L.B. Foster is a manufacturer of transportation infrastructure materials that struggled with accessing and analyzing information across its diverse software systems. It implemented the WebFOCUS business intelligence platform from Information Builders to create self-service reporting and a performance management framework. This enabled L.B. Foster's 100 users to generate their own reports and boosted productivity by automating tasks like production paperwork. The BI system also supported L.B. Foster's lean manufacturing approach through enhanced performance analysis.
The document discusses Power BI, a business intelligence tool from Microsoft that allows users to easily access and visualize data through interactive dashboards. It compares the free Power BI version to the paid Power BI Pro version, which offers more data capacity and advanced collaboration features. The document also discusses how Power BI compares to competitors like Tableau and how it can integrate with on-premises data sources through tools like the Personal Gateway and Analysis Services Connector.
How codeless enterprise paas installs agility to business itNewton Day Uploads
This White Paper introduces the role of codeless enterprise PaaS software as an enabler to achieving agile IT for businesses seeking a competitive advantage from their IT investments.
Comparison of CXAIR to Traditional BI Technologies Connexica
CXAIR provides a fundamentally different approach to business intelligence compared to traditional BI tools by harnessing search engine technology rather than relying on databases and complex report designers. CXAIR allows users to get answers to their own questions in real-time through an easy to use interface, without having to wait for pre-scheduled reports or complex report development. Traditional BI tools are too complex for most non-IT users, whereas CXAIR simplifies BI and allows anyone in an organization to access and analyze up-to-date information on their own. CXAIR is also significantly faster and more scalable than traditional BI tools, able to return results for millions of records in under a millisecond.
Architecture Standardization Using the IBM Information FrameworkCognizant
Case study describes how a Middle Eastern banking major achieved digital transformation with a standardized information model based on the IBM Information Framework (IFW).
5 big data at work linking discovery and bi to improve business outcomes from...Dr. Wilfred Lin (Ph.D.)
This document discusses how big data and business intelligence can be used together to improve business outcomes. It provides an agenda that includes industry use cases, a demonstration, and getting started with big data. It discusses how big data can be used to run or change a business by organizing data for a specific purpose or exploring raw data to discover new opportunities. The document then highlights several industry examples of how companies have used big data to lower costs, increase revenue, and innovate. It concludes with a discussion of key aspects of big data discovery solutions, including combining diverse data sources, exploring data with no training, and balancing business and IT needs.
Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision and StrategyNic Smith
Microsoft Business Intelligence slide deck, learn the Microsoft vision and strategy for business intelligence. These slides include the offering and value proposition for Microsoft BI.
Transitioning Data from Legacy Systems into QuickBaseJohn Head
This document discusses transitioning data from legacy systems to QuickBase. It begins with an introduction of the presenters and their experience. The next sections discuss legacy data and systems, application modernization, and migration and integration options when moving to QuickBase. Specific legacy applications that often migrate well to QuickBase are noted, such as Lotus Notes, SharePoint, and basic workflows and lists. Integration tools for QuickBase like QuickBase Sync, Zapier, and custom integrations are also covered. The document concludes with a summary of the key topics learned.
The document discusses Power BI, a business intelligence tool from Microsoft that allows users to easily access and visualize data through interactive dashboards. It compares the free Power BI version to the paid Power BI Pro version, which offers more data capacity and advanced collaboration features. The document also discusses how Power BI compares to competitors like Tableau and how it can integrate with on-premises data sources through tools like the Personal Gateway and Analysis Services Connector.
How codeless enterprise paas installs agility to business itNewton Day Uploads
This White Paper introduces the role of codeless enterprise PaaS software as an enabler to achieving agile IT for businesses seeking a competitive advantage from their IT investments.
Comparison of CXAIR to Traditional BI Technologies Connexica
CXAIR provides a fundamentally different approach to business intelligence compared to traditional BI tools by harnessing search engine technology rather than relying on databases and complex report designers. CXAIR allows users to get answers to their own questions in real-time through an easy to use interface, without having to wait for pre-scheduled reports or complex report development. Traditional BI tools are too complex for most non-IT users, whereas CXAIR simplifies BI and allows anyone in an organization to access and analyze up-to-date information on their own. CXAIR is also significantly faster and more scalable than traditional BI tools, able to return results for millions of records in under a millisecond.
Architecture Standardization Using the IBM Information FrameworkCognizant
Case study describes how a Middle Eastern banking major achieved digital transformation with a standardized information model based on the IBM Information Framework (IFW).
5 big data at work linking discovery and bi to improve business outcomes from...Dr. Wilfred Lin (Ph.D.)
