Tag: Business Intelligence

Guarantee BI Success: Achieve! Accomplish! Do it Right!

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December 13, 2016

Guarantee BI Success: Achieve! Accomplish! Do it Right!

In our first article in the two-article series, entitled ‘Guarantee BI Success: Why Self-Serve BI Initiatives Fail‘, we talked about the various factors that can dictate the success or failure of a self-serve business intelligence solution implementation. Factors like poor User Adoption, Data Access, Features and Benefits, Self-Serve Analytical Capability, Data Sharing and Reporting, Cost vs. Benefit, and Data Discovery issues must be considered in order to ensure the success of your self-serve business intelligence initiative.

Guarantee BI Success: Why Self-Serve BI Initiatives Fail

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November 17, 2016

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Many organizations have invested time and effort in launching a self-serve business intelligence initiative, only to find that the initiative has failed to deliver the anticipated results. When this happens, organizations often struggle to understand why and how things went wrong. There are numerous reasons for a self-serve BI tool initiative to fail or to fall short of expectations. In this article, we will discuss some of the factors that affect the success of business intelligence solution implementation. This article is the first in a two article series, entitled ‘Guarantee Business Intelligence Success’, related to the success and failure of self-serve BI Initiatives.
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IT and Accounting Pros Can Satisfy Standards and Security Compliance and Reporting with BI Tools

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October 27, 2016

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In the new world of government regulation, the technology (IT) team and accounting team are both required to monitor, manage and report on financial and regulatory and business process compliance. These auditing requirements are meant to ensure that financial, planning and operational systems are adequately controlled and protected. Industry and governmental compliance requirements are meant to ensure the adequacy and integrity of auditing processes and regulatory compliance including business processes designed to ensure compliance, as well as document management, content management, data consolidation, reporting processes and other facets of business, data, customer, user and systems management.
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Look, But Don’t Touch! The Gap Between Data Visualization & Data Discovery!

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October 26, 2016

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At some point in your life, you have probably been told to ‘look, but don’t touch.’ When it comes to business intelligence, the flaw in the logic of solution design often subjects business users to this same philosophy. With most BI tools (even those we call ‘self-serve’), we limit the users to looking but we don’t allow them to touch and manipulate the data for deep dive analysis.
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Feed Your Organization: Avoid Packaged BI. Choose ‘Fresh’ BI Tools!

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October 6, 2016

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In a way, choosing a business Intelligence tools is like choosing the right food. In recent years, we have all become more aware of the difference between packaged foods and fresh foods. Today, businesses are becoming more aware of the differences between ‘packaged’ BI tools and self-serve BI tools that provide ‘fresh’ views and data analysis.
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ElegantJ BI Case Study: Arabia Telecom Integrates Data and Implements Reporting

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October 4, 2016

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This Saudi Arabia based telecommunications company provides landline, mobile and internet services to its customers. The business selected the ElegantJ BI solution to integrate all data and reporting from subsidiaries, and establish and monitor key performance indicators and performance reporting. ElegantJ BI was configured to build multi-dimensional cubes and resolve challenges the business faced in retrieving and reporting data. The ElegantJ BI team helped the client understand and structure data, define calculations and build BI objects for balanced scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, cross tabs, graphs and reports.

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Gartner Report, Competitive Landscape: BI Platforms and Analytics Software, Asia/Pacific Lists ElegantJ BI as Niche BI & Analytics Vendor

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September 26, 2016

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ElegantJ BI, a leader in Business Intelligence solutions, is pleased to announce that its suite of Business Intelligence and Performance Management tools was listed in the Gartner August, 2016 Competitive Landscape: BI Platforms and Analytics Software, Asia/Pacific Report. The ElegantJ BI solution was included in this report as a Niche BI and Analytics Vendor in Asia/Pacific.

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A Summary of the Myths and Confusion in Business Intelligence

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September 9, 2016

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Debunking Common Business Intelligence Myths

A Summary of the Myths and Confusion in the Business Intelligence Market

This article series is entitled ‘Debunking Common Business Intelligence Myths’. The information presented in this, the seventh article of the series, summarizes the myths and cuts through the confusion to help you choose the right BI tool for your business and business users.

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Get BI Tools for the Future: Fresh is Best, Packaged is Passé!

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August 20, 2016

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There are a lot of BI tools out there, so it is easy for businesses and users to get confused – especially when the vendor tells you that the business intelligence solution is a self-serve, flexible tool that allows users to do what they want, when they want to do it (and then falls short on its promised delivery). Many business intelligence solutions allow the IT department or a professional analyst to create dashboards and reports that appear to be useful. But, the information may not be current, and the format of the report may not satisfy the user needs. Restrictive data access and formats can be very frustrating for users and can limit the benefits and success of the business intelligence solution.

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