Webinars

March 18, 2008
2:00 EST

Making BI as Easy as Web Search

The complexity of traditional business intelligence (BI) tools often limits their use to executive dashboards and analyst groups. This leaves more than 80% of potential beneficiaries without immediate access to BI data. The result is a backlog of requests to IT and analysts. The data exists, but operational business users often delay decisions while waiting for BI reports that may take days, weeks or even months to obtain.

How do companies overcome this common problem? Attend this web event featuring Colin White of BI Research and Dr. Rich Wood of Progress EasyAsk to find out how companies are implementing “BI for Everyone” by making BI analysis as easy as web search.

Attend this webinar to learn how you can:

• Get easy and immediate access to information that meets your unique needs.
• Drill down into data easily to get immediate answers, without needing to have specialized skills.
• Share BI analysis and reports efficiently and securely with others who may benefit from them.
• Leverage exiting BI tools to deliver BI to the masses and realize greater ROI.

Uncorking the Data Bottleneck with Operational BI

Mega-sites like YouTube have mastered the pull power of the Internet by creating an infrastructure that achieves two key objectives: let users populate the content, while also facilitating the discovery of relevant material. In an ideal world, corporations would fashion their business intelligence environments in much the same way.

The evolution of Operational Business Intelligence is combining Web 2.0 principles and extending the capabilities of search technology to enable that very development. By letting information consumers not only search and find reports but craft their own using natural language questions, the traditional inhibitors to pervasive Operational BI are overcome. Operational business intelligence is now ready to recast the information management paradigm in a more user-oriented way.

Register for this 35-minute Webinar to learn:

• How the combination of search and natural language query makes BI analysis as easy as Web search
• How Web 2.0 is redefining how business users develop, distribute and maintain corporate knowledge
• Why true operational business intelligence extends the value of both traditional search and BI investments exponentially

Increasing Conversion Rates in Online Retail

Featuring AMR Research and EasyAsk for eCommerce B2C customer Redcats, USA discussing trends in retail cross-channel spending for improving site search effectiveness, conversion rate performance, and web analytics.

Increase the Effectiveness of Your Online Channel

Featuring AMR Research and EasyAsk for eCommerce B2B customer Lawson Products discussing how to improve online merchandising and operational efficiencies while differentiating with customer service.

February 2008

Journalist Lisa Morgan interviews Dr. Larry Harris on Operational BI