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Business Intelligence

Today organisations are under huge pressure to increase operational efficiency, to develop new products faster, and to make the right strategic decisions - the ability to quickly respond to customer needs by adapting prices or services is critical, particularly for price-competitive industries. As a consequence, over the last few years, UK companies have invested heavily in Business Intelligence applications.

With this increasing demand for data analysis, IT organisations are looking for the right tools to address the fast changing needs of their business. BI implementations are successfully addressing these needs and are reported to be showing consistently high returns on investment.

ITAdviser - NCC's Member Journal:

	Growing short-term BI Solutions into long-term success	28 September 2009

	Why analytic organisations do everything better: The promise of analytics	28 September 2009

	Turning Adversity into Advantage: Why Business Intelligence is More Critical than Ever	28 September 2009

	Benchmark of IT Spending 2009 now available	25 September 2009

	Becoming innovative in tough times	25 September 2009

	Collaborative tools are one way to combat digital clutter	24 September 2009

	Recession busting IT management: achieving real benefits from shared IT ownership	16 June 2009

	Into the Cloud we go. have we thought about the security issues?	16 June 2009

	How IT Directors Can Improve Performance Through 2009	16 June 2009

	The changing face of IT support	16 June 2009

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Guidelines - concise and informative review of critical IT issues:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

	Guideline 309: Information Availability	14 May 2007

	Guideline 304: Reassessing CRM	1 September 2006

	Guideline 300: Virtualisation	10 May 2006

	Guideline 298: Storage Optimisation	6 December 2005

	Guideline 297: Business Improvement Using CMMI	25 October 2005

	Guideline 296: RFID the Story so Far	19 September 2005

	Guideline 294: Successful Business Process Outsourcing	6 July 2005

	Guideline 291: Delivering Value from IT	15 April 2005

	Guideline 290: Biometrics	3 December 2004

	Guideline 287: Grid Computing	11 August 2004

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Legal Guidelines - concise and informative legal updates:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

Computer Generated Evidence

1 August 1999

Best Practice Guides*:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

	Professionalism Programme Best Practice Guide: Part 1 - Information as a Strategic Asset	1 September 2009

	Best Practice Guide: Information Security Management	29 March 2006

Benchmarks* - establised surveys to benchmark your own performance:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

	Benchmark of IT Strategy 2008	20 October 2008

	Benchmark of IT Spending 2008	29 February 2008

	Mergers and Acquisitions and their IT impact	7 December 2007

	Benchmark of IT Strategy 2007 - Executive Summary	26 October 2007

	Benchmark of IT Strategy 2007	3 September 2007

	Business Intelligence Rapid Survey	6 June 2007

	Consulting our members...	18 April 2007