Why partners are so strongly needed in Business Intelligence eco system?

“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 […]

CIO: “Your customers are doing the integration for you.”

” 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.

1KEY Dashboard - Because Humans Think Visually!

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.

Business Objects and Cognos Customers - Redefine Your Dead Investments

Author: Vikram Kole, Head - Marketing, MAIA Intelligence.
The License Replacement program enables customers of Business Objects and Cognos to trade in their existing BI licenses for MAIA’s 1KEY BI licenses.

Many of the Business Objects and Cognos existing customers interacted with us saying that they were having 5 user or 10 user limited user license […]

Business Intelligence & Information Management

Broad range of factors have contributed to the establishment of organization’s information management initiatives. Many have reported that planning for the future, the proliferation of semi-structured and unstructured data, increased regulatory demands and the unprecedented growth of enterprise information have contributed to information management (IM) efforts.
What are companies hoping to achieve with information management initiatives? […]

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) related with Key Result Areas (KRA)

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 […]

‘Team MAIA’ at Hindustan Times Corporate Challenge 2008

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 […]

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 […]

MIS fails, but for technology

Author:  Ashwin Dedhia, Director
Management Information Systems (MIS) is the application of information technology to support business decision making activities. Because businesses are rapidly changing, there is a growing demand for graduates who have the analytical skills and business background to make business processes more productive. One has to analyze an organization’s information needs, design […]

Business Intelligence for Manufacturing Industry

Author: Amit Mehendale, Head Delivery, MAIA Intelligence
With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, manufacturing is never easy.

Agile enterprise is always one step ahead of the competition, which cultivates a responsive environment and delivers major improvements in lead time, product quality, and lower production costs. They adopt Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting & Analytics software as […]