Gartner Announces Three Finalists for the Business Intelligence Excellence Award

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emWinner to Be Announced at Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Washington D.C., March 9-11, 2009/em

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bSTAMFORD, Conn., February 10, 2009/b—/p

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span lang="EN-GB"Gartner, Inc. announced today the three finalists for the Gartner Business Intelligence (BI) Excellence/span

span lang="EN-GB"Award. The finalists are/spanGE Rail Services, the Social Security Administration and the US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC)./p

p align="left"Each finalist will present their BI success story to conference attendees at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, taking place March 9-11, 2009 at the Gaylord National Resort amp; Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Summit attendees will vote to select the Gartner BI Excellence Award winner from the finalists. The winner will be announced at the summit./p

pA team of Gartner analysts evaluated and selected 3 finalists based on thea href="http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/748720/Gartner_BI_research_note_142827.pdf"

target="_blank"Gartner Business Intelligence and Performance Management Framework/a, astrategic framework developed by Gartner to help companies maximize the probability of success. The six layers of the BI and Performance Management Framework include:/p

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bBusiness Strategy/b— Organizations should measure the success of BI and PM programs on how well they help the business achieve strategic and operational objectives. Defined business strategies and objectives are critical to the success or impact of a BI or PM initiative and build the case for return on investment.br/

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bPerformance Management/b— The goal of PM is to link operational activities with business strategy. Defining the "metrics" is key, because, if well chosen, these are the appropriate measures of the success of strategic objectives.br/

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bPeople and Processes/b— This layer should characterize the users and processes and explain how information and analysis is employed to drive changes.br/

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bAnalytic Applications/b— Analytic applications are components of the BI and PM vision and plan and are defined at this level. The links between the PM layer and analytic applications are defined here and detail how the analytic applications contribute to achieving the performance objectives (that is, the metrics) defined in the PM layer.br/

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bBI Platforms/b— This layer defines the combination and relative priority of BI platform capabilities that different users require from their analytic applications, and how these diverse capabilities are being addressed while minimizing redundancy.br/

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bInformation Management Infrastructure/b— This layer needs to address how the data architecture and data integration infrastructure — which are the foundations of enterprise BI initiatives — ensure efficiency and agility to react to changing business requirements./li

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p“span lang="EN-GB"Through 2012, more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets./span

span lang="EN-GB"Most organizations do not have the information, processes and tools needed to make informed, responsive decisions due to underinvestment in information infrastructure, including business process integration, to enable the leveraging of these platforms,” said John Van Decker, Gartner research vice president and Summit co-chair. “These three companies are great examples of the best practices needed to pursue successful BI objectives.”/span

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pMore information on Gartner's BI Excellence Award and the online entry form are available ata href="http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/748720/bi7_awards.jsp"http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/748720/bi7_awards.jsp/aor on the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit Web site ata href="http://www.gartner.com/us/bi"www.gartner.com/us/bi/a./p

pAdditional real world case studies featured at the Summit include BlueCross BlueShield, Cisco, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, and US Postal Service./p

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bAbout Gartner Business Intelligence Summitbr/

/bThe Gartner BI Summit, being held March 9-11, 2009 at the Gaylord National Resort in Washington D.C., is the only event designed to provide businesses with the knowledge required to create a visionary business intelligence strategy. This event focuses on the methodologies, strategies, technologies and architectures that will move organizations from the tactics of cost cutting and compliance to increasing their agility and responsiveness, and improving overall business performance. Additional information is available ata title="http://www.gartner.com/us/bi" href="http://www.gartner.com/us/bi"www.gartner.com/us/bi/a. Members of the media can register by sending an e-mail to Christy Pettey ata href="mailto:christy.pettey@gartner.com"christy.pettey@gartner.com/a./p

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