Posts Tagged ‘on-demand business analytics’

How to Select Integration Partners, the DMA Way

April 14th, 2010

dykeh

Just a quick post following the Computerworld SaaScon 2010 conference in Santa Clara recently …

I was very pleased by the extremely bullish outlook on cloud computing voiced at SaaSCon, especially by representatives from some of the larger companies. More than one speaker indicated that the market has reached a tipping point, where the maturity of services and software offered, combined with the current economic climate, are making the cloud much more attractive to large companies. Some, like Bob Sala, CEO of Distribution Marketing Advantage, stressed that moving to the cloud is now a strategic imperative. (more…)

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The New BI…is about to get really interesting!

February 12th, 2010

qgallivan

Imagine being able to help your executive team anticipate and address hotspots in your business, spending less time chasing data and building reports and more time measuring the precise aspects that matter most to you; collaborating online with communities of experts (colleagues, customers, suppliers); discovering insights that allow you to improve profitability, capitalize on growth opportunites and innovate faster! Now you can do this quickly, cost-effectively and without burdening IT. This is the New BI – an emerging paradigm for analytics designed around the way people really work, share information and make decisions.  All powered by solutions from PivotLink and PivotLink partners.

The New BI is in the cloud and benefits from the inherent advantages of this computing model (affordable, agile, quickly deployable, high bandwidth, “always on”, extend more kinds of data to more users). Most importantly, the New BI isn’t shackled behind the four walls of an organization. It goes well beyond and helps individuals extend their network far and fast enough to get timely insights and answers to their operational and strategic questions. The New BI goes beyond analysis and reporting and ventures into the realm of true collaborative decision making. Web 2.0 social tools wrapped around the New BI have the ability to quickly collect and spread knowledge, connect people who would otherwise have remained unaware of each other, harness their collective intelligence and enhance individual decision making.

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Dynamic Insight and Decision-making Becomes the “New Normal”

November 5th, 2009

qgallivan

As companies continue to focus on managing costs and capital in these challenging economic times, the need to turn reams of data into actionable business insight has never been more imperative. Business leaders are now challenged to get more productivity from the same or fewer amounts of people resources as well as manage inventories and demand forecasting to the highest level of accuracy. As companies plan growth strategies to take advantage of the future economic recovery, their efforts will be guided by dynamic, granular insight from across the business. Using that information to make decisions at the speed of business will become the “new normal” in a post-recession economy.

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On-demand BA Defined

October 23rd, 2009

chingw

BA is not a new acronym. It is short for business analytics. On-demand business analytics (BA), however, is new and I want to give you PivotLink’s perspective on why on-demand BA is becoming increasingly relevant to business users and organizations across industries.

Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives have been high on enterprise IT’s priority list for decades.  There are countless on-premise BI tools in the market today.  In spite of all the advances in hardware and computing capability, BI implementations continue to be the most challenging IT projects, filled with broken promises, low user adoption and poor ROI.  Instead of creating an enterprise-wide view of the business, current practices typically result in a proliferation of complex information silos that are hard to build and maintain.  Worse yet, they become the very source of information bottleneck and the dreaded multiple versions of the truth problem that they are supposed to fix.  Instead of helping IT to deliver timely and accurate information to decision makers, they become a significant source of distraction for precious IT resources and CAPEX.

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