This document discusses how big data and business intelligence can be used together to improve business outcomes. It provides an agenda that includes industry use cases, a demonstration, and getting started with big data. It discusses how big data can be used to run or change a business by organizing data for a specific purpose or exploring raw data to discover new opportunities. The document then highlights several industry examples of how companies have used big data to lower costs, increase revenue, and innovate. It concludes with a discussion of key aspects of big data discovery solutions, including combining diverse data sources, exploring data with no training, and balancing business and IT needs.
Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision and StrategyNic Smith
Microsoft Business Intelligence slide deck, learn the Microsoft vision and strategy for business intelligence. These slides include the offering and value proposition for Microsoft BI.
Transitioning Data from Legacy Systems into QuickBaseJohn Head
This document discusses transitioning data from legacy systems to QuickBase. It begins with an introduction of the presenters and their experience. The next sections discuss legacy data and systems, application modernization, and migration and integration options when moving to QuickBase. Specific legacy applications that often migrate well to QuickBase are noted, such as Lotus Notes, SharePoint, and basic workflows and lists. Integration tools for QuickBase like QuickBase Sync, Zapier, and custom integrations are also covered. The document concludes with a summary of the key topics learned.
The document discusses how adopting an Enterprise 2.0 approach using social software can improve business processes and employee productivity. It describes how adding social and collaborative features to existing enterprise applications and rebuilding processes as social applications allows for more flexible and real-time work. This enables faster and more informed decision making, continuous process improvement through participation, and a more engaged workforce.
Thinking of Upgrading to Oracle SOA Suite 11g? Knowing The Right Steps Is Key...Revelation Technologies
The article discusses how an improperly modeled repository is often the cause of unsuccessful or delayed business intelligence (BI) implementations, as the repository plays a key role as the heart of any BI environment. It emphasizes that dimensional modeling principles should be followed when designing the repository to ensure requirements like reporting, performance, and user acceptance are met. Adhering to data modeling best practices when developing the physical and business models in the repository is also important for a successful BI implementation.
The document discusses the convergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business intelligence (BI). It defines both concepts and notes their similarities, such as relying on common metadata and information architectures. A key driver of convergence is the need for integrated, real-time access to information across the enterprise to support business decisions. Achieving convergence requires agreed-upon terminology, processes, and models across business and IT.
Designing Compelling Business Intelligence Business Cases for an SAP® Softwar...dcd2z
This document discusses how SAP and Business Objects solutions can create value for business users and enterprise IT. It presents scenarios to highlight how the products' strengths can be applied together. For business users, scenarios focus on making BI more interactive through visualization and guided analysis, and more pervasive by extending reach to mobile devices and desktop. For IT, scenarios cover data integration, information management, and reconciling structured and unstructured data. Co-creation value is also discussed through shared tools and accelerated delivery. The scenarios illustrate opportunities for SAP customers to leverage complementary SAP and Business Objects functionality.
Elsen is the platform-as-a-service company for large financial institutions allowing anyone to effortlessly harness vast quantities of data to solve the most complex problems.
Data mashup means in the BI space and makes the business case from both the business-side and the IT-side for enabling this ultimate level of self-service – a unique capability of InetSoft's BI solutions. For more details visit: https://www.inetsoft.com/evaluate/whitepapers/
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Ente...Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Wayne Eckerson and Birst
Live Webcast on March 4, 2014
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=573944bdf3e01bfb977fa9f3d1d623c2
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Enterprise - Mar. 4
The Briefing Room with Wayne Eckerson and Birst
Cloud BI, once a novelty, is now going mainstream. More and more organizations are adopting Cloud BI and folding it in their BI strategy. Learn what considerations are necessary to determine if Cloud BI should be part of your multi-platform BI architecture.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Wayne Eckerson as he explains what to consider when choosing cloud-based solutions. He will be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst, who will tout his company’s enterprise-caliber cloud BI platform. Peters will describe how the coexistence of cloud applications and traditional environments can provide the kind of agility and flexibility that can lead to faster time to value.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
DDX-1420: Bringing Your Web Applications to the IBM Digital Experience John Head
IBM WebSphere portal has been seen as the realm of the back-end developer with specialized Java skills. This has been a barrier to entry to the IBM Domino community. IBM has transformed the product to the IBM Digital Experience platform – and it’s not just a name change! With the inclusion of the Script Portlet and IBM Portal on Cloud option, it’s time to look again. This session explains how to integrate your XPages applications, IBM Bluemix and even Microsoft SharePoint. It also demonstrates content re-purpose without migration. If you are looking for a single point of integration for all your applications, this session is for you!
