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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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 [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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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 [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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Posted on February 6th, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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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 [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2012 by Guest
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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, [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Dhiren Gala
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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 [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Sanjay Mehta
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Business today moves at the speed of information. Getting right information into right hands at right time is essential. Business initiatives that have the biggest impact on company’s bottom-line get enabled after Business Intelligence (BI). BI soon becomes IT’s ‘must have’ application.
Single view representation and analysis of enterprise data adds an additional thrust to smart [...]
Posted on January 9th, 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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In spite of tremendous improvement, it would be appropriate to say that we are at a nascent stage of making better use of information for decision making. As we move towards the next generation of Business Intelligence BI, organization will undoubtedly learn new ways to linking information and decisions and to improving broader context of [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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