December, 2015

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Case Study: India-Based BPO Company Implements Flexible BI Tools and Reporting

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence solutions and services provide true BI tools and reporting flexibility to an India-Based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company. The ElegantJ BI team provided a simple, practical deployment process, with minimal training requirements, which allowed the IT team to take control of the implementation phase and roll out the solution across the organization in a very short time.

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Power BI Enterprise Gateway, Everything You Need to Know

BI Insight

On-premises Data Gateway (aka Power BI Enterprise Gateway) is release a while ago (2 Dec. 2015), but, with the latest release on 22 Dec. 2015 Power BI Enterprise Gateway now supports live connections to both SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional and Tabular models as well as SAP HANA. In this post I’ll explain lots of … Continue reading Power BI Enterprise Gateway, Everything You Need to Know.

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AIM takes over third-party acquisition services for Bryant Information Group

AIM

Bryant Information Group of Canton, Michigan ceased operations at the end of 2015 and has graciously recommended AIM to provide uninterrupted service to its long-time clientele. In a message to clients, founder Bart Bryant wrote, “We would like to recommend to you the highly professional and competent firm of Allis Information Management in Midland, Michigan.

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Condition-based Maintenance: What You Need to Know

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Today’s world is highly connected. The technology we use everyday communicates seamlessly with the outside world. Hardware enhancements entering industrial spaces take advantage of these connections to bring more intelligent design to our machines. Condition-based Maintenance is the practice of conducting maintenance on a machine when the asset’s condition reaches a disruptive level.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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What Do CXOs Want? Business Intelligence That Offers REAL Rewards!

Elegant BI

Gartner , and other IT industry analysts focus heavily on data-driven support for business decision making. Analyst findings indicate that only one quarter of CEOs are happy with the type and clarity of the information they receive and their confidence in the decisions they make based on that information. Furthermore, these same CEOs say that their ideal BI solution would consist of a central, integrated dashboard that would allow them the flexibility to find, analyze and report on information i

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SIX Questions and SIX Steps to Through-the-Roof, Human-Centric BI and Metrics-Driven Results

Elegant BI

When considering a BI solution, focus on a human-centric approach to software design. The business is comprised of people (not machines) and software solutions must satisfy user needs, rather than focusing on a particular platform, framework or technology. This human-centric approach is critical to creating any kind of software or interface, but especially so when one considers business intelligence (BI) user interfaces and dashboards.

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White Paper: Business Intelligence: Now or Later? Understanding the Misconceptions about BI Readiness

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The wise business team will not allow misconceptions about Business Intelligence readiness to cloud thinking or stop a BI project from coming to fruition. With the right information and knowledge, these misconceptions are easily dismissed and organizations can reap the benefits of Business Intelligence and engage employees and staff in the business of self-serve BI, thereby improving revenue and results and gaining a competitive advantage in its market of choice.

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(Most) Self-Serve BI Tools will Create Data Anarchy– Myth#2

Elegant BI

Debunking Common Business Intelligence Myths. Myth #2 – True Self-Serve BI Tools Will Compromise Data Governance. Today’s business intelligence market offers many options! But, never every business intelligence solution can help your self-serve initiative succeed. When an enterprise undertakes a business intelligence initiative or wishes to improve or upgrade its BI tools, it is easy to get lost in the hype and myth surrounding the market.

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BI Solutions CAN Play Well Together

Elegant BI

The business intelligence market is growing by leaps and bounds. Large and small companies are investing in BI – some with great results, others mixed results and some with disastrous results. The outcomes are based on numerous variables and we certainly don’t have time to go into all of those variables in this article. But, there is one thing that often factors into these outcomes (positive or negative) and that is something that BI vendors and BI customers must consider.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Case Study: ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence Implementation for a leading Pipes Manufacturer

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ElegantJ BI provided browser-based BI tools that could be easily deployed across the organization, with powerful cross-tab, time series analysis, graphical analytics, personalized sales dashboards and exception reporting. The ease of implementation and deployment enabled the organization to implement the BI solution in no time, using its own IT team to develop BI objects with little hands on training.

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Do You Speak the Language of Your Customers? Get To Know Them Better with Self-Serve BI

Elegant BI

Customer relationship management (CRM) is not for the faint of heart! Marketing, advertising, sales and customer service representatives can no longer guess at or dictate what their customers want. Today’s business clients and consumers are more sophisticated. They are used to targeted products, targeted marketing and advertising and customer service representatives who anticipate their needs and are prepared with great products and services.

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Power BI Enterprise Gateway, Everything You Need to Know

BI Insight

On-premises Data Gateway (aka Power BI Enterprise Gateway) is release a while ago (2 Dec. 2015), but, with the latest release on 22 Dec. 2015 Power BI Enterprise Gateway now supports live connections to both SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional and Tabular models as well as SAP HANA. In this post I’ll explain lots of … Continue reading Power BI Enterprise Gateway, Everything You Need to Know.

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Don’t Wait to be Served! Self-Serve BI is the Way to Go!

Elegant BI

Is there anyone left on the planet who thinks business intelligence (BI) is a luxury? Probably not! Everyone knows that measurable, integrated business intelligence is key to business success, both in the local and the global business market. All managers know that BI can improve productivity, strategic alignment, employee accountability and empowerment, and the quality of business decisions, and speed and effectiveness of market action.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Poor Anna: The Story of Bloated, Pricey BI Tools

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Poor Anna: The Story of Bloated, Pricey BI Tools. Last year, my friend Anna launched her business intelligence project, with great enthusiasm. She fought hard to get her management team to recognize the value of BI tools and, when the management team approved the project, her IT staff went to work, reviewing and selecting a business intelligence solution that would fit within their infrastructure.

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“Design Once, Use Anywhere”: Mobile BI and Great Ux Deliver an Unbeatable Solution!

Elegant BI

The business intelligence (BI) solutions of today are far more flexible than the BI tools of old. One of the reasons for this improved flexibility is that vendors are responding to user demands for more responsive, personalized solutions and to business requirements to invest once and leverage a solution for the long-term. In order to meet these requirements and needs, vendors must get smarter about design and build a foundation that is flexible enough to accommodate new, unanticipated user need

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AIM takes over third-party acquisition services for Bryant Information Group

AIM

Bryant Information Group of Canton, Michigan ceased operations at the end of 2015 and has graciously recommended AIM to provide uninterrupted service to its long-time clientele. In a message to clients, founder Bart Bryant wrote, “We would like to recommend to you the highly professional and competent firm of Allis Information Management in Midland, Michigan.

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CMMS: What It Does and Why It Matters

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How does your organization handle maintenance? Is there a filing cabinet designated for equipment information? Do you run your assets until failure? Are parts available when you need them? For almost 70 years, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) have been shifting companies from reactive to proactive maintenance. However, many organizations have either not caught on to the […].

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Find the Right CMMS: What You Need Before Investing

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It might be the fourth time you had to shut down production from a machine failure. Maybe your company wasted a lot of time waiting for a vital part to arrive. You could be feeling pressure from above to reduce the amount of overtime logged. Whatever the reason, you’re now in the market for a […].