The document discusses Informatica's data virtualization solution. It provides an overview of the challenges companies face in integrating data from multiple sources and making it available for business intelligence, master data management, and service-oriented architecture use cases. Informatica's solution combines data integration, data virtualization, data profiling, and business-IT collaboration capabilities to provide a common view of data across sources and enable fast delivery of new reports and attributes without moving data. Examples are provided of how HealthNow NY used the solution to improve risk analysis and pricing by delivering a complete and trusted view of customer data.
MTV - Viacom SharePoint Case Study - MOSS 2007EPC Group
MTV Networks needed to automate three manual workflows using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. They created:
1) A workflow to automate processing of new employees, reducing the time from 1-3 days to just one day.
2) A collaboration site for project management updates, cutting the time to provide weekly updates from 6 hours to just 4 hours.
3) A business intelligence dashboard on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to provide analytics, saving 6 hours per week previously spent manually submitting data. MTV plans to replicate these solutions across the company.
This document discusses enterprise content management (ECM) with Microsoft SharePoint. It begins by defining ECM and explaining why organizations use SharePoint for ECM. It then discusses common ECM use cases and top business drivers for ECM. It also highlights some of the largest repositories of unmanaged content. The document then reviews the history of SharePoint and some of its key ECM features like managed metadata, document IDs, and business connectivity services. It concludes with two case studies on how organizations have used SharePoint ECM to reduce costs and improve processes.
Kofax Connect: Making the First Mile of Business SmarterKofax
With the explosive growth of mobile devices, today's customers desire rapid response from the companies they do business with from the first moments of engagement. This presentation discusses how you can leverage mobile technology during these initial interactions – the First Mile – to gain competitive advantage, streamline business processes, and improve customer response time.
Locotalk is a low-code application platform that aims to democratize business software by reducing friction in software development. It combines a semantic graph database called LocoDB with a JavaScript framework called LocoJS to allow building applications by composing reusable software blocks without needing to write code. Locotalk captures semantics at the data level to ensure integration between applications and avoid losing essential information during development. Its unique architecture aims to eliminate sources of friction like needing to remap data to different structures for the database, server and client sides of applications.
The document provides an overview of IBM Mashup Center and discusses how it allows users to quickly create applications by combining information from multiple sources. Some key points:
- Mashups can be created in days rather than months and help access internal and external data through an easy-to-use visual interface without extensive coding.
- IBM Mashup Center provides pre-built connectors to commonly used systems and allows custom connectors to be created when needed.
- It includes features for discovering, re-using and sharing assets like widgets, feeds and applications via a central catalog to encourage collaboration.
- Examples are given of real-world mashups created for industries like aviation, manufacturing and government to provide benefits like time
Application Modernization meets Cloud and Mobile ... Where to Start?John Head
Session Given at IBM InterConnect 2016 - It's 2016. Your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Mobile and cloud are more than checkboxes on a list. User expectations are higher than ever. But there are so many options—what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM Software, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We'll deep-dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, and Modern Workflow. You'll see demos of actual transformations and the impact they have had within organizations. We'll put special attention on IBM Bluemix, SmartCloud, and the MobileFirst Platform. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
The Cloud and You - the ’as a service’ disruption you can’t ignoreJohn Head
In any discussion about cloud, there are lots of buzzwords being thrown out by analysts and vendors. "Digital Transformation", "Democratization of IT", "Citizen Developer", and many more. Add in the 'as a Service" explosion and it is hard to make heads and tails over what will add value to your business. This session will cut through the hype and help bring a reality check to how the Cloud can help you. This session is for everyone: Administrator, Developer, IT Executive, or Business User. Plan on leaving with a deeper understanding and ideas of where you can take advantage.
Document Capture in the Evolving Mobile WorkforceJoel Oleson
Discuss the top industry challenges and key solutions to enterprise content management (ECM). We’ll dig into difficulties and provide new solutions with document capture/scanning and OCR directly in SharePoint and Office 365. After discussing industry challenges, announcements and best practices, we’ll dive into a mobile app that will address common ECM challenges. The timeliness of solutions that address changes to business processes based on the evolving mobile workforce make this one webinar you do not want to miss!
This document summarizes findings from a survey of 376 business and technology leaders on cloud computing. It finds that while cloud was initially seen as a way for business units to bypass IT, nearly half of respondents now say IT and business are equally involved in selecting cloud services. It also finds that companies taking a more strategic, enterprise approach to cloud ("cloud leaders") are more likely to have launched new products and expanded into new markets and geographies. Cloud is increasing business agility for most companies and enabling new customer-facing digital capabilities, but establishing sufficient controls remains a challenge even for cloud leaders.
