Business Intelligence Software: The Importance of Getting the Right Information at the Right Time by Erich Redhage
Today’s businesses thrive on data. And trust me, there is an endless variety of data for them to gobble up and digest all in the name of maintaining the highest level of business intelligence possible. There are examples of data that would include things like: who sold what products, who bought... These are the main things that any corporation would want from a business intelligence software package. ... How do you get around this issue and efficiently provide your business with the data it needs to stay dynamic and evolve with the ever changing business environment?

Business Intelligence: Accelerate Your Business Performance by Ramki M
Business intelligence is the process of gathering information from the business. The gathered business information is transformed into knowledge using business intelligence. Business intelligence will ease the decision making process, helps in understanding the customer taste and market trends. ... Business Intelligence Definition The basic definition of business intelligence "the process of gathering information about a business or industry matter; a broad range of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps to make business...

Oracle E-Business Suite Outsourcing Notes by Andrew Karasev
Oracle Applications, in the eve of Oracle Fusion, is very efficient platform for being supported remotely, sometimes referred as offshore, nearshore or outsourced. The majority of Oracle E-Business clients have basic set of modules, also referred as Oracle Financials. ... Majority of Oracle reporting tools: Oracle Reports, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle XML Publisher, RXi Report, FSG Reports, Business Intelligence System are good candidates • Extension Development. ... Report is very formalized by its nature and it is relatively simple to find “report designer”, who will create the report...

A Thick-Client Approach To Reporting With A Third Part Reporting Tool by Burak Koken
Enterprise Reporting is one of the key areas an IT department is evaluated for success or failure. A strong yet flexible foundation in reporting practices helps manage shifting demand for Enterprise business intelligence requirements. A thick-client is an application written in a high level... Often, a report is used heavily after it is first created but demand drops rapidly and sometimes a report is not used for longer periods of time or completely “forgotten”. ... If the number of reports and their parameters are relatively slow changing, this approach works well for users as continuity...

Business Intelligence guide by Mansi Aggarwal
Business intelligence can be defined as a set of business processes designed to garner and analyze business information. It is a vast category of application of programs that includes providing access to data to help an entrepreneur in his business decisions, task of query and reporting, online... While framing and implementing a business intelligence program there are several crucial points to be borne in mind. ... This is precisely the reason that business intelligence is also referred to as ‘decision-support system’ or DSS.

Oracle Discoverer: A Reporting and Decision Support Tool for Oracle E-Business Suite by Andrew Karasev
Oracle Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Financials, Oracle Reports, Oracle Discoverer Oracle Discoverer is a business intelligence tool to support organizational decisions. It uses a repository called EUL (End User Layer) which is based on information stored and controlled by... All of these characteristics make Oracle Discoverer a powerful and useful tool for Oracle E-Business Suite reporting, beyond Oracle Reports and XML Publisher, each one with its features and benefits. ... By using Oracle EBS security schema, which uses responsibilities to control access rights, Oracle...

Spy on Your Competitors; 10 Tips To Monitoring The Competition by Sharon Housley
The old adage, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer", is applicable not only to personal relationships but business relationships as well. While I'm not suggesting that you befriend your competitors, it is important that you are cognizant of your competitors' business ventures and... Competitive Intelligence is researching the business environment or techniques that another business uses. ... Competitive Intelligence is often used to influence a strategy for business development. ... Competitive Intelligence Competitive Intelligence is defined as the process of gathering...

Microsoft Dynamics GP Customization Notes by Andrew Karasev
In this small article we would like to concentrate on legacy tools, especially on such issues as strategic Microsoft Dexterity customization, integration, reports upgrade and switch to the current of future customizations technologies. As you know Microsoft Great Plains or former Great Plains... If you will deploy web service envelopes then you potentially can be independent from programming language and computer technologies, and so manipulate Microsoft Great Plains business logic from your front end application of choice, including eCommerce, EDI, J2EE, Oracle, Business Intelligence...

SAP Data Warehousing Solution by Ron Victor
SAP BW is a continuous data warehousing solution that uses former SAP technologies. This SAP BW is built on the Basis of 3-tier architecture and coded in the ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) language. This 3-tier architecture and code language uses ALE (Application Link Enabling)... This infrastructure contains a component called mySAP Business Intelligence. ... BW Business Content The BW's most powerful selling is Business Content. ... Metadata Repository contains two types one is business-related and other is technical.

Why Activity Based Costing Cannot be Overlooked by Richard Barrett
A look into the managerial myth that activity-based costing is too much like hard work! Activity-based costing (ABC) projects traditionally create visions of armies of accountants locking themselves away in darkened rooms, working for months on end to generate any meaningful results, only to... Where there is a performance management or business intelligence portal already in place, organizations may prefer to report through data integration tools, such as OLE/DB for OLAP, to access the data from the ABC application.