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	 							<title><![CDATA[ SAP Launches BusinessObjects 4.0]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In February, SAP BusinessObjects launched Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management 4.0, which promises to deliver better integration between BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. The 4.0 release also sets the stage for major changes to SAP's analytic offerings. ]]></description>
		
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  					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ How to Measure the Performance of a CMDB Project]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Metrics that illustrate change over time allow configuration management database deployments to chart the course for continuous improvement and demonstrate support of business goals. Does your organization have the necessary measurements in place? ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Astaro Acquisition Will Extend Sophos' Midmarket Security Offerings]]></title>
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ You Need an Enterprise Strategy for Social Business Initiatives]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Social business initiatives will affect almost every activity within the enterprise. The enterprise needs to take a more strategic approach, so IT leaders involved in social projects must take steps to move their organization in that direction. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Case Study: The City of Memphis Uses Analysis and Video to Change Culture and Reduce Crime]]></title>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ What You Need to Know About Cisco UCM Licensing Changes, and What to Do About Them]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cisco's User Connect Licensing model will change the total cost of ownership of your Unified Communications Manager deployments. Here, we highlight the major changes and their impact on new and existing deployments. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Supercharging Context Awareness With the Social Graph and Social Analytics]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Social context and social analytics will become key enablers for context-aware computing. Facebook's social graph is an example of how a social graph can be used to implement socially powered, context-aware business solutions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Chocolate; A Catalyst to Link Digital Marketing and Business Intelligence Teams]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Workshops reveal that sharing food is a common catalyst among those who achieve higher degrees of IT and business partnerships. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Benchmark More Successful Business Intelligence Project Execution]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Our research on business intelligence and performance management service project performance shows that focused attention on sourcing and project management fundamentals distinguishes successful projects. Even then, on-time and on-budget performance is not always achievable. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Case Study: Context-Aware Computing Creates New Products and Access to New Channels]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Tokyo Marine & Fire Insurance partnered with NTT Docomo to offer a new line of insurance products through a new channel using contextual information about their clients. Their experience holds lessons for those planning context-aware computing initiatives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Data Center Consolidation Projects: Benefits and Pitfalls]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Data center consolidation is a difficult project, with immense complexities and often hidden problems that can derail the project. This research outlines the key steps you should take to undertake a successful consolidation project. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Article Top View: Pattern Seeking Technology]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pattern seeking technology is a fundamental component of a Pattern-Based Strategy. Most organizations already seek departmental patterns, but will benefit by expanding the scope to include information from across the enterprise and beyond. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Analytics, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 2011, Gartner will expand its research into the people, process and technology skills required to deliver analytics, business intelligence and performance management. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Predicts 2011: Pattern-Based Strategy Technologies and Business Practices Gain Momentum]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pattern-Based Strategy enables business leaders to seek, model and adapt to new and emerging business patterns that could represent opportunities and threats. During the next two to five years, technologies and business practices will begin to reach maturity. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Predicts 2011: New Relationships Will Change BI and Analytics]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ New devices, new functions, new types of providers and new uses will alter the way enterprises buy and use business intelligence and analytic applications. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Predicts 2011: Enterprise Information Management Programs Connect IT and Business]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 2011, successful enterprise information management programs will focus on success metrics that concentrate on growing the business, in line with new executive expectations for the IT function. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Predicts 2011: Aligning Enterprise Business Applications to Drive Business Outcomes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprises are looking for ways to better align their business application portfolios with business and market conditions. Legacy transaction systems will form a foundation for the response, but are not agile enough to be the complete solution. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ ITScore Overview for Business Intelligence and Performance Management]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner's maturity model gives business intelligence leaders a way to identify the level of maturity their BI and performance management initiative must reach in order to support enterprise goals. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Finance and Corporate Performance Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Financial management, the financial value chain and financial governance applications automate and manage finance processes, while corporate performance management links the CFO and finance function to a broader performance management agenda. The 2010 Key Issues summarize our research in this area. