SAP - Unlocking the Value

Numerous enterprises around the world have invested in SAP ERP solutions to automate the transactions and processes of their operations. In many cases, the results have been excellent, driving down the traditional costs of managing daily business operations. These same companies now look to their investment in SAP and the data captured as an asset […]

Why Third Party Reporting for SAP?

The offering from SAP was developed with their fourth generation language Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP). ABAP and the interface were utilized for structuring queries to answer reporting requests. This increased the need for specialized employees trained in ABAP. When they were not available, and they often were not, organizations turned to consultants. This created […]

Financial Consolidation - A Challenge Solved

Financial Consolidation of Accounts for statutory and internal MIS has been always a challenge for the Finance team in any company.
Today’s corporate financial officers are held to higher standards of accountability than ever before, even as their businesses grow more complex and stakeholders demand faster access to accurate financial results. Finance Executives like accountants and […]

STRATEGIES FOR ON DEMAND MIS REPORTING

We recommend the use of 1KEY Agile BI suite MIS Reporting Tool in below five mentioned strategies to get on demand MIS.
Recommended MIS strategy No 1:
Take in account the reporting and analysis needs of all business users (Executives) with the CXO and managers. Data garnered should be appropriate for all the business users with correct […]

BI: Successful Project Management

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 […]

Think Fresh - Think BI

Hello everyone,
Just as we start reading various books our minds go on infinite expansion syndrome….and as we explore what is on the web our ideas just blossom..
I wanted to share this interesting discovery.
I was browsing my usual websites and one of them is fool.com and they recently introduced mint.com (an online personal finance productivity enhancing […]

The importance of Sponsorship for a successful BI integration

As I come originally from the dinosaurs’ world of mainframes and their heavy COBOL programs that produced way back then colorless and graphicless reports, I can easily relate to the need people had to develop user friendly products that would build the equivalent reports in no time, and I can see why a business would […]

Helping hospitals cope with their many challenges through better use of decision-making information

Helping hospitals cope with their many challenges through better use of decision-making information
The cost-cutting policy led by the Belgian government over the last few years has made balancing finances one of the biggest concerns for hospital management. The growth in healthcare spending as the population continues to age puts more pressure on the Belgian national […]

Business Intelligence for Healthcare

By Hiten Rathod

Business Intelligence can certainly help any industry to a large extent if it is been deployed and utilized effectively. BI helps the healthcare sector in multiple ways. Silo of data is generated from patient encounters on a daily basis. This data can become useful information with the help of “BI” […]

Profitability Analysis

By Ashwin Dedhia

A properly conducted profitability analysis provides invaluable evidence concerning the earnings potential of a company and the effectiveness of management

The bottom line

That’s what many business people look at to gauge the profitability of a company. While important, the bottom line doesn’t always provide the entire picture, and using it as the sole barometer […]