling key financial data. With new BI dashboards, they can access that data in 15 seconds. Read More Best of BI: Seminole Gaming boosts bottom line by millions with BI Using a BI tool built in-house, Seminole Gaming had boosted its incremental profit by $26.8 million as of early 2012. That figure includes $8.4 million from improvements in gaming operations. Read More Best of BI: Maverick Transportation centralizes data to make real-time decisions Maverick Transportation developed BI dashboards to monitor changes in trucking routes, driver training, gas mileage and accident rates -- everything that affects profits. Read More Best of BI: Minnesota Department of Education creates user-friendly dashboards The Minnesota Department of Education developed multiple BI dashboards that end users -- administrators, principals, teachers and parents -- can easily access to find the data they want. One goal is to lower dropout rates. Read More Best of BI: City of Richardson, Texas, finds BI value across agencies The city of Richardson, Texas, has seen a dramatic drop in the time it takes workers to produce statistical reports; the police department can now compile monthly crime reports in minutes, rather than days. Read More Best of BI: Volunteers of America Chesapeake uses BI to boost donations Using a customizable BI tool, this charity group can run reports on just about any aspect of its operations and, most important, identify statistics that will help encourage donor organizations to increase funding. Read More Motorola Mobility workers wary of Google Google's plan to cut 20% of the workforce at Motorola Mobility has reignited internal fears that the Internet giant acquired the mobile device maker primarily for its 17,000 patents. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault The Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault contains concise videos on topics related to running Microsoft Exchange in a virtualized environment. View Now! INSIDER Data center hub arises in central Oregon city Apple and Facebook this month each filed plans to expand data center operations in Prineville, Ore., a small community that's on its way to becoming one of the top data center locations in the U.S. Insider (registration required) Read More The Grill: Ramon Baez on outsourcing challenges at Kimberly-Clark. Ramon Baez, who was recently named global CIO at HP, reflects on five years' of successes and challenges in his previous role as CIO at Kimberly-Clark. Read More Bart Perkins: The value of skeptics (of the right kind) Their endless questioning can be painful at times, but a loyal skeptic can help keep your project on track. Read More Mars rover gets interplanetary tech support JPL programmers and engineers keep the Mars rover's software up to date from 156 million miles away. Read More IT services deals decline 20% in second quarter The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20 percent to 411 in the second quarter from 516 in the same quarter a year ago, with average contract values also sliding, according to research firm Everest Group. Read More Wearable tech market on the upswing The number of wearable technology products is expected to grow from 14 million devices sold this year to as many as 171 million in 2016 Read More Google hit with fine, bad press for tracking users Google must pay a historic fine to settle U.S. charges that it violated privacy laws when it used cookies to track Safari users. But it could be bad press, more than the FTC penalty, that spurs the company to change its ways. Read More Thornton May: Futuring should be job No. 1 for IT Futuring is not what you do when you are finished with the imagined real work of operations. Read More Career Watch: New ways to find a job Most jobs available today in the U.S. are posted to social networking sites; and the 'eHarmony of jobs.' Read More Security Manager's Journal: Closing off a hole in Outlook With Outlook Anywhere, users can download their mail to untrusted PCs and leave sensitive documents behind. Read More
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