No pressure - but the BI solution you invest in today has far-reaching implications for your organization's success tomorrow.
- With dozens of Business Intelligence solutions available, what are the 'must-haves' in BI tools?
- What features will bring you the quickest time to value plus meet the flexibility and budgetary needs for your organization?
- How will this satisfy your Business Intelligence needs?
- Where does this fit into your Business Intelligence Strategy and Roadmap?
Strap on those crampons as we scale those eight essential steps to take in making your big decision - let's get your company equipped for the future, and performing at its peak!
Modern Business Intelligence - Design and ImplementationsDavid J Rosenthal
During the first two “waves” of business intelligence, IT professionals and business analysts were the keepers of BI. They made BI accessible and consumable for end users.
While this approach still applies to complex business intelligence needs, today there is a new “wave.” This third wave of BI makes BI available to every kind of user.
As customer strive to take advantage of the digital transformation that is occurring in virtually every industry, they need to re-evaluate how they engage with their customers/prospects, how they transform their products and operations, and how they empower and understand their employees.
In today’s world, doing each of these things is more and more reliant upon data…traditionally, everything you knew about your customers and prospects was available in your business application systems and in the heads of employees. You learned almost everything about your products BEFORE they left your warehouse. Employees used technology more to enter data than to learn from it.
In the data-driven world we live in today, leveraging intelligent insights from data across customers, products, and employees is critical to be able to stay competitive and keep up with or lead digital transformation in any industry. And this isn’t just a customer’s typical business application data – it’s also about augmenting the customer’s data with additional data (e.g. search, employee behavioral data, sentiment data, benchmark data, etc..) – and applying the right intelligence to drive meaningful insights.
Advanced Topics In Business Intelligenceguest1a9ef2
The blurring of the line between decision support systems and operational systems because of real-time warehousing, the use of Enterprise Information Integration (EII), and closed- loop business processes
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
Modern Business Intelligence - Design and ImplementationsDavid J Rosenthal
During the first two “waves” of business intelligence, IT professionals and business analysts were the keepers of BI. They made BI accessible and consumable for end users.
While this approach still applies to complex business intelligence needs, today there is a new “wave.” This third wave of BI makes BI available to every kind of user.
As customer strive to take advantage of the digital transformation that is occurring in virtually every industry, they need to re-evaluate how they engage with their customers/prospects, how they transform their products and operations, and how they empower and understand their employees.
In today’s world, doing each of these things is more and more reliant upon data…traditionally, everything you knew about your customers and prospects was available in your business application systems and in the heads of employees. You learned almost everything about your products BEFORE they left your warehouse. Employees used technology more to enter data than to learn from it.
In the data-driven world we live in today, leveraging intelligent insights from data across customers, products, and employees is critical to be able to stay competitive and keep up with or lead digital transformation in any industry. And this isn’t just a customer’s typical business application data – it’s also about augmenting the customer’s data with additional data (e.g. search, employee behavioral data, sentiment data, benchmark data, etc..) – and applying the right intelligence to drive meaningful insights.
Advanced Topics In Business Intelligenceguest1a9ef2
The blurring of the line between decision support systems and operational systems because of real-time warehousing, the use of Enterprise Information Integration (EII), and closed- loop business processes
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
The digital transformation of CPG and manufacturingCloudera, Inc.
Both CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) and manufacturing industries face similar challenges: in order to differentiate and innovate, they need to draw insight from the one thing they both have in abundance - data. The source of the data may be different; the opportunity is always innovation and differentiation. For CPG, forever changing buyer expectations must flow into product development and sales. For both CPG and manufacturing, Industry 4.0 promises improved efficiency, lower costs, and higher revenues. Becoming data-driven is the key for both industries and requires clever combination of machine learning, analytics and cloud for success.
In this webinar, business strategist Frank Vullers will discuss how Cloudera's platform is central to this century’s industrial revolution: the digital transformation of the CPG and manufacturing industries.
How to successfully implement Business Intelligence into your organisation.
A completely agnostic and independent view from a market leader in delivering technology transformation.
Details on how to build a strategy to successfully execute on and more importantly how to get the business to adopt Business Intelligence into their day to day role.
