1. Use business intelligence to dump bad customers and target promotions
Business intelligence tools can transform your company's operational data into high-value information you can use to boost your bottom line. Find out how BI can streamline both your customer base and your promotional efforts.

2. Scorecards help keep the enterprise on strategy
If you're tasked with converting mountains of data into usable information for your enterprise's decision makers, a scorecard system can provide a customized delivery format that helps keep each player focused. We'll show you how it's done.

3. Use business intelligence to boost sales and profitability  
What enterprise doesn't want better sales forecasts, a better record of hitting sales targets, and increased profitability per sale? Find out how you can achieve all of these goals using business intelligence tools.

4. Business intelligence tools are key to building profits
Why does a product sell well to one customer but poorly to another? Which products should you promote in which markets? This article shows how business intelligence can answer marketing questions that are crucial to your profitability.

5. Can data mining predict the future of your enterprise?
Data mining is one of the 10 emerging technologies that will change the world, according to MIT's Technology Review. This article provides a basic overview of this powerful technology.

6. Use these Fourteen Points to improve the quality of your data
In today's business climate, poor-quality data can threaten the livelihood of your enterprise. This article shows how you can apply a quality-management experts Fourteen Point program to improve your data product.

7. Want high-quality data? Follow these Fourteen Points
Managing the quality of your organization's data is a crucial challenge for any CIO. Well show you how to use proven quality-management principles to ensure the quality of your data.

8. Poor-quality data can rob your company of information
Your company's information is only as good as the data you use to build it. But sometimes you cant see the poor quality of your data until the needs of a data warehouse expose the problem. Well show you how to make sure your data is up to snuff.

9. Know your options when enabling your ERP system for business intelligence
After deploying ERP, many enterprises find that they still need a business intelligence system to meet their information and reporting requirements. Dan Pratte discusses the pros and cons of your BI implementation options.

10. Use BI tools to ease merger and acquisition IT integration issues
When two enterprises merge, the stress on IT organizations can be severe. The conventional wisdom says that you should integrate operations ASAP, but Dan Pratte argues that there may be a better way to get the work of the enterprise done effectively.

11. Conform facts and dimensions to evolve your data warehouse over time
Building an enterprise data warehouse can be a complex and risky undertaking. Some organizations prefer to build smaller data marts first and let their data warehouse evolve over time. We'll tell you how planning can ensure the success of this approach.

12. Data marts deliver fast results, but proceed with caution  
Unlike a data warehouse, which can cost millions and take years to implement, a data mart can produce results quickly and cheaply. But beware, because poorly conceived data marts could end up magnifying the information problems you were trying to fix.

13. Thinking dimensionally aids business intelligence design and use  
An efficient business intelligence system requires a different approach than the one you use for online transaction processing. In this article, Dan Pratte outlines the dimensional data model and its precise and flexible analysis of data.

14. Building the business intelligence solution: Back-room issues
In this third part of his series on business intelligence, Dan Pratte focuses on activities that involve designing and populating the data warehouse—the back-room issues.

15. Use this architecture to structure your business intelligence solutions  
Business intelligence gives organizations a tactical advantage by transforming operational data into high-value information and putting it in the hands of the right people at the right time. Read on to learn about how BI solutions are commonly structured.

16. Is your business intelligence suffering from the Information Paradox?  
Is your enterprise finding it difficult to get valuable information from your data? If so, you might be feeling the ills of the Information Paradox. Find out what some of the warning signs are before your organization invests in a new enterprise system.

17. The intelligent organization: An introduction to BI
What is business intelligence (BI) and how can it benefit your organization? This article offers two examples to show how a company might use BI and then asks several questions to help you determine how well you're putting this intelligence to work.