Business Intelligence Tools that Will Keep My Friend Lola From Pulling Out Her Teeth

Posted on May 15, 2013

I got a text message from my friend, Lola. It read, “Business intelligence tools make me feel stupid”. I responded with ‘LOL’ but she persisted. “trying to do data extraction is like pulling teeth, scattering them, then picking them up and trying to figure out where they go”. I called to continue the conversation and learned that her business intelligence tools were top-heavy, complex corporate performance management and business intelligence software solutions.

Integrating business data from systems and databases is easier than Lola thinks! BUT you need a business intelligence company that offers an easy to implement business intelligence tool, provides simple integration, analysis of disparate data sources, intuitive custom views, a browser-based environment, with minimal training and simple data extraction and data management for even your most technology-challenged user (Lola, take note!).

Business intelligence software with simple data extraction, data transformation, cube management and ETL lets you easily manage, organize, filter and analyze information from multiple data sources.

The sheer volume of data in most companies is overwhelming: Data warehouses, data marts, ERP, best-of-breed applications, CRM, operational systems, databases, spreadsheets and legacy systems! How do you integrate, extract, analyze and filter all of this data?
Get a business intelligence tool that includes cube-based, consolidated data definition repositories, a single point of integration, and personalized views for meaningful data display so it’s easy to understand and manipulate fields and columns.

I didn’t want to rub it in, so I didn’t tell Lola that she bought the wrong solution. But I’ll tell you! If you need great data extraction and data management capability and great Corporate Performance Management and BI features, look here: http://www.elegantjbi.com/ or email sales@elegantjbi.com.

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Business Intelligence Tools for Data Extraction and Management

Posted on May 10, 2013
data-extraction Betsy says: I got a text message from my friend, Lola. It read, “trying to do data extraction is like pulling teeth, scattering them, then picking them up and trying to figure out where they go”.

Too bad Lola didn’t work with a business intelligence company that offers an easy to implement business intelligence tool, provides simple integration, analysis of disparate data sources, intuitive custom views, a browser-based environment, with minimal training and simple data extraction and data management.

Tell us your success or horror story about trying to integrate, extract, manage and analyze data.
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Business Intelligence Tools For Individual/Company Success

Posted on May 1, 2013

Every business user needs a personalized view of data to perform meaningful analysis and stay up-to-date on the issues that affect the business and their personal or team role in that business. Sounds serious, doesn’t it? It is! If you want to improve productivity and increase the effectiveness of business decisions and process changes, you have to give your users Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management tools that present information that is integrated, easy to analyze and easy to use. Business Intelligence dashboard modules can be customized to enable end-users, managers and executives to create and use personalized dashboards and present data in a customized snapshot to assist the user in identifying problems and the source of those problems.

Don’t just get a business intelligence tool. Get business intelligence and corporate performance management to improve your bottom line and make your users more productive and more accountable!

Intelligently yours, Betsy Bizintel

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A Tale of True BI and How Darren Became a Hero

Posted on Apr 30, 2013

My friend Darren had a problem! At dinner one night he said, “We need to develop a comprehensive brand strategy to improve our market penetration and recognition.” Darren is the Senior Vice President of marketing for a retail appliance company. They were launching a national campaign to expand their market into other regions, become a national name, and build a brand reputation to improve competitive positioning in the existing markets.

But Darren first had to first establish a uniform, dependable data and reporting system with the flexibility and analytical capability to meet requirements for every user, so business managers in sales, marketing, finance and operations could view and manage accurate timely information, adapt to changes in the existing market and assess and manage results in new markets. He needed a solution to integrate information from various sources and present it in a user-friendly interface.

Darren didn’t have the time or money to purchase or customize a large, complex system. He had to act quickly to create the brand strategy and market expansion plan, to hire appropriate resources and execute their competitive strategy.
Darren’s tale has a happy ending. He is now a hero! His market expansion is going great because he selected a great BI solution suite. It gives him an integrated, enterprise–wide view of data and he can effectively manage expansion and finances with a current view of data and results. Every user now has access to business intelligence. This data provides information to monitor and improve sales and marketing in existing regions, successfully plan for expansion into other markets, and lay the foundation for a successful brand strategy and business success and growth!
That is the value of true Business Intelligence! If you want results like Darren’s, contact: http://www.elegantjbi.com/ or email sales@elegantjbi.com.

Intelligently yours, Betsy Bizintel

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BI for Competition

Posted on Apr 25, 2013
BI-for-Competition Betsy says: Let me tell you about my friend Darren. His company was launching a national campaign to expand their market into other regions, become a national name, and build a brand reputation to improve competitive positioning in the existing markets. First, Darren had to find a uniform, dependable, flexible and intuitive BI solution for users in across the enterprise to view and manage accurate timely information, adapt to changes in the existing market and manage results in new markets.

Darren is now a hero! His market expansion is going great because he selected a great BI solution suite so he can monitor and improve sales and marketing in existing regions, and successfully plan for expansion into other markets.

Has your company recently taken on a market expansion? If so, how did you get your data and information and is it helping you get closer to your expansion goals?
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Are You Insensitive or Overly Sensitive? BI and CPM Impact and Sensitivity Analysis Can Help!

Posted on Apr 15, 2013

In business, Sensitivity Analysis has nothing to do with you being sensitive to the feelings of others or visiting a therapist to discuss your inability to take criticism. In business, sensitivity analysis is closely linked to impact analysis and what it means is the difference between business success and business disappointment.

