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 services. Below are some of the attributes of Rapid Fire Business Intelligence   User-Driven Approach Analytics and reporting are…

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…

Lily Caroline - June 6, 2010

According to Gartner’s annual survey of CIO technology priorities, BI remained among the top five priorities in 2009 (and it was No. 1 in each of the previous four years). That said, however, the recession, commoditization and consolidation are expected to reduce BI platform growth from more than 20% in 2008 to single digits in…