...as BI, is a general term, which refers to various software applications used in the analysis of an organization’s raw data. Business Intelligence as a discipline comprises of various related activities, which include data mining, internet-based analytical processing, reporting, and querying. Business organizations use BI in order to improve in decision-making, reduce costs of operation, and identify new business opportunities. Companies use BI in order to identify inefficient business processes, which need re-engineering. With the current BI tools, business organizations can take the role of analyzing their data by themselves instead of waiting for IT systems to run complex reports. BI enhances the democratization of information access, which is helpful for users when it comes to information back-up. Even though BI holds the future of business solutions, its implementation in a business organization can pose technical and cultural challenges. The organization’s administration must ensure that BI applications used to feed data are clean and consistent in order to be trusted. BI is made up of a set of theories, procedures, technologies, and architectures, which are used to transform raw data and information into meaningful and useful data and information for use in business operations. BI is effective in handling huge amounts of unstructured data and information. It helps in identifying, developing, and creating new opportunities for the business ventures in the industry. BI is...
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...S P JAIN SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT - INDUSTRY INTERFACE PROJECTS ACTION LEARNING PROGRAM - CORPORATE SPONSOR FORM – PROJECT DETAILS I. ORGANIZATION DELTAILS NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION : KMS OFFICE ADDRESS : 1091 Lower Delta Road #03-01/02, Singapore 169202 PROJECT SPONSOR (S): NAME : DESIGNATION : Liva Paudere Marketing Manager EMAIL CONTACT DETAILS : liva@kms-world.com TELEPHONE CONTACT DETAILS : 93882865 POINT OF CONTACT FROM HR : N/A CONTACT DETAILS : II. PROJECT DELTAILS BRIEF BACKGROUND ABOUT THE PROJECT : The importance of Interactive/self-service Business Intelligence for fulfilling and exceeding Corporate Social Responsibility commitments BI application, and performance metrics can be directly linked to strategic CSR goals — and ownership for each metric can be clearly defined for greater departmental accountability. Integrated Ad Hoc queries provide real-time access to the information needed to make critical business decisions. CSR Reporting and BI also offers performance management features including scorecards and dashboards, and advanced views of critical metrics. BI methodologies are natural partners with companies wanting to become better corporate citizens and leaders for corporate social responsibility. BI is used to measure financial performance, supply chain, personnel and much more. BI has a role to play to help company executives determine if they are meeting their CSR goals – whether green...
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...is a component within a system. For businesses to survive, the function of the degree in which businesses thrive sync with the environment. Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful information which is useful and this helps enable more effective, strategic, tactical, operational insights and decision-making. BI system is considered an independent system and at CTCC, it had been deployed locally as a middleman to pave the way for business decision making. BI system is a part of Management Information Systems where it deals a lot with reporting but it makes decisions and the functional system that strongly connects with the BI system is the DSS (Decision Support Systems) where decisions are made by managers. A Decision Support System analyzes the business data and presents it to the users to make business decision easily. On a general perspective, both these systems refer to tools, methods, activities which gather and deliver data for end-users to be used for making better decisions. DSS and BI both emphasize informed decision making based on data driven information. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) brings all the business processes together and an important goal of ERP is to facilitate the flow of information so that business decisions can be data-driven. A system of integrated applications manage the business. ERP is used by larger businesses and hence, the ERP software is an enterprise...
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...significance of implementing accomplishments of the objectives characterized by their business methods through BI ideas. It depicts the experiences on the part and necessity of constant BI by analyzing the business needs. BI has two essential various implications identified with the utilization of the term Intelligence. The important, less frequently is the human intelligence applied in business issues/activities. Business intelligence is a new field of the analysis of the application of human cognitive to the administration and choice in different business issues. The paper gives the idea of BI, types of BI, open source software, review on some popular open source tools of BI, and Benefits. Open Source Business Intelligence Tools Business intelligence is a technology driven procedure for analyzing information and displaying significant data to help corporate administrators, business chiefs and other clients to make more informed business decisions. The process of taking substantial measures of data, examining that data, displaying a high level set of reports that gather the essence of that data into the premise of business activities, and empowering administrations to settle on major day by day business choices. BI as way and system for enhancing business performance by giving capable assists for executives to empower them to have actionable data at hand. BI tools are seen as technology that change the productivity of business operation by giving an expanded worth to the...
