Data governance is a set of processes that ensures that important data assets are formally managed throughout the enterprise. Data governance ensures that data can be trusted and that people can be made accountable for any adverse event that happens because of low data quality. It is about putting people in charge of fixing and [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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As the global political & physical barriers are collapsing, all the global markets are getting opened for businesses, creating a fierce competition within companies to market their products, increase their revenues, grab most of the customers. Organization are not just worried about the profitability but also survival in this tsunami of Global reach.
All along [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2012 by Guest
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Till now 2012, the Year of Dragon as per Chinese calendar has seen many resolutions, predictions, trends, forecasts, reports, priorities for Business Intelligence (BI). But I think report of BI being at the top of IT agenda for 2012 is a big one.
BI and analytics have ousted several other much hyped technologies like cloud computing, [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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Business today moves at the speed of information. Getting right information into right hands at right time is essential. Business initiatives that have the biggest impact on company’s bottom-line get enabled after Business Intelligence (BI). BI soon becomes IT’s ‘must have’ application.
Single view representation and analysis of enterprise data adds an additional thrust to smart [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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New generation BI tools like 1KEY BI do not need semantic layer
The semantic layer is a business translation layer that sits between the database and the end user which was the traditional way of generating reports with old aged BI software tools.
A semantic layer will be able to create technically sophisticated SQL and in many [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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Life saver in times information overload, believes experts
“Have I bit more than I could possibly chew?” was the thought that flashed across Suresh Shanmugham’s mind, as he got down to the deliverables that he had committed to. As the head of IT at Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd (MMFSL), Suresh, in a board meeting, [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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The internet and day to day internal workings as well as external dealings have drowned the companies under the deluge of random, undefined and unstructured data. One of the most mammoth task facing IT companies is that how to convert this data into useful and trusted information. In any business intelligence (BI) program, data is [...]
Posted on December 12th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Operational BI delivers the right information at the right time to the right business users to enable them to react rapidly to solve business problems and satisfy new business requirements. It helps organizations work smarter and become more agile, which in turn enables them to be more competitive and to improve customer satisfaction.
By authorizing operational [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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A panel of CIOs shared their experiences and challenges in rolling out BI applications
MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. invited some of its customers on to the stage in order to share their experiences in rolling out BI tools and applications with the audience. The round table discussion organized at the 9th version of the Express group’s [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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Business Intelligence (BI) has been used by organizations since the last decade in various different forms: some using manual generated reports while some using system generated; some using static reports while some using dynamic reports; some reports only available to top management while some used at operational level. Most BI systems are specialized in managing [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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