Competitive Insights
JUNE 7, 2015
Our research shows that ten operating practices are tied to higher service levels and lower inventory costs. A McKinsey Quarterly article. Source: How agile is your supply chain? | McKinsey & Company. The post How agile is your supply chain? | McKinsey & Company appeared first on Competitive Insights.
Zoominfo
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
You just spent 30 minutes researching your prospect; calling him and leaving him a voice message, then you sent THE PERFECT EMAIL. It was so perfect that the prospect has to respond- you talked about what their CEO said in his annual report, you knew a project he was currently working on, and you outlined other customers in his space that you work with.
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Digital B2B Marketing
MAY 28, 2015
As I came back from the B2B Marketing Innovation Summit, put on by Demandbase, I couldn’t shake the feeling that we aren’t doing enough. That I’m not doing enough. Sure, marketing is changing faster today than it did yesterday. Blah blah blah. It doesn’t matter how fast marketing is changing! The real question is “how are you changing?
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 31, 2015
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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BI Insight
DECEMBER 28, 2015
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.
Domo
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
Dreamforce may be over, but the buzz is still going strong. We had so much fun meeting prospects at the Domo booth , entertaining at the House of Blue , and driving customers around town in the Domo Fleet. And now that we’re back at Domo HQ, we wanted share some FOMO-inducing photos from our social media contest. Each one of these lucky content creators walked away from the Bay with their very own drone, for being the best at showing off their Domo.
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AIM
DECEMBER 1, 2015
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.
Contify
JULY 14, 2015
Ihave never worked at a startup prior to Contify and last six months in my current role have been focused on building/reshaping teams and capabilities. While enough has been written on how the first 5–10 employees shape the culture of a company and have a long term impact, my experience of hiring and getting hired at a start-up has put me in a unique position to share insights on recruiting later stage employees once the founding team is already in place.
Sedulo
APRIL 1, 2015
Prior to Heath Gross’ career in competitive intelligence, he served in the US Government as the Special Projects Officer for Counterterrorism in the Middle East. He worked in counterterrorism both before, and after 9/11. During that period Heath personally witnessed the accelerated transition from planning and fighting a conventional war, with clearly marked boundaries and military goals, to a war fought against terrorists and insurgents, a 360 degree battle field where the objectives of t
Competitive Insights
JUNE 6, 2015
Often when businesses are being realigned to better serve their markets cultural change is required. This is an excellent article on making it work. Start with what’s already working! Source: Cultural Change That Sticks – HBR. The post Cultural Change That Sticks – HBR appeared first on Competitive Insights.
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Competitive Insights
MAY 30, 2015
Many “Baby Boomers” are either in retirement or thinking about the subject. The considerations for those who own businesses are quite different from an employees. The article below explores some of the things that business owners need to think about as they approach retirement. Business owners usually want value for what they have created Assuming you and your business survived.
Competitive Insights
APRIL 24, 2015
The journey of the development of the Competitive Insights website started late last year from some conversations with friends about the business and how to take it forward. Progress was assisted by an article on the back page of the Financial Review about some ex Bain & Company associates starting their business and the process they went through to get.
Digital B2B Marketing
JUNE 30, 2015
A few weeks ago I was talking to Maureen Blandford about marketers, marketing technology, and the need for all of us to move faster. Our conversation turned to skill sets and the current digital and technology skills gap in marketing today. A thought I had in that conversation has been gnawing at me since: “Today’s marketers don’t have the aptitude for marketing technology.” We continue to hear about the skills gap in marketing today and marketers are continuing to get tr
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 28, 2015
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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Elegant BI
DECEMBER 23, 2015
ElegantJ BI is pleased to announce its ‘Design Once, Use Anywhere’ intelligent user interface (UI) engine for superior mobility across devices. ElegantJ BI is headquartered in Ahmedabad, India, and its business intelligence suite offers a true self-serve experience to business users. The suite is powered by a unique UI engine and Managed Memory Computing. “BI tools and mobility are not mutually exclusive,” says ElegantJ BI CEO, Kartik Patel. “Many of today’s B
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 20, 2015
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.
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 17, 2015
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.
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 15, 2015
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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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
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 14, 2015
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.
Elegant BI
DECEMBER 13, 2015
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.
Elegant BI
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
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Elegant BI
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
No matter how carefully a user prepares a spreadsheet, every spreadsheet lacks integrity, traceability, integration of data, consistency, security and tree data analysis capability for planning, decision-making. Every business needs affordable, easy-to-use BI tools to make accurate, confident decisions and ensure business results.
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While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.
Elegant BI
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
‘Key Performance Indicators’ or KPIs as we say, are very important to the enterprise and nearly every company is talking about them, these days. But, there are still a lot of businesses that don’t know how to define the right KPIs to get a good picture of success. To really understand where you are succeeding and where you are falling short, you have to measure the right things.
Elegant BI
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
An India-based Highway Toll Plaza Management Co. selected ElegantJ BI to help them create a central data warehouse system with validated, timely data from all toll plazas and provide uniform multidimensional BI information architecture. ElegantJ BI helped the organization consolidate data validate and improve data quality and design a central data warehouse to leverage dashboards, KPIs, analytical features and reporting functionality with ready-to-use toll plaza management templates that helped
Elegant BI
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Debunking Common Business Intelligence Myths. Myth #1 – All ‘Self-Serve’ BI Tools Are Suitable for Business Users. The business intelligence tools market is crowded with all manner of tools today, creating a lot of confusion and making it difficult for businesses to sort through the promises and claims. If you find it difficult to sort through the buzz and choose the right BI tools, we are here to help.
Elegant BI
OCTOBER 26, 2015
ElegantJ BI is proud to announce its participation in the world-renowned CeBIT conference in Bengaluru, India, October 29-31, 2015. Elegant MicroWeb CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We look forward to greeting potential partners and customers at CeBIT, for the second year, and to sharing our vision of innovative Business Intelligence.” ElegantJ BI brings a new perspective to BI tools, and predictive solutions, with a ‘Design Once, Use Anywhere’ UI engine, and Real Time and Cached
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Elegant BI
OCTOBER 23, 2015
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BI Insight
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Without a doubt cloud computing is going to change the future of data analytics and data visualisation very significantly. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse recently released for public preview. Combining Power BI as a powerful data visualisation tool with Azure SQL Data Warehouse will give the users the ability to see data insights of their … Continue reading Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Power BI.
Elegant BI
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Mobile BI Tools Kick Butt! Don’t you just hate it when you need to collaborate with someone, or discuss a problem, and you go to their office and they are out? Maybe they are in the field; maybe they are on the road traveling (whatever), a phone call isn’t going to do the trick. You both need to see the data and really drill down into the guts of the problem, or talk about a trend and try to get ahead of the curve.
BI Insight
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Microsoft is building lots of cloud based technologies these days and Microsoft Dynamics CRM is not an exception. With a powerful data visualisation tool like Power BI Microsoft took a great step to integrate Dynamics CRM and Power BI which means you can easily connect from Power BI website and Power BI Desktop to a … Continue reading Power BI and Dynamics CRM.
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