Friday, February 15, 2013

Friday Roundup: Decision Management in an Intelligent Economy

Business Intelligence: Learn the Essentials

Decision Management: How to Extract Value from Data

Webcast: How to Solve the File Transfer Dilemma

High Quality Requirements: Style Guidelines

Welcome to this week's Friday newsletter. In this issue you'll find out how to solve the file transfer dilemma and learn how to extract value from data. Plus, get style guidelines for writing high quality requirements.

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The Essential Guide to Business Intelligence

In order to thrive in today's competitive business environment, organizations increasingly need to improve their decision-making capabilities and create sustainable competitive advantage. Business intelligence (BI) has emerged as a way to extract, integrate, analyze and interpret business information in a way that can achieve these goals. This report outlines the fundamental factors of a successful BI project and can help you select the right BI solution for your needs. Download now to find out more.

How to Extract Value from Data

The transition from an information economy to an intelligent economy is happening, and it's happening fast. What does this mean for you?On Tuesday, February 19th @ 12 Noon EST , join Progress Software and guest speaker from IDC for one information-packed hour and learn how organizations are using data to extract more value out of their relationships with customers and business partners. Discover how business rules, complex event processing, and analytics can simplify data management - and help you make better decisions in lightning-fast time.

How to Ensure Your Files Transfer Safely

We have all encountered a situation that involved trying to send a file that was too big to attach to an email. Unfortunately, this problem is only set to get worse. More and more rich content, like video and multimedia is becoming so large; it simply won't fit under corporate email file-size limits. What are your options for making sure your file gets where it needs to go? Watch this webcast at 11 am EDT on March 20th to learn about the solutions that can make sending files secure and simple.

Your Style Guideline to Writing High Quality Requirements

Writing requirements is not easy and requires lots of practice. There is lots of advice out there on how to write good requirements. But you will not learn simply from reading a book on software requirements or a book on technical writing. This white paper presents numerous style guidelines to keep in mind when writing functional requirements. Find out how to keep up clear communication and make the most out of constructive feedback.