As market pressures demand increased innovation and shorter time-to-market product life-cycles, pharma companies need to re-think evaluating alternative business models. They need to focus on technologies such as business intelligence (BI) tools.
With the heightened competitive environment among new entrants in the pharma industry and the many challenges it currently faces, pharma companies need to use all [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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This discussion is around what should be remembered while in the process of converting data to decision. The following five points are the basic rules for any corporate to follow for transforming their information to knowledge. We call them the 5 Golden Rules for converting Data To Decision.
Golden Rule No. 1
Take in account the reporting [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Hospitality industry help remove the guesswork from managing the business by checking the numbers that tell what’s really happening.
There’s a business saying: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!’ Real, responsive management needs reliable and truthful figures on which decisions can be based. If there are problems, you [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Dhiren Gala
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1KEY Agile BI Suite now certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 – Raising the bar for dynamic MIS, ad-hoc reporting and complex analytics.
MAIA Intelligence, a leading Business Intelligence (BI) software product company today announced that their flagship product, 1KEY Agile BI Suite is now certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2. Businesses [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Dhiren Gala
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New partnership shall help organizations maximize return on their ERP investments with MIS reporting and data analytics
MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of powerful, intuitive and robust Business Intelligence (BI) software products for ad-hoc reporting, complex analysis that meet the dynamic MIS needs of corporate business users, today announced Religare Technova IT Services Ltd. (represented by [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2010 by Dhiren Gala
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Improve Business Performance
Growth in business profits
Growth in sales
Growth in market share
Stock price appreciation
Training / Orientation in key areas
Hours of user training
Number of users turned out successfully
Attendance in training sessions
Number of attendees at user training sessions
Number of hours users have spent on training services
Aligning IT services with business objectives
Improving SLA’s
Number of capabilities (services that can be [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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The agriculture industry is growing, and so is the data from agriculture management software meant for automating and streamlining day-to-day tasks. Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for agriculture tracks feed usage, evaluates production, and monitor costs.
Agriculture software takes tasks common to any business, like accounting, resource management, and inventory specific to the needs of farmers. With [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. The typical Key Performance Indicators in automotive industry could be:
Efficiency of SCM operations
Inventory Turns
Total costs
Use of Technology
Document issues
Supply chain disruptions
Supply/demand imbalances
Operating environment
Outsourcing and off-shoring production
Manufacturing cycle time
Productivity and Competitiveness
Production equal to demand (supply vs. demand curve)
Velocity and [...]
Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by Dhiren Gala
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Where is Working Capital Analysis Most Critical? On the one hand, working capital is always significant. This is especially true from the lender’s or creditor’s perspective, where the main concern is defensiveness: can the company meet its short-term obligations, such as paying vendor bills?
But from the perspective of equity valuation and the company’s growth prospects, [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Guest
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Drive your Business Momentum with CFO Dashboard for Working Capital
How to Release LIQUID component of your Working Capital in this recessionary scenario?
The Answer is very simple. Just analyze the working capital structure & focus on the areas in which unnecessarily Working Capital is blocked. Do you think that it is so simple to interpret the [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Ashwin Dedhia
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