Essential tool kit for any organisation looking to invest in Business Intelligence.
Knowledge Management Solutions for BusinessesScienceSoft
Learn how to smartly manage organizational knowledge with SharePoint and use corporate knowledge wealth to your business advantage. A full-fledged knowledge management framework supported with relevant SharePoint tools are included.
The last 18+ months have proven to be like no other time in modern history, and it has had a profound effect on the supply chain in the manufacturing industry. This disruption has meant many restless nights worrying about supply chains, workforce agility, capacity planning, resource allocation, and much more for manufacturers. Manufacturers have realized that better planning and preparedness are crucial to adapting to the rapid changes in demand seen in today's current climate.
In this webinar, you will learn how to address these challenges head-on as we discuss how your organization can become more agile and scale to your specific business requirements and how Cloud ERP systems can support better planning and preparedness for what's next.
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About The Presenter
Steve Canter - Director of Global Service Delivery
Steve Canter has over 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. Steve has been responsible for delivering solutions to many medium-sized and large companies in a variety of industries as a consultant and project manager. Steve also brings a unique perspective to SmartERP, having spent over ten years as the CIO for a manufacturing and distribution company. During that period, he also helped shape product and customer service strategy at Microsoft and Oracle as a member of several customer advisory boards.
Best Practices in Implementing Social and Mobile CX for UtilitiesCapgemini
Are you having difficulties in implementing a modern customer experience solution strategy that meets your customers’ needs across all interaction channels, including mobile and social?
This presentation highlights best practices for the design and implementation of effective CX strategies adapted to the utilities industry.
Presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 by Bruna Gapo, Oracle's Utilities Industry Director, Ajay Verma, Capgemini's Global Utility Practice Leader, and Victor Jimenez, Capgemini Utilities Executive.
http://www.capgemini.com/oracle
Beyond Decision Models – Using Technical and Business Standards to Transform ...Jonathan L'Ecuyer
The financial services industry has long been a driver for technology innovation. Volatile regulations, increased demands for compliance, and a requirement for transparency necessitate the ability to quickly create and efficiently manage decisions. A key component will certainly be the ability to develop services or disseminate decisions in a consistent, unambiguous and transparent fashion. Reliance on traditional software platforms will not meet this need. Open, API-based architectures able to rapidly evolve and share are critical.
MISMO – the Mortgage Industry Standards and Maintenance Organization – recently announced the official recommendation for the use of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard for documentation, implementation, execution and exchange of business rules and decisions across the mortgage industry.
This presentation focuses on the integration of existing business data standards in the mortgage industry (MISMO) with technology standards (DMN, BPMN) to enable a powerful approach to handling Fintech and Regtech solutions. “Decisions as a Service” will become a primary delivery model to facilitate the creation and deployment of powerful APIs and microservices. Decisions enable a business-driven approach to develop and deploy the capabilities as services will allow consumers to get custom automation.
Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy...SAP Analytics
sap.com/analytics - This SAPinsider #BI2015 session attendees will learn key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business alike.
The digital transformation of CPG and manufacturingCloudera, Inc.
Both CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) and manufacturing industries face similar challenges: in order to differentiate and innovate, they need to draw insight from the one thing they both have in abundance - data. The source of the data may be different; the opportunity is always innovation and differentiation. For CPG, forever changing buyer expectations must flow into product development and sales. For both CPG and manufacturing, Industry 4.0 promises improved efficiency, lower costs, and higher revenues. Becoming data-driven is the key for both industries and requires clever combination of machine learning, analytics and cloud for success.
In this webinar, business strategist Frank Vullers will discuss how Cloudera's platform is central to this century’s industrial revolution: the digital transformation of the CPG and manufacturing industries.
How to successfully implement Business Intelligence into your organisation.
A completely agnostic and independent view from a market leader in delivering technology transformation.
Details on how to build a strategy to successfully execute on and more importantly how to get the business to adopt Business Intelligence into their day to day role.
Essential tool kit for any organisation looking to invest in Business Intelligence.
Knowledge Management Solutions for BusinessesScienceSoft
Learn how to smartly manage organizational knowledge with SharePoint and use corporate knowledge wealth to your business advantage. A full-fledged knowledge management framework supported with relevant SharePoint tools are included.
