Tag: Business Intelligence

Visual Analytic Monitors. Deep Dive Discovers!

by Kartik Patel |

July 14, 2015

Deep Dive Analysis

There is lot of noise about Visualization of data in BI space these days. Simple charts, complex charts (few of them can not be digested by many business users 🙂 ), tons of properties and configurations and much more….

Yes, a great work has been done in these area by most of the vendors in the BI marketplace today, and all decision makers are enthusiastic about this, and that enthusiasm is reflected in the growth of this BI visualization tools market.

So, one gets enthusiastic about it, becomes internal advocate for visualization in the organisation and the whole process of exploring visualization for business benefits starts…. But before you get to the next level, some pointers here…

ElegantJ BI is the flagship product of Elegant MicroWeb, a software product and application development company, located in Ahmedabad, India and specializing in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance software.

Starting Point is the Data Influx

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Tags Business Intelligence

Understand the Value of Balanced Scorecards

by Shambhavi Vyas |

July 3, 2015

balanced-scorecard

You believe in your organization! If you didn’t, you would not be in business. But, belief is not enough! To successfully operate your business, you must develop a workable strategy, and monitor and adjust that strategy, to achieve optimum results in an ever-changing market. Imagine a world in which every employee, line manager, business unit manager and executive could easily and quickly find and monitor information and make the appropriate recommendations and adjustments to keep the company on track. In such a world, your team could truly function as a cohesive, unified group – with everyone working toward clear, concise goals that are oriented for results and easy to measure.

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Tags Business Intelligence

ElegantJ BI Launches MDX Connector for Microsoft® MS-SSAS Users to Support Simplified Business Intelligence

by Elegant MicroWeb |

June 30, 2015

ElegantJ BI is pleased to announce the launch of its MDX connector, designed to support data access and integration with third party MDX XML/A providers like Microsoft® SQL Server Analysis services (MS SSAS), SAP® BW, Palo, and Pentaho. The ElegantJ BI MDX connector utilizes industry standard XML for Analysis (XMLA) to ensure interoperability with these BI platforms.

Elegant MicroWeb CEO, Kartik Patel says, “Our ElegantJ BI proprietary MOLAP-based cube engine provides high performance analytics supported by unique Managed Memory Computing, and now with this MDX connector launch, users will have the option of connecting with other BI platforms to take full advantage of their investments in these BI tools and products from other vendors.”

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Imagine the Possibilities! BI Tools Take You to the Top!

by Arbuda Dave |

June 26, 2015

There is no doubt that business intelligence is making businesses (and their employees) smarter, faster and better at everything from competing in the market to satisfying their customers, optimizing resources and creating new products and services. The popularity of BI Tools is undeniable and, as you might expect, recent studies and research validates the growth of the market, and the ways in which businesses leverage business intelligence to achieve, improve and sustain success.Here are some thought-provoking facts that will give you a better idea of how businesses are using BI tools to succeed:

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Leverage Tally ERP and Other Enterprise Apps with Integrated Analytical BI Tools

by Elegant MicroWeb |

June 19, 2015

The Tally® ERP accounting solutions is one of the most popular accounting software solutions for small and medium sized businesses, helping businesses around the world to manage accounting and inventory records and produce simple reports.

If your business uses Tally, and you want to leverage the data within the system for analytical purposes, it is time to consider, business intelligence software that provides an integrated approach, so Tally users can utilize all the sophisticated analytical capabilities of a BI solution, and perform sales, financial and other analytics, in an affordable, easy-to-integrate and easy-to-implement BI environment.

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Gartner Business Intelligence Summit – My Take

by Kartik Patel |

June 19, 2015

gartner-BI-summit

I attended the Gartner Business Intelligence, Analytics and Information Management Summit, 2015, held in India on June 9 and 10 in Mumbai.This was my first visit to the Gartner Summit, and I came back with some great insights, thoughts and – most of all – a real validation of the direction we are taking with our ElegantJ BI business intelligence and corporate performance management suite and current and future benefits our solutions provide for our customers and partners.

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Handcuffing Users with Packaged BI Dashboards?

by Kartik Patel |

June 16, 2015

Business intelligence solutions have come a long way in the past five years with continued innovation and transformation from traditional BI to data visualization and data discovery. With the advent of improved BI tools and accessibility, many businesses are using precious IT budgets to add self-serve business intelligence to their solution infrastructure and put the power of self-serve BI tools into the hands of their employees and business users.

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Tags BI Dashboard, Business Intelligence

BI Tools Can Help Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Warehousing and Related Industries

by Shambhavi Vyas |

June 1, 2015

Business intelligence tools are applicable and valuable for every type and size business, and every vertical. When a manufacturing or supply chain company considers BI tools, they often fail to realize the true value of the data analysis and information they can glean and the improved business decisions, course corrections and customer, supplier, and partner satisfaction they can achieve.When an organization manufactures a product, it spends time, and resources to get that product out the door. In order to make money, the business must complete the process – get the product out the door, into the supply chain and into the hands of its customers, and other stakeholders. Perhaps that product will be combined with another product to produce an end result that is purchased by a customer. Perhaps, the product will fill the shelves of a retailer, or be used in a service industry, like auto mechanics.

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Tags Business Intelligence, Key Performance Indicators

Widgets Plus: KPIs that Make the Business Thrive!

by Shambhavi Vyas |

May 22, 2015

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are de rigueur these days, and that is a good thing for business. After all, it is hard to accurately plan for success when you are guessing at every turn. While small and large businesses alike are establishing KPIs, there is one thing that is not so de rigueur and that is establishing KPIs that are appropriate, objective, measurable and actionable! Yet, without those important considerations, KPIs aren’t worth the paper they are printed on – or the computer screen they are displayed on!

Appropriate Metrics: Let’s say that you own a company called, ‘Widgets Plus’ and that company manufactures (what else?) widgets. Among the factors that will affect business success: the quality and dependability of the widgets, competitive pricing of the widgets, supplying the right variety of widget sizes, and the timely supply of widgets to your customers. In order to establish appropriate metrics, the management team must focus on the key components of success rather than measuring the number of pens the staff used in the month of August or the average shipping costs for technical manuals. Of course, Widgets Plus cares about its expenses and it is in their best interests to control those expenses, but key metrics must focus on the things that are critical to business success, sales, corporate reputation, competitive positioning and product or service sales.

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Tags Business Intelligence, Key Performance Indicators

Don’t Drop Tally Solutions: SME Sales Teams Can Use BI to Integrate and Analyze Data and Leap Ahead

by Arbuda Dave |

May 19, 2015

Tally ERP is a popular software solution for small and medium sized (SME) organizations. As these businesses grow, the critical information contained within the Tally solution and other best-of-breed or ERP systems may decrease in value because of the restricted ‘silo’ environment in which that data resides. During the critical period of business expansion, it is more important than ever to have integrated, concise information with which to make product and service decisions, pricing and financial decisions and customer targeting decisions. For the sales manager who has been assigned the task to increase sales and to improve customer outreach, the data within a CRM and/or the Tally Solutions system is critical to success. As an organization grows from small to medium and from medium to large the management team must find a way to address more complex reporting and analysis needs using existing data, and the sales management team and sales professionals must depend on this information to drive performance.

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