>>White papers and downloads

      Readers are not allowed to repost papers originating in BI-Community.org!


Business Intelligence in retail

- Business Intelligence on the path of Retail Industry Evolutions
(download pdf)
- Customer Case: Translating mass data into information (contact us)


Data Quality initiative: integration of people, tools, processes & technology.
- How to launch an Information Quality initiative? (download pdf)
- Data Quality Challenges for Financial Institutions and large corporations (download pdf)

- International name and address data quality (download pdf)

The World of Business Analysis
- Introduction on Business Analysis: "The IIBA® and the Brussels Chapter" by Stefan Bossuwé (download pdf)
- Keynote Speech: "The World of Business Analys or Why Requirements Matter" by Ian Alexander (download pdf)


TDWI Benelux Chapter Meeting: Trends in Business Intelligence
- What's happening in BI? (download pdf)
- Business Intelligence Challenges (download pdf)


Business Intelligence/Data Mining Seminar

- ITIL BI-as-a-Service
(download pdf)
- Best practices in BI-as-a-Service Management (contact us)
- Build an up-to-data structured knowledge supply chain in your organisation (download pdf)
- BI-Community.org (download pdf)
- Reducing reporting burden with XBRL (download pdf)

Round Table

Business intelligence round table discussion on:
- Business Intelligence Competence Centres
- Open Source
- Corporate Performance Management
- Trends in Business Intelligence


“In/Outsourcing in Business Intelligence”

Outsourcing is a fast growing service in every part of the world and the ideal path to business growth. More and more companies are looking for competitive advantage in outsourcing IT and IT –enabled services. But is this also the case for Business Intelligence? Guy Kirkwood and David Stewardson will walk is through this world of outsourcing in a business intelligence environment.

“The Future of Open Source in BI”
Davy Nys (Pentaho) explains the growing “Open Source” market in Business Intelligence.


The birth of “Performance Management” – 2007 : Consolidation of an entire industry (Part 1)

2007 has been quite an amazing year for the market of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management. More than 15 billion $ was spent in Mergers & Acquisitions, mainly by the software industry giants SAP, Oracle & IBM, to acquire the crown jewels of the BI & CPM market. Rarely a complete industry consolidated that quickly, but then again … the stakes are high. In this "Insight", we reflect on the sequence of events & the drivers for the consolidation. In a second part, we will dive into the impact this will have on our profession & our Performance Management initiatives in the short term.
Stijn Vermeulen,
element61