The last 18+ months have proven to be like no other time in modern history, and it has had a profound effect on the supply chain in the manufacturing industry. This disruption has meant many restless nights worrying about supply chains, workforce agility, capacity planning, resource allocation, and much more for manufacturers. Manufacturers have realized that better planning and preparedness are crucial to adapting to the rapid changes in demand seen in today's current climate.
In this webinar, you will learn how to address these challenges head-on as we discuss how your organization can become more agile and scale to your specific business requirements and how Cloud ERP systems can support better planning and preparedness for what's next.
________________________________________
About The Presenter
Steve Canter - Director of Global Service Delivery
Steve Canter has over 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. Steve has been responsible for delivering solutions to many medium-sized and large companies in a variety of industries as a consultant and project manager. Steve also brings a unique perspective to SmartERP, having spent over ten years as the CIO for a manufacturing and distribution company. During that period, he also helped shape product and customer service strategy at Microsoft and Oracle as a member of several customer advisory boards.
Best Practices in Implementing Social and Mobile CX for UtilitiesCapgemini
Are you having difficulties in implementing a modern customer experience solution strategy that meets your customers’ needs across all interaction channels, including mobile and social?
This presentation highlights best practices for the design and implementation of effective CX strategies adapted to the utilities industry.
Presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 by Bruna Gapo, Oracle's Utilities Industry Director, Ajay Verma, Capgemini's Global Utility Practice Leader, and Victor Jimenez, Capgemini Utilities Executive.
http://www.capgemini.com/oracle
Beyond Decision Models – Using Technical and Business Standards to Transform ...Jonathan L'Ecuyer
The financial services industry has long been a driver for technology innovation. Volatile regulations, increased demands for compliance, and a requirement for transparency necessitate the ability to quickly create and efficiently manage decisions. A key component will certainly be the ability to develop services or disseminate decisions in a consistent, unambiguous and transparent fashion. Reliance on traditional software platforms will not meet this need. Open, API-based architectures able to rapidly evolve and share are critical.
MISMO – the Mortgage Industry Standards and Maintenance Organization – recently announced the official recommendation for the use of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard for documentation, implementation, execution and exchange of business rules and decisions across the mortgage industry.
This presentation focuses on the integration of existing business data standards in the mortgage industry (MISMO) with technology standards (DMN, BPMN) to enable a powerful approach to handling Fintech and Regtech solutions. “Decisions as a Service” will become a primary delivery model to facilitate the creation and deployment of powerful APIs and microservices. Decisions enable a business-driven approach to develop and deploy the capabilities as services will allow consumers to get custom automation.
Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy...SAP Analytics
sap.com/analytics - This SAPinsider #BI2015 session attendees will learn key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business alike.
How to choose the right modern bi and analytics tool for your business_.pdfAnil
We highlight Top 5 Business Intelligence Tools as suggested by Gartner and ask critical questions that can help organizations make better and informed decisions.
Visionet Business Intelligence Solutions - Is your Business Intelligence real...Visionet Systems, Inc.
Visionet Systems has been helping companies mitigate risk and prepare to make the most of their corporate data. From enterprise data management assessment to establishing rigorous data standards, our domain and technology expertise has assisted companies in defining their corporate data strategies and getting the very most out of their BI and reporting assets.
5 Things To Look For In A Business Intelligence SoftwareGrow
Looking for the right Business Intelligence software? Finding the best options from reputable Business Intelligence software vendors can be trickier than it seems. Discover the top 5 factors to consider when selecting Business Intelligence software. For further assistance, visit Grow.com
Data analytics tools help organizations derive insights from vast amounts of data, enabling informed decision-making, identifying trends and patterns, personalizing customer experiences, optimizing processes, and driving innovation and competitive advantage.
Power bi implementation for finance services firmsaddendanalytics
Addend Analytics is a Microsoft Power BI-partner based in Mumbai, India. Apart from being authorized for Power BI implementations, Addend has successfully executed Power BI projects for 100+ clients across sectors like financial services, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Sales, Manufacturing, Real estate, Logistics, and Healthcare in countries like the US, Europe, Australia, and India. Companies partnering with us save their valuable time and efforts of searching and managing resources while saving hugely on the development costs and hence, most of the small and medium enterprises in North America prefer Addend to be their Power BI implementation partner.
