BI among top IT priorities in 2012

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, [...]

Quality Data: A foundation for BI Success

Data Quality refers to the degree of excellence exhibited by the data in relation to the portrayal of the actual scenario. Data are of high quality ‘if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning’ (J. M. Juran). Alternatively, the data are deemed of high quality if they correctly represent [...]

Life after Business Intelligence

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 [...]

Semantic layer technology reduces value of BI investments

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 [...]

Democratisation of BI

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, [...]

Effective BI Rollouts

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 [...]

Making Better Decisions Faster

The main goal of Business Intelligence (BI) is to help people make decisions that help a company’s achieve its goals and promote its competitive advantage in the marketplace. In short, BI empowers organizations to make better decisions faster.
In any organization, managers, from the front desk employees to the CEO, make decisions by considering their experiences, [...]

Taking Informed Decisions

Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice as per Wikipedia. Everyone, May it be an individual, a family, a [...]

BMI responds to changes in business conditions with actionable information

Comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) Application Addresses Data Analysis & Dynamic MIS, ad-hoc Reporting Needs of Brand Marketing India
Established in 202, Brand Marketing India (BMI) is the holding company for the Calvin Klein Jeans, Calvin Klein Underwear and French Connection businesses in India. Within a short span of over 3 years, BMI has opened over 100 [...]

TEKMINDZ, MAIA join hands to Provide BI Solutions

MAIA Intelligence welcomes TEKMINDZ to its channel to provide operational BI, rich real-time reporting analytics for latter’s enterprise-scale customers

MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software products today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Samin TekMindz, a software engineering company that builds scalable, secure software solutions to provide [...]