Tag Archives: business metrics

CRM and Business Intelligence Get Smarter with Analytics

Business analytics used to be a very geeky endeavor practiced by hard-core IT people skilled in the arcane arts of data access, data mining, data analysis, and, of course, data warehousing. Those days are largely gone — and so are … Continue reading

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Warehousing: Maximizing Distributor Profitability Part 2

The warehouse is where most distributors make it or lose it. Sales is responsible for the top line, but if the warehouse (including inventory management) does not meet the six critical measures of success, all of the sales in the … Continue reading

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What Does ERP Really Cost?

Part 3 of “What is ERP Really” In part 1 and 2 of this article series, we covered what ERP really means, that ERP is here to stay, and the impact it can have on a business, your company’s performance, … Continue reading

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Warehousing: Maximizing Distributor Profitability

The warehouse is where most distributors make it or lose it. Sales is responsible for the top line, but if the warehouse (including inventory management) does not meet the six critical measures of success, all of the sales in the … Continue reading

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The Road Ahead for Sage Accpac

Earlier this year, Sage shared its vision for your Sage Accpac system and revealed product development plans over the next couple of years.  In this article, we’ll take a peek at the future of Sage Accpac. First, a Bit of … Continue reading

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New Features That Are Simply Dashing

Version 5.5 of Sage Accpac introduced new analytical dashboards in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and for Sales Analysis.  These new dashboards provide a visual snapshot of your company’s financial and operational status.  They are a fantastic tool for enabling managers … Continue reading

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DRIVING REVENUE GROWTH

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software helps businesses drive growth by fully integrating the efforts of sales, marketing, and customer service in order to create a consistent and satisfactory relationship with prospects and customers. CRM increases the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, automates the sales process, and improves the customer support experience. It also provides a concrete set of metrics to help management measure sales and marketing activity against growth targets. Continue reading

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Strengthen Your Sales Efforts with Industry Intelligence

In today’s competitive business environment, the sale usually goes to the company that best demonstrates the ability to understand a prospect’s business issues and how your product offering resolves them. Industry Intelligence allows you to be strategic through every stage … Continue reading

Posted in March 2008, Newsletter | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Understanding Business Intelligence – Part 4

In this article, we will dig in more deeply into the Business Intelligence reporting elements by explaining the basics of multidimensional analysis and the differences with operational reports. As we mentioned in our previous articles, business managers who need to … Continue reading

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Understanding Business Intelligence – Part 2

In our previous article, we explained what Business Intelligence (BI) is and what it can do for your organization.  In this issue, we will address how BI works in the real world (not only in the technology world).  We will … Continue reading

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