If you have a Corporate Performance Management solution with impact and sensitivity analysis tools your team can accurately determine the root cause of a business issue and plan for the right resources, funding and changes at the right time. You won’t have to guess at the right number, or wonder if you are solving the right problem.

BI impact and sensitivity analysis features allow for concise analysis of issues, reporting and drill down detail so you can make swift, appropriate business decisions. You can understand the impact of one task on another, or the complex dependencies of the metrics used by sales and the metrics used by production and manufacturing.

It’s really important that you know which factors have the greatest impact and which factors are dependent on other factors. But it’s difficult to find and filter this information and the analysis algorithms are complex. If they are not used properly, they result in incorrect, inaccurate data.

A CPM and BI solution with Balanced Scorecards and impact and analysis features lets you establish objective metrics. Your users can quickly get to the source of the problem and understand how to make corrections with a complete understanding of dependencies and the factors that will have the greatest impact. With a thorough understanding of the dependencies and correlation between and among goals, activities and functions, you can easily achieve your goals and plan your strategy with complete confidence.

Want to solve your sensitivity issues (in a business way)? Start here: http://www.elegantjbi.com/, sales@elegantjbi.com.

Intelligently yours, Betsy Bizintel

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Module Overview – Impact and Sensitivity Analysis

Posted on Apr 10, 2013
Impact and Sensitivity Analysis Betsy says: BI Sensitivity Analysis has nothing to do with you a) being sensitive to the feelings of others or b) visiting a therapist to discuss your inability to take criticism. BI sensitivity analysis is closely linked to impact analysis and it often means the difference between business success and business crash-and-burn!

With a great CPM solution and impact and sensitivity analysis tools you can quickly get to the source of the problem and task and metrics dependencies and the factors that will have the greatest impact on success.

Tell us your stories (and share any nightmares you may have from time to time) about tasks and dependencies and how they can get entangled and trip you up!

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An OEM Partnership with BI/CPM Solution Provider Will Make Your Customers Think You Know it ALL!

Posted on Mar 31, 2013

So, you think you know it all? I know you’re smart, but you can’t possibly be an expert at EVERYTHING. Consider how much you THINK you know about software development and about Business Intelligence software development.

Maybe you understand Business Intelligence, forecasting, reporting, sensitivity analysis and other BI techniques to plan for business results and analyze performance. Maybe you know about software development processes, testing, development techniques and languages, and even mobile device development. BUT, do you understand BOTH domains? Can you develop a BI software product for market and get it done before your competition? Can you keep the application up to date, and maintain, support and test upgrades to remain in compliance with integrated applications as they evolve? Even if you think you can do it all, you probably don’t have the money or time to spend on the effort.

You should consider the opportunities of OEM partnership with a Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management solution provider. An expert BI/CPM supplier has all the tools, domain expertise and resources to support the application so your customers can quickly and easily benefit from BI and integration with other systems and data source without a huge investment of time and money from you!

Expert BI and CPM OEM partners can embed BI within your applications to provide additional value and achieve a competitive edge in their market. Partners can re-brand or co-brand the BI and CPM solution and enhance your revenue with best-of-the-breed embedded analytical features, extensive reporting functionality and a single service-oriented architecture. By integrating BI within an existing application you can reduce time-to-market, and decrease risk and investment for product development.

If you want the advantage of BI and CPM features without a huge investment of time and money, contact http://www.elegantjbi.com/ or email sales@elegantjbi.com.

Intelligently yours, Betsy Bizintel

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Benefits of predictive analytics and forecasting

Posted on Mar 25, 2013
predictive-analysis Betsy says: These days you can forget the five-year planning cycle. The business world and the competitive landscape change every day, and you’re lucky if you can predict what will happen next week, much less one, two or five years in the future!

What’s your secret for planning? Are your forecasting and predictive analysis techniques dependable or do you find yourself taking a shot in the dark – and shooting yourself in the foot?

Tell us your best (and worst) business forecasting stories!
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Bring Business Forecasting Out of the Basement and Shed Some Light on Predictive Analysis

Posted on Mar 15, 2013

Ever visit the offices of the analytical team that does your business forecasting? In the old days, you took the elevator to the bottom floor and walked down long halls containing boxes of files. When you entered the room, you found weary people slaving over spreadsheets and mumbling, ‘who knows’ and ‘anybody’s guess’. The planning cycle lasted five years, so there was plenty of time for rumination!

Today, your analytical team is everywhere. They are the team leaders, the managers, the individuals who are expected to produce results and if they can accurately forecast and predict results at every level of the organization, the company will be better able to plan its strategy and pursue competitive success. Today’s business users need sophisticated software to quickly forecast and predict results. The pace is fast and the planning process requires daily review and adjustment to keep up with competition and changing customer buying behaviors.

We live in a world of quick decisions – but these decisions have to be accurate or we’ll be out of business. Business intelligence and corporate performance management becomes more sophisticated, forecasting and predictive analysis is more important than ever but the prospect of analytics is daunting for most companies.

Never fear! New BI and CPM solutions have made it possible for the average enterprise to leverage complex predictive analysis using. These forecasting and predictive analysis solutions are simple to use. You can compile data. Select and execute the right predictive analysis technique to produce clear reports and results. Understand trends and patterns in customer demographics plan and achieve sales forecasts, predict and execute new product features to improve market share, and plan for financial investments and resources.

Want to help your team accurately forecast and predict results? Start here: http://www.elegantjbi.com/, sales@elegantjbi.com.

Intelligently yours, Betsy Bizintel

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