Six months ago mobile Business Intelligence discussions focused on BI access via smartphones like the iPhone and the Blackberry. Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel included mobile BI as one of nine emerging trends in the business intelligence software market , but he and others (including me) were focused on smartphones. They’re ideal devices to provide alerts, [...]

Posted on June 20th, 2011 by Guest
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With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, running business is never easy. Few years back, when business intelligence had not yet come into existence, business application had their separate databases. There were ‘Islands of Information’ which companies had access to but no meaning. As time passed this ‘Islands of Information’ became more complex and [...]

Posted on June 13th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Regarded as the face of business intelligence (BI), dashboards play a vital role in giving an overview of important business processes.
However, there is more to business dashboards than merely as tools to ‘beautify’ reports. Ideally, dashboards should have a business purpose. Whether an Excel sheet or an SAP ECC or a BI dashboard, these tools should ideally [...]

Posted on June 6th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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DATA TO WEALTH TRANSFORMATION
SYNOPSIS
In times when competition is fierce and the market place rapidly changing the most important tool a person has is the capability to obtain relevant data and take it through the path of data to information transformation, information to knowledge and understanding and then, knowing how to use this knowledge and understanding [...]

Posted on June 1st, 2011 by Guest
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