Tag Archives: Key performance indicators (KPI)

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

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relations Management (CRM), Newsletter, November 2010 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Insights on Insights

Axis principles attended Sage’s annual partner conference, Insights, in May.  In an article posted on WebCPA, Manny Buigas, CPA and principal at Axis Global Partners, was quoted as being “encouraged by Sage’s renewed commitment to CPAs, and to the channel … Continue reading

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Insights on Insights

Axis principles attended Sage’s annual partner conference, Insights, in May.  In an article posted on WebCPA, Manny Buigas, CPA and principal at Axis Global Partners, was quoted as being “encouraged by Sage’s renewed commitment to CPAs, and to the channel … 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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Increase revenues, gross profit and lower selling costs through CRM Analytics

In small and medium sized business, economic events are captured, recorded, and reported from their ERP systems and financial statements are generated monthly for management to discuss.  The income statement is analyzed and compared to a previous period, variances are … 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

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

Understanding Business Intelligence – Part 3

In this article, we will go over the main elements you will need to have in place in order to establish a Business Intelligence (BI) attitude in your organization. The main elements are technology, people and organization culture. Technology No … Continue reading

Posted in Newsletter, October 2007 | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in August 2007, Newsletter | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Understanding Business Intelligence

In today’s fast-paced market, those companies that can create competitive advantages and superior strategies will leave their slower competitors behind. Even though today’s technologies allow organizations to create and access massive volumes of data, management normally struggles with what the … Continue reading

Posted in July 2007, Newsletter | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Measuring CRM’s Bottom Line Impact – Part 1 By Dr. Nancy Rauseo

Sometimes the most challenging part of implementing CRM is selling it internally to your company’s management and to the employees that will end up living and breathing CRM. Regardless of a company’s size, you will likely need to quantify the … Continue reading

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