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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION
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“We were a very different university about one year ago,� says Keith Werosh, registrar at the National University of Health Sciences (Ill.). He is referring to the operation pre-BI. NUHS installed BI from Business Objects a year ago. “Prior to having this system, we were departmentalized. Information was kept […]
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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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Business Intelligence and On-Demand: The Perfect Marriage?
Both established vendors and upstarts now offer BI applications as on-demand services. And more customers are saying yes to faster deployment times, less onerous IT demands and speedier access to reporting data.
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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Four Tips for Better Business Intelligence in 2008
Avalanches of data and the need for better decisions mean it’s time to take BI to the next level. Aberdeen offers ways to make achieving that next level easier.
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
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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.
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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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Business Intelligence
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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