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Hello everyone,
Just as we start reading various books our minds go on infinite expansion syndrome….and as we explore what is on the web our ideas just blossom..
I wanted to share this interesting discovery.
I was browsing my usual websites and one of them is fool.com and they recently introduced mint.com (an online personal finance productivity enhancing […]

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The importance of Sponsorship for a successful BI integration

As I come originally from the dinosaurs’ world of mainframes and their heavy COBOL programs that produced way back then colorless and graphicless reports, I can easily relate to the need people had to develop user friendly products that would build the equivalent reports in no time, and I can see why a business would […]

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Helping hospitals cope with their many challenges through better use of decision-making information

Helping hospitals cope with their many challenges through better use of decision-making information
The cost-cutting policy led by the Belgian government over the last few years has made balancing finances one of the biggest concerns for hospital management. The growth in healthcare spending as the population continues to age puts more pressure on the Belgian national […]

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Understanding Master Data Management (MDM)

By Ashwin Dedhia

Globalization. Intense governmental and regulatory scrutiny. Overwhelming competitive pressures. New technology advances. Today’s companies operate in a fiercely competitive, global marketplace where transaction speeds are measured in fractions of a second and continual change is the only sure thing. Further, ever increasing pressures to take advantage of the synergies and economies of scale […]

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Business Intelligence for Healthcare

By Hiten Rathod

Business Intelligence can certainly help any industry to a large extent if it is been deployed and utilized effectively. BI helps the healthcare sector in multiple ways. Silo of data is generated from patient encounters on a daily basis. This data can become useful information with the help of “BI” […]

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Profitability Analysis

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 it as the sole barometer […]

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Celebrating MIS Champions 1KEY Agile BI Suite Launch

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 of 1KEY. Aptly name 1KEY […]

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Classification Trees

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 the strongest separation in the […]

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What is a Data Warehouse?

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. Time variant

Subject oriented means that […]

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Business Intelligence for Mutual Funds

- 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 opportunities. For Mutual Fund companies […]

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