While selecting a Business Intelligence (BI) solution, always keep in mind that the goal is not to find the “best tool” but to find the “best fit.” Every BI tool has its sweet spot. If you deploy the tool outside its sweet spot, you will see its weaknesses.
A BI Solution Must Integrate and Align to [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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In a way, a strong juxtaposition as it may sound, Business Intelligence (BI) is getting horizontally verticalized. There are three types of verticalizations that are happening in the BI space. One is in terms of function, like balance sheet (financial) consolidation, Inventory Consolidation and the other is in terms of industry segments like healthcare, logistics. The [...]
Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Lets start with how we have saved average daily time for our customers by over 20 minutes in productivity on reports for a normal user and over 90 minutes for a power user which earlier users were doing reports manually on spreadsheets on a daily basis. We managed to implement a productivity policy with 1KEY [...]
Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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1KEY View is a two dimensional reporting layer of 1KEY Agile BI Suite where multiple database connected where first level can be from SQL, second from oracle, third from tally provided they should have a connecting string. User can see the values in Sum form, Minimum, Maximum, Counts etc. User has an option to do [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Hiten Rathod
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BI implementations fail because they are sold to the IT departments and not to the business users. The use case and ROI needs to be built with the business users. If that is not done, it results in:
high probability of self-ware
lack of ROI for the business user
a pure IT project not driven by the needs [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Even though the Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) solutions are available today, still it has a long way to go and compete with the actual BI market. It relies on the organization adopting open source solutions for BI.
Enterprise applications on Open Source including Business Intelligence may not be guaranteed certified licenses. BI being an important [...]
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Maximize Insight for Better Decision Making – Better information drives better business outcomes: Business Intelligence (BI) helps automotive companies move into the overdrive with improved financial visibility in the business performance & increased efficiency of the business users.
Automotive industry today demands more than just the blending of iron and steel into a car. Given the [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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As market pressures demand increased innovation and shorter time-to-market product life-cycles, pharma companies need to re-think evaluating alternative business models. They need to focus on technologies such as business intelligence (BI) tools.
With the heightened competitive environment among new entrants in the pharma industry and the many challenges it currently faces, pharma companies need to use all [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Cash flow management i.e.: cash inflows and outflows over a period of time so that corporate do not face liquidity crunches is a challenge with which financial professionals have struggled for decades. Simply stated, a Cash Flow reports needs to provide a reasonably accurate snapshot of the company’s cash position at a given time in [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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According to Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence enterprises need to grow beyond the four walls of spreadsheets and start building data-warehouses in order to gain enterprise-wise transparency and a competitive edge.
Business dynamics changes drastically in any industry—be it manufacturing, retail, telecom, pharmaceutical, healthcare or BFSI. There is competition in every business. Performance is the key [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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