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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Prior to data integration and data warehousing for BI, a process of data cleansing is required. BI projects may fail to deliver consistent and accurate reporting capabilities due to inability to consolidate the complete, accurate, consistent, relevant and validated data successfully. When a discrepancy is identified on one piece of data, all data is called [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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Retail concept in hospitality started picking from 2006 which meant more consolidated data was required to derive for business needs.
Every day at Pan India Foods, data from various POS was being transferred to HO and updated the back office application. Getting updated data from around 250 outlets was always a challenge for Pan India IT [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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Posted on February 6th, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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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 [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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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, [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2011 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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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 [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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Customers ask for real time reporting rather than waiting for big bang data warehouse modelling where issues of data integration were a concern. As the business is changing very quickly ‘near enough is good enough’ for business users. They expect quick reporting and analytics than traditionally waiting for large data warehouse to get ready and [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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