Category: Business Intelligence

Business One 8.82 Provides Business Management Improvements

Oct 31, 2011 | Business Intelligence | 0 comments

Recently, SAP released Business One 8.82 addressing specific product needs for small businesses. Business One software is an efficient management tool providing complete company functionality.

Business One software leads to greater profitability

Business One integrates all core functions, eliminating the need for multiple modules. By capturing information on a single system, information is instantly accessible. This eliminates duplicate data entry, costs, and other errors. Freeing the company from day-to-day minutiae allows you to spend more time on moving your business forward. Multiple departments are efficiently maintained, such as: accounting and financials, sales and customers, purchasing and operations, inventory and distributions, and administration. Information is streamlined and profitable growth is accelerated.

Business One’s software creates quotes, enters orders, tracks sales opportunities, initiates marketing campaigns (by using templates for mass emails) and provides support for customer service contracts and warranties. Its workflow-based alerts trigger automatic responses when important business related events occur, keeping you continuously updated on company progress.

New version, new perks!

Business One 8.82 improvements are easily adaptable to meet changing business needs. For example, their customer service management (CRM) application allows companies to develop and manage multichannel marketing programs. Or, the configuration wizard guides users through essential settings with an assortment of application areas.

Other great features includes the “pick and pack process,” which allows better management and support for back-order functionality. Also, this allows greater flexible material requirements planning (MRP) and achieves effective long-term business planning.

Keeping in line with MRP, the chain process has also improved. Small businesses have greater control and flexibility over MRP parameters, which allows better inventory levels. In addition, improved weekly display options allow for better forecasting capabilities.

Businesses can record blanket agreements to reflect long-term sales or purchasing agreements that have been negotiated with business partners. Sales or purchasing documents can then be linked to blanket agreements and used for quantity reservation, revenue forecasts and capacity planning. Blanket agreements are involved in cash-flow calculations, MRP runs and the procurement process.

SAP Business One 8.82 is available through starter packages and subscription-based hosting options.

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Harvard Business School to Benefit from WiseWindow Business Intelligence Program

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Case Study, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends | 0 comments

WiseWindow recently announced it has gifted Harvard Business School’s Baker Library a $5 million dollar program. The program will provide the library with real time data and toolsets for educational use in the development of post-graduate curriculum and research.

The new program, MOBI 2.0, (Mass Opinion Business Intelligence) is designed to help train the next generation of MBAs on how to effectively manage business in real time which is something the students have never had access to before.

The initial deployment to students and faculty was completed in early February. Harvard Business School’s MBA candidates now have full access to the MOBI platform and they are using it in their curriculum development.

The program is teaching students about real-time business decision-making and management, business economics and demand-based modeling, and in research. It also includes how to support case study-based coursework.

The Executive Director of Knowledge and Library Services at Harvard Business School, Mary Lee Kennedy said they support Harvard Business School’s mission by enabling the creation of ideas, expertise and information.

The MOBI 2.0 combines cloud computing, proprietary deep website crawling, relevance recognition and statistical natural language analysis, which provides business decision makers with the unmatched ability to identify, measure and qualify consumer intent information in real time before it turns into action.

MOBI distills the data into a pre-defined, structure database providing an up to the minute view of consumer sentiment. This is done by collecting, analyzing and classifying the billions of unbiased consumer comments made online annually from across the web.

President of WiseWindow, Marshall Toplansky, said they are thrilled to be at Harvard Business School training some of the world’s future business leaders, especially since Harvard is one of the most prestigious educational facilities in the world.

 

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UltiPro to Deliver Business Intelligence for Equipment Depot

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Case Study, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends, Business Intelligence Vendor | 0 comments

Ultimate Software recently announced that Equipment Depot has selected its UltiPro to consolidate its payroll, Human Resources, compensation management, and recruitment processes into one unified solution.

Equipment Depot is a diversified equipment dealership that sells, services, rents and provides parts for many leading brands of forklifts, aerial lifts, and construction equipment. They employ more than 1,450 people in 13 states in the U.S. which makes handling their scope of human capital management a challenging proposition.

Vice President of Human Resources with Equipment Depot, Leora Kirby, says as they continue to acquire new subsidiaries and grow organically, they need smarter, more agile answers to manage its business operations, especially related to Human Capital Management.

Kirby says they are in the process of combining five companies into one. The company wants one centralized payroll solution will could accommodate their current needs, as well as keep pace with their company as they grow in the future.

Equipment Depot was looking for a high-caliber HCM platform with a single database, 24-7 Web accessibility for their workforce, and end-to-end functionality and they wanted to take advantage of SaaS innovation, according to Kirby.