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...Making Business Intelligence Easy White Paper Mobile Business Intelligence and Analytics Mobile Business Intelligence & Analytics Contents Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 What is Mobile Business Intelligence?......................................................................................................... 4 Who is it for? ................................................................................................................................................ 5 What are the external factors driving Mobile Business Intelligence? ........................................................... 6 What are the internal drivers for Mobile Business Intelligence? .................................................................. 7 What benefits are sought? ........................................................................................................................... 8 What organizational factors are required? ................................................................................................... 9 What technology has to underpin a Mobile Business Intelligence initiative? ............................................. 10 Security is paramount ................................................................................................................................ 11 Yellowfin’s Mobile Business Intelligence platform...
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...Introduction: We now live in an era of information overload. Nowadays, most Business Intelligence (BI) applications till now have focussed on managing the strategic and tactical business methods and initiatives of organizations. Without Business Intelligence, an organization runs the danger of settling on discriminating choices focused around deficient or wrong data. Settling on choices focused around "gut feel" won't take care of business! One of the fastest BI growth area, lies in its use for managing and optimizing daily business solutions and operations that include overseeing database workloads that answer a mixture of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)-like questions and additional business insight enquiries. This paper stresses on the importance of operational Business Intelligence in organizations that are not very well equipped to implement BI, and looks at the necessities for building and deploying an operational BI framework. The three main types of BI are - Strategic - Tactical and - Operational. Operational BI is concerned mainly with overseeing and optimizing everyday business operations and solutions. It delivers the required data or information at the right time to the right clients or users for them to tackle current business problems quickly and fulfill new business requirements. It helps organizations work smart and become nimble, which enables them to be competitive and in turn improve customer satisfaction. Inventory (Stock), Network and Risk...
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...Terabytes level. • Capacity of designing solutions around Ab Initio, with advanced skills in high performance and parallelism in Ab Initio • Data warehousing implementation experience • Knowledge of Oracle 8i/9i • Strong analytical & problem solving skills • Strong UNIX, korn shell scripting experience. • Experience in leading a team of ETL developers • Experience in co-coordinating with offshore on development/ maintenance projects Work Location Bangalore, Chennai, Pune Requirement Cognos Lead/ Architect Experience 5-10years Qualification B.E/B. Tech/MCA/ME/M. Tech Candidate Requirement • Extensive Experience & Expertise on Business Intelligence, DW • Min. 3 years of hands on experience with Cognos toolsets, Cognos architecture. • Must have hands on experience on Cognos Report Studio , Cognos Analysis Studio , Metrics Studio , and Cognos 8 portals • Must have experience in building large data warehousing and BI applications. Able to gather requirements, and the ability to lead. Design, Develop, configure and optimize Cognos reports, cubes and dashboards. Have an understanding of logical and physical database design / modeling. Experience with dimensional modeling is a must. Hands on experience to working with SQL...
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...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 emergence of Business Intelligence (BI). A well implemented BI can bring manifold benefits to an organization. However, the implantation is resource intensive and complex, with success dependent upon various critical success factors. The successful implementation of BI depends upon several factors. Indian organizations hesitate to adopt BI as they feel higher risks are involved and the returns are not assured in India. The demands of the industry may vary in time in India. Indian firms are of opinion that the products have limited amount of customization paradigm, hence greater complexity involved to adopt BI. This paper focuses on two aspects of BI in India: prospects and challenges. It tries to identify the major issues and concerns in successfully implementing BI in India. A business is operated with the objective of making a profit from the sale of goods or services. Business Intelligence enables the comprehension, understanding and profit from experience. Business data and information...
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...and enhance test data staging/back-up/restore strategy. Analyze and report performance test results. Advise on QA environment configurations to achieve reliable results. Setup performance monitoring scripts, reports and alerts. Develop Automation Test scripts Using: Winrunner, QTP, TestPartner, TestComplete, Selenium, Cubic Test, WebUI Test Studio & IBM Rational Functional Tester Work closely with Operations staff, to ensure the correct O/S and Application Servers settings are applied. Work closely with System Architect to determine the non-functional requirements of the system. Using Mercury QC, PM, Test Director, QTP and Load Runner tools Doing (Regression, SIT, Functional, Manual, Automation and Performance Testing) Analyze the project documents Provide test strategy and plan documents Derive Load testing requirements Derive Load testing scripts Execute Load tests Monitoring with BAC tool Analyze Load testing results Provide regular testing feedback to the relevant stakeholders Maintain Load test scripts Provide a sign off recommendation To be able to use appropriate tools and applications to during the testing process White and Black Box Testing. Assume overall responsibility for testing strategy, framework and execution Implement testing processes and procedures Produce functional and non- functional test plans Perform testing according to technology defined standards, and report variations Produce the system test...
