How Can a Business Accurately Plan for the Future of Business Intelligence When Needs Change Every Day?

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It used to be that a corporation or enterprise could dictate software and technology solutions and expect users and team members to fall in line. Whether the solution was user-friendly or supportive of an end-user’s role, the employee had no say in adopting and embracing the software and using it for everyday business analysis.

Today, users play a very important role in informing the direction technology will take within an organization. Their lives as consumers teach them to expect performance, mobility, ease-of-use and interaction, and they expect no less from a business application. When it comes to Business Intelligence Reporting, the scenario is the same. If an organization wishes to cascade strategy and hold employees accountable for results, they must provide sophisticated tools that are easy to use and can provide early warning systems so that users can identify trends, patterns and issues and stay ahead of the competition.

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Select the Right Solution & IT Partner for eCommerce to Target, Acquire & Retain Customers

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If your business is about to create, migrate or upgrade an eCommerce site, online store or shopping cart, it is critical to select the right solution – one that will satisfy all of your customer needs with elegant, sophisticated features and functionality. But, unless your business is expert in eCommerce software, it would be wise to employ the services of an IT eCommerce expert. A service provider with skill, knowledge and experience in the eCommerce domain and market and a comprehensive understanding of all available frameworks and solutions is worth their weight in gold!Selecting the right eCommerce design and development expert will help your business to achieve its goals and positively affect the bottom line. There are numerous benefits to a well-executed eCommerce strategy.

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Three Reasons to Explore Social Media Marketing Using Business Intelligence

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Today, the reach of social media is worldwide and crosses all generations. Every business analyst agrees that an enterprise has to include social media and internet marketing in its strategy, but the experts are still arguing over the possibility of measuring the success of marketing and sales strategies. Every enterprise understands the need to measure and manage results, and therefore some businesses are hesitant to dive into the deep end of the social media pool. Knowing they must justify and monitor investments with hard numbers, business managers may find it difficult to create an appropriate internet marketing campaign and predict results.With the right BI tool, any business can engage in social media marketing, identify the right sites to advertise and craft the right message to attract and retain customers in social media and social networking environs. Here are three (of many) reasons to use of Business Intelligence Tools to analyze opportunities and design the perfect internet marketing campaign:

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How Can a Business Intelligence Tool Engender Employee Collaboration? It’s Easier Than You Think!

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Many businesses look at Business Intelligence (BI) as a standalone solution that provides information to help the company better its business results. But, business intelligence serves another very important purpose. Take a step back and look at BI in a different way and you will find that a business intelligence solution can encourage and improve collaboration among team members and employees. Employee collaboration is key to enterprise success, because it ensures that team members are working together, with a common body of information, to make the best decisions for the business and to ensure success at every level of the organization.To use business intelligence tools in a collaborative way, the enterprise must select a BI and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution that is sophisticated, yet easy enough for every user and, most importantly, can be easily customized to satisfy the needs of every executive, manager, and without the need for analysts or IT professionals. When you introduce this kind of power and make it available to every employee, the business can empower team members to contribute to the bottom line and easily understand how their function and role fits into overall strategy and operational goals. Business intelligence tools can be used at the tactical, operational and strategic level to build a cohesive view of data, identify problems, forecast results and objectively measure goals, objectives and strategies.

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Responsive Web Design? Adaptive Web Design? If You Find It Hard To Decide, Don’t Despair!

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There has been a lot of discussion about Responsive Web Design (RWD) and Adaptive Web Design (AWD) in the trade press and among enterprise IT teams looking to convert web sites and apps to user-friendly, flexible mobile displays. One of the main issues facing the enterprise is to decide between RWD and AWD. Once this decision is made, it is difficult and expensive to turn back. This article focuses on some of the differences and benefits of each of the techniques.Responsive Web Design: True responsive design is fluid, and uses CSS3 media queries to respond to any screen sizes. With CSS3, you can create a flexible grid where text can wrap and images can shrink and adjust along with your browser.

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Web Service, C# or .NET PDF Printing Nightmares? Wake Up and Discover a Simple Fix!

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No matter how skilled or tech savvy a corporate user is, there are times when a problem or challenge stops them in their tracks, and when you are working against a deadline, there is nothing more frustrating than this kind of delay. This article outlines one such issue related to printing multiple copies of a PDF file through a Web Service.Using Acrobat Reader: Version 6 of Adobe Reader supported command line printing, but that support was removed in later versions. It can still launch the application using System.Diagnostics.Process class and supplying the “PrintTo” verb, but there is an issue with the 32-bit and 64-bit version and there may be a few conflicts on different machines and operating systems (Win 7, Win 8, Win XP / 32-bit, 64-bit). It would seem that the Acrobat Reader fails because of several related issues.

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Don’t Frustrate Your Audience: Present Concise, Actionable Data with Intuitive BI Reporting Tools

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Every business professional has had the experience of sitting in a meeting and listening to presentation that is dry, and lacks impact. Unfortunately, some of these presentations contain critical information that can support important business decisions. But, the impact of the information is lost in the detail of slides, numbers and statistics.When a business person is asked to make a decision, it is sometimes difficult to sift through all the data and see the patterns, trends and important opportunities hidden in the detail. We would like to think that our team members are capable of selecting the right data and presenting it in an intuitive manner but that is not always the case. Furthermore, even the best, most analytical team member can sometimes miss patterns or fall into the rut of presenting data in the same old way!

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A Match Made in Heaven – AND it’s FREE! Volusion and FaceBook Stores

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If you are a Volusion customer, and you are currently using the Volusion solution for your eCommerce store or online shopping cart, you will be pleased to know that you can use the solution to create a FaceBook store wherein you can sell your products and services. Volusion customers will be pleased to know that there is no additional licensing fee or charge for this product extension. Combining eCommerce with social media, internet marketing and social media marketing is a crucial part of online sales today and this integration enables up selling and cross-channel marketing campaigns. If your business has a license for the Volusion eCommerce solution, it is worth your while to explore the opportunities provided by the FaceBook store extension. Your Volusion developers can leverage the solution to design and create a professional store with numerous selling and marketing features, and you will not incur any additional software licensing fees.

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Mobile Application Development Cannot Wait

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A new global survey from CIO Strategic Marketing Services and Triangle Publishing Services, sponsored by Oracle- “The Connected Enterprise: Keeping Pace with Mobile Development– reveals that not only are enterprises committed to mobility today, but the rate of development, deployment and spending for support of mobile apps and devices is expected to increase dramatically over the next few years”.

If your business needs to ‘get mobile’, you have to jump into the game now. In order to remain competitive with others in your market and to satisfy your customers and team members, it is imperative that your apps be mobile, intuitive and accessible on all types of devices.

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