Equipment Depot selected UltiPro in November of 2010 and their company leadership is anxious to combine its multiple data platforms into a single, uniform solution that delivers real-time visibility across the business.

Chief Sales Officer for Ultimate Software, Greg Swick, says they are delighted that Equipment Depot has selected UltiPro for the advantages of their cloud-based HCM and they look forward to collaborating with them and sharing expertise.

Ultimate Software is a provider of unified human capital management SaaS solutions for global business. It markets its award-winning UltiPro solutions as Software-as-a-Service and is based in Weston, FL. They have nearly 1,100 professionals currently employed.

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Alliance Agreement for Business Intelligence Announced by Deloitte

Apr 28, 2011 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Case Study, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends, Business Intelligence Vendor | 0 comments

Deloitte recently announced it has signed an alliance agreement with MicroStrategy Incorporated to develop and deliver solutions to help clients improve their information, business intelligence and analytic capabilities.

Deloitte will combine MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence technology with its broad array of consulting, advisory and implementation services to assist their mutual clients in meeting information, business intelligence and analytic needs under the new agreement.

The alliance will include collaboration on solution, service and market development, education, training, sales and delivery.

The use of information and analytics can be a critical driver of revenue and competitive differentiation and can assist management in making more effective business decisions while managing information for a strategic business advantage.

Lee Dittmar, principal for Deloitte Consulting LLP, says the increasing emphasis on analytics has significant implications for IT and business leaders and the new alliance combines Deloitte’s information management services with MicroStrategy’s software to give clients a significant advantage in accelerating their analytical programs.

As expectations continue to rise, many leaders are shifting their thinking from a tactical approach for management reporting to a more strategic approach involving analytics. Deloitte is positioned well in the information management space with a demonstrated depth and breadth of competencies to help clients deliver on their analytics vision.

MicroStrategy’s chief operating officer, Sanju Bansal, says both Deloitte and MicroStrategy recognize that business priorities are increasingly driven by the need for better and earlier insights on markets, customers, suppliers, employees, regulation and risks, and that there is a need for solutions to integrate business, industry and functional capabilities with advanced information management and analytical technologies.

MicroStrategy was founded in 1989 and is a provider of business intelligence technology. The company provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software helping organizations worldwide make better business decisions each day.

 

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Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools Help Drive Revenue for Kimberly-Clark

Apr 27, 2011 | Bi Software, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends, Business Intelligence Vendor | 0 comments

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has adopted a Microsoft business intelligence solution to improve manufacturing efficiency and increase business agility. The company selected the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform due to its user-friendly interfaces, extensibility and integration into existing Microsoft Software.

By using a suite of Microsoft solutions, which include Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2007 for reporting needs, Kimberly-Clark provides business analysts with greater visibility into its supply chain, inventory and manufacturing performance.

With the BI platform in place, the company can more easily pull and collect data, such as corporate forecast variance and in-stock tools, without an extreme learning curve.

Ramon F. Baez, V.P. of IT Services and Chief Information Officer at Kimberly-Clark, says the Microsoft business intelligence solution has transformed the way they do business. Employees can make faster decision and leverage mission-critical information to stay one step ahead of their competitors.

In the first three months since the deployment, Kimberly-Clark has already increased production efficiency to store reports and standardize work across multiple resources.

They have also realized a gain of $10 million in additional revenue by avoiding “out of stock” scenarios by successfully implementing the BI solution on all of its supply chain and manufacturing domains.

Kimberly-Clark is now looking to reproduce the benefits of the solution in other areas of the company and plans to add new capabilities to the existing BI solution when it upgrades to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010.

Kimberly-Clark offers a full range of global brands, including Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups and several other products.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is a provider of software, services and solutions helping people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Cloud-Based Intelligence for SMBs Offered by BitNami, Jaspersoft

Apr 27, 2011 | Bi Software, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence News, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence Trends | 0 comments

BitNami and Jaspersoft recently announced a partnership to bring open source business intelligence to the cloud. BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively and virtually in the cloud.
BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library of the most popular open source applications that are ready to be launched with the click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solutions providers and businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage their business applications such as Jasperserver, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more.

Jaspersoft provides flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suites that enable better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis.

Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors and is the only BI vendor that enables companies to adapt to the new, virtualized world by providing a complete spectrum of on-premise, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-based deployment options for both embedded and standalone business intelligence.

Unlike traditional BI vendors, Jaspersoft is built on a modern, lightweight, standards-based architecture. It offers greater vendor independence thanks to its open source codebase. Jaspersoft’s open source BI software has more than 12 million product downloads worldwide, 160,000 production deployments and over 13,000 commercial customers in 100 countries.

