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In today’s competitive business landscape, the pace of business decision continues to increase. All too often, business data is difficult to get at and use, slowing business management decisions to a crawl. Business Intelligence (BI) helps organizations make better, faster decisions about customers, partners, and operations by turning large volumes of data into valuable business insight.

Technology Budgeting: What is IT Really Trying to Accomplish

Fall inevitably provides finance chiefs with piles of requests to add project costs to their corporate budgets. This makes the 3rd Quarter a good time to put together a game plan for assessing which projects to partly or fully fund, … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Newsletter, October 2011 | Leave a comment

Could You Answer The Following Questions for Your Business?

What product line is doing the best in the Northeast region? Where are my customers focused geographically? How many orders are we able to process daily? Which product categories are growing? Which market segment is declining in sales? Data has … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Newsletter, September 2011 | Leave a comment

Why Business Intelligence Is So Much More than Reporting

Reporting is a tool that has long been a part of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.  We expect financial reports, income statements and open sales order reports to come as part of the package.  These are still necessary, but as … Continue reading

Posted in August 2011, Business Intelligence (BI), Newsletter | Leave a comment

Can You Spot the Next Marketplace Trends?

Challenges and opportunities come at you quickly and they are rarely the same ones you faced yesterday.  With Business Intelligence (BI) you’ll be ready for whatever the competition, your customers or the economy throws at you. You can be more … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), July 2011, Newsletter | Leave a comment

Lead Your Business to Higher Profits with Business Intelligence

To remain competitive, businesses must react faster to changing profitability and customer trends. To do that, you need the ability to access and analyze critical data about your business quickly. You need up‐to‐the‐minute information about your income, costs, and customers … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), June 2011, Newsletter | Leave a comment

A Crystal Ball Into Your Company’s Future?

Gain more insight and make better decisions by coupling business relevant information with predictive analytics Business intelligence provides valuable insight into the state of affairs within an organization. The information is critical to decision-making. But when combined with predictive analysis, … Continue reading

Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), May 2011, Newsletter | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

5 Ways to Raise Your Business Intelligence Quotient

Graduate from being a good company to a great company and finally to an intelligent company by enlisting the five best practices companies follow to increase their Business Intelligence Quotient.  Businesses want to quantify their performance 360-degrees, not just from … Continue reading

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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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Does Your Company Pass the Business Intelligence Test?

The primary objective of an accounting system is to “summarize transactional data into useful management reports that management can use to manage the business”. In other words, the whole point of an accounting system is financial reporting, or to use … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence is Easier and More Valuable

A recent article on WebCPA.com titled, BI – Not Just for IT Pro’s Anymore – quoted Axis on the benefits of BI as a profit tool.  The article stated that “BI is becoming an understandable, usable and affordable initiative for … Continue reading

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