In today's economy where each and every decision can mean the difference between accumulating revenue and losing ground to the competition, business intelligence (BI) has become a virtual imperative. Yet, questions abound. Where should companies with constrained budgets and demanding users begin? How can you plan effectively for enterprise-wide initiatives to minimize risk and cost? What alternatives do you have if your ERP system isn't providing the insight you need? What are best practices for unifying data sources and achieving true intelligence? With the recent integration of Piocon Technologies (two-time Titan Award-winner, including the 2008 Award for Business Intelligence), Rolta TUSC has gained extensive proven business intelligence expertise. We'll address answers to all of these questions and more in our April series of Web briefings. Our can't-miss topics include:

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Accelerate your BI Solutions with Oracle's BI Applications (Business Level)
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Learn how Oracle's packaged BI Applications can accelerate your BI solution deployment. The BI Applications provide a soup-to-nuts solution that can rapidly be deployed out-of-the-box and then extended to meet your exacting business requirements. This session will show you all the components, in detail, and then walk you through the process of creating your own BI solution. You will quickly see the benefit of these accelerated applications and will learn some tips and tricks for implementing them in your environment. You will learn the strengths of the BI Apps and how they support the simplest, or the most complex environments.

Kick-Starting Your BI Efforts with a Quick Win (Business Level)
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In the midst of this economy, you may wonder how you'll ever have the budget to pursue enterprise-wide BI. Or perhaps you've initiated a BI effort in the past only to have your project stall before completion. Harnessing business intelligence quickly and cost-effectively isn't an impossible dream, but it does require proven tools and sound methodologies. This Web briefing will explore critical success factors and technology approaches you can use to achieve quick, cost-effective wins for the business while laying the foundation for future enterprise-wide efforts.
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Overcoming the ERP Blues with Actionable Intelligence (Business Level)
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Can you readily identify your most profitable customers, products and channels? Would you know if you had issues with employee turnover and retention? Are you able to leverage enterprise-wide volume spending with your suppliers for greater discounts? If you've implemented an ERP system without incorporating business intelligence, the answer to these questions may well be "no." During this can't- miss Web briefing, we'll show you how you can give executives and line-of- business users ongoing visibility into critical data locked within your ERP system and beat the "ERP blues."
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Targeting High-Value Needs using a BI Roadmap (Business Level)
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Successfully orchestrating an enterprise-wide BI initiative is a significant undertaking, particularly when your effort encompasses multiple departments, locations and possibly even countries. How do you decide where to begin such a massive effort and which projects to tackle first? How can you accurately forecast and budget for what may be a multi-year project? How do you manage it all while running your business? During this Web briefing, we'll explore how building a roadmap that incorporates business-level impact analysis can be a critical step to achieving early strategic wins, avoiding pitfalls, and ensuring continued BI success. You'll learn best practices for building a successful plan that mitigates risk, lowers costs and secures buy-in across the enterprise.
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Critical Operational Intelligence WILL Improve Production Reliability - A Case Study in Savings (Business Level)
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This Web briefing will explore a dramatic case study demonstrating how BI was used to improve production reliability and minimize revenue disruption within a process manufacturing environment. Not only has critical operational intelligence saved the manufacturer millions in costs the first year alone, it has also eliminated unplanned shutdowns. We'll discuss the critical data sources that were united to achieve these benefits, best practices for implementation, how the manufacturer is using its BI system in daily practice, and how your organization can achieve similar bottom-line results.
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Business Intelligence Rationalization - Reduce Risk, Trim Costs and Improve Your Decision-Making Ability (Business Level)
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Has your organization's business intelligence (BI) environment grown in size and complexity over time? Does your environment contain two or more BI tools? You may have a significant opportunity to reduce costs by evaluating and consolidating the number of BI tools in your environment. This briefing will begin by presenting an efficient method for assessing your consolidation needs and evaluating potential ROI. This ROI is achieved by using an automated approach to BI consolidation that greatly reduces the time and costs associated with standardizing on a BI platform. We'll then highlight critical success factors for consolidation including management buy-in, technology platform selection, best practices for report cleansing, migration methods and more.
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