Top 20 Best Business Intelligence Tools | CIO Women MagazineCIOWomenMagazine
Here are the top 20 Business Intelligence Tools: 1. Micro Strategic Planning, 2. IBM Cognos Analytics (in a nutshell), 3. Tableau, 4. Oracle Business Intelligence Tools, 5. Board, etc.
The amount of information inside your company is constantly expanding, and to stay competitive, your data-insight strategy has to keep pace with business change. Here, we explore the benefits of using Infor BI and how using the platform can quickly transform raw data into valuable business insight. Infor BI is the one solution for all your data analytics needs.
Business Intelligence In Cyber Security | Cyberroot Risk AdvisoryCR Group
The business world has changed a lot over years with invasion of internet. Along with change of business, come the risk factors as well. When the course of business functionality has changed, the code of conduct has changed along with as well.
Albiorix Technology brings the top 10 digital transformation trends to watch out for in 2023 that you can adopt to improve your business performance.
For More Information: https://www.albiorixtech.com/blog/digital-transformation-trends/
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Opendatabay - Open Data Marketplace.pptxOpendatabay
Opendatabay.com unlocks the power of data for everyone. Open Data Marketplace fosters a collaborative hub for data enthusiasts to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets.
First ever open hub for data enthusiasts to collaborate and innovate. A platform to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets. Through robust quality control and innovative technologies like blockchain verification, opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of datasets, empowering users to make data-driven decisions with confidence. Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance the data exploration, analysis, and discovery experience.
From intelligent search and recommendations to automated data productisation and quotation, Opendatabay AI-driven features streamline the data workflow. Finding the data you need shouldn't be a complex. Opendatabay simplifies the data acquisition process with an intuitive interface and robust search tools. Effortlessly explore, discover, and access the data you need, allowing you to focus on extracting valuable insights. Opendatabay breaks new ground with a dedicated, AI-generated, synthetic datasets.
Leverage these privacy-preserving datasets for training and testing AI models without compromising sensitive information. Opendatabay prioritizes transparency by providing detailed metadata, provenance information, and usage guidelines for each dataset, ensuring users have a comprehensive understanding of the data they're working with. By leveraging a powerful combination of distributed ledger technology and rigorous third-party audits Opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of every dataset. Security is at the core of Opendatabay. Marketplace implements stringent security measures, including encryption, access controls, and regular vulnerability assessments, to safeguard your data and protect your privacy.
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Choosing the Ideal Business
Intelligence Solution
Today’s digital world has released an explosion of data, and Business Intelligence (BI) is evolving.
Innovative companies now rely on Business Intelligence to instantly assimilate, transform and
analyze this endless stream of information to make perfectly-timed business decisions. Choosing
the perfect BI solution to ensure your company thrives and maintains a competitive edge into the
future may be daunting – it can seem like a big mountain to climb.
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Get Onboard
In times past, cost and complexity of BI may have
outweighed any perceived payback, but the future is now,
and it’s essential to emphasize the value of company
data to everyone in your organization. Make sure that
everyone’s clued up and ready for the coming transition.
Get Flowing
The key to BI sustainability and success is to ensure data
is flowing smoothly through every internal and external
system in your organization. Critical strategic choices
should only be made on comprehensive information; then
you can expect the best results. Ensure you are harnessing
data from every endpoint - including those on the horizon.
Get Automated
So, your company understands the value of its data, and
that this data is harvested at every point and opportunity.
Now you can concentrate on sharing the right information
with the right people at the right time and place. Manual
report distribution is a sure-fire way to sabotage your
entire BI strategy and bottom line; automation is simply
the only path to take for secure, efficient and reliable
delivery – but which tool do you choose?
Climb the 8 Steps to BI Success...
With dozens of BI solutions available, what are the ‘must-
haves’? What features will bring you the quickest time to
value plus meet the flexibility, scalability and budgetary
needs of your organization?
