BI projects are cross-organizational in nature. Managing a business intelligence (BI) project is considerably different and more involved from managing a traditional software development and other types of IT projects. BI project management requires different techniques and methods to succeed due to the melding of wide-ranging business requirements with various software and hardware technologies. In […]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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By Amit Mehendale
Effective Service Level Agreement (SLA) is absolutely vital and extremely important to any organization to ensure effective engagements for any service or product delivery. Though outsourcing may be an easy way to curb implementation costs, obtain effective expertise, faster solution deployment and application maintenance and support. But the question is how can an […]
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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By Amit Mehendale
Data Warehouse is certainly not …
a product, an environment
a system, an architecture
an end to itself but is at the heart of the Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure of the organization
The accepted definition of a data warehouse is a database that contains the following four characteristics:
1. Subject oriented
2. Nonvolatile
3. Integrated
4. Time variant
Subject oriented means that […]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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Dashboards are the visual representation of data. Data – the content. Content is king and GUI is queen. Dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance.
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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Author: Amit Mehendale, Head Delivery, MAIA Intelligence.
With reference to my earlier post Key Performance Indicators KPI - A puzzle solved, few of the readers asked me to throw some more light on how KPIs could be related to KRAs (Key Result Areas) of the management thereby enabling KPIs to be a more precise snapshot of […]
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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Key Performance Indicators KPI has been the buzz word around. What is the meaning of KPI? KPI is most of the times confused with performance target values itself. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. The KPIs differ depending on the […]
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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Author: Amit Mehendale, Head Delivery, MAIA Intelligence
We Indian’s have always marveled the world over time to time with our innovativeness. NANO car unveiled by TATA motors is an example and leading light for Indian companies to do something challenging and different. As a software developer, small company, or large corporation, we have choices of where […]
Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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Author: Amit Mehendale, Head Delivery, MAIA Intelligence
With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, manufacturing is never easy.
Agile enterprise is always one step ahead of the competition, which cultivates a responsive environment and delivers major improvements in lead time, product quality, and lower production costs. They adopt Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting & Analytics software as […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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