Robotic process automation is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of metaphorical software robots or artificial intelligence workers.
IBM Cognos Business Insight aims to redefine business intelligence by providing a pre-assembled workspace that allows users to quickly explore data through search, drag-and-drop, and filtering capabilities. It seeks to reach more users and enable deeper analysis through features like ad-hoc querying and leveraging external data sources. The presentation demonstrated the product's intuitive interface and seamless transitions between exploration, visualization, and advanced analysis tools.
This document summarizes the changes in the scope of business intelligence (BI) over recent years. It discusses how BI has evolved from being IT-managed standard reporting to a more self-service, visual, and interactive environment. Key changes highlighted include BI tools now being used and managed by business users, greater flexibility for users to explore and create custom reports, advanced visualizations and interactive dashboards, and the inclusion of more advanced analytics beyond standard SQL. The blurring of lines between reporting and analytics tools and between IT and business user roles is seen as an overall positive development that enables more flexibility, discovery, and insight.
IBM Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool that allows users to perform data aggregation and create detailed, user-friendly reports. It provides flexible reporting and can be used by large and medium enterprises. Some key benefits of IBM Cognos include leveraging data insights, powerful scenario planning tools, enabling proactive decision making, easy dashboard creation, and dynamic report generation with a drag-and-drop interface.
The document discusses how adopting an Enterprise 2.0 approach using social software can improve business processes and employee productivity. It describes how adding social and collaborative features to existing enterprise applications and rebuilding processes as social applications allows for more flexible and real-time work. This enables faster and more informed decision making, continuous process improvement through participation, and a more engaged workforce.
Thinking of Upgrading to Oracle SOA Suite 11g? Knowing The Right Steps Is Key...Revelation Technologies
The article discusses how an improperly modeled repository is often the cause of unsuccessful or delayed business intelligence (BI) implementations, as the repository plays a key role as the heart of any BI environment. It emphasizes that dimensional modeling principles should be followed when designing the repository to ensure requirements like reporting, performance, and user acceptance are met. Adhering to data modeling best practices when developing the physical and business models in the repository is also important for a successful BI implementation.
The document discusses the convergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business intelligence (BI). It defines both concepts and notes their similarities, such as relying on common metadata and information architectures. A key driver of convergence is the need for integrated, real-time access to information across the enterprise to support business decisions. Achieving convergence requires agreed-upon terminology, processes, and models across business and IT.
Designing Compelling Business Intelligence Business Cases for an SAP® Softwar...dcd2z
This document discusses how SAP and Business Objects solutions can create value for business users and enterprise IT. It presents scenarios to highlight how the products' strengths can be applied together. For business users, scenarios focus on making BI more interactive through visualization and guided analysis, and more pervasive by extending reach to mobile devices and desktop. For IT, scenarios cover data integration, information management, and reconciling structured and unstructured data. Co-creation value is also discussed through shared tools and accelerated delivery. The scenarios illustrate opportunities for SAP customers to leverage complementary SAP and Business Objects functionality.
Elsen is the platform-as-a-service company for large financial institutions allowing anyone to effortlessly harness vast quantities of data to solve the most complex problems.
Data mashup means in the BI space and makes the business case from both the business-side and the IT-side for enabling this ultimate level of self-service – a unique capability of InetSoft's BI solutions. For more details visit: https://www.inetsoft.com/evaluate/whitepapers/
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Ente...Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Wayne Eckerson and Birst
Live Webcast on March 4, 2014
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=573944bdf3e01bfb977fa9f3d1d623c2
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Enterprise - Mar. 4
The Briefing Room with Wayne Eckerson and Birst
Cloud BI, once a novelty, is now going mainstream. More and more organizations are adopting Cloud BI and folding it in their BI strategy. Learn what considerations are necessary to determine if Cloud BI should be part of your multi-platform BI architecture.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Wayne Eckerson as he explains what to consider when choosing cloud-based solutions. He will be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst, who will tout his company’s enterprise-caliber cloud BI platform. Peters will describe how the coexistence of cloud applications and traditional environments can provide the kind of agility and flexibility that can lead to faster time to value.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
DDX-1420: Bringing Your Web Applications to the IBM Digital Experience John Head
IBM WebSphere portal has been seen as the realm of the back-end developer with specialized Java skills. This has been a barrier to entry to the IBM Domino community. IBM has transformed the product to the IBM Digital Experience platform – and it’s not just a name change! With the inclusion of the Script Portlet and IBM Portal on Cloud option, it’s time to look again. This session explains how to integrate your XPages applications, IBM Bluemix and even Microsoft SharePoint. It also demonstrates content re-purpose without migration. If you are looking for a single point of integration for all your applications, this session is for you!
