Customers are the heart of any business.  One unshakable rule of Retail business is to “know your customer.” In today’s business climate, this means using business intelligence (BI) software to analyze complex customer data. With BI, companies can answer a wide range of critical questions about their customer base. The questions can include:
• What are my […]

Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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SaaS and Cloud Computing are ‘green’. They enable companies to reduce their data center investments and allow employees to reduce their time commuting. While reducing our carbon footprint is good for society, leveraging shared services is also good for corporate wallets.  Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and virtualization become potent carbon-reduction tools when […]

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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Software-as-a-service (SaaS) BI, On-Demand BI, Subscription based BI, Platform based BI, Grid Computing BI, Hosted BI, BI in the Cloud are all different terms which go hand-in-hand.
Business intelligence As A Service (BaaS or BIaaS) benefits address various business user and IT challenges. What is Cost effective – “Pay as you go”, Scalable, Quick deployment – […]

Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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Over the years, organizations across the globe have invested heavily in ERP, CRM, SCM, etc. to streamline and integrate their business processes. With sizeable investments happening in licensing, implementation, AMC etc. Organizations are intending to make the most out of these investments. The obvious next step for these organizations is to make intelligent use of […]

Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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G.I.T.A. Government Insight Through Analytics
A Closed Group Initiative by R. K. Gupta, Dy. Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC) & Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence.
Purpose
- In Government BI existence is very primitive
- Challenge is to democratize BI taking BI to masses
- Close Group will have BI experts representing multiple verticals like Vendors, Research, Media, Corporate & […]

Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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D.A.N.D.A. (Denial, Anger, Negotiate, Despair & Acceptance)
DANDA is a Hindi word meaning Stick.  Sometimes in the corporate world too, the management has to make use of the DANDA (Stick).  When talking about technology, Business users do not always welcome the CHANGE in technology.  Business user goes through five distinct stages till accepting this change in […]

Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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To arrive at measurable & reliable data, it is critical to invest in right people and right technology. I believe that with right application of fact analysis, data and can be god. Hence measurable data is the only reliable data.
Newton once rightly said – I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness […]

Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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There are specific cases where in there is a need to use BI for auditing of accounts and relevant transactions. Normal ERP or accounting packages have some level of control mechanism to help auditors scan transactions but when it need to do analytics it has limitations.
Business Intelligence comes in very much handy for auditors or […]

Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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Defination of Corporate governance: It is a field in economics that investigates how to secure/motivate efficient management of corporations by the use of incentive mechanisms, such as contracts, organizational designs and legislation. It is about promoting corporate fairness, transparency and accountability. The corporate governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants […]

Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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Team CTOF (The CTO Forum magazine) surveyed CIOs under four parameters in 20 enterprise technology categories to determine the MOST TRUSTED IT VENDORS for the year 2008.
The four parameters considered for the survey were Customer Intimacy, Demonstrating Tangible Business Benefits, Domain Expertise and Service & Support.
This is the third year that Team CTOF is conducting […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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