What a quiz this was! Being in the second year of BIQ, we had to outperform to last year. Technology Senate 7.0 (Phuket, August 20-23, 2009) had a series of quizzes on BI.
As per the format of the quiz, the prelim was a crossword having mix of questions from across subjects related to Enterprise Application […]

Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Vikram Kole
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The Business Intelligence (BI) landscape has seen high demand in the last couple of years, with the large enterprise vendors, acquiring smaller BI players, BI being on top in CIO’s Priority List for 3rd year in a row—all this highlighting the important role that BI is playing in the strategic planning and performance management for […]

Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Vikram Kole
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SaaS and Cloud Computing are ‘green’. They enable companies to reduce their data center investments and allow employees to reduce their time commuting. While reducing our carbon footprint is good for society, leveraging shared services is also good for corporate wallets.  Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and virtualization become potent carbon-reduction tools when […]

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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Numerous enterprises have invested in applications like ERP, CRM, SCM, HRM, etc. to automate the business transactions and processes of their operations. On the basis of their Business needs in their Industry, organisations implement such solutions (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Microsoft Navision, QAD MFG/PRO, RAMCO, Tally, etc.). The results […]

Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Vikram Kole
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This just in… A recent research report states Business Intelligence is in the top 10 initiatives for CIO’s this year.
How many times have you seen the above statement? The answer probably gives some indication of just how old you are! Think about it, every year there are multiple sources (research reports, technology magazines, etc.) that […]

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Guest
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MAIA Intelligence’s 1KEY Agile Business Intelligence Software provides leading IT Infrastructure Services Company a robust framework for faster decision making.
MAIA Intelligence today announced the successful deployment of its 1KEY Agile BI Suite Software at Precision Infomatic (M) Pvt. Ltd., part of the USD 60 million Precision Group headquartered at Chennai. Precision Infomatic selected 1KEY Agile […]

Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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D.A.N.D.A. (Denial, Anger, Negotiate, Despair & Acceptance)
DANDA is a Hindi word meaning Stick.  Sometimes in the corporate world too, the management has to make use of the DANDA (Stick).  When talking about technology, Business users do not always welcome the CHANGE in technology.  Business user goes through five distinct stages till accepting this change in […]

Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Sanjay Mehta
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We have been the sponsors at Technology Senate at Pattaya last year and on Star Cruise a year before. We have done presentations, key notes and exhibited within the conference. This time we thought of doing something different.  During a meeting to discuss on the participation for this year, Kailash Shirodkar, Dy. Chief manager & Salim Sayed Dy. […]

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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The prominence of CIO has risen greatly as IT has become a more important part of any business today. CIO is a title or a role held by people of Technical Decision Maker. The composition of CIO’s job is fairly consistent whether a wide or a smaller spectrum — […]

Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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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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