Deadline: 4 July 2009
Publication date: Articles will run through the
month of August 2009
Editorial contact:features@computerweekly.com
Collaborative decision making - CDM
CDM is a category of decision support system for non-routine,
complex decisions that require iterative human interactions.
Social software extends the collaborative decision-making
process by allowing decision makers to discuss an issue,
"brainstorm" options, evaluate their pros and cons, and agree on a
course of action.
Tagging the decisions made in social software with information
from BI systems enables users to be informed when decision-making
assumptions change.
Using business intelligence to navigate the
recession
How can businesses use BI to help them through the recession?
Using case study examples, this article will look at how companies
use BI to identify profitable/loss-making customers/product
lines/business units etc and assessing the skills pool . We will
also cover how BI can be used to pinpoint market opportunities.
Market overview
What’s happening in the BI space. This article will cover
industry consolidation and how it has affected the BI landscape. We
will focus on the product strategies of the main players including
IBM (Cognos), SAP (Business Objects), Microsoft, and Oracle. The
article will also identify market trends, and the main drivers for
BI.
Database appliances
When database performance is an absolute requirement, business
turn to hardware acceleration like the products from Oracle, HP and
Teradata. produce. The article will cover the main suppliers of
database/data warehouse appliances, industry trends ie moving to
commodity x86 architectures, pros and cons and who uses these
appliances.
Predictive analytics
Predictive analytics is about predictive models that exploit
patterns found in historical and transactional data to identify
risks and opportunities. Models capture relationships among many
factors to allow assessment of risk or potential associated with a
particular set of conditions, guiding decision making for candidate
transactions.