Success for any business today requires the ability to access sophisticated data and derive information that is now primary need to survive in the competitive market place. This is more effectively true for insurance companies that deal with very complex data structures and most of them are real-time. Life Insurance companies’ executives are always under [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2012 by Praktan Kadam
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Business Intelligence is a methodical approach for management to facilitate enhanced performance through better decisions. BI is about 3 things, People, Process and Technology. And the Success of any BI projects depends largely on these 3 key factors. A project manager’s function in most business intelligence and performance management projects is to act as a [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2012 by Praktan Kadam
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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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Data federation is a category of data integration technology that provides the ability to query and aggregate data from disparate sources in a virtual database so it can be used by business intelligence, reporting, or analysis applications. The virtual database created by data federation technology doesn’t contain the data itself. Instead, it contains [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by Guest
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Ministry of Corporate Affairs making submission of financial statements mandatory for large companies in first phase has raised a storm in corporate circles with CFO. There is a strong current and a myth that this compliance will incur huge cost to companies and they will have no internal benefits of XBRL compliance.
My justification and perspective [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Access to financial and managerial information to gain understanding, metrics and pinpoint weaknesses or opportunities to improve operations has gained tremendous attention as solution providers flood the market with “user friendly” business intelligence tools. Solution providers position these tools to help “enlighten” businesses enough to purchase their products. However, a software solution is only [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2011 by Guest
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Six months ago mobile Business Intelligence discussions focused on BI access via smartphones like the iPhone and the Blackberry. Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel included mobile BI as one of nine emerging trends in the business intelligence software market , but he and others (including me) were focused on smartphones. They’re ideal devices to provide alerts, [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2011 by Guest
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With increasing competition and ever more demanding customers, running business is never easy. Few years back, when business intelligence had not yet come into existence, business application had their separate databases. There were ‘Islands of Information’ which companies had access to but no meaning. As time passed this ‘Islands of Information’ became more complex and [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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DATA TO WEALTH TRANSFORMATION
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In times when competition is fierce and the market place rapidly changing the most important tool a person has is the capability to obtain relevant data and take it through the path of data to information transformation, information to knowledge and understanding and then, knowing how to use this knowledge and understanding [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2011 by Guest
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Till now MAIA Intelligence has grown remarkably well and has a sizable & significant market share. MAIA Intelligence is emerging and has established itself as an leader in the operational Business Intelligence (BI) space. With a mission to democratize BI, MAIA has positioned its 1KEY as a BI tool for everyone. It helps bringing decision level analytics [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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