7 articles in this selection

2010/11/02

Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics can deliver a multi-million dollar kick to a company's bottom line. The company used SAS analytics to identify a single change to a web page that generated an overnight surge in sales, Expedia's VP of global analytics and optimisation Joe Megibow told the SAS Premier Business Leadership Series conference in Las Vegas last week....

2009/07/18

Application -- Business Intelligence: customer information warehouse. Business Benefits -- $22.8 million saved during pilot; estimated $268 million savings over next four years in retail banking; better targeted marketing; estimated 100 percent ROI in six months...

2009/07/17

Most companies approach restructuring as a one-time-only activity in which an army of analysts tries to reconcile financial structures from organizational hierarchies, to budgets, to the accounts themselves. The fact is these activities aren't just part of high-profile M&A events. They occur every year as companies go through their annual budget processes. During a corporate restructuring the process usually takes longer than the acquisition itself....

2009/07/12

A list of the many costs involved in implementing and supporting Microsoft SharePoint, including ones you might never have expected.

2009/04/07

What, exactly, should an organization that is getting it right with service oriented architecture look like? How do we know when we reached optimum service orientation?

2008/10/17

The concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has caused a profound shift in the worlds of business and technology, causing important changes that will stand the test of time in how millions of people think and work. However, I believe the practice of SOA is overdue for a paradigm shift - a shift of focus away from enterprise architectures and applications toward larger, fundamentally different problems that need to be solved in the space between enterprises - a problem/solution domain I call multi-enterprise SOA....

2008/08/05

At the moment in financial services organizations, not spending today on an IT project is often a more compelling option. What this means is technology innovation must be carefully focused on "sweet spots" where it can pass these more exacting investment criteria. In the case of BPM, the sweet spots emerging are those where BPM has the ability to automate complex manual processes, remove human error and handle process change....