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Corporate social networking has become a key to marketing and sales success. The IT-Finance Connection Partnership Pages is a program in which your company gets a special page at our site and help in launching or refining your company's social networking initiatives. The key is our aggressive outreach from the Partnership Page to a variety of social networking sites and services.

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Podcasts

Podcast: Using Semantics to Make More Sense of BI

akerSemantics is the science of deciphering documents in a context-aware fashion. J. Brooke Aker, the CEO of Expert System’s U.S. subsidiary, tells The IT-Finance Connection that combining highly sophisticated semantic technology with business intelligence turns a far higher percentage of the mountains of data a company collects–and is available independently on the Web–into actionable intelligence. (Podcast time: 27:06)

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Archer’s Walter: Platforms Trump Point Products

davidwalterIn a podcast, David Walter–Archer Technologies’ Director of GRC Product Development–tells The IT-Finance Connection that CIOs and CFOs are more open than ever to the idea that a comprehensive framework instead of a set of discreet products will reduce costs and increase the value of the data an organization collects. (Podcast time: 22:28)

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Podcast: Clear Peak’s Strategy is to Start With Targeted Projects

brad-cowdreyThe best way to use BI to meet the related challenges of increasing revenue and cutting costs isn’t to march in and implement a comprehensive project, says Clear Peak Senior Partner and Founder Brad Cowdrey. Instead, the company advocates a targeted, incremental approach that generates immediate gains and drives corporate acceptance. (Podcast time: 21:37)

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LucidEra’s Rudin: Analytics Brings Science to the Art of the Sale

Closely examining trends, patterns and historical performance is a valuable adjunct to the “gut” level feelings that many sales staffs use to assess their progress. LucidEra co-founder and CMO Ken Rudin tells The IT-Finance Connection that it’s more a matter of science helping art than one replacing the other. The keys for sales analytics, Rudin says, are the three “Ps:” Pipeline, people and process.

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As it Grows, CPM–a Process, Not a Technology–Increasingly Relies on BI Tools »

Podcast: The Converging Worlds of BI and SaaS »

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News and Commentary

Podcast: ControlPanelGRC

SymSoft Corp. has introduced ControlPanelGRC, a second generation governance, cpgrcrisk and compliance platform. SymSoft CTO Scott Goolik tells The IT-Finance Connection that the new product goes beyond the initial tasks performed by GRC tools, which heavily focused on segregation of duties.

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Podcast: myDIALS 3.0 and NetSuite Integrate

netsuiteOn Sept. 22, an integration of myDIALS 3.0 and NetSuite’s cloud computing platform was announced. The IT-Finance Connection discussed the move with two NetSuite executives: Vice President for Developer Programs Guido Haarmans and Principal Product Manager Malin Huffman. The move, they said, was designed to help NetSuite dig deeper into the vertical market and to more efficiently serve larger companies. (Podcast length: 8:31)

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September 24, 2009

Check out the New IT-Finance Connection Newswire

newspaper iconThe IT-Finance Connection Newswire has been improved. It is the best one-stop source of information about the quickly changing world of business intelligence. The newsletter still features a compilation of important news events. We’ve added podcasts and links to valuable information elsewhere on the Web. Please click on this link for subscription information.

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September 22, 2009

Podcast: BI and Nonprofits

hollyrossHolly Ross, the Executive Director of the Nonprofit Technology Network, tells The IT-Finance Connection that non-profits labor under a number of misconceptions, including the ideas that BI is too expensive and complicated and that dashboards and BI are synonymous. Ross–who posted a blog on the topic last week–thinks that the theme is the difficulty of truly matching metrics to outcomes.

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September 22, 2009

Imhoff: Bad Economy Helps BI Prove its Value

imhoffiiConsultant, analyst and expert Claudia Imhoff says that the financial crucible of the past year has helped the business intelligence platforms become a more central set of corporate tools. In a podcast, the President and Founder of Intelligent Solutions tells The IT-Finance Connection that SaaS and open source techniques have flourished and that the focus is not on trial and error – it’s on approaches that produce immediate results.

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September 14, 2009