Last year we wrote off $200,000 in overdue receivables. This year we used QlikView to build a receivables monitoring program to identify problem accounts before they got out of hand. We’ve cut our bad accounts to a fraction of what they were before—this year we expect to write off less than $10,000.
Carlos Gonzalez, VP of IT, Distribution and Systems, Kubic Marketing
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Reeling in Spreadmarts By Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research, TDWI
The Proliferation of Spreadmarts. In 2002, I created the term “spreadmart” to describe the renegade spreadsheets and desktop databases that are wreaking havoc on organizations. Since then, many people have adopted the term because it highlights a painful, yet largely ignored, problem that plagues organizations today. read more
Top Ten Tips For Integrating Business Intelligence Into Business Operations by Mike Ferguson
Business intelligence (BI) has become strategic but still needs to be integrated into every business process to guide business operations towards achieving strategic objectives. The following tips will help you achieve this read more
Business Intelligence Planning
Business owners need to understand and recognize how business intelligence applications are valuable for sustaining the growth and upgrading business systems, as well as solving business problems. There should be mutually established reasons supporting the necessity of a business intelligence, or BI plan in your organization. read more