Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Information Applications and Business Intelligence Tools http://ping.fm/hyLEP

Friday, June 18, 2010

How To Use Business Intelligence http://ping.fm/t3Xr0

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Data Visualization and Mashups
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Article on data visualization

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Great article on software as a service business intelligence
http://ping.fm/wY800

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Business Intelligence Future Implications http://ping.fm/8deUV

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

New Era of Business Intelligence http://ping.fm/38Ryv

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

BI Reporting

Business Intelligence dashboard software is becoming a keystone item amongst a variety of corporations and enterprise business organizations.

To better analyze data and render important decision making, companies are now understanding that BI tools are the future of data analysis.

Usually, dashboards that include sufficient reporting software will assist to monitor the overall health and key performance indicators of an enterprise. With dashboard reporting becoming even simpler to use and prepare data from, it is no wonder that many corporations and business entities are creating a permanent place for this type of info.

Many different levels of management and decision makers find dashboard reporting software to be easy to use, given all of the rich media content and graphic functions available on most reporting tools.. Because of this exiting and beautiful hardware implementation, individuals who manage these vibrant reports will minimize overhead costs. The entire reason business intelligence software is around is to assist with making the right decisions by leveraging the proper information.

Monday, June 7, 2010

BI Tools Definition http://ping.fm/oxVIe

The Definition of Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Software is usually mentioned to as BI Software and its basic purpose dissect data to help reveal potential chances for development and also an general assessment of its actual state. Business intelligence also helps a company to better see the correlation between certain data sets and helps derive powerful decision making and how to allocate resources for the best for optimal growth.

Through out the years companies have called business intelligence many things, but the key significance has remained the identical. It's goal is to help derive determinations based on the companies data.. BI implies yet more integration and ease of use (of course, no matter what the subject, every new approach in the information field is touted as the one providing more integration and greater ease of use)

Friday, June 4, 2010

Business Intelligence Data

BI Tools have many different forms and functions including analysis of simple data and also helping collect large amounts of data into an easy to read format. Each company has various sets of goals and that is why BI tools vary in cost and capability.

First off, the most basic business intelligence tools that majority of companies, businesses and individuals use is spreadsheet software. The main reason why spreadsheet software is the primary tool for business intelligence is because it is cost effective and can gather large sums of data and render it into very comprehensible formats for every member of the organization. From data plots to pivot tables, spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel takes the prize as the most effective tool for breaking down business intelligence data.

Understanding how to extract key opportunities from business intelligence data is vital to successful utilize the tools.

Spreadsheet software is a key element to any powerful business intelligence platform. Certain tools that utilize spreadsheet such as reporting tools help better visualize the data. This makes it easier for different individuals in the company to see the data and make better use of it. This universal framework of information can then be easily communicated within the company and business intelligence decisions can be taken much more rapidly based.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Value of Business Intelligence http://ping.fm/N6lUD
Business Intelligence Awards http://ping.fm/M784n
Business Intelligence Implementation http://ping.fm/uEYRw
Business Intelligence Tools http://ping.fm/FJk4I

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

How to Make Decisions with Business Intelligence

The goal of business intelligence governance in any corporation or enterprise to is to make sure that projects with the most potential value must take priority over any other projects. The basic idea of prioritizing business intelligence into workable projects is the primary way to leverage business data. By creating and prioritizing executable strategies based around the information that is gathered using BI tools will lead to more productive future planning.

The main problem at the moment with companies that want to use business intelligence information in the best possible is the fact that majority of decisions that are made based on this information come from subjective views of the company instead of hard line objective facts. Given this issue, it necessary to set guidelines and rules on how to treat each key indicator and then devise an objective plan to take the appropriate action.

Roles should be handed out by management on who gets to view certain pieces of the overall business intelligence. This will reduce subjective decision making because the information will parted into silos and each individual who is responsible for their piece of information will strictly provide objective decisions based on the bi set that they are assigned to.

Overall, it is very important that projects which will add the most amount of value to the company be taken care of first. Without understanding how to leverage BI tools appropriately, it is very difficult to stay objective in your decision making. The BI tools provide a treasure chest of information but it a matter of how a company utilizing the information, which makes a difference.