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 […]

Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Author:  Ashwin Dedhia, Director
Information systems and information technology are integral components of every modern organization. Part of this relationship is the role IS and IT plays in the pursuit of a business’s strategy and long term goals.
 
Management needs information to run business. Better the system to get the information better the control, growth and […]

Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Author: Hiten Rathod, Head – Strategic Alliances & Channel
Management Information Systems (MIS) professionals focus on integrating information technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of organizations, enabling organizations to achieve their objectives in an effective, efficient manner. For an MIS professional, technology is an instrument to enable generating, processing, and distributing […]

Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Hiten Rathod
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Author: Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence
MAIA has been invited by Microsoft, the world’s leading software provider, to join its elite Startup Accelerator Program, in India. This Program is a part of Microsoft’s Investment Framework, launched at i3 2007 last October. The program shall guide and support MAIA to accelerate its success through a […]

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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Author: Hiten Rathod, Head – Strategic Alliances & Channel
Your business is up over 25% — great news! Or is it? If the economy is also growing at 25%, you’re just keeping pace. And if your nearest competitor is up 50%, you’re losing market share…
The primary activity of data analysis is comparison. Individual facts mean […]

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Hiten Rathod
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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 […]

Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Amit Mehendale
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Author: Vikram Kole, Head – Marketing, MAIA Intelligence
Today, Business Intelligence (BI) is like physicians’ knowledge of medicine in the 16th century. Majority of the organization we see across do today is basic tracking of what’s going on in the organization. They know how to take the patient’s pulse, heal cuts, and set broken limbs. But […]

Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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Author: Jatin Shah, Datamatics Ltd.
SAP recently announced its plans to acquire Business Objects for $6.8 Billion. BI-Group has closely followed this announcement & would like to share the perspectives on the impact of this acquisition on the BI market.
This acquisition is a continuation of a shakeout process in the BI market space. Although […]

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Guest
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Author: Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence
I am trying to mention few classic cases of BI applied in real time scenario and how it helped companies derive ROI. The 1KEY BI application usage was simple but implementation was ruthless for that area.
Productivity Loss
One of the leading Financial Services and Broking Companies in India had deployed 1KEY […]

Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Sanjay Mehta
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Author: Vipul Mehta, Head - Operations
Welcome to MAIA Intelligence Blog. This blog is a sincere effort of the MAIA intelligence team to aggregate, analyze and converse on issues relating to business intelligence reporting. As this blog grows we expect to touch upon issues concerning use of business intelligence tools by CTO’s and CIO’s, the various […]

Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Vipul Mehta
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