How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?
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Finding 1
The BI Learning Curve Has Just Begun
Business intelligence use grows considerably as companies gain experience with this technology. Nearly 90 percent of our respondents use BI, and most others will probably start doing so in the next two years. Still, there are relatively few BI […]

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Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he switched to an on-demand business intelligence reporting application, and he remembers the frustration all too easily.

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Companies want more actionable data, and they want more users to have it. But extending the use of business intelligence throughout the organization remains a challenge. One reason: Lack of BI and IT skill sets continue to plague companies interested in taking BI to the next level, …… read more at http://www.infopurple.com/four-tips-for-better-business-intelligence-in-2008

The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary
I have collected and compiled this from a very nice website.Some of the terms are relating to Microsoft’s tool (Microsoft’s Analysis Services ) but that can be generalised to other non-microsoft tools also.
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Agent
An application that searches the data and sends an alert when a particular pattern is found.
 
Aggregations
Information […]

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Is Data Warehousing Essential to Business Intelligence?
The role of data warehousing is changing as companies move toward using new business intelligence approaches.
Over the last few issues of this newsletter, I have been writing about the impact of Enterprise 2.0 approaches on business intelligence (BI). I intended this time to write about how business intelligence […]

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What is the Difference Between Querying and Browsing Data?
Search is beginning to gain interest in the business intelligence (BI) space, and several people have begun asking about the difference between querying data (using a traditional database query language) and browsing data using a search tool, and which approach to use when. This blog entry is […]

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A new technology can analyze data at amazing speeds. So why is higher ed slow to adopt?

Listen to higher ed futurists and you’ll be convinced that business intelligence is the wave of the future. It is the next “it” thing that will connect every part of the enterprise. Best yet, BI will link all data, allowing disparate software programs, provided by numerous and sometimes-competing vendors, to “talk” to each other.

Admissions files will connect to financial aid information will connect to student services files will connect to academic records, and so on. The end result will be data that can actually predict what that ….REAd MOre >>

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Top 5 Ways To Increase BI Value
What are the most effective ways to increase the value your company gets from its business intelligence systems?
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1)Better align our business intelligence systems with our business strategy [50% ]
2)Improve data quality [47% ]
3)Better integrate our business intelligence systems with other systems such as CRM or ERP [41% ]
4)Better understand […] read more >>>

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Database Normalization and Table structures
Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database.
There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as
1NF (First Normal Form),
2NF (Second Normal Form),
3NF (Third Normal Form) and
BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form).
There are others but they are […]

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Interview Questions - Oracle AR (Functional)
Accounts Receivables Interview Questions AND aSWERS

some of the questions and answers listed here might repeat .from
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1. How do you create a Chargeback Invoice ?
A. Using Receipts window
2. How do you adjust the amount of advance already received against an Invoice ?A. Create an Invoice for Deposit and receive an […]

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Here is an interesting thought and let me know if it chimes well with you.

I believe the following idea if implemented could give a significant advantage and boost your marketability.

Now, everybody has a resume or a CV, well ofcourse,this is the first step you execute when you step out of college.

All of us store our resume in a more or less standard Doc format, so how about having an online version of your resume?

Sounds interesting?

This online version would be just a single web page having your resume content. You can either put a summary of your resume or complete details if you like.

So what will a single page resume serve for?

When I suggest someone to start their own blog, I see lot of enthusiasm but no follow through. Few of the main reasons cited is “Don’t know what to write about” or simply “Have no time” or “Is it worth investing the time?”

Creating a single page blog is just the beginning and helps in breaking the inertia. Once you create your resume blog, the web-url becomes your signature URL and you can put this URL back on your resume or when you update your CV on job sites like Monster or Dice.

Appsbi.com started as a professional journal and it has become modestly huge than I orginally thought of. But it did not happen overnight. No big success happens overnight unless you have a Genie in a bottle. But interestingly all successes appeart to be an overnight success, isn’t it?

Start small, take the first step and do it now

Appsbi.com has tremendously helped me for my consulting career and is now helping as a marketing engine for InfoCaptor

Similarly, I believe that creating your own blog will help you in one way or the other, if not today then sometime in future.

The blog that you will create will act as one of the building block in your career.

Now let us attack the negatives or the holding back thoughts

“Don’t know what to write about”

Just make it your online professional journal. Start by putting up your resume online and slowly add more pages. Don’t feel pressurised to add more contents. Just add what comes naturally to you. Don’t worry about things like “is it worth posting”. Even if you have a small piece of code or found a new technique, just post it.

You should keep personal stuff out and stick with work related things. Better have a seperate personal blog.

“Have no time”

It would take 5 minutes to create a blog and add your resume to it. Then add a weekly recap of your work related things to it. This would take another 15 minutes. If weekly is too much then stick with bi-weekly or monthly. Is the initial 5 minutes and 15 minutes / week or /month asking too much?

“Is it worth investing the time?”

Do you call 15 minutes/month investment of time? You will eventually know if it is worth the time if you stick to it.

So where do you begin?

Create a blogger account http://www.blogger.com , pick appropriate blog name and add your first post right now within 5 minutes.

Blogger is a free service by Google.

Another free service similar to blogger is to create an account at http://wordpress.com/

Let me know if this is a good idea and if you really followed through send me your blog url by commenting to this post.