From an operational standpoint, analytics and reporting leveraging the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio has been the number one use case.

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Risk analytics can augment more traditional reporting, business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities with newer techniques in modeling, claims analytics and fraud analytics.

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And finally, all the monitoring, reporting and analytics features needed to understand trends, growth, and noticeable changes.

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Data quality will keep getting better with more timely updates to CRM, multiplying the power of our real-time reporting and analytics tools through a virtuous cycle.

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As CEO of Hyperion, one of the pioneering business intelligence companies that is now part of Oracle, Sullivan lived through the journey that relational databases systems, reporting, and other analytics technology made as they propagated through the enterprise.

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The Miami-Dade project also aims for government transparency with consolidated analytics across finance, human resources, budgeting, planning and all transactional departments to provide county employees access to reporting and analysis tools to help make better decisions.

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