Success for any business today requires the ability to access sophisticated data and derive information that is now primary need to survive in the competitive market place. This is more effectively true for insurance companies that deal with very complex data structures and most of them are real-time. Life Insurance companies’ executives are always under [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2012 by Praktan Kadam
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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 [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2012 by Praktan Kadam
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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 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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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 operational [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Data federation is a category of data integration technology that provides the ability to query and aggregate data from disparate sources in a virtual database so it can be used by business intelligence, reporting, or analysis applications. The virtual database created by data federation technology doesn’t contain the data itself. Instead, it contains [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by Guest
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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 [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2011 by Sanjay Mehta
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Six months ago mobile Business Intelligence discussions focused on BI access via smartphones like the iPhone and the Blackberry. Gartner analyst Kurt Schlegel included mobile BI as one of nine emerging trends in the business intelligence software market , but he and others (including me) were focused on smartphones. They’re ideal devices to provide alerts, [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2011 by Guest
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In this interview, Sanjay Mehta, MAIA Intelligence’s CEO, talks to Pankaj Maru of CyberMedia News about the significance of BI across organizations, the capabilities of BI for SMBs, the trend of BI democratization and his company’s business. Read on…
Did the situation such as recession has made organizations alert and compulsive to use and invest in business intelligence [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by Dhiren Gala
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