We all know that customer is the king. But which customer is the king? Without right customer segmentation and differentiation this king customer may turn out to be an liability.
Segmentation is not only a job of marketing and sales or finance or SCM but also dependent on IT. End of the day these departments are […]

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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” 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.

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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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 […]

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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BI was made for economic slowdowns, and over the coming year it may get a chance to show its stuff.
There are no dips in BI market. Business intelligence (BI) is made for times like these. While those who manage by “gut” slash like fools, the smart ones enter the sterile field like surgeons. […]

Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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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? […]

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Vipul Mehta
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Author:- Anil Mahadev, Project Learn DB2 Now! Architect
Data Warehousing - Warehouse of Data repository being stored in an Enterprise Class Database. Data Warehousing as most of us are aware of, needs to be nurtured to its fullest.
It is a very exciting arena not explored by many, but a chosen few have dared to enter into […]

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Anil Mahadev
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There are two kinds of Business Intelligence (BI) systems: Executive Information Systems (EIS), and Decision Support Systems (DSS).

Executive Information Systems (sometimes known as Scorecards or Dashboards, depending on their graphical presentation) are designed to deliver specific key information to top managers at a glance, with little or no interaction with the system. A […]

Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Hiten Rathod
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- Vikram Kole 
Today many growing companies find that their information systems just can’t keep pace with their growth.
Small and mid size companies on a growth path often ignore to ensure that their information systems and business intelligence systems keep pace with their growth.  If you own or manage a business, you may be familiar with […]

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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- CA Ashwin Dedhia

A much awaited MAIA CIO Power List 2008, an annual listing of selected “C”elebrity – “I”ntelligent – “O”uststanding – CIOs who matter the most in coming year was out last week. The CIO Decisions, January 2008 issue had cover feature, MAIA Intelligence CIO Power List 2008 - the selected power number of […]

Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Sanjay Mehta, CEO – MAIA Intelligence
A husband and wife were driving down a country lane on their way to visit some friends. They came to a muddy patch in the road and the car became bogged. After a few minutes of trying to get the car out by themselves, they saw a young farmer […]

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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