Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services recently was selected as one of the Information Week’s third edition – EDGE winner for the best IT implementation in India. This was formally announced at the EDGE Award function hosted at Inetrop, Mumbai on September 30, 2011. Below is the profile of the winners published in the October issue [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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The main goal of Business Intelligence (BI) is to help people make decisions that help a company’s achieve its goals and promote its competitive advantage in the marketplace. In short, BI empowers organizations to make better decisions faster.
In any organization, managers, from the front desk employees to the CEO, make decisions by considering their experiences, [...]

Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Crafting well designed dashboards is not as easy as one would think. Like an air plane cockpit, dashboards too require thoughtful design.
The most common pitfall in dashboard design could start when one starts playing with design, its easy to get carried away and overloading with all sorts of visuals like dials and charts, and colors [...]

Posted on October 10th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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To make better decisions by analysis, Organization executives and managers need relevant and useful facts at their fingertips. But there is usually a huge gap between kind of information needed by corporate executives as well as low level employees and the information available due to day to day transactions. We call this the analysis gap.
To [...]

Posted on October 3rd, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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