http://blog.maia-intelligence.com An Intelligent Blog On Business Intelligence! Tue, 06 May 2008 07:36:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/05/05/profitability-analysis/ By Sanjay Mehta The event was the biggest ever launch technically and commercially planned and done by MAIA Intelligence. We at MAIA Intelligence have been working hard for this day to release 1KEY Agile BI Suite launch. We have released 15 modules of various presentation layers and utilities in this edition ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/30/celebrating-mis-champions-1key-agile-bi-suite-launch/ By Vikram Kole The goal of a classification tree is to sequentially partition the data to maximize the differences in the dependent variable. It is often referred to as a decision tree. The true purpose of a classification tree is to classify the data into distinct groups or branches that create ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/30/classification-trees/ By Amit Mehendale Data Warehouse is certainly not … a product, an environment a system, an architecture an end to itself but is at the heart of the Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure of the organization The accepted definition of a data warehouse is a database that contains the following four characteristics: 1. Subject oriented 2. Nonvolatile 3. Integrated 4. ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/29/what-is-a-data-warehouse/ - By Sanjay Mehta MAIA Intelligence is young company committed to developing and continually improving powerful Business Intelligence reporting and analysis products to meet the needs of mutual fund industry needs. In today's highly competitive financial services industry like Mutual Fund, resourceful companies uses business intelligence technology to identify and exploit unique ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/28/business-intelligence-for-mutual-funds/ By Ashwin Dedhia Management information systems provide decision-makers information and feedback on daily operations. Additionally, management information systems can be used strategically, often incorporating Web technology. Marketing MIS: Marketing Management Information System (MIS) supports managerial activities in product development, distribution, pricing decisions, promotional effectiveness and sales forecasting. Overview of Marketing Management Information System ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/26/functional-management-information-system-mis/ By Ashwin Dedhia Inventory control programs are one component of a manufacturing MIS that relies on the production schedule. Inventory control programs can forecast future production, automatically reorder items when a certain threshold is met, determine manufacturing costs, and develop resource requirements plans from the production schedule. Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP) programs ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/25/manufacturing-management-information-system-mis/ By Ashwin Dedhia Financial MIS Provides financial information to all financial managers within an organization. It integrates financial & operational information from multiple sources. Financial MIS eases analysis by providing fast financial data. It enables financial analysis from different aspects; time, product, customer. With Financial MIS, one can analyze historical and ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/24/financial-management-information-system-mis/ By Ashwin Dedhia What is a balanced scorecard? A balanced scorecard provides a means for linking the strategies of the different business areas within a corporation to the overall corporate vision. The term and methodology was introduced by David Norton and Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan back in 1992. They ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/23/bi-and-balanced-scorecards/ By Ashwin Dedhia  Hi friends! In my last two posts I had discussed about MIS, its benefits, 5 elements of usable MIS, sources of management information, ouputs of MIS, Scheduled reports, Key Indicator report, Demand report, Exception report, drill down report and much more. In this one, I have ... http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2008/04/22/characteristics-of-management-information-system-mis/