The document discusses Informatica's data virtualization solution. It provides an overview of the challenges companies face in integrating data from multiple sources and making it available for business intelligence, master data management, and service-oriented architecture use cases. Informatica's solution combines data integration, data virtualization, data profiling, and business-IT collaboration capabilities to provide a common view of data across sources and enable fast delivery of new reports and attributes without moving data. Examples are provided of how HealthNow NY used the solution to improve risk analysis and pricing by delivering a complete and trusted view of customer data.
MTV - Viacom SharePoint Case Study - MOSS 2007EPC Group
MTV Networks needed to automate three manual workflows using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. They created:
1) A workflow to automate processing of new employees, reducing the time from 1-3 days to just one day.
2) A collaboration site for project management updates, cutting the time to provide weekly updates from 6 hours to just 4 hours.
3) A business intelligence dashboard on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to provide analytics, saving 6 hours per week previously spent manually submitting data. MTV plans to replicate these solutions across the company.
This document discusses enterprise content management (ECM) with Microsoft SharePoint. It begins by defining ECM and explaining why organizations use SharePoint for ECM. It then discusses common ECM use cases and top business drivers for ECM. It also highlights some of the largest repositories of unmanaged content. The document then reviews the history of SharePoint and some of its key ECM features like managed metadata, document IDs, and business connectivity services. It concludes with two case studies on how organizations have used SharePoint ECM to reduce costs and improve processes.
Kofax Connect: Making the First Mile of Business SmarterKofax
With the explosive growth of mobile devices, today's customers desire rapid response from the companies they do business with from the first moments of engagement. This presentation discusses how you can leverage mobile technology during these initial interactions – the First Mile – to gain competitive advantage, streamline business processes, and improve customer response time.
Locotalk is a low-code application platform that aims to democratize business software by reducing friction in software development. It combines a semantic graph database called LocoDB with a JavaScript framework called LocoJS to allow building applications by composing reusable software blocks without needing to write code. Locotalk captures semantics at the data level to ensure integration between applications and avoid losing essential information during development. Its unique architecture aims to eliminate sources of friction like needing to remap data to different structures for the database, server and client sides of applications.
The document provides an overview of IBM Mashup Center and discusses how it allows users to quickly create applications by combining information from multiple sources. Some key points:
- Mashups can be created in days rather than months and help access internal and external data through an easy-to-use visual interface without extensive coding.
- IBM Mashup Center provides pre-built connectors to commonly used systems and allows custom connectors to be created when needed.
- It includes features for discovering, re-using and sharing assets like widgets, feeds and applications via a central catalog to encourage collaboration.
- Examples are given of real-world mashups created for industries like aviation, manufacturing and government to provide benefits like time
Application Modernization meets Cloud and Mobile ... Where to Start?John Head
Session Given at IBM InterConnect 2016 - It's 2016. Your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Mobile and cloud are more than checkboxes on a list. User expectations are higher than ever. But there are so many options—what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM Software, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We'll deep-dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, and Modern Workflow. You'll see demos of actual transformations and the impact they have had within organizations. We'll put special attention on IBM Bluemix, SmartCloud, and the MobileFirst Platform. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
The Cloud and You - the ’as a service’ disruption you can’t ignoreJohn Head
In any discussion about cloud, there are lots of buzzwords being thrown out by analysts and vendors. "Digital Transformation", "Democratization of IT", "Citizen Developer", and many more. Add in the 'as a Service" explosion and it is hard to make heads and tails over what will add value to your business. This session will cut through the hype and help bring a reality check to how the Cloud can help you. This session is for everyone: Administrator, Developer, IT Executive, or Business User. Plan on leaving with a deeper understanding and ideas of where you can take advantage.
Document Capture in the Evolving Mobile WorkforceJoel Oleson
Discuss the top industry challenges and key solutions to enterprise content management (ECM). We’ll dig into difficulties and provide new solutions with document capture/scanning and OCR directly in SharePoint and Office 365. After discussing industry challenges, announcements and best practices, we’ll dive into a mobile app that will address common ECM challenges. The timeliness of solutions that address changes to business processes based on the evolving mobile workforce make this one webinar you do not want to miss!
