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What is business intelligence? Transforming Data Into Business Insights

Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business...

Business Leaders Share Their Best Tips For Growing Partnerships

Partnerships are a highly effective growth channel, but they're hard to get right. The best business development professionals are able to stay on top of constant changes from all directions. Sometimes that might be navigating ever-evolving markets, complicated partner ecosystems, figuring out where new features fit in, dealing with changing compensation structures, or all of the above. Like acrobats, they are nimble enough to maneuver these challenges to create and grow fruitful business partnerships...

Global 2000: The World's Largest Public Companies

It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for global markets: Stocks saw both major gains and losses as volatility ticked upwards, trade tensions between the United States and China heated up, and many companies got a boost from new American corporate tax legislation. Forbes’ 17th annual ranking of the world’s largest public companies is a reflection of the state of the global economy today: who’s on top, who’s growing and who’s seen better days. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China took the top spot again for the 7th year in a row...

Beyond The Digital Frontier: Mapping Your Future

Digital transformation promises a triumphant response to the pressures and potential of disruptive change. But to make it concrete, achievable, and measurable, organizations need to look at broader trends—and a variety of technology advances. Digital transformation has become a rallying cry for business and technology strategists. To those charged with mapping the future, it promises a triumphant response to the pressures and potential of disruptive change...