Retail is the most diverse industry handling widest range of products from equally large numbers of suppliers and, naturally, the highest number of customers. Keeping an eye on all the operations in retail business is crucial for seamless profitable corporate performance. Understanding customer requirements and offering them what they want and still maintaining profitability requires […]

Posted on September 30th, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help change the way people do their jobs, approach their day, and deal with daily roadblocks. KPI help people focus on the BIG PICTURE. KPI help people distinguish the important from the trivial, the “must be done” from the “could be done” and allow employees to set their own priorities. When […]

Posted on September 14th, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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Big educational institutions are like big businesses. With Business Intelligence (BI) software, they can make better decisions & informed actions by tracking progress against Key Performance Indicators (KPI).  Here are some of the KPIs for educational institutions.
- Percentage of students that applied for financial aid
- Percentage of students receiving financial aid
- Student goal attainment rate […]

Posted on September 7th, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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What a quiz this was! Being in the second year of BIQ, we had to outperform to last year. Technology Senate 7.0 (Phuket, August 20-23, 2009) had a series of quizzes on BI.
As per the format of the quiz, the prelim was a crossword having mix of questions from across subjects related to Enterprise Application […]

Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Vikram Kole
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