This document summarizes findings from a survey of 376 business and technology leaders on cloud computing. It finds that while cloud was initially seen as a way for business units to bypass IT, nearly half of respondents now say IT and business are equally involved in selecting cloud services. It also finds that companies taking a more strategic, enterprise approach to cloud ("cloud leaders") are more likely to have launched new products and expanded into new markets and geographies. Cloud is increasing business agility for most companies and enabling new customer-facing digital capabilities, but establishing sufficient controls remains a challenge even for cloud leaders.
Robotic process automation is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of metaphorical software robots or artificial intelligence workers.
IBM Cognos Business Insight aims to redefine business intelligence by providing a pre-assembled workspace that allows users to quickly explore data through search, drag-and-drop, and filtering capabilities. It seeks to reach more users and enable deeper analysis through features like ad-hoc querying and leveraging external data sources. The presentation demonstrated the product's intuitive interface and seamless transitions between exploration, visualization, and advanced analysis tools.
This document summarizes the changes in the scope of business intelligence (BI) over recent years. It discusses how BI has evolved from being IT-managed standard reporting to a more self-service, visual, and interactive environment. Key changes highlighted include BI tools now being used and managed by business users, greater flexibility for users to explore and create custom reports, advanced visualizations and interactive dashboards, and the inclusion of more advanced analytics beyond standard SQL. The blurring of lines between reporting and analytics tools and between IT and business user roles is seen as an overall positive development that enables more flexibility, discovery, and insight.
IBM Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool that allows users to perform data aggregation and create detailed, user-friendly reports. It provides flexible reporting and can be used by large and medium enterprises. Some key benefits of IBM Cognos include leveraging data insights, powerful scenario planning tools, enabling proactive decision making, easy dashboard creation, and dynamic report generation with a drag-and-drop interface.
WinWholesale is a leading supplier of domestic and industrial supplies and materials headquartered in Ohio with over 520 wholesaling corporations specializing in various areas. They had an internally developed ERP and financial system and needed to drive grassroots adoption of business intelligence (BI) tools from the bottom up. Obstacles included monthly data feeds and expensive licensing, which they overcame by creating nightly data feeds and selecting the Microsoft BI suite. They built simple prompted web reports on sales and finances, trained users, and saw margin improvements and increased usage, critical to managing local operations. Future plans include graphical dashboards and projections with external market data.
IBM Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool that allows users to perform data aggregation and create detailed, user-friendly reports. It provides flexible reporting and can be used by large and medium enterprises. Cognos benefits companies by leveraging data insights, offering scenario planning tools, transforming businesses to be more proactive, enabling easy dashboard creation, and allowing dynamic report design.
IBM Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool that allows users to perform data aggregation and create detailed, user-friendly reports. It provides flexible reporting and can be used by large and medium enterprises. Benefits of Cognos include leveraging hidden data insights, scenario planning tools, transforming to a proactive organization, easy dashboard creation, and dynamic report design.
Visionet Business Intelligence Solutions - Is your Business Intelligence real...Visionet Systems, Inc.
Business intelligence systems promise to present one version of the truth by pulling data from multiple internal and external sources. However, getting accurate insights is challenging because data is often disparate and inconsistent. Visionet helps companies address this issue through enterprise data management practices like data standards and governance. They use a comprehensive methodology involving extraction, transformation, loading of data as well as application and metadata repository development to help organizations make informed decisions based on clean unified information.
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.
Search-based BI. Getting ready for the next wave of innovation in Business In...grauw
This document discusses the evolution and future of business intelligence (BI). It argues that while data warehousing revolutionized BI in the 1990s, the current model has become too complex, expensive, and rigid. The document proposes that the next wave of BI innovation is "search-based BI", which uses enterprise search engines to make BI more user-friendly, agile, flexible and able to integrate structured and unstructured data in real time. Search-based BI has the potential to transform the BI industry by simplifying and improving existing BI systems.
The Forrester Wave of Self Service BI PlatformsMILL5
The document provides an evaluation of self-service business intelligence platforms. It identifies IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy as leaders due to the breadth of their self-service BI functionality. Information Builders, Tableau Software, Actuate, Oracle, QlikTech, and Panorama Software were also strong performers offering solid functionality. The evaluation was based on assessing the vendors' current offerings, strategies, and market presence against 31 criteria like automation, collaboration, data virtualization and more.
Delivering Business Intelligence: Empowering users to Automate, Streamline, A...Christian Ofori-Boateng
ChristianSteven Software delivers business intelligence solutions that automate, streamline, analyze and predict business data. Their solutions empower business intelligence consumers to access reports, dashboards and insights on any device in real-time. This allows for improved decision making. Their current solutions include SQL-RD and CRD for report distribution, as well as IntelliFront BI, a full business intelligence suite. ChristianSteven has evolved with the industry over 15 years, starting with server/desktop solutions and now focusing on mobile and the "borderless enterprise". While some prioritize startups, many potential customers appreciate ChristianSteven's experience and history of adapting to changing needs.
