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In today’s competitive business landscape, the pace of business decision continues to increase. All too often, business data is difficult to get at and use, slowing business management decisions to a crawl. Business Intelligence (BI) helps organizations make better, faster decisions about customers, partners, and operations by turning large volumes of data into valuable business insight.

Data and Decisions – How to Use One to Feed the Other

Are you suffering from information overload, or do you have all the information and don’t know how to make sense of it all? In the small and medium marketplace, executives and business-owners need to have the tools to filter key … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), June 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

Understanding the Role of Analytics, Dashboards, Business Intelligence and Alerts

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), on its own, is an excellent way to keep track of data and record business transactions. Companies can save a great deal of time by automating all informational processes and storing them in the easily accessible … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), June 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

Business Intelligence, Big Investment?

As a consulting firm who works with small and medium-sized companies (SMBs), we have been reviewing how our clients and prospects would view this ‘Brave New World’ of Business Intelligence. Would they truly consider it a way of gaining a … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence Can Unlock the Secrets of your Organizational DNA

For decades, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has provided organizations with essential integration of information between business functions, allowing for a single repository of data from a variety of applications. ERP serves as the circulatory system for your organization, keeping … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), May 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

Social Media Becoming a Top Trend for Business Intelligence

The explosion of social media is causing businesses to rethink how they capture and analyze social information for business intelligence purposes. What started just a decade ago with a few novel websites such as Classmates.com has evolved into a fully … Continue reading

Posted in April 2012, Business Intelligence (BI), Newsletter | Leave a comment

Using Business Intelligence to Improve Business Processes

If you do not have a transparent view of your functional teams and how they are performing against key functional metrics, how do you know where to start making business process improvements? Your starting point to attack this priority is … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), March 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

How to get Business Intelligence into the Hands that Need It

Also, don’t miss our FREE BI Webinar – see below for details! The Empowered Executive Mark, President of a Corporate Services company, arrives early on Monday morning, as he knows he needs to get a head start on the week … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), February 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

Business Intelligence and ERP – A Match Made in Heaven?

Recently we have seen an evolution in business software.  Functions are consolidating and sharing data to make software even easier, and duplicate data entry a thing of the past.  Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Resource Planning software (ERP) are a … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), January 2012, Newsletter | Leave a comment

How to Discover your Perfect Customer

Market Segmentation is an age old marketing practice that helps a business determine exactly who buys their product and how they go about doing it.  Behavioral, demographic, psychographic and geographic data is captured and analyzed to learn every aspect of … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), December 2011, Newsletter | Tagged | Leave a comment

Making Magic from Business Intelligence Data

CFOs suspect there’s value lurking in the ever-increasing amounts of information their businesses are collecting. But acquiring new technologies to make sense of it all is only a starting point. According to a recent report, enterprise data is expected to … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Newsletter, October 2011 | Tagged , | Leave a comment