Business Intelligence Redefining Management Processes * Project Category: Business Intelligence * Project Topic: Business Intelligence-Redefining Management Processes * Contributor Details: * Name: Nishikant Harjai (11 Ex-037) * Synopsis of the Project Today, Indian firms have been exploring ways to improve their business practices and procedures to gain competitive advantage. One of the most talked about Information Technology (IT) enabled business innovation is the
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Disruptive Innovation: A new era of Crowdsourced Data Analytics! Abstract: The existing business paradigm of data analytics is set for a transformation. Today, companies are experimenting to replicate the “Outsourced data analytics” model to “Crowdsourced data analytics”. Companies like Kaggle, Crowdanalytix and others are hitting the headlines of top analytics blogs across the globe. The reason is that the new business model promises a drastic decrease in the cost of analytics for companies long with
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Article Reflection Anchoring Down the Data Greg Hawley EDUC 621 What a great line from the first article, which so aptly defines the dilemma faced by administrators across the country now; “Data, data, everywhere. Too much to let us think!” This collection of short articles and position papers, more the most part, did an excellent job of illustrating and creating panic in the minds of teachers and administrators who are not only dealing (or not dealing) with the mountains of assessment
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TRENDS The Next Generation of Performance Management Updated 2/16/2010 Attivio® 246 Walnut Street Newton, MA 02460 o +1.857.226.5040 | f +1.857.226.5072 | e info@attivio.com www.attivio.com BI Trends: The Next Generation of Performance Management Every year, technology research firm Gartner surveys 1,500 CIOs. As has been the case for several years, the firm’s 2010 survey1 revealed that BI applications are among the top technology focus areas for CIOs. And business
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or OLAP ( /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to answering multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries swiftly.[1] OLAP is part of the broader category of business intelligence, which also encompasses relational database report writing and data mining.[2] Typical applications of OLAP include business reporting for sales, marketing, management reporting, business process management (BPM),[3] budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting and similar areas, with new applications coming up, such as agriculture
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Paper on Business Intelligence (BI) Index of Topics covered 1 What is BI 2 Applications of BI 3 Common Functions of BI 4 Requirement & Challenges of BI Implementation 5 Best Practices of BI 6 Case Study 7 Conclusion What is BI: BI is a broad category of applications and technology for gathering, storing and providing access to data to help enterprises make better decisions. It can provide information of various “Information Assets” in an organization and how
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focus our project on Sprint was based on a couple of factors. Sprint is currently the 3rd largest telecom operator in USA and with the recent take over by SoftBank the prospects to grow look promising. This provides a clear opportunity to help the business grow using analytics. Secondly because of our connections in the company we were able to get more information on Sprint’s analytics strategy and future plans. Recommendations Sprint Telecom is part of an industry, which is one of the largest
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After looking over Teradata University I found lots of materials that could be helpful, such as articles and power points explaining how business intelligence is used outside of college, as well as career connections, helping students find a career or know where to start looking. I also found many topics that interested me. I have listed the top 20 things that interested me and why; 1. E-Commerce- everything is moving online and to get peoples attention you need an easy, but powerful website
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BI MATURITY Norfolk Southern Travels the BI Track Hugh J. Watson, Barbara H. Wixom, and Linda Richardson Business intelligence (BI) managers must be both reactive and proactive. They must be reactive because a change in the business environment can lead to changes in the business strategy, which in turn leads to new BI requirements. They must be proactive because the demand for new BI capabilities requires having the people, processes, and technology in place to meet the demand. For the environment-strategy-BI
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BU/departments to serve - Real Estate & Construction, Marketing, Human Resources, Supply Chain, IT . Key Responsibilities a. Provide financial vision, insight and strategy, and lead annual business planning and budgeting process b. Monthly rolling forecasting (income projection) c. Quarterly business review and monthly financial commentary & presentation d. Provide key decision support via Pre and Post analysis of :- Capital Expenditure/Lease (new store development and re-imaging
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