Businesses of all sizes can deploy the JasperReports Server Community Edition open source report server on the Amazon EC2 Cloud with the click of a button using BitNami Cloud Hosting.

A BitNami-enabled deployment of JasperReports Server can be up and running in just minutes and scaled up or down to meet changing requirements.

Senior Director of Technology Alliances at Jaspersoft, Andrew Lampitt, says they are pleased that BitNami is offering Jaspersoft Community Editions in the cloud for instant access to powerful open source business intelligence.

 

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New Mobile Business Intelligence App Available for iPad, iPhone from Steton

Apr 27, 2011 | Bi Software, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Software Vendor, Business Intelligence System, Business Intelligence Trends | 0 comments

Steton Technology Group recently announced the availability of Steton 360 mobileEl. MobileEl is an application for iPad and iPhone devices that gives decision makers on-the-go access to customizable business intelligence dashboards and reports.

Steton 360 mobileEl is an extension to Steton 360 Enterprise Edition. It provides a natural and intuitive way for managers to explore and analyze data in real-time.

When it is used with Steton 360 Enterprise Edition, the application gives executives, managers and key workers information on how the organization is complying with such critical quality, safety, regulatory and brand standards.

Steton CEO, Steve Caplin, says mobile devices are very different from laptops and desktop PCS because they use highly visual displays and respond to gesture-based commands.

Caplin says in addition to keyboard and mouse input, mobile devices can also utilize camera/barcode, GPS, voice compass and accelerometer inputs and Steton 360 mobileEl factors all of these into an elegant and accessible solution.

With Steton 360 mobileEl, you can view alerts and KPIs, analyze data using interactive maps and graphs, and drill down on data with guided analysis and a new user interface designed specifically for smart phones and tablets.

With the convergence of powerful mobile computing hardware, high-speed Internet access and a workforce that’s no longer tied to desktop phones and PCs, the Steton 360 mobileEl provides what they need.

Steton 360 mobileEl consists of software and consulting services that are all bundled together. Customers can easily adapt their existing business intelligence reports to the new mobile platform, and build new need-based reports and dashboards, also.

Steton is the publisher of Steton 360 Enterprise Edition, which is a Web-hosted,
software-as-a-service product used to measure cleanliness, service, safety and brand delivery.

 

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Increasing Sales with Google Analytics

Apr 06, 2011 | Analytics, Business Intelligence | 0 comments

One of the most excellent tracking and analytics software tool around today, is the Google Analytics. Majority of the leading sites now employ Google Analytics in tracking down their visitors. If you check through the sites that rank high on Google, virtually all of them have the Google Analytics set up. Do not underestimate the utility of this valuable tool, just because the software is obtained and used at no cost. If it is correctly used, Google Analytics can offer you what it takes to transform your website from the ‘usual’ to an ‘unusual’.

The number of reports you gain access to with Google Analytics is quite astonishing. It can be used to optimize your website performance and hence your sales and profits.

How to Set Up Google Analytics
If you look ahead to receive the most desirable website statistics, then it is compulsory to correctly set up Google Analytics. You may follow the below given procedure:

Sign up for Google Analytics if you haven’t done that yet
You will be prompted to include your website. Do that and subsequently paste the provided tracking script on your site pages one after another.

Next, click on Analytics Settings; have the website profile edited and establish goals for your website. Ensure that you add the thank you page – this is where your visitors are taken to following their completion of your online product purchase form; this step is very crucial and makes a better level of reporting detail available.

Now that tracking code is in place on each page of your website and you have set up your conversion goals, just commence with the analysis of your website in order to enhance its performance.

Essential Analytics Reports
The reports outlined here are very essential in understanding the source of your traffic and the manner in which they interact with your website.

The Top Traffic Sources: you can access this report at Traffic Sources and it will give you information on where your traffic is coming from. The tool generally shows you referring sites, search engines, paid ads and others. When you know the exact source of your traffic, this will help you determine where to target your resources so that you can achieve maximum leverage.

Keywords: to access this report, go to Traffic Sources, then to keywords. This will display keywords that web visitors are searching for – on Google and other search engines to get to your website. Having a solid knowledge about the keywords that are generating your website conversions will help you refocus your SEO to such result-oriented keywords.

Search Engines: the search engines report reveals the search engines that are driving traffic to your site. If your website optimization is Google-based, it very possible that most of your traffic comes from Google. The search engine reports help you know which search engine to focus your SEO efforts on.

Top Content: you can access this report from the Content Menu; it will reveal the most widely sought after pages of your website.

There are other numerous Google Analytics Reports as well, that are quite valuable and helpful.

Jeff Matthews is a freelance writer who wrights about Internet marketing ideas To know about this subject and Jeff please visit http://www.aceinternetmarketing.ie

 

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How is a Web-traffic Analysis Tool Useful?

