Best of BI Editor's Choice Awards 2012

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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: Amazon Web Services Become a Cloud expert at AWS re: Invent Amazon Web Services invites you to AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. Hear how companies are migrating their IT applications to the Cloud. Learn best practices for managing security, monitoring your resources, optimizing performance, and cutting costs. Get your questions answered by AWS experts to help you get started. Register today for AWS re: Invent, the largest gathering ever of the AWS community. In this Issue Oracle software glitch mars semester's start for university, students Best of BI: Parallon Business Solutions consolidates its BI data streams Salesforce.com's future includes a marketing cloud, deeper Workday links and more HTML5 Oracle broadens support for open-source R analytics Best of BI: Seminole Gaming boosts bottom line by millions with BI 10 mobile apps for better health White House offers 'We The People' petition app under open source license WHITE PAPER: Teradata Experts Share the Five Pieces of Private Cloud Success Private clouds are emerging as a way for enterprises to take advantage of many of the benefits of the cloud model, but with less risk. This eBook discusses why private cloud models are the best choice for many organizations today. Learn more. Oracle software glitch mars semester's start for university, students The first week of class at Washington State University has been a tumultuous one for students and parents who depend on financial aid, due to a software glitch in a recently installed Oracle PeopleSoft system. 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 Salesforce.com's future includes a marketing cloud, deeper Workday links and more HTML5 Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce event is coming up in just a few weeks, but during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff couldn't help but share some of the big announcements the cloud software vendor has planned for the show. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity Centralized Cloud Identity Management for Enterprise Now that employees are leaving the relative safety of the firewall to use online SaaS applications, enterprises need to adjust the way they manage employee identities. This White Paper from Ping Identity addresses why we need to centralize employees' IDs across applications. Read now Oracle broadens support for open-source R analytics Oracle is expanding its support for R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, the company announced Friday. 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 10 mobile apps for better health If you're one of the growing number of people who carries a smartphone everywhere, why not take advantage of mobile apps that can help you eat right, exercise or sleep better? Read More White House offers 'We The People' petition app under open source license The source code of "We The People," the online system that can be used by citizens to submit their petitions to the White House, is being offered as open source software, an official said on Thursday. Read More
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