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Empower Staff with the Tools They Choose
You can make your staff more productive, and more valuable to your firm, by empowering them with the front end tools they choose–along with achieving overall BI objectives. Read more>>
How Can CFOs Really Benefit from Business Intelligence Services?
For strategies to be effective, CFOs must be proactive, not reactive–they need a robust BI solution that accesses future-oriented business intelligence from planning models that are dynamic, responsive to user input, and foster collaboration. Read more>>
Using Business Intelligence as a Strategic Planning Tool
CEOs are taking Planning tools seriously, as a key element of their Business Intelligence strategy—one that will contribute significantly to their success in uncertain times ahead. Read more>>
Outsourcing to Business Intelligence (BI) Experts—the Basics
Businesses are increasingly finding that outsourcing their Business Intelligence (BI) solution can be a more effective and affordable option. Your business will obtain the consulting and technical knowledge of an agency that has almost certainly encountered the same issues you are facing. Read more>>
Top 3 Data Resolutions for 2019
Whether you are managing data for your personal work situation or managing it for the entire organization, following through on these data resolutions will enable you to focus on gaining control of your data and making data solutions more effective. Try them out! Read more>>
Data Visualization Best Practices
When we utilize Business Intelligence software, we draw on historical data to give us deeper insight into the factors influencing our business challenges or successes. So, how can we tell the best stories with our data visualization reports? Read more>>
Problems and Solutions in the Business Intelligence Market
Most companies have significant problems integrating data between end-user tools such as Excel, Access, graphical/dashboard tools, and various others. Data exists in one platform, but needs to be consumed in different platforms. Bringing connectivity to the BI market is absolutely essential. Businesses cannot afford to continue in applications that are not connected or that are super laborious to translate information from one platform to another. Read more>>
BI Software In-House or a BI Solution Outsourced?
Progressing from purchased software to a managed solution tailored to your specific circumstances–including pre-existing BI software that you already own. Read more>>
From a Financial Analyst: First Impressions of Business Intelligence Technologies
I am a Financial Analyst–I have more pressing things to do than data entry, data extraction, data sorting, or data filtering. Freed-up means being able to focus on value-added analysis and collaboration. Read more>>
How Integrating Your Financial Model with Your Spreadsheets Can Change Your Life
What separates a good financial model from a great financial model comes down to a number of core characteristics including scalability, flexibility, accuracy, and a flow that’s easy to follow by its intended audience. Read more>>
What’s behind effective spreadsheet solutions?
Have you ever come across an organization that uses spreadsheets on an enterprise scale, and yet the staff seems perfectly in control of the situation? It’s still quite rare, but what you will probably find is that they are not using “just Excel.” Read more>>
The Importance of Planning and Forecasting in BI
The budgeting and forecasting process is unique because it is forward thinking. Budgets and forecasts typically reside in spreadsheets where aggregate data is entered by several people in the organization. Tools such as Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, and others have robust features for creating stunning dashboards from transactional data. However, organizations struggle to integrate and represent plans and forecasts in these BI tools. Read more>>
How Do Business Intelligence and Analytics Differ and Overlap?
The way to improve on our decision-making process is to tap into this data in two ways. Business intelligence (BI) uses data to look at the efficacy of past actions while Business Analytics (BA) uses data to predict future outcomes. Both use the same data to gather their insights, but they approach the data pool in a different way. Read more>>
Why do you need a Business Intelligence (BI) Solution?
A Business Intelligence (BI) solution helps in producing accurate reports by extracting data directly from your data source. With Business Intelligence solutions today eliminate the time consuming task of consolidating data manually. Since BI tools can produce recent data, it allows managers to monitor businesses in real-time. Read more>>
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