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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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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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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Where is Working Capital Analysis Most Critical? On the one hand, working capital is always significant. This is especially true from the lender’s or creditor’s perspective, where the main concern is defensiveness: can the company meet its short-term obligations, such as paying vendor bills?
But from the perspective of equity valuation and the company’s growth prospects, [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Guest
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Working Capital Cycle: The basic objective of financial management is to maximize shareholders wealth. This objective can be achieved when the company earns sufficient profits. The amount of profits largely depends on the magnitude of sales. But, sales do not convert into cash instantly. There is time lag between the sale of goods and the [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Guest
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The perfect world does not require or concentrate about current assets or current liabilities because there would not be uncertainty, no transaction costs, information search costs, scheduling costs or production and technology constraints. The unit cost of production would not vary with the quantity produced. Capital, Labour and products markets shall be perfectly competitive and [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Guest
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Drive your Business Momentum with CFO Dashboard for Working Capital
How to Release LIQUID component of your Working Capital in this recessionary scenario?
The Answer is very simple. Just analyze the working capital structure & focus on the areas in which unnecessarily Working Capital is blocked. Do you think that it is so simple to interpret the [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Ashwin Dedhia
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As companies shift their attention from fighting the recession to getting the most from their targets, Sales Managers must keep themselves focused.
The recession and its shocks to the real economy has put Sales Managers on the front lines, as they implement sales policies and measures to help companies survive the recession. Now, as an eventual [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Vikram Kole
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Operational BI embeds analytical processes within the operational business structure to support near real-time decision making and collaboration. This characteristic fundamentally changes the way how data is used, where it exists and how it is accessed. This change is rapidly exposing the limitations of traditional analytical tools.
Operational BI helps businesses make more informed decisions and [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Business Intelligence tools are being used by banks for historical analysis, performance budgeting, business performance analytics, employee performance measurement, executive dashboards, marketing and sales automation, product innovation, customer profitability, regulatory compliance and risk management. Let us take a look at some of these applications.
Historical Analysis (time-series)
Banks analyse their historical performance over time to be able [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Ashwin Dedhia
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