Business Intelligence Status Report
by Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic
Spurred by government mandates for more business transparency, business intelligence has emerged to extract information from ERP systems. How has BI emerged? What does the terminology surrounding it mean, and what is… Read the Article…
The Perfect Order--Inside-Out or Outside-In?
by Olin Thompson
The Perfect Order measurement has proven to be a powerful measurement of a business. Should The Perfect Order be defined from an internal point of view or from a customer point of view . . . inside-out or outside-in? Read the Article…
What's Really Driving Business Intelligence?
by Christopher Kenton
Typical explanations given for increased spending in business intelligence include, meeting government regulations, managing information overload, tracking corporate goals, and improving competitive response. However, a… Read the Article…
Business Intelligence Success, Lessons Learned
by Olin Thompson
Is business intelligence (BI) an application that pays off? We have all heard mixed results but a 2003 extensive study on on-line analytical processing (OLAP) states that BI usually pays off over 60 percent of the time… Read the Article…
Mid-market Getting the Taste of Some Emerging Technologies
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Fledgling smart enterprise suite, business activity monitoring, and business process management technologies hold significant potential for end user organizations as they can accelerate the velocity of the business and… Read the Article…