Everyday BI: 3 Steps to Insight

Everyday BI users rely on technology solutions that can deliver insight-driven and action-ready information. This is important for businesses because better-informed consumers tend to make better-informed decisions. And they tend to be more loyal because they recognize the improvements that these solutions can make in their daily lives.

How have you seen these three steps to insight unfold in your everyday BI experiences?

Mobile BI Design Framework: The Art of Performance

In mobile business intelligence (BI) design, performance is one of the most critical elements of the mobile BI success formula. High quality content, reliable data, andmobile purpose are a must. However, none of that matters if the performance is poor—mobile users tend to be less patient about performance. Think about it for a moment. Unlike a PC users who may be chained to a desk, mobile BI users typically access mobile BI assets on the go and with less time to spare.

Cloud Encounters of the Fifth Kind

While it has been a couple of years since we passed the point where more than half of all Web traffic became non-human, mostly search engines, bots and spam, when it comes to the internet as a whole, video and media / gaming still holds sway at 50%+ of the transmitted bits.

Accounting for Point of Sale

There are a lot of solutions available to help retail businesses get business done. From touch screen technology to mobile credit card and payment processing, retailers have many choices when it comes to selecting the right technology for the business. But even the best point of sale system can lack the critical element that makes…

7 Steps to De-risk your BPMS Selection Journey

Over the last few years, there has been resurgence in the interest in BPM as the preferred platform for automating and managing the critical business processes within the organization. However, the programs that do choose to implement a BPMS enabled solution are usually attacking the high-visibility and critical aspects of the business such as Call Centre Management or Claims Management. In my opinion, this is more prone to a big-bang disaster than other approaches to BPM adoption. I believe the simpler (and less risky) approach is to select a much smaller, but human effort intensive, business scenario and prove the capabilities and benefits before launching a full-blown enterprise wide program.

External Data: Radar For Your Business

How much of your business performance (profit) is driven by external factors versus internal? A figure of 85% compared to 15% was mentioned at last month’s Manufacturing Analytics Summit, and although I could not find the study mentioned to confirm, it feels about right to me. Certainly more than half, right? So, how much of yourdashboard reporting and KPI metrics incorporate external data?

The Rise of Financial Analytics in Enterprise Strategy

With the rise of analytics, in many organizations Finance is expanding its role, providing increasing value in other functional areas and looking for ways to deliver greater value as a business function. Nowadays Finance has become the enabler of analytics and decision support. The reasons are simple: as the economy evolves, Finance data is rapidly being deployed outside its traditional scope. Finance also has an ability to apply analytics above and beyond traditional delivery channels.