BI with Theory of Constraints – A 3-Dimensional Approach

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 [...]

MCA-XBRL mandate update

The following blog post is an update on MCA-XBRL mandate.
The Department of Financial Services (DFS) in the Finance Ministry has a new Secretary in Mr D.K. Mittal. Prior to this appointment, Mr Mittal was Corporate Affairs Secretary (Aug 1 news). Due to this new movement in ministry MAIA Intelligence expects XBRL movement to happen with [...]

Return On Investment (ROI) for Business Intelligence

BI implementations fail because they are sold to the IT departments and not to the business users. The use case and ROI needs to be built with the business users. If that is not done, it results in:

high probability of self-ware
lack of ROI for the business user
a pure IT project not driven by the needs [...]

1KEY Agile BI Suite compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2

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 [...]

Religare Technologies partners with MAIA Intelligence for 1KEY Business Intelligence (BI)

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 [...]

KPI for Retail

Retail is the most diverse industry handling widest range of products from equally large numbers of suppliers and, naturally, the highest number of customers. Keeping an eye on all the operations in retail business is crucial for seamless profitable corporate performance. Understanding customer requirements and offering them what they want and still maintaining profitability requires [...]

KPI for Manufacturing

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help change the way people do their jobs, approach their day, and deal with daily roadblocks. KPI help people focus on the BIG PICTURE. KPI help people distinguish the important from the trivial, the “must be done” from the “could be done” and allow employees to set their own priorities. When [...]

KPI for IT Department

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 [...]

Business Intelligence and Green IT

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 [...]

Working Capital Management and BI – Part II

Working Capital Cycle: The basic objective of financial management is to maximize shareholders wealth. This objective can be achieved when the company earns sufficient profits. The amount of profits largely depends on the magnitude of sales. But, sales do not convert into cash instantly. There is time lag between the sale of goods and the [...]