How confident are you in your current data gathering methods? Is it taking longer for your team to interpret your data because you have tricky graphs, charts and projections? When was the last time you considered replacing your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software?
Data Shouldn’t Be Confusing. Here Are 4 Ways to Simplify Yours.
Your business is in a rut. Sales are plateauing, but they’re at a low level. The sales season hasn’t changed, but for some reason you can’t quite put your finger on why your company’s sales has come to a standstill. It’s instances like these where the investment in a business intelligence solution will come in… Read more »
5 Things to Look for in Your BI Solution
In today’s age of business, there are several resources for the workplace that aim to help you run your business easier and more smoothly. And if you’re in the market for a business intelligence (BI) solution to capture and analyze your company statistics, there are some important factors you must consider before investing in a… Read more »
Happy Anniversary Business Impact!
Okay, it feels like I’m a school kid, feeling a little giddy about our 9th birthday of Business Impact. To be honest, I started the company mainly to escape a setting where I felt the skills of business intelligence were vastly underappreciated. But today so many appreciate what we do – clients, co-workers, prospects, colleagues.… Read more »
6 ways to avoid scope creep in your next BI project
One of the greatest threats to a successful Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project is scope creep, and the consequence is often a poor return on investment – or even failure, if not managed properly. We define “scope creep” simply as having a project scope that increases in size due to initially unintended or unanticipated changes to requirements and… Read more »
ViewPoints Business Intelligence Event was a Success!
We want to thank all of our clients and partners that made ViewPoints business intelligence event a success in 2013. With so much changing in the business intelligence world, the day was spent discussing, presenting and learning new concepts in BI. A few highlights from the ViewPoints event:[quote align=”right” color=”#999999″]”You put on a great venue.… Read more »
Filter Reports in Report Manager using Keywords
Microsoft’s Report Manager has already proven its capabilities as a powerful frontend portal, for easy distribution of reports to the business. The folder based interface in a browser makes navigation intuitive and comfortable for most users (even the “technical challenged”!) and allows for great flexibility on security settings down to the individual report, folder or… Read more »
Hiding Unrelated Dimensions in a BI Tool!
A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Hide Unrelated Dimensions in a BI Tool. The main power of OLAP viewers (Business Intelligence Tools) is the ability for employees to do Ad Hoc reporting and analysis. If one simply chooses the measures and dimensions they want to look at, the tool will return the data they are requesting from… Read more »
Microsoft’s Master Data Management as a system?
Master Data Management (MDM) is important because dirty data means poor adoption, poor decisions and poor BI, but to think of it as a separate system is very difficult.[quote align=”right” color=”#999999″]Imagine SAP having to accept that the MDM team had chosen the global part code for a product will be X (as assigned by other… Read more »
Stock out counts and other inventory balances
A client recently asked why their measure for Zero Inventory Counts (stock out counts) was running long, and you’d think getting a list of times you didn’t have inventory would be easy. Except, it depends on how you are figuring that out. For them it is very slow because they are not using a balances… Read more »
