Technology Planning and Analysis White Papers

Changing market conditions challenge companies to develop more effective business practices. So how do business leaders transform the planning cycle into an evolutionary process, yielding consistent returns for their organisations? Read this paper to learn the twelve best practices. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper shines a spotlight on a major root cause of project failure in every organisation—requirements. And while the first reaction might be to place blame on the requirements author, the Business Analyst, this is incorrect. The REAL root causes run much deeper than that. VIEW SUMMARY

Take a look at these 10 reasons why documents and spreadsheets are actually putting your career in peril and leaving you at the back of the pack, as more and more of your fellow BAs embrace the tools that help them work better and faster every day... VIEW SUMMARY

Business Intelligence tools play a mission-critical role in identifying new business opportunities and helping knowledge workers make better decisions. But the widespread adoption of BI tools has been hindered by their reputation as being hard to use. This report explores the issues. VIEW SUMMARY

The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms presents a global view of Gartner's opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organisations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI) applications. VIEW SUMMARY

Effective IT planning and decision making are dependent upon having a complete asset inventory and an accurate understanding about dependencies available before, during and after IT change activities. This paper shows how you can do this and mitigate your risk. VIEW SUMMARY

One of the core ideas behind a financial institution's analytical transformation is its ability to understand, analyse, and report on various types of risk in an integrated manner. It is a known fact that business models are beset with risks. In this paper we explore the issues involved. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper looks at how its time to build the "last mile" with integrity of reporting, assured compliance and insightful analytics allowing the most successful organisations to utilise all their resources to make the best business decisions. Read the paper to find out more. VIEW SUMMARY

Learn how Content Analytics uses the same core natural language processing (NLP) technology used in Watson. Unlock the value embedded in the massive amounts of unstructured information in your organisation VIEW SUMMARY

A major recent study based on face-to-face conversations with 3,000 CIOs worldwide discovered some common threads about the role that apply across industries VIEW SUMMARY