CIO: “What do you want?” CEO: “What can you do for me?”

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 […]

Do we require Business Intelligence?

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 […]

Information not just for bosses anymore; Once domain of statisticians & analysts; not anymore

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 […]

Business intelligence market consolidation won’t terminate Innovation

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 […]

MAIA Intelligence starts corporate blog on business intelligence

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 […]

Is Operational BI needed anyway? They do not contribute in profitability of business

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 […]

KANAGA Network: Tally data on 1KEY BI experience with Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC)

Mr. Samir Chokshi, Director, Kanaga Network Solutions - MAIA consulting partner

It was our first ever experience with implementing 1KEY BI for GSPC, a Government of Gujarat conceived petrochemical company. MAIA Intelligence’s 1KEY Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Software was adopted by GSPC to manage its growing volume of data, enable operational analysis on a real […]

Consumer Business Intelligence – Content with Context

Author: Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence
Business Intelligence is still too elitist and growing still too slow. Currently business intelligence is in corporate arena and it needs to move to consumer. How can we change this paradigm? How can Business Intelligence impact consumers’ daily lives and decisions like internet search or Web 2.0 is doing? How […]

Definition of BI 2.0 technology

Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence
Tim O’ Reilly, who initiated the most widely accepted specification for Web 2.0, said
“data will be the driving force of Web 2.0…”
MAIA Intelligence sees BI 2.0 as an extension of Web 2.0 in enterprise scenario where in it is an important opportunity to user and extends our expertise on presentation […]