Shanmuga pragash - October 16, 2012

Are you looking for ways to consolidate your business’ multiple data sources to make them work more efficiently? Do you want to obtain a competitive advantage by analyzing large amounts of data of various types? Business intelligence consulting firms could be the answer for your needs, helping you uncover various hidden information relationships, as well…

Lily Caroline - September 6, 2012

Pharma-clinical-trial-programs have resisted adopting BI due to its inability to satisfy regulations; including security, audit-trails and communication between companies. While not commonly seen in clinical trials, pharma companies have benefited from utilizing BI. For example, Astra Zeneca uses BI to generate immediate responses to report inquiries, while Roch’s Spain Division uses BI to generate and…

Shanmuga pragash - August 29, 2012

The top reason given for the use of open source business intelligence software is cost savings. The question is whether open source matters when it comes to license and support costs. How real are cost savings? How much does BI software and ongoing support actually cost? The answer is that open source does matter. At the…

Raj Joseph - September 20, 2011

Having Business Intelligence goes beyond just graphs and charts. It can give a company key targets for presenting information that will help speed up the sales process or make crucial business decisions within tight time frames. Ask yourself 1) What do I need to know about my business that I don’t know already? 2) What…

Raj Joseph - September 6, 2011

Open source does not always equal free software. In some cases it is, but you will get what you pay for: just certain components rather than entire suites, or products and suites that lack the functionality required for large enterprise operations. So its important to understand and compare the enterprise suite functionalities that is available…

Lily Caroline - May 6, 2011

Gathering, analyzing, and applying superior competitive intelligence is one of the most critical factors in any successful business operation. Continuous monitoring about your competitors is essential to stay alive in the market place and in reducing response time to competitor moves. However the process of getting access to those data could be challenging, manual, and time…

Lily Caroline - February 16, 2011

Rapid-fire BI is a new approach to providing true business intelligence delivering dramatically better business results. While traditional BI platforms perfected scheduled, parameterized reports, they do not do what they now espouse: provide self-service business intelligence. Below are some of the attributes of Rapid Fire Business Intelligence User-Driven Approach Analytics and reporting are decentralized and…

Lily Caroline - February 9, 2011

As part of a new initiative, we are working on developing real time dashboards using an open source BI engine – Pentaho. Pentaho provide immediate insight into individual, departmental, or enterprise performance. By delivering key metrics in an attractive and intuitive visual interface, Pentaho gives business users the critical information they need to understand and…

Shanmuga pragash - June 9, 2010

Below are the findings based on a research done to determine the views of senior executives at larger healthcare organizations. The healthcare organizations participated in the research were: Denver Health and Hospital Authority Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust Hartford Hospital Nemours Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto University Health Network