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 [...]
Posted on March 5th, 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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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Operational BI delivers the right information at the right time to the right business users to enable them to react rapidly to solve business problems and satisfy new business requirements. It helps organizations work smarter and become more agile, which in turn enables them to be more competitive and to improve customer satisfaction. By authorizing [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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A panel of CIOs shared their experiences and challenges in rolling out BI applications MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. invited some of its customers on to the stage in order to share their experiences in rolling out BI tools and applications with the audience. The round table discussion organized at the 9th version of the Express [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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Business Intelligence (BI) has been used by organizations since the last decade in various different forms: some using manual generated reports while some using system generated; some using static reports while some using dynamic reports; some reports only available to top management while some used at operational level. Most BI systems are specialized in managing [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services recently was selected as one of the Information Week’s third edition – EDGE winner for the best IT implementation in India. This was formally announced at the EDGE Award function hosted at Inetrop, Mumbai on September 30, 2011. Below is the profile of the winners published in the October issue [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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The main goal of Business Intelligence (BI) is to help people make decisions that help a company’s achieve its goals and promote its competitive advantage in the marketplace. In short, BI empowers organizations to make better decisions faster. In any organization, managers, from the front desk employees to the CEO, make decisions by considering their [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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