2011

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

Elegant 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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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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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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

Elegant 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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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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Where Am I and How Did I Get Here? Never Fear, You Can Create a Performance Driven Enterprise!

Elegant BI

Where Am I and How Did I Get Here? Never Fear, You Can Create a Performance Driven Enterprise! You want to grow your business and win new customers. You want your competitors to stop nipping at your heels. Your boss says to fix it but in order to do that, you have to get a handle on exactly what is happening inside your company. You set objectives but you never really know where you are day-to-day or even if everyone is measuring progress in the same way.

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Get Off of My Cloud…?

Domo

What’s your take on the cloud? For me, clouds have been infinitely cool ever since Cloud City Administrator Lando Calrissian decided to doublecross Vader in order to save his old friend. (“There’s still a chance to save Han! At the east [various choking noises] platform!”) It’s just a bonus that the cloud is also a revolutionary delivery model for software solutions.

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

Elegant 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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Gain a Competitive Edge With This Scenario Planning Toolkit

In a world where uncertainty and change are constant, scenario planning empowers companies with the agility and competitive edge needed to thrive. Download the toolkit to fortify your business strategy , set up your competitive positioning , and ensure your company is poised to respond to any future scenario.

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

Elegant 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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Changing Our Reality – Facebook’s Timeline

Domo

I do not like this new facebook. I do not like it on a train. I do not like it in the rain. I do not like this brand new feed. I do not like it, nosiree. –Sara Many of us like my friend Sara woke up one morning to find the Facebook layout had completely changed. The outrage on my newsfeed continued throughout the day as users sought to find the information that used to be so easily accessible to them and tried to sort through the news ticker.

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

Elegant 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

Elegant 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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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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24 September 2011, Business Intelligence Conference, Hyderabad

Elegant 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!

Elegant 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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When Does Data Massaging Become Naughty?

Domo

I am 35 years old and I have never had a massage. Crazy? Maybe. I like to think I know what I am doing. The fact of the matter is I am quite certain I would love the experience, but I don’t want to “need” the experience to the tune of $50-$100/month. I know friends who “have to get a massage” every few weeks; they are addicted now.

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Good to Great with BI Implementations

Domo

I was recently thinking back to a panel I was on with a VP at SAP discussing Business Intelligence (BI) and what makes companies best-in-class. The moderator was a leading BI analyst. The topic of discussion was of course BI, but more importantly, what differentiating elements can help companies improve business performance through a BI dashboard. The moderator posed this question: As companies analyze data, they are looking for ways to improve performance.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Small Businesses Can Produce LARGE Results with CPM

Elegant 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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Keeping up with Big Data’s Growth Curve

Domo

SAP recently unveiled their Hana offering which is an exciting new data storage technology and started another chapter in the big data, high performance computing saga — a sector now getting lots of attention from the BI industry. And rightly so as the industry struggles to deal with the exponential increase in data growth. It is a race that the BI industry has spent the last 15 years trying to win by inventing and re-inventing solutions to keep up with the data growth curve.

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B.I. JOE #halfthebattle

Domo

As a young boy in the mid-80’s, I often found myself cheering the G.I. JOE team during their epic battles against the evil Cobra organization. At the end of each episode, after hundreds of laser blasts that never seemed to hit anything and the only casualty being Cobra Commander’s ego due to another foiled plot of world domination, there was a short range of scenes dedicated to the life instruction of the JOE followers.

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The Status Quo is Costing You Money

Domo

There’s a lot of gravity in business sometimes. Take reporting. Every job requires some measure of reporting – and although the process we use today might be manual, tedious and time-consuming, we often stick with it because it’s comfortable and we assume that a better solution will be too expensive, too complex or even too successful. We have this conversation a lot with prospective customers.

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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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Designing Magic

Domo

At the age of 16, my summer job was more of a mini-career. A neighbor who owned a small but highly-successful marketing company gave me a company BMW and an expense account. While my friends toiled in the summer heat mowing lawns or painting houses, I sped across the Northeast presenting to clients and attending trade shows. Lucky as I was, most of those days have been forgotten – except one.

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

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

Elegant 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

Elegant 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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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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30 July 2011, Business Intelligence Conference, Bangalore

Elegant 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

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

Elegant 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.