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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 [...]

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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Industry analysts expect business analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) to grow three times faster than the traditional business analytics software market. The prime reason for this increased enthusiasm for cloud-based BI and analytics solutions is their ability to speed up the delivery of actionable analytics to business users.

Businesses of all sizes can leverage vast computing and [...]

It is not enough to know that deliveries are ‘on time’; to improve performance, it is equally important is to know how often deliveries are on time, which customers are affected by poor delivery performance and what is the value and quantity of the late items. When measuring customer delivery performance, supply chain managers also [...]