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Some of the newest buzzword in the BI (Business Intelligence) industry is ‘self-service BI’, and ‘self-service analytics’.  These new jargons refer to the empowering of end users to directly access and analyze business intelligence data without help from the IT staff. We’d like to take this definition a step further and include social [...]

The Cloud revolution is here. Are you still wondering what it means for you and your business? FusionOps is using the Cloud to drastically simplify the requirements for delivering working business analytics to end users, while at the same time, improving the usability, speed and value of BI. With cloud BI, all of the BI [...]

Packaged Business Intelligence (BI) applications have emerged as a cost-effective, user-friendly alternative to traditional BI tools. The new generation of pre-built BI applications goes far beyond hard coded dashboards and rigid data models offering flexible, customizable dashboard analytics based on best practice business data models based on specific industries or verticals. On the [...]

Minimizing or eliminating waste at every step of the manufacturing process is the quintessence of lean manufacturing. In the lean system, inventory is recognized as waste or inefficient when the on-hand inventory that a plant maintains is more than what is required in the immediate production cycle. As opposed to the traditional manufacturing operations that [...]

BI tools have evolved from being reactive instruments to proactive assets. They have grown from static to dynamic and transformed from reflective to predictive. They’ve passed from the hands of power users to give power to the users.
As BI continues on its path of evolution, let’s take a look at some the most [...]

Supply chain managers are often in a fix when measuringPerfect Order Fulfillment. Most of their troubles arise from either measuring too much or not knowing how to define and build the reports that they need.
Perfect Order Management has never been easy. Today, with ever shrinking operating margins, declining sales, and complex supply chains, [...]

Like every year, 2012 will see Gartner holding its annual Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
at Los Angeles, California. The dates are out and agenda drawn. So, we decided to give you a teaser of the key takeaways of the event:

How to develop an effective BI strategy How [...]

Up until now, data analysis used to be an exclusive domain of experts. Consequently and unsurprisingly, the analysis took a solitary and linear nature as shown in the steps below:

1. Gather data
2. Organize the data
3. Analyze the data
4. Develop conclusions
5. Report conclusions
6. Determine actions

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The Business Intelligence (BI) market has come a long way since the term ‘business intelligence’ was first introduced into the corporate lexicon in the late ‘80s. Today, we can say, and in no uncertain terms, that BI has matured into a global industry comprising of thousands of vendors. There is an endless array of products [...]

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with KloudData, an SAP BusinessObjects partner. KloudData brings extensive experience in consulting, integration, customization, implementation, and deployment of BI solutions for SAP. This new partnership will enable KloudData to extend the value of customers’ existing SAP and BusinessObjects investments.

From the press release:

Sunnyvale, CA – February 20, [...]