Dusting Dirty Data

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 [...]

Pan India scales with actionable information

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 [...]

1KEY Customer Loyalty & Centricity

The purpose of business is to create a customer
Loyalty program are proven way to engage, retain and enhance life time value of the customer with organizations. Technology integration is critical for business success
1KEY Solution Architecture & Design for Loyalty & Customer Centricity
Improve the Effectiveness of Customer Loyalty Programs
Companies across different industries use Loyalty Programs to [...]

BI for FMCG / CPG

Times are always challenging for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies. Not only the industry has to deal with a slow economic recovery, companies also find themselves dealing with long-running shifts in the dynamics of the industry – retail consolidation, increased private label competition, and reduced brand loyalty, just to [...]

Data Governance must for Trusted Information

Data governance is a set of processes that ensures that important data assets are formally managed throughout the enterprise. Data governance ensures that data can be trusted and that people can be made accountable for any adverse event that happens because of low data quality. It is about putting people in charge of fixing and [...]

MAIA Intelligence Achieves a Microsoft Gold ISV and BI Competency

MAIA Intelligence demonstrates best-in-class capability and BI market leadership through demonstrated technology success and customer commitment.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India — February, 22, 2012— MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd., today announced it has attained a Gold Independent Software Vendor and Business Intelligence competency, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s [...]

Inviting BI Thought Leadership

Do you have an interesting article or news that you would like to contribute on Business Intelligence? Do you want to share your views on any of the Business Intelligence (BI) / Data Warehousing (DWH) / Analytics / BI 2.0 / XBRL / enterprise application technology / Corporate Performance management / Decision Support Systems, etc.?
We [...]

Why Business Analytics is important for business more than ever NOW !!

As the global political & physical barriers are collapsing, all the global markets are getting opened for businesses, creating a fierce competition within companies to market their products, increase their revenues, grab most of the customers. Organization are not just worried about the profitability but also survival in this tsunami of Global reach.
All along [...]

BI among top IT priorities in 2012

Till now 2012, the Year of Dragon as per Chinese calendar has seen many resolutions, predictions, trends, forecasts, reports, priorities for Business Intelligence (BI). But I think report of BI being at the top of IT agenda for 2012 is a big one.
BI and analytics have ousted several other much hyped technologies like cloud computing, [...]

Quality Data: A foundation for BI Success

Data Quality refers to the degree of excellence exhibited by the data in relation to the portrayal of the actual scenario. Data are of high quality ‘if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning’ (J. M. Juran). Alternatively, the data are deemed of high quality if they correctly represent [...]