November 2009

Business Intelligence: November 2009

Builder Intelligence for Home Builders
by Manish Sood

Introducing Builder Intelligence - state-of-the-art dashboards built with IBM software specifically for Home Builders, so you may make faster, informed and coordinated decisions within your organizations.You can now receive instant up-to-the-minute information - anywhere, anytime about your company's Sales, Field Operations and Finance.
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Making Peace with Spreadsheet “Jockeys”
by Wayne Eckerson

I just finished writing the second draft of a report titled, “Transforming Finance: How CFOs can Use Business Intelligence to Turn Finance from Bookkeepers to Strategic Advisors.” In the report, I interviewed several so-called “spreadsheet jockeys” who...
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The Business Intelligence Chronicles Part 1: Six Blind Men and a Elephant
The first article in a series
by Deepak Seth

Many years ago when I transitioned into Business Intelligence Applications (Peoplesoft EPM/Cognos) from a ERP Transactional Applications (Peoplesoft Financials) background, one of my first endeavors was to "sell" the concept on an ongoing basis to what almost always used to be a wary audience of ...
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Business Intelligence & ETL
by Rachel Agheyisi

Business intelligence (BI) is a tech-based tool that allows decision makers process information to gain insights that drive enterprise performance. However, the path from information to knowledge is not always linear. Typically, a series of steps, including...
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