Sat.Dec 05, 2015 - Fri.Dec 11, 2015

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

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

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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