No pressure – but the BI solution you invest in today has
far-reaching implications for your organization’s success
tomorrow.
So strap on those crampons as we scale those eight
essential steps to take in making your big decision – let’s
get your company equipped for the future and performing
at its peak!
Choosing the Ideal... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Summary About IntelliFront BI™
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1. Secure Yet Accessible
Your BI tool should be both flexible enough
to allow authorized individuals to access it
from anywhere AND 100% tamper, reverse
engineering and intrusion-proof.
Your data is your greatest asset so, naturally, the very
first step to take is a cautionary one – how secure is
this BI solution? Does it provide several layers of role-
based access management protocols? Does it integrate
with Windows Active Directory to allow you to terminate
immediately access when an employee leaves your
organization? Does it restrict report parameters, encrypt
the report output, require authentication before report
access, and apply an expiration date? It should also
include a comprehensive audit system that tracks and
records every user and system action.
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2. Ensure Data Integrity
Equally important and a key component
of your data’s security is its integrity and
compliance with industry standards.
The solution must ensure data integrity and compliance.
One minor user error, inability to manage access, or
missed regulatory input and you can easily end up paying
the cost on multiple levels.
With this in mind, your BI solution must be highly
configurable to fit your business compliance standards
such as HIPAA, FERPA, and SOX as well as the compliance
needs of your infrastructure. Find out if the solution can
archive report data with the exact runtime it is generated
by the system, user or administrator. Investigate its
disaster recovery options to ensure the system will
recover from major failures and data loss. Finally, request
a detailed analysis of the solution’s scalability functions –
can it accommodate your organization’s traffic and load
balancing needs?
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3. Seamless Data Sources
Your data source is irrelevant - the
solution must analyze/report on data
from multiple sources.
Like most organizations, you’ve probably accumulated
a multitude of applications across your various lines of
business. To avoid the expensive pitfalls of inconsistent
and missing data, ensure your chosen BI solution can
communicate seamlessly across all your systems and will
allow you to make ‘on the fly’ changes that accommodate
your guidelines and needs.
Most BI and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
offer reporting functionality, but the reports are limited
to the data housed within that particular system. Also,
the majority of these systems were not designed to
interface easily with separate applications, flexibly
adapt to individual workflows or provide cross-functional
report distribution.
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4. Insightful & Flexible
Deliver value to the right people in the right
place at the right time.
As your organization expands, so does the pressure to
deliver cross-functional information to validate critical
strategic decisions. You can have a BI solution with the
most elaborate reporting features on the market, but if it
requires you to build and configure specific distribution
lists and manually add them to a server, then you’re losing
time, money and weakening the security and integrity of
your data.
The solution must have the ability to rapidly and
flexibly distribute insights to the primary stakeholders
in a personalized way. It should function as a
centralized distribution hub, operating in a wide variety
of environments including dedicated servers, virtual
machines, and the cloud. It should support different
protocols and formats and provide a seamless user
experience – delivering the information based on the
end user’s preference.
The bottom line is a closed system is a closed system.
Eventually, the costs of operating in silos will far outweigh
the investment in a flexible solution that can deliver
meaningful information at the precise moment it is needed
without causing a disruption in your internal processes.
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5. Easy To Use
The solution should be quick to deploy
and easy to use for the company and
its customers.
A sophisticated BI solution doesn’t have to mean a
cumbersome deployment or a headache to its users.
In fact, once a server with basic pre-requisites is in place,
it should only require a few minutes to install and
configure. Multi-server deployments, a combination of
database/client configurations, failover, and other setups,
should be options - not requirements.
From an end-user standpoint, the features and functions
of the solution should be obvious and easily customizable
to fit an individual’s workflow. Remember, you want your
executives and staff to embrace your BI solution. With
proper training, even the most non-technical users should
be able to deploy, manage, schedule and view reports
quickly. This empowers users and removes the barriers
typically encountered with the rollout of a new solution.
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6. Enhances Existing Systems
The solution should take what you have,
and makes it what you need – it must
be designed to leverage your existing IT
investments and resources.
Ask whether the solution has a fully integrated web service
and API framework that will allow you to combine the BI
functionality with your existing applications and systems.