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Enterprise Information Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Information is a strategic asset and must be managed like other assets, such as people or capital. Gartner's enterprise information management research delivers actionable guidance to maximize the business value of information. This is our 2010 research plan for EIM. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Best Practices in Data Transformation and Loading Architecture]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business intelligence solution architects and data warehouse architects should not allow the availability of well-balanced, inexpensive hardware (like DW appliances) to replace the many hours needed to deliver best practices during design time as a compromise for meeting time-to-market pressures. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Five Steps Required for a Successful BI Service Project]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Upfront investment in the five crucial areas of planning, resourcing, selection, relationships and delivery is essential for business intelligence service project success. Of these five, relationships are the single most-important factor to get right. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Q&A: How to Establish a Business Intelligence and Performance Management Competency Center]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ IT leaders need to answer three questions when establishing a business intelligence and performance management competency center. The answers to these questions may change as the BI and PM initiative matures. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Best Practices Mitigate Data Migration Risks and Challenges]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Data migration projects often exceed timelines and budgets, and frequently introduce challenges in application acceptance. Organizations can minimize disruptions and delays by applying a set of best practices focused on each of the key risks in migration efforts. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Tips for Evaluators: Better Business Intelligence RFPs]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business intelligence RFPs can take much effort for little return, in that they fail to uncover differentiation. This report offers seven tips on how to run an RFP process that will help you make better comparisons of vendors and their BI products. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Take These Steps to Develop Successful BI Business Cases]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Developing business cases for business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) initiatives has been difficult for many enterprises. Here are five critical factors to help you develop a winning business case. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Analytic Applications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Analytical capability is increasingly packaged as a solution to address specific business issues, rather than created with generic business intelligence tools. Gartner's Hype Cycle for Analytic Applications shows the maturity, adoption rates and benefits of various analytic applications. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Intelligence, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Hype Cycle is a showcase of the main components of today's business intelligence arena and tomorrow's emerging BI technologies. Since the last iteration of this Hype Cycle we now concentrate only on BI technologies, while a new Hype Cycle for Performance Management has been spun off. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Use of Social Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This new Hype Cycle examines social technology in specific business functions and industries. Consider how social technologies are used across a wide array of circumstances when evolving your social strategy, and use this to guide realistic user expectations in light of market hype and exuberance. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Enterprise Information Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise information management touches on technology at every layer of an information infrastructure, but emphasizes architectural aspects rather than equipment. This year's Hype Cycle has several noteworthy changes to the technologies covered. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Global Business Intelligence and Performance Management Service Providers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Consulting and system integration companies partner with clients in developing business intelligence solutions. Buyers of BI services expect broad support of information management and information analysis strategies. There is much change in the market, with service providers increasing investment. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 2010, business users had greater influence over BI buying, often choosing data discovery vendors as an alternative to traditional BI tools. But megavendors continued to hold the majority of BI market share, despite ongoing customer dissatisfaction, by selling the stack into their installed base. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Demand for MDM of customer data solutions continues to grow, and organizations can leverage increasingly mature capabilities. But there is still more to do, and the vendor picture continues to change, due to acquisitions, plans for new products and changes in positioning. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Rating: Adobe]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Adobe is making significant progress in integrating product lines to focus on enterprise and industry-specific markets, but Adobe must communicate better with its customers. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Vendors that offer analytic solutions are plentiful and diverse in target markets. We focus this report on new trends in mobile business intelligence delivery, event processing and data mining markets. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Vendor Focus for SAP]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ SAP has a broad and increasingly complex solution portfolio. Here, Gartner reviews SAP offerings in key product categories to help IT executives and procurement managers determine the best "next steps" in SAP deployments. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Supercharging Context Awareness With the Social Graph and Social Analytics]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Social context and social analytics will become key enablers for context-aware computing. Facebook's social graph is an example of how a social graph can be used to implement socially powered, context-aware business solutions. ]]></description>
		
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