In a way, a strong juxtaposition as it may sound, Business Intelligence (BI) is getting horizontally verticalized. There are three types of verticalizations that are happening in the BI space. One is in terms of function, like balance sheet (financial) consolidation, Inventory Consolidation and the other is in terms of industry segments like healthcare, logistics. The [...]

Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Sanjay Mehta
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There is always a challenge to close the accounting books quickly and publish the statutory balance sheets with profit and loss accounts statement or for that matter internal financial MIS for monthly quarterly or yearly. There are various challenges when there are group of companies, local subsidiaries, international subsidiaries, branches, strategic business units, sister concerns, [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Author: Vikram Kole, Head – Marketing, MAIA Intelligence.
The License Replacement program enables customers of Business Objects and Cognos to trade in their existing BI licenses for MAIA’s 1KEY BI licenses.

Many of the Business Objects and Cognos existing customers interacted with us saying that they were having 5 user or 10 user limited user license [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
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CA Ashwin Dedhia

Business intelligence (BI) is no longer a back-office, nice-to-have application. It’s the next business differentiator.  Acquisitions & mergers are taking place in BI and corporate performance management (CPM) market.  2007 has been the year of dramatic BI consolidation.  One of the hottest segments of the tech industry, BI software, is going through [...]

Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Ashwin Dedhia
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Author: Jatin Shah, Datamatics Ltd.
SAP recently announced its plans to acquire Business Objects for $6.8 Billion. BI-Group has closely followed this announcement & would like to share the perspectives on the impact of this acquisition on the BI market.
This acquisition is a continuation of a shakeout process in the BI market space. Although [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Guest
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