Apr 05, 2011 | Analytics, Bi Software, Business Intelligence | 0 comments

Web analytics is the process of measuring site statistics and analyzing traffic behavior. The web analytic tools such as conversion stats presents some valuable information about the website that will really help you to improve the website. In this passage, you will find the information of some data provided by the conversion tracking systems.

The web analytic software provides information about the top exit pages of your website. The top exit pages other than the “thanks for ordering” page of your website are like holes in your site through which the visitors are slipping through. The web traffic analytic tools such as conversionstats helps you find the top exit pages so that you can figure out why they’re leaving from the page and you’ll be able to improve your conversions.

The information about the most popular pages is equally important to know the interest of the visitors and turn them into customers. Work on optimizing your most popular pages for the search engines, using them as advertising campaign landing pages or starting a PPC campaign for them. They must be popular for a reason and will be a good way to entice potential customers to visit your site.

Keywords are the most important parts of your website. Improper usage of keywords may hamper the traffic to your website. However, using the right keyword certainly boosts up the visibility of your website and hence the web-traffic increases. If visitors are finding you through the search engines, it’s invaluable to know what keywords and phrases they’re using. The conversion tracking software like conversion stats helps you find that with ease.

Most of the conversion tracking softwares provides data of the average number of page views per visitor. This helps you know how good your site is encouraging people to look around and click around. Lots of page views means visitors are finding something of their interest and they’ll be more likely to return. Moreover, they’ll hopefully refer your website to their friends.

Knowing the most popular days and times can give you insight about who your customers are. If most of the visits occur during the day then chances are people are browsing while at work. Knowing the habits of your visitors will help you find ways to target them. It can also help you decide when you’re best to run advertising and even schedule site maintenance.

Knowing where your traffic is currently coming from can help you determine where to focus your traffic generation efforts. Look for ways to get even more traffic from your best sources – and don’t waste time on the ineffective ones. The visit duration is another important data reported by the web-traffic analytic software is the average visit duration. It is the indicator of how useful visitors find your site. If they spend a lot of time it means they’re genuinely interested in what you offer.

The above mentioned data that are provided by the web analytic software are the basic stuff. Feature-full web analytic systems like ‘conversion stats’ provides more, worthy information regarding your website.

The Author writes articles on Conversion Tracking. Other articles written by the author related to Website analytics, Conversion Rate and Roi Tracking could be found on the internet.

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American Family Insurance Selects Millbrook for Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence

Apr 05, 2011 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Case Study, Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Vendor, Data Warehousing | 0 comments

Exton, PA — October 24, 2010

Millbrook, the leading provider of business intelligence and data warehousing solutions for insurance carriers, today announced that American Family has selected Millbrook’s Data Integration Platform, including its, Operational Data Store, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions to deliver management information, reporting and analysis and to support system integration.

 

“American Family is developing the capabilities that will improve how we collect, store and analyze our data so we can use it to make better strategic decisions,” said American Family Information Services Senior Vice President, Kristin Kirkconnell.

 

John Search, Millbrook Executive Vice President said, “We are very proud to have been selected by American Family. We have a long history in the insurance BI space, beginning with our “BEACON” tool. Over the years, our solutions have evolved based on industry, regulatory and statutory changes and, most importantly, client feedback. Today our open infrastructure serves as the data hub, which enables a single source of data to seamlessly service migrations and conversions, data integration, enterprise data warehousing, web services, business intelligence, management reporting, and regulatory and statutory compliance”.

 

About American Family Insurance

 

Based in Madison, Wis., American Family Insurance offers auto insurance, homeowners insurance, life insurance, health insurance, business and farm/ranch insurance in 19 states. American Family insurance is the nation’s third-largest mutual property/casualty insurance company and ranks 344th on the Fortune 500 list. Web: http://www.amfam.com; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/amfam; Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/amfam

 

About Millbrook

 

Millbrook is the leading provider of information management solutions for property and casualty insurers. Millbrook has developed a complete data platform that enables companies to harness the power of their most important asset; their data and information. Robust models for Policy, Billing, Claims, Account and Customer Data are designed for flexibility and scalability providing carriers with the architecture that maximizes the value and usability of data across the enterprise. Our solutions leverage past investments in legacy systems and lower the total cost of ownership in replacement systems. Millbrook’s complete Integration Platform consists of the Operational Data Store, Extract Transformation and Load Processes, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Vendor Neutral Semantic Layer, BI Reports, Dashboards and KPI’s. Millbrook is headquartered in Exton Pennsylvania, with offices in San Diego and Boston.

 

More information about Millbrook can be found at http://www.millbrookinc.com.

 

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