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.
Power BI: Introduction with a use case and solutionAlvina Verghis
This PPT gives a brief introduction to the Power BI software. It gives the brief intro of the software with a use case of how Power BI is used in Heathrow Airport for ease of functions
The document is a resume for Girisha R that summarizes his professional experience and qualifications. It includes 2+ years of experience in Microsoft BI tools like SSIS and SSAS, as well as SAP Business Objects. Some of the projects listed are developing dashboards for finance metrics, attendance tracking, and user activity monitoring. Girisha also lists his education qualifications which include a BE in IT and proficiency in languages like English, Kannada and Hindi.
BEA implemented a new enterprise architecture using Enterprise Infrastructure Services built on the BEA WebLogic Platform. The new service-oriented architecture centralized data and business logic and exposed them as standardized web services. This transformed applications from isolated data containers to facilitators of integrated business activities. All necessary data and logic could now be accessed through a single application, improving productivity and customer support.
BI allows organizations to analyze large amounts of data from multiple sources to better understand their business and make informed decisions. It provides predictive analytics capabilities through tools like dashboards, reports, and data visualization. Implementing a successful BI system requires integrating data from across an organization's various databases and systems, defining important KPIs, and providing users with self-service analytics tools to track metrics and receive alerts. BI has been shown to increase financial performance, speed of decision making, and ability to execute decisions as intended.
How We Replaced an Implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning Enterprise Man...CFO Pro+Analytics
If you are considering an EPM, especially for reporting, it might be worth looking at your existing business intelligence platform for an easier and more manageable solution.
12 Ways to Empower Government Users With the Microsoft Business Intelligence ...BMDS3416
The document discusses how implementing a self-service approach using Microsoft Business Intelligence (MBI) tools can empower government users and maximize ROI for federal IT resources. It provides 12 suggestions for how MBI tools like Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SharePoint can allow users to perform analytics, create custom reports, and access reports on any device without relying on IT staff. The document concludes that MBI tools offer significant efficiency compared to traditional programming but require an investment to establish a strategy and framework.
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1. Information Builders enables agile
information solutions with the
WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI)
platform and integration technologies
from iWay Software.
Organization
L.B. Foster manufactures, fabricates, and
distributes products for the nation’s
surface transportation infrastructure.
The Challenge
As L.B. Foster grew, managers had
difficulty accessing, analyzing, and pre-
senting information in a cohesive way.
The Strategy
The company established a self-service
BI environment that can directly access
enterprise applications without a data
warehouse. They also use WebFOCUS
PMF to align operations with strategy.
The Results
The BI team has created hundreds of
WebFOCUS reports and strategic
performance management applications,
saving time, increasing accuracy, and
boosting productivity.
Information Builders Solution
WebFOCUS Self-Service and Managed
Reporting environments including the
Performance Management Framework;
direct access to JD Edwards, Lotus Notes,
and Excel data via native data adapters;
Education and Professional Services.
Snapshot
Customer Profile
L.B. Foster
L.B. Foster Enhances Operations With
BI and Performance Management
Operational BI Complements Lean Manufacturing
L.B. Foster Company is a leading manufacturer, fabricator, and distributor of high-
quality transportation and construction materials. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based
company supplies the materials necessary to build and maintain infrastructure
for companies in the transportation, construction, utility, energy, recreation, and
agriculture markets.
The company’s diverse software infrastructure, which includes packaged applications
such as a JD Edwards World enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, a Sage
SalesLogix CRM system, and more than 200 IBM Lotus Notes applications – made it
difficult to access, analyze, and present information in a cohesive and timely way. As
the manufacturer grew and its pace of business accelerated, this capability became
critical for company managers.
“In many instances, we could get the information we needed, but it took way too
long,” says Bruce Hezlep, manager of business applications at L.B. Foster. “For example,
our production personnel were creating bills of materials by hand for shop floor
operations – an effort that took two to three hours every day. They had to extract data
from JD Edwards, key it into Microsoft Excel, analyze it, print it, and distribute it.”
2. “As a lean manufacturing organization we embrace continuous improvement,” continues Hezlep.
“We are always looking to make things better.”
Hezlep led his organization to purchase business intelligence (BI) and performance management
(PM) technology from Information Builders. L.B. Foster’s BI team has created nearly 400 WebFOCUS
reports and applications – from parameterized production schedules to inventory commitment
reports – as well as devised a performance management framework that complements and
extends its balanced scorecard system.
