White Papers

Thank you for your interest in Oco's SaaS Business Intelligence White Papers. As a leading SaaS provider of business intelligence solutions, we are pleased to offer the following collection of White Papers that cover all many aspects of business intelligence, including:  BI System Architecture, BI Application Architecture, BI Data Integration, BI Data Mapping, BI Data Migration, BI Data Security, and BI Data Warehousing.  Please email us if there are other SaaS Business Intelligence topics you would like us to cover.

By Technology

Mobile BI: Delivering a Compelling and Viable Solution
The full promise of Business Intelligence (BI) – insight into operations and business activities in order to make better, data-driven choices – requires that solutions be available where, when, and on the devices users want and need it to be. Today, critical users – primarily company executives – are demanding the ability to view and manipulate dashboards, scorecards, BI apps, and reports in visually rich and compelling packages on their preferred mobile platform: the tablet.
Oco SaaS BI Technical Overview
Learn how the Oco SaaS BI solution works and when to consider using it. The paper explains how Oco performs data integration, data warehousing, data security and reporting over the web/in the cloud.
Oco SaaS BI Applications Catalog
This Applications Catalog paper provides detail on the different Oco SaaS BI applications, including screenshots of several (but not all) of the reports, scorecards and dashboards.
Revolutionizing BI with Oco and SAP BI OnDemand
This white paper describes why two key SaaS BI providers, Oco and SAP BusinessObjects, have formed a strategic alliance to provide companies with the fastest path to game-changing BI applications.
Complementary BI: The New Approach to Business Intelligence (322.35 KB)
Complementary business intelligence can be used to rapidly address high value, urgent business needs when the IT department is overwhelmed with other activities. By leveraging existing investments and infrastructure to drive increased business value to the business, complementary business intelligence places minimal demands on IT and business users, delivers high user satisfaction, and a compelling ROI within six to ten weeks.

By Industry and Function

Identify Inventory Reduction Opportunities within Weeks (362.09 KB)
Companies are looking to on-demand business intelligence solutions to assess how they can quickly reduce inventory levels, assemble information, analyze operations and gain new insights in how to improve their performance. Learn how on-demand business intelligence can complement and leverage existing inventory management, parts planning, and transactional systems to quickly identify inventory reduction opportunities.
Insights to Accelerate Services Growth (385.34 KB)
Determine what services metrics are most relevant and understand what is needed in an effective reporting and analytics solution to facilitate services execution. This white paper will show how many leading firms frame the intersection of services account practices and metrics by means of a six sigma customer dashboard methodology.
BI for Service Organizations sponsored by Aberdeen Group (507.24 KB)
Aberdeen research shows that increasing customer demand for more efficient service and mandates to improve service costs are driving organizations to adopt tools and processes to improve decision-making and reporting. A survey of 250 service executives found that post-sale service organizations are leveraging business intelligence and analytics tools and centralized knowledge management processes to provide better access to critical service data.
Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance - from Aberdeen Group (670.41 KB)
Organizations are beginning to focus their attention on leveraging existing data to enable and optimize daily, hourly, and even up-to-the-second actions. While traditional business intelligence solutions continue to address the strategic information needs of decision makers with analysis of historical data, organizations are starting to realize the potential of applying BI technology and approaches to obtain real time data to improve operations.
Six Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration (359.94 KB)
Gain greater visibility of all your sales channels, products, distribution and suppliers to make timely and effective business decisions. This white paper will help your business take advantage of new technology that targets critical business areas that drive your top and bottom line at a fraction of the cost.

General

Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies (310.03 KB)
Learn how smaller companies can now gain the same business intelligence insights as their larger rivals. This white paper will help you learn how to deploy a complete, pre-packaged solution, lower your costs, and limit IT and business resource commitments.
Calculating ROI for Business Intelligence in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses (354.57 KB)
Companies report that calculating the return on investment on business intelligence is a critical focus this coming year. This white paper will help you identify and estimate real benefits from business intelligence that will drive revenue and profits, calculate the returns for your organization, and understand new implementation models which lower your risk and Total Cost of Ownership.
Delivering Actionable Information to the Enterprise: Does On-Demand BI Solve the Skill Set Shortage? - from Aberdeen Group (568.68 KB)
Organizations are facing pressure to deliver actionable information to the enterprise that is timely and effective toward meeting business goals. This requires companies to have access to the information, the ability to combine, aggregate, integrate, and deliver the information to the people who need it. Learn the results of Aberdeen’s test to determine the real value proposition of business intelligence options that promise numerous benefits for your organization.