2011

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Forget Those Ugly Holiday Sweaters! Give Yourself the Gift of Simple, Sophisticated BI

ElegantJ BI

Forget Those Ugly Holiday Sweaters! Give Yourself the Gift of Simple, Sophisticated BI. I didn’t get the present I wanted for the holidays or for my last birthday? I got gift cards to stores I don’t like and ugly sweaters! YUCK! What I REALLY needed was a better way to manage my business. I didn’t know whether my goals were achievable or if I was making any headway in the market.

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Mobile BI Meets ROI

Domo

Ok. You already know that mobility is kind of a big deal in business intelligence. A recent survey from TechTarget shows that while only 9% of companies currently have a mobile BI solution, that number is projected to grow to 48% in the next year. A little too ambitious? Probably. But you get the idea. What’s not as well known, though, is that an investment in mobile BI also packs a measurable ROI in areas like productivity, engagement and decision-making speed.

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Mentoring Business Analysis Profession | Why Everyone Should Have A Mentor

Business Analyst Mentor

I’ve written the following article for BA Connections, the IIBA newsletter. In this article about mentoring business analysis profession, I’d like to explain why I think mentoring can be so.

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The Inside Scoop on Today’s Business Intelligence: Imagine BI That is Suitable for EVERY End User

ElegantJ BI

The Inside Scoop on Today’s Business Intelligence: Imagine BI That is Suitable for EVERY End User. When it comes to IT evolution, the pace is faster than ever! Business Intelligence (BI) has been around for a while but the recent evolution of these solutions has made it easy to achieve true BI. Your end users can jump into the deep end of the BI pool without drowning in convoluted features and out-of-date reports that do them absolutely no good!

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Why Balanced Scorecards are the BEST!

ElegantJ BI

Why Balanced Scorecards are the BEST! I am part of a task force. We are trying to understand our declining customer profitability (and we’d better do it fast or I will have to update my resume). We are trying to gather the information, but with so many data sources, it’s hard to make sense of things. Even where we are able to compile data, we aren’t sure we really understand the source of the problem.

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I WANT MY OWN BI! How About Your Own Business Intelligence Dashboard!

ElegantJ BI

I WANT MY OWN BI! How About Your Own Business Intelligence Dashboard! I’m special! Your job isn’t like mine! I’m not interested in YOUR data! So say the employees and users in your company. But in the midst of all of this personal power, YOU must integrate and report on every job function, department and division. If you want to get the full picture of results and plan appropriately for success, you have to summarize information from disparate sources AND analyze and make decisions.

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Standalone BI is About as Useful as Rock without Roll – Integration is the Key to Power BI!

ElegantJ BI

Standalone BI is About as Useful as Rock without Roll – Integration is the Key to Power BI! This is the age of information. But, without GREAT info you are guessing at strategy. It is REALLY IMPORTANT that everyone have the information they need to accurately and effectively perform. Business and technology run at light speed. You hire and train resources with the right knowledge to do the job.

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The Buck Stops Here…BI Can Alleviate the Pass the Buck Syndrome. AND Save Bucks at the Same Time!

ElegantJ BI

The Buck Stops Here…BI Can Alleviate the Pass the Buck Syndrome. AND Save Bucks at the Same Time! “All I have to work with are reports that are a month old.” “It’s not my fault. No one told me we were over budget.” “By the time I found out we had missed our quota it was too late to do anything about it.” Excuses, excuses…but they are good ones! If you team doesn’t know what is going on TODAY in their department, division or business unit; if they don’t understand how individual efforts affect th

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Then, I’ll Do it Myself…The Little Red Hen Revisited…Buy vs. Build BI

ElegantJ BI

Then, I’ll Do it Myself…The Little Red Hen Revisited…Buy vs. Build BI. The Buy vs. Build argument is as old as the software industry! It’s no surprise that we hear the same argument when it comes to Business Intelligence. Let’s cut to the chase! The build argument can come from several sources within the company. The in-house IT team is responsible for building and maintaining legacy or custom solutions within the enterprise.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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24 September 2011, Business Intelligence Conference, Hyderabad

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI sponsors a Business Intelligence Conference event as the Gold Partner , organized by Silicon India on 24th September 2011 at Hyderabad from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This conference addresses BI focused aspects like Emerging Trends and Technologies in Business Intelligence Market, Solution Centricity – The Pivot for Successful BI / DW Implementations, Innovative Data Integration – Foundation for Business Intelligence, Interactive Business Analytics for Large Data Volumes, BI Desig

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Need to know Who, What, Where and Why? Ditch the Old Reports and Add Some BI to Your Life!

ElegantJ BI

Need to know Who, What, Where and Why? Ditch the Old Reports and Add Some BI to Your Life! I can’t take it anymore! I am tired of mountains of reports (none of which make any sense), incorrect, out-of-date info, missing data, and incompetent reporting software and ERP and legacy systems that crank out numbers, words and graphs without meaning! I WANT BIZINTEL!

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Small Businesses Can Produce LARGE Results with CPM

ElegantJ BI

Small Businesses Can Produce LARGE Results with CPM. OK, so you’re a small business owner or employee. That doesn’t mean you have to DREAM SMALL! You may want to stay small and nimble or grow to the size of a global behemoth. No one gets to tell you how to set your goals or what you can achieve. BUT, if you are going to achieve your unique brand of success, you need to know what’s happening in your business.

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BI Consulting: Just the Software, Folks, OR Just the Smartest Way to Get to BI?