About 100 users throughout the entire organization, from executives to plant and shop floor
managers, can now instantly retrieve information on their own. By empowering users at all levels
to generate their own reports about everything from inventory and accounting, to sales orders,
L.B. Foster has increased productivity company-wide. For example, production floor paperwork
that used to take three hours a day to compile is now automatically generated by WebFOCUS –
providing both the cohesion and the timeliness the company wanted.
Scrutinizing BI Options
Hezlep says the information management issues that motivated them to acquire a BI platform
stemmed from the fact that, “We had always used JD Edwards for financial reporting.” He explains
further that, “ERP systems are good for rapidly processing transactions, but not very good for
getting information out and delivering it to executive management.”
L.B. Foster had similar issues with Lotus Notes. “Notes does a good job of automating a workflow,
but getting data out of it is tricky,” Hezlep adds.
L.B. Foster evaluated BI technology from Information Builders, Cognos, MicroStrategy, and
Andrews Consulting, a firm that offers software and services for JD Edwards environments. “We
asked all four vendors to demonstrate their products and to duplicate some custom JDE reports,
and, ideally enhance them,” Hezlep recalls. “Information Builders really listened to our needs. They
provided a customized demonstration that allowed us to see how their software would work in
our organization. The other vendors just wanted to demonstrate why their products were better.”
The chosen BI software had to be able to directly access Lotus Notes and JD Edwards data without
requiring L.B. Foster to create a data warehouse. “WebFOCUS could get at any data we needed in
its native format,” Hezlep says. “For example, it understands the JD Edwards data dictionary so you
can access ERP data right away.”
Next they looked at Lotus Notes. “We had been warned that accessing Lotus Notes would be
difficult, but we have built our business around this software and we wanted to make sure that
we could leverage those investments,” Hezlep says. “On day one Information Builders loaded its
software and instantly accessed our Notes data. Today we have reports that can access JD Edwards
and Notes simultaneously.”
Hezlep says the other BI tools were data warehouse-centric and cube-centric. “You have to define
everything up front before you can create reports, which is a big job. We’re not a high-tech firm.
We bend steel for a living. So we wanted some assurance that our BI vendor would be there when
we needed them. Information Builders made it clear that they wanted to partner with us.”
“WebFOCUS could get at
any data we needed in its
native format.”
3. Hezlep also evaluated all of the BI tools from a future-proofing standpoint. “What applications
might we acquire in the next three to five years?” he asked himself. “If they run on an SQL Server
database, an Oracle database, or hundreds of others, I know that WebFOCUS can get the data. This
was a big selling point for our executives.”
Another big part of the evaluation involved WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework
(PMF), a turnkey performance management system that complements and extends an already
existing balanced scorecard system. PMF encourages a culture of visibility, accountability, and
enhancement that reinforces L.B. Foster’s lean manufacturing philosophy. It helps managers
set strategies, communicate plans throughout the organization, define metrics, and involve all
stakeholders in monitoring and measurement from an intuitive, browser-based environment.
Extending BI Throughout the Enterprise
L.B. Foster’s first BI project entailed creating enterprise reports for the “three Bs” – daily bookings,
billings, and backlogs. Working with Information Builders Professional Services, the BI team created
parameterized reports with drill-down capabilities, bringing a whole new realm of utility to the
three B reports.
“Our previous reports were fixed, with no parameterization,” Hezlep explains. “You had to
continually make special requests, and if it wasn’t right you had to go back to accounting and
request something different. Information Builders’ concept of self-service, parameterized reports
was revolutionary for us.”
Users gradually adopted the new WebFOCUS reports throughout the company. The turning point
came when Hezlep demonstrated some of the new reports at a national operations meeting. “I
showed people how they could get all this information on their own without requesting a custom
report,” he says. “After that, the floodgates opened.”
The BI team soon found themselves developing parameterized production schedules, AP inquiry
reports, inventory balance reports, inventory commitment reports, cash forecasting reports, credit
analysis reports, sales order reports, and freight cost reports, to name a few.
“We use Information
Builders’ software to
define measurements and
give people goals to strive
for. These products help
ensure that the correct
information is available
when people need it, in a
form that lets them take
action.”
WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework (PMF)
WebFOCUS PMF encourages a culture of visibility, accountability, and enhancement
that reinforces L.B. Foster’s lean manufacturing philosophy. It helps managers set
strategies, communicate plans throughout the organization, define metrics, and
involve all stakeholders in monitoring and measurement from an intuitive, browser-
based environment.