KPIs and Business Intelligence: What and Why to Measure

KPIs and Business Intelligence

‘Key Performance Indicators’ or KPIs as we say, are very important to the enterprise and nearly every company is talking about them, these days. But, there are still a lot of businesses that don’t know how to define the right KPIs to get a good picture of success. To really understand where you are succeeding and where you are falling short, you have to measure the right things. For example, if your goal is to increase sales in the Minneapolis store by 5% in the year 2015, you couldn’t determine success by establishing a KPI to measure the number of shopping bags you have on hand in the store.

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“Design Once, Use Anywhere”: Mobile BI and Great Ux Deliver an Unbeatable Solution!

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The business intelligence (BI) solutions of today are far more flexible than the BI tools of old. One of the reasons for this improved flexibility is that vendors are responding to user demands for more responsive, personalized solutions and to business requirements to invest once and leverage a solution for the long-term. In order to meet these requirements and needs, vendors must get smarter about design and build a foundation that is flexible enough to accommodate new, unanticipated user needs.

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White Paper: Business Intelligence vs. Spreadsheets

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No matter how carefully a user prepares a spreadsheet, every spreadsheet lacks integrity, traceability, integration of data, consistency, security and tree data analysis capability for planning, decision-making. Every business needs affordable, easy-to-use BI tools to make accurate, confident decisions and ensure business results.
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HELP! Users Want Self-Serve BI, IT Wants Data Governance

Self-Serve BI

Do self-serve BI tools support data governance, integral data security and organizational IT standards and policies? In some cases, the answer is ‘no’. But, that shouldn’t stop you from looking at self-serve BI tools. The question isn’t whether the integrity of data governance can be preserved when using self-serve BI tools. The question is really, ‘which vendor should I select in order to achieve true self-serve BI and data democracy without eroding data governance and security?’

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Case Study: Toll Plaza Mgt Co. Selects ElegantJ BI to Provide Centralized, Timely Data and BI Tools

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An India-based Highway Toll Plaza Management Co. selected ElegantJ BI to help them create a central data warehouse system with validated, timely data from all toll plazas and provide uniform multidimensional BI information architecture. ElegantJ BI helped the organization consolidate data validate and improve data quality and design a central data warehouse to leverage dashboards, KPIs, analytical features and reporting functionality with ready-to-use toll plaza management templates that helped the client to implement the solution swiftly.

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CeBIT India, October, 2015: ElegantJ BI Reveals the Future of BI Tools

CeBIT India, October, 2015

ElegantJ BI is proud to announce its participation in the world-renowned CeBIT conference in Bengaluru, India, October 29-31, 2015.

Elegant MicroWeb CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We look forward to greeting potential partners and customers at CeBIT, for the second year, and to sharing our vision of innovative Business Intelligence.”

ElegantJ BI brings a new perspective to BI tools, and predictive solutions, with a ‘Design Once, Use Anywhere’ UI engine, and Real Time and Cached Cube options to satisfy varied use cases.

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Case Study – Auto Dealer Uses ElegantJ BI to Integrate Tally® and Dealer Management System

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ElegantJ BI worked with a renowned automobile dealer in India to improve its reporting and analysis process for daily operations, financial activities, sales, after sales, service and administrative activities.The company wanted an easy-to-use business intelligence tool to gather and analyze information from a Tally® ERP solution and a dealer management system to improve confidence and timeliness of decisions.

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Case Study: Construction, Infrastructure Co. Achieves Integration & High Performance with ElegantJ BI

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A Construction and Infrastructure Company in Saudi Arabia engaged ElegantJ BI to help them simplify a complex ERP structure of transaction and operational data including HR, Finance, Accounting, Purchasing, and Subcontracting data. ElegantJ BI provided a short implementation and training cycle and a 100% browser-based solution suitable for all users, across all locations and departments, and comprehensive technical and end-user training.

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Don’t Rob Your Users: Give Them Good Old-Fashioned Ad-Hoc Analytics

Don't Rob Your Users: Give Them Good Old-Fashioned Ad-Hoc Analytics

Today’s business managers and owners are savvy enough to know that self-serve business intelligence is the way to go. Business users need data visualization, monitoring and analysis if they are going to help the organization to achieve the best results and compete in the market. You want to provide true data democracy in your organization and since most BI tools vendors are pitching the benefits of self-serve BI, one might assume that real self-serve BI tools are available from every vendor, but nothing could be further from the truth (so, buyer beware!)

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Commercial Open Source vs. Proprietary Business Intelligence

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Open source BI solutions offer some advantages but there is a long way to go to resolve issues that prevent market adoption. Some open source products are free to use, but vendor support is not free. Other open source BI tools are free for the community edition, but not for the enterprise. Businesses need swift implementation and roll-out, and timely support and should look at Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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