ElegantJ BI

BI Consulting: Just the Software, Folks, OR Just the Smartest Way to Get to BI? I’m buying the Business Intelligence software. What else do I need to do? If the NAME of the software is Business Intelligence, then all I NEED is the software to get smart, right? Not so fast, Betsy! I want to get the most out of the BI solution. I want to use every inch, every iota of smarts it can offer to improve my business results, catch up to my competition and get my team involve.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Would YOU Go on a Date with a Data Extraction and Data Management Expert?

ElegantJ BI

Would YOU Go on a Date with a Data Extraction and Data Management Expert? What do you get out of your average date? If all you get is a headache, you might want to consider dating a data extraction and management expert. No matter the size of your business or the industry, no matter your role within the business, you definitely have data management issues!

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ElegantJ BI – Business Intelligence Solution to be implemented at a leading business group in Saudi Arabia, engaged in manufacturing, sales, services and distribution

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI was chosen by a leading business group of Saudi Arabia engaged in diversified activities in various areas including production, sales, professional cleaning, wholesale, distribution and trading. The client is the market leader in household consumer products with its own brands as top sellers in the market. It specializes in marketing, wholesale trading and distribution of cleaning materials & tools, hotel guest amenities, plastic products, plastic disposable and hundreds of other

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30 July 2011, Business Intelligence Conference, Bangalore

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI sponsors a Business Intelligence Conference event as the Silver Partner , organized. by Silicon India on 30th July 2011 at Bangalore from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This BI conference will be focusing on Business Intelligence aspects with two tracks – Track I is Technical and Track II is Customer Business Value. The Technical Track covers BI focused aspects like BI Design and Implementation Challenges, Solution Centricity – The Pivot for Successful BI / DW Implementations, Integrating Se

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Hire a Mind Reader to Get Ahead of the Competition OR Get with the Business Intelligence Program

ElegantJ BI

Hire a Mind Reader to Get Ahead of the Competition OR Get with the Business Intelligence Program. In my not-so-humble opinion, the competition is a royal pain. Just when I think I have an edge, my competitors jump in front of me. What I really need is THE secret weapon. That one advantage that lets me look behind me and understand why and how my business is working and what isn’t working (yes, even I make mistakes).

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Elegant MicroWeb to implement ElegantJ BI – Business Intelligence Solution for Plastic Valves Manufacturing Company based in India

ElegantJ BI

Elegant MicroWeb to implement its Business Intelligence Solution – ElegantJ BI for a plastic valve manufacturer in India. ElegantJ BI was chosen on the basis of its SIMPLE , PRACTICAL & AFFORDABLE approach and powerful yet easy integration with their ERP system. The organization manufactures and offers wide range of plastic valves – gate valves, air Valves, etc.

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ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence Suite Version 2.5 released and available for evaluation

ElegantJ BI

Elegant MicroWeb announces release of ElegantJ BI Version 2.5 with new generation dashboards, more powerful analytics and improved usability. ElegantJ BI V 2.5 includes one of the most flexible and intuitive dashboard environment that provides free flow design to users, intuitive filter & selection controls and ready to use templates. It also contains numerous new features to enhance usability, simplicity and user adoption.

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ElegantJ BI in the spotlight by Bloor Research

ElegantJ BI

Leading European Independent IT Research and Analysis Company Bloor Research has featured ElegantJ BI as an Ideal Business Intelligence Solution for a UK based client. As well as incorporating a breadth of analysis and reporting functions this is a real world case study from a National House Builder who utilised ElegantJ BI to extract information by geographical and post code area, which is a far more affordable option when compared to Spatial data solution providers in the market place.

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Elegant MicroWeb to implement ElegantJ BI – Business Intelligence Solution for leading Telecom company based in Saudi Arabia

ElegantJ BI

Elegant MicroWeb bags a prestigious project to implement its ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence Solution for a Saudi Arabia based leading Telecom Services provider Company. ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence & Corporate Performance Management (Balanced Scorecard) suite would help the client consolidate information across operations in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and help manage core strategies and improve performance.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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16 April 2011, Business Intelligence Conference, Mumbai

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI sponsors a Business Intelligence Conference event as the Gold partner , organized by Silicon India on 16th April 2011 at Mumbai from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This conference addresses BI focused aspects like Emerging Trends and Technologies, BI design and implementation challenges, Building Interactive Dashboards, Integrating Search and Business Intelligence , Design approaches for real time BI, Building a BI Solution Leveraging Analytical Reporting, Business Intelligence for the Mobil

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Less is More … or Is it?

Domo

In a recent customer survey we asked how many unique key performance indicators (KPIs) they use in their company. We had choices from under 10 KPIs to over 1,000 KPIs. This chart shows the results of the survey. A common reason given for having less than 10 KPIs is “we limit the number of KPIs so we can focus”. This has been considered a best practice but is it still?

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Corda Has Been Acquired!

Domo

Today is an exciting day. With today’s news announcement, it’s game on. We officially begin the crusade to fix the fundamental problems in today’s business intelligence market. So why this space? At Omniture, I saw what customers received about web analytics. We were providing real-time web data to thousands of companies and helping them DO something with it; make money from it.

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It’s About the Money, Honey

Domo

How do you make the enterprise more intelligent? That question was posed to Josh James, Domo founder and CEO, and Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of Splunk, at the Dow Jones VentureWire FASTech Conference in Redwood City, California. The question is not a new one, so why does there seem to be extra attention being paid to the topic these days? Two obvious reasons: Big Data and Cloud Computing.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.