“We would prefer to do everything ourselves. It’s the best way to make sure your know-how stays under your own roof. Yet we seem to have external experts coming and going, just about all the time. Fact is, we don’t have enough manpower, and neither can we be expected to know everything about everything”- Sanjay […]

Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Hiten Rathod
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MAIA Intelligence specializes in creating MIS software systems for generating visually stunning analytic for corporate having voluminous data with disparate data sources.
Our team of functional and technical consultants create MIS Competency Centre all necessary standard analysis reports as per company requirement and management vision. We outsource MIS departments of your company.
Why outsource MIS?

If your company […]

Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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Vikram Kole

ERP systems are known to generate lots of data, but not a lot of information (data rich and information poor). 1KEY Business intelligence is the solution to this problem. ERP does not contain all the information that is needed for business and hence disparate data sources thrive in form of spreadsheets or applications. For […]

Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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A fable that was told in India many years ago. It is a good warning about how our sensory perceptions can lead to misinterpretations.
If I retold this story today to teach a lesson about BI, I might call it “Three blind analysts and a data warehouse.” Business people struggle every day to make sense of […]

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Hiten Rathod
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We all know that customer is the king. But which customer is the king? Without right customer segmentation and differentiation this king customer may turn out to be an liability.
Segmentation is not only a job of marketing and sales or finance or SCM but also dependent on IT. End of the day these departments are […]

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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” Your customers are doing the integration for you.”
In today’s scenario critical information needs are much like hitting a moving target—difficult at best. The decision making environment at most companies today is marked by complexity and turbulence.

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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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: Mark Christensen
Let’s get right to the bottom-line:
A 5% increase in customer loyalty can boost profits by 25 to 85 percent.
This figure was first estimated in an 1990 HBR article by Reichheld and Sasser entitled “Zero Defections: Quality comes to Services” and then quoted in the watershed “Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work” four years […]

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Guest
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Author:- Anil Mahadev, Project Learn DB2 Now! Architect
Data Warehousing - Warehouse of Data repository being stored in an Enterprise Class Database. Data Warehousing as most of us are aware of, needs to be nurtured to its fullest.
It is a very exciting arena not explored by many, but a chosen few have dared to enter into […]

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Guest
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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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