The following resources can help you decide what data analytics and reporting solution you need for your organization. What objectives can business intelligence help me achieve? Business Intelligence for the Strategy-Focused Organization Is Building a Data Warehouse the Right Solution for Your Business? Why Building a Data Warehouse Is Not the Right Solution Business Intelligence: [...]
According to TDWI survey ran in May 2010, 75% respondents are planning to replace their data warehouse platforms. They are looking for Operational Data Warehouse, integrating two main technology stacks: Operational applications, usually including: enterprise resource planning (ERP) customer relationship management (CRM) sales force automation (SFA) and others Business intelligence/data warehousing (BI/DW) Today, the data [...]
Oct 052010
Most Canadian companies are lagging on technology investments toward better productivity from that of the U.S, according to Globe & Mail’s today and September 15th analysis. Strangely enough, this happens at the time of relatively healthy Canadian market. With dropped demand and uncertain about the future, businesses are reluctant to invest and, as result, “recovery [...]
According to a released today study conducted by Sybase of Fortune 1000 companies (with the median organization in the study – $17 billion in annual revenues), 10% improvements in data accessibility lead to: 0.7% growth in revenue generated from new customers, or on average in this study, $14.7 million; 0.81% growth in revenue from new [...]
Aug 122010
Most companies failed to take advantage from CRM systems. Four major reasons of such failures, as underlined by Robert J. Schmonsees in his book “Escaping the Black Hole – minimizing the damage from the marketing-sales disconnect“, are: Didn’t articulate a strategy for aligning marketing and sales organizations and increasing customers’ long-term marketing and sales effectiveness. [...]
Figure 1. Microsoft Federated Enterprise Data Warehouse Microsoft’s new Hub-and-Spoke approach to data warehousing includes multiple shared-nothing nodes (self-contained database servers), with ”hub” as a centralized data model for all subject areas in the enterprise, primarily normalized data, and “spokes” as data marts and cubes populated from the hub but maintaining their own unique schemas. This [...]
Mar 262010
It was great to follow the series of Business Intelligence Webinars this week provided by Pragmatic Works. For those who didn’t, you can see the recorded sessions. I’ve definitely got some fresh ideas, and glad to see the Microsoft Business Intelligence making promising steps forward!
Today SymphonyIRI’s “2010 Summit: Reinventing CPG and Retail Conference” showed a solution to help Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) marketers improve marketing accountability and ROI. In the face of economic and environmental shifts, sales and marketing organizations need to collaborate effectively to produce marketing mix, price and trade results and deliver “one point of truth” to [...]
Mar 162010
Consider an example of a “smart” business – Profit: The business of Technology, a professional trade journal offered free to qualified individuals. To qualify, readers must complete a questionnaire asking for information such as whether the reader has the authority to purchase new equipment and what computer hardware and software the reader’s company plans to [...]
If you consider building an OLAP / Data Warehousing system for your company, don’t forget to weight its pros and cons. Traditional Data Warehouse – Concerns: Costly, complicated development Might be a problem for: small companies, start-ups Takes long time to develop Might be a problem for: a company expecting immediate implementation may look for [...]
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