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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Key Performance Indicators KPI has been the buzz word around. What is the meaning of KPI? KPI is most of the times confused with performance target values itself. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. The KPIs differ depending on the […]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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- Vikram Kole 
Today many growing companies find that their information systems just can’t keep pace with their growth.
Small and mid size companies on a growth path often ignore to ensure that their information systems and business intelligence systems keep pace with their growth.  If you own or manage a business, you may be familiar with […]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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Dhiren Gala- Manager, Operations, MAIA Intelligence
It was a perfect day, bright & a bit cold Saturday morning. MAIA Intelligence team – as named by the organizers ‘MAIA team’ was in a perfect mood since morning. I started early from home, from central suburbs towards Wellingdon Catholic Gymkhana, Khar. Reporting time was 9:00 am, though I […]

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Dhiren Gala
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CA Ashwin Dedhia, Director – MAIA Intelligence

When you see this kind of dialogue happening in your organization it emphasizes that there is no IT road map clearly defined, there is no joint dialogues happening with IT team and business users and there is no common objective shared by both CIO and CEO. There has to […]

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Vikram Kole

Number of reports can be provided in the standard/customized application, but when it comes to the dynamic reporting requirements & the need of ever changing formats, it becomes difficult to handle the scenarios in time. Can your transactional applications answer company’s critical questions such as, why market shares are going to competitors; which products […]

Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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Vipul Mehta

Earlier, only the elite had access to Business Intelligence (BI). High cost and manageability issues restricted enterprise-wide BI roll-outs. BI implementations were restrained to the IT team and to business analysts or so called “power users”. However, there is now a much greater focus on getting wider adoption of BI among mainstream line-of-business […]

Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Vipul Mehta
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CA Ashwin Dedhia

Business intelligence (BI) is no longer a back-office, nice-to-have application. It’s the next business differentiator.  Acquisitions & mergers are taking place in BI and corporate performance management (CPM) market.  2007 has been the year of dramatic BI consolidation.  One of the hottest segments of the tech industry, BI software, is going through […]

Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Ashwin Dedhia
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India’s pioneer BI product company today announced the launch of its corporate blog in business intelligence and enterprise technology space. The blog http://blog.maia-intelligence.com
is designed to facilitate dialogue around key enterprise application technology matters, business intelligence to provide useful information about trends and other current events taking place throughout this space. MAIA Corporate Blog is expected […]

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Dhiren Gala
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Author: Vikram Kole, Head - Marketing
There has always been a debate, is there a need for operational BI. People seldom confuse MIS with Operational BI. They are right to some extent. However Operational BI differs from MIS in more than one way. MIS is generally static in nature, whereas BI is dynamic. It becomes difficult […]

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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