Most organizations have heavily invested in core systems
that have stretched their budget and IT resources. Still,
the demands of new customer SLAs and ‘on the fly’
KPI reports continue to increase. Instead of completely
changing your existing BI infrastructure or practices,
your BI solution should be able to adapt quickly to your
business environment. For example, it should have the
ability to leverage your existing servers and hardware and
not require dedicated staff to implement and manage it.
Ideally, the solution provider will offer comprehensive
installation services enabling you to implement a complete
BI infrastructure without taxing your existing human
resources. It should also use industry standards (e.g.
connecting to ODBC compliant databases) and APIs rather
than relying on proprietary languages and technology.
Avoid reinventing the wheel when there’s no need for
complex configurations and setup.
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7. Scales With Your Company
The solution should meet you where you
are and anticipate where you’re going - it
must scale as your business evolves without
breaking the bank.
There are risks associated with any technology
investment and, many times, there are transactional
fees buried deep in the fine print. It’s critical to ensure
your BI solution can scale as your business changes and
not cost you a fortune. Make sure the pricing is value-
based instead of transactional-based. As your reporting
volume increases, the incremental cost of adding a report
to the system should go down in comparison to the price.
The more you leverage the solution, the more you should
save, not spend.
Ask if there’s an onsite proof of concept (POC) program
where you can use the solution with your live data and
reports. Determine your pre-POC baseline metrics and
then track the time savings associated with automated
versus manual report distribution. The right solution
should be able to deliver measurable value in 30 days
or less. Make it a requirement that you should be able
to immediately go-live using this POC system if it meets
your approval.
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8. Loyal & Dependable
Choose a partner that’s in it for the long
haul - the BI solution provider must have a
track record of customer loyalty and a team
to back you up.
Investment in a vendor’s technology is an investment
in the vendor. Find out what drives the provider. Is it
customer satisfaction or closing the next deal? Who was
the vendor’s first customer? Are they still a customer?
Why or why not? Do they have full-time resources
dedicated to account management, customer experience
and consulting? Ask if there’s a specific revenue number
a customer has to hit before they are assigned an
account manager.
In the event of a system issue, ensure you will receive top
tier support as soon as you contact the provider. Enquire
about their support staff’s level of system knowledge and
whether chat by video is an option.
Last - but not least - find out about the ongoing support
model. Do they deploy customer-specific patches,
scheduled software updates and version upgrades? If so,
how will you be notified?
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Summary
We live in an increasingly data-driven world,
and all businesses need to apply an optimal BI
strategy to secure their future in this climate.
Whether you are taking a first step toward implementing
a BI infrastructure or currently have one in place, getting
the most out of your data is essential to your success.
Remember to get everyone onboard by educating about
the critical role data plays in your business, get your data
flowing from every corner of your business and then get
automating - arm your employees and customers with
insights at the right place and time.
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IntelliFront BI™ will be released in the second quarter of 2016.
About IntelliFront BI
™
With ChristianSteven’s IntelliFront BI™
, you can eliminate administrative bottlenecks with
self-service business intelligence. Sophisticated yet simple, our IntelliFront BI™
is flexible, scalable,
and database-agnostic, enabling you to connect to multiple data sources across your enterprise
and centrally manage all of your report distribution.
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14. During implementation - typically completed in 1 day or
less - we work with you to easily configure the system
to mirror the workflows in your environment. Once
operational, the solution can talk to any database or
system. IntelliFront BI™ works behind the scenes to ensure
your data is accurate, secure and delivered on time with
the same look and feel - regardless of native application.
For individuals who need immediate access to
information from laptops & mobile devices, IntelliFront BI™
offers an easy-to-use gallery that allows users to log in,
create and run reports, view & modify dashboards on the
fly and respond to real-time KPI cards with rich, interactive
drill-downs and insights. Depending on your organizational
needs, our solution can be used as your complete BI
infrastructure or to complement your existing investments.
We’re experts in helping organizations automate and
deliver Business Intelligence processes so that actionable
information is delivered at the precise moment it’s
needed. Rather than spending time and resources
exporting BI reports, updating BI databases and executing
manual BI processes, let ChristianSteven handle it for you.
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