Cash flow management i.e.:  cash inflows and outflows over a period of time so that corporate do not face liquidity crunches  is a challenge with which financial professionals have struggled for decades. Simply stated, a Cash Flow reports needs to provide a reasonably accurate snapshot of the company’s cash position at a given time in [...]

Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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According to Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence enterprises need to grow beyond the four walls of spreadsheets and start building data-warehouses in order to gain enterprise-wise transparency and a competitive edge.
Business dynamics changes drastically in any industry—be it manufacturing, retail, telecom, pharmaceutical, healthcare or BFSI. There is competition in every business. Performance is the key [...]

Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Pidilite eliminated spreadsheet-based manual closing of books and financial consolidation with MAIA’s 1KEY FCM By Rajendra Chaudhary
A layman may not know much about Pidilite but ask him about adhesives and the first name that you would be likely to hear would be that of Fevicol—which has become a household name in adhesives. Such is the [...]

Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Guest
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What is Business Intelligence (BI)
Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad term for a software technology that provides reporting and analytical tools for pulling data from various sources to generate customizable reports and support decision making. It allows administrators and other business decision makers to view reliable, timely data.
Business Intelligence simplifies information discovery and analysis, making [...]

Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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Construction industry today has undergone lots of transformation in their operational methodologies and processes. It is becoming ever more competitive and complex. More businesses than ever before now need to rely on fact-based decision making and analytics to get ahead.
Companies in construction can succeed based on their ability to achieve constant, repeatable yield from each [...]

Posted on May 17th, 2010 by Vikram Kole
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IT Committee of the Western India Regional Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India selects MAIA executive as its member for achieving its objectives
MAIA Intelligence today announced that one of its directors CA Ashwin Dedhia has been selected and co-opted as a member of the IT Committee of The Western India Regional Council [...]

Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Dhiren Gala
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1KEY SCHEDULER is one of the component of 1KEY Agile BI Suite that enables users to schedule their reports as per the recurrence pattern in the variety of formats like PDF, TXT, XLS, HTML, MHT and RTF to be stored on hard disk, to be emailed to respective business users, or to SharePoint. Thus 1KEY [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2010 by Vikram Kole
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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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Success in the increasingly competitive hospitality industry is dependent on prompt knowledge of what’s going on in the operation. The need to know customer information: who they are, what they buy, and how likely they are to come back again, can be elusive. Additionally, the time-sensitive nature of business metrics makes it difficult to answer [...]

Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Vikram Kole
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