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Summary of Reports

 Ascential Software

 Business & Decision

 Business Objects

 Cartesis

 CODA

 Cognos

 Embarcadero

 Frango

 Informatica

 LSA Solutions

 MIS

 Nimbus

 Orenburg

 Sage

 SPSS

 Syncsort

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Management Briefings

 Market Overview & Analysis | Part 2 | Part 3

 Expert Opinion: Rob Brickle of Bsquared Consulting

 View from the Top: Sharon Reason, Halifax Bank of Scotland | Part 2

 Real-Time Reporting: Roland Spiers of Clarity Integration | Part 2

 Implementation: Cliff Leach of Resolution IT Services | Part 2

 Data Quality: PA Consulting’s Bettina Pickering | Part 2

 Round Table | Part 2 | Part 3

 Market Trends: AMR Research authors John Hagerty and Fenella Scott

 Vendor Management: Larry Gormley of Vision Advantage | Part 2

 Conspectus Summits: Previewing the first in a series of Summit events organised by 'Conspectus'

Integrated Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & CPM

Conspectus February 2004 - Summary

Most companies are persuaded they can derive direct benefit from the latest data management and analysis technology – such as data warehousing, business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM) systems.

That optimism is supported by the findings of our market research. And the experience of Halifax Bank of Scotland confirms the kind of large-scale cost savings this sort of technology can create.

If it is implemented properly. This theme links many of our Management Briefing articles. Cliff Leach picks out lack of strategic thinking and poor data quality as two key problems. PA Consulting’s Bettina Pickering emphasises the importance of cleaning up data before it’s fed into the warehousing and analysis systems. And Rob Brickle detects too great an emphasis on the technology, not enough on the business reasons for introducing it.

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