From the Publisher

This book illustrates how organizations can make better, faster decisions about their customers, partners, and operations by turning mountains of data into valuable business information that`s at the fingertips of decision makers. It describes what`s involved in using business intelligence to bring together information, people, and technology to create successful business strategies-and how to execute those strategies with confidence. Real-life case studies show how world leaders in finance, manufacturing, and retail have successfully implemented business intelligence solutions and detail the benefits they have reaped.

From The Critics

Booknews This book illustrates how organizations can make better, faster decisions about their customers, partners, and operations using business intelligence, the process of turning large amounts of data into valuable information and making it easily available to decision makers. The book describes the components and general architecture that most business intelligence solutions share, offers stories of how real companies have implemented business intelligence solutions, and describes steps for implementing a business intelligence solution in an organization. Vitt has six years of business development and project management experience in business intelligence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)