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Selecting a Visual Analytics Application
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Visual analytics is the process of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Its becoming the fastest way for people to explore and understand Business Intelligence data of any size. This paper will introduce you to the seven essential elements of true visual analytics applications.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

Tableau Software

Harvard Business Review's Guide to Visualizing Data
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: The following Harvard Business Review report explores the current state of data visualisation. Hear from many leading authors on how to leverage data visualisation, and the right times to use it.
Posted: 24 Apr 2014 | Published: 24 Apr 2014

SAS

Data Visualization: 7 Considerations for Visualization Deployment
sponsored by SAS
WHITE PAPER: The following white paper explores the top 7 considerations for implementing a data visualization solution in your enterprise. Learn how data visualization can give way to far deeper insights, better decision making, and much more.
Posted: 05 May 2014 | Published: 28 Apr 2014

SAS

Fast Businesses need race fuel – The right BI-Octane
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This informative resource explains why businesses can and must transform their practices. The most frequently cited critical objective that an organization can achieve by allowing business users to always get the right information at the right time is the ability to alter business processes more dynamically.
Posted: 16 Oct 2013 | Published: 16 Oct 2013

SAP America, Inc.

Visual Discovery: Perceptions and Market Trends
sponsored by TechTarget Business Analytics
WHITE PAPER: Businesses are using visual data to make sense of information. How can visually oriented techniques help make sense in the business world? Read this resource to find out how to get a quick look at valuable information by implementing visual data.
Posted: 21 Aug 2013 | Published: 21 Aug 2013

TechTarget Business Analytics

Help Alleviate Batch Windows with Reliable, Timely Data Delivery
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business issues that drive organizations to consider a real-time change data capture solution to optimize ETL processes. This helps alleviate batch windows to enable the delivery of timely, trusted information to the business.
Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

IBM

Building a World-Class Supply Chain – New Insights from Chemical & Petroleum Producers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn what leading companies do differently to outperform their peers. From strategy decisions to investment in information technology and performance measurement systems, MPI’s latest research explains how your company can realize tangible returns though greater flexibility and improved delivery performance.
Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

IBM

5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories with Data
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Data doesn't have to be only fact driven and metric. Learn these five best practices to help you make sense and order out of a disparate collection of facts.
Posted: 20 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

Tableau Software

Designing Great Visualizations
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Visual representations are a fundamental component of human learning and understanding. To study the impact of data visualization, we must first look to the past and see how our ways of shaping and representing data have changed over time. This paper traces the history of visual representation, from cave drawings to the computer revolution.
Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

Tableau Software

Analytics: The New Path to Value
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this executive report from MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute for Business Value learn how the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action and out-perform the competition, recommended actions organizations can take to bolster their analytics capabilities to achieve long-term advantage.
Posted: 20 Feb 2011 | Published: 20 Feb 2011

IBM