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...business intelligence (BI) software. The effort was intended to help SYSCO, the largest food distributor in North America, make better use of the information generated by its operations and serve its customers better. The Director’s Council, a group of senior managers with substantial power and influence, had been impressed enough by the results of a prototype to recommend full-scale adoption. Day’s IT group would provide the bulk of the required technical support, as well as consulting and training on the use of BI. They would be assisted in this work by the professional services group of Business Objects, the BI software vendor chosen by SYSCO as the new corporate standard. While there was a great deal of development and configuration work to do on the BI software, Day was hoping that deployments within SYSCO’s operating companies could start as early as July 2003, just six months away. Day was not concerned about the magnitude of the effort—she had been involved in two recent successful IT projects that were both larger in scale and scope—but she did intend to watch progress closely, especially in the early stages. She felt that BI was unlike other types of enterprise software in use within the company, and she wanted to see how it was received and what controversies, if any, arose. The prototype development effort had been remarkably smooth, and she was eager to make sure the full project continued this happy trend. She also had to decide exactly how much BI software to buy from...
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...BI – Migration from Business Objects to Cognos |Umesh Ashok | |Tata Consultancy Services | |Mumbai | |umesh.ashok@tcs.com | ABSTRACT This White paper describes the POC Experience of migrating reports from Business Object XI R2 to Cognos BI 8.3 It highlights the challenges, solutions and best practices implemented for seamless transition TARGET AUDIENCE Cognos Architect and Developers of BO to Cognos Migration project PRE REQUISTIC Knowledge of Cognos BI 8.3, Business Objects XI R2 and RDBMS Databases. INTRODUCTION XYZ uses Business Object as a reporting tool to develop and deliver reports to the business to analyze the data. XYZ wants to upgrade these BO reports into Cognos reports using Cognos 8 BI suite. Existing BO Reports presented quite a challenge for migration because of many reasons like diverse formats of reports and multiple interfaces. Cognos BI environment is available with the XYZ. Prime goal to migrate BO reports...
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...(HRIS) Project Communication Plan GenRays 01/19/13 Table of Contents Communication Plan 3 Communication with Stakeholders 4 Communication Plan The Attached Stakeholder Analysis was used as an input for creating the Communication Plan. Communication Type|Author or Originator|Required Date or Frequency|Key Internal/ ExternalStakeholders|Action Required(I,C,A)|Comments| Bi-Weekly Status Report|Project Manager|Bi-Weekly|Project Sponsor|A|Bi-Weekly project status with sponsor to ensure good communication and prevent project delays.| Monthly Status Reports|Project Manager|Monthly|Project Sponsor,Senior Leadership,Business Units| A|Monthly reports on project progress for Senior Leadership.| Formal Meetings|Project Manager|As Needed|Project Sponsor,Senior Leadership,Project Team,Vendors|C|Formal Meetings when needed throughout the project for various stakeholders.| Online SharePoint Site Access|Project Manager|Monthly|Project Sponsor,Senior Leadership, Project Team,Business Units|C|Website access to documentation and status documents.| Newsletter|Rory Genhardt|Quarterly|GenRaysEmployees|I|This will Inform GenRays employees of progress on HRIS project.| Mailing List|Project Manager|As Needed|Project Sponsor,Senior Leadership,Project Team,Vendors |C|Most project communication to be handled through email. Communication with vendors will help avoid project delays.| Weekly Status Report|Functional Managers, Direct Reports|Weekly|Project...
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...Communication Plan Template GenRay’s HRIS System Project Communication Plan GenRays 1 November 2013 Document|Author or Originator|Required Date or Frequency|Key Internal/ ExternalStakeholders|Action Required(I,C,A)|Comments| Ongoing Project Status/ Records|Project Team Members|Daily or as Change is made|All Stakeholders|I|Project will be tracked on SharePoint Portal. All task/ milestone updates will be made by team members daily so Management can view overall status at any time. Issues are also tracked here, minor issues will be documented although no approval needed.| Project Report|PM|Monthly|Select Team Leads, Senior Leaders|A|Team members will be present once per month to discuss project in person and answer any specifics that arose from daily project status. Check is progress is meeting Stakeholder expectations. Major issues are identified, discussed, and approved here| Resource