If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newton
Analysis tools offer insight into customer behavior and market opportunities. They can inform decisions, cut costs, streamline operations and help enterprises be more agile. They can help automate human research and identify points of interest. But all of the benefits can only occur with an educated user-base.
This section strives to educate on how to define, prepare for and implement the various flavors of analysis tools we design and develop.
Real World Implementations
Transparent Business Health BI, Channel Smarts Go Hand in Hand By Michael Vizard
QlikView and an innovative CEO enlightened the workforce ...most solution providers are blindsided by negative events, and worse yet, blind to opportunities because they have no real visibility in their business. This is a realization that Yacov Wrocherinsky, CEO of Infinity Info Systems, came to when he decided to implement a business intelligence application on top of the Sage Software CRM read more
Real-World Business Intelligence: The Implementation Perspective by Allen Bonde, Matt Kuckuk DM Review Magazine
For many large organizations, success with business intelligence (BI) and information applications such as enterprise reporting requires a coordinated effort across the dimensions of people, processes, technology and, of course, data. The complexity of real-world BI continues to grow with the increasing demand for information at all levels of business, new data formats and presentation requirements, and expertise to develop and maintain these new wide-scale BI applications. Fortunately, best practices and techniques have been developed to achieve the mission of BI while overcoming these key implementation challenges. read more
7 Simple Rules For Successful Real-Time Business Intelligence Implementation by Jaymin Patel
Real-time data marts and business intelligence solutions are no longer a novelty or luxury. These solutions are not in their infancy stage. They are becoming instrumental in delivering information crucial for organizations to remain competitive in their core businesses. Given the number of tools mushrooming over the past few years touting anything from ready-to-go solutions on day one to analytical ability on-the-fly and on-demand, real-time business intelligence solutions appear to be a piece-of-cake. However, the reality often reveals a different picture than one might imagine! read more
Retail Business Intelligence Part 5: Rapid Implementation by Dean Tarpley
Done right, the implementation process is not about consultants setting up shop in a cubicle only to spend months or years migrating systems and information. It’s about creating a partnership where knowledge is transferred and relationships empower the company’s employees to begin thinking about new ways to use information, rather than about how to obtain that information. The goal is to begin building a foundation or framework, i.e., an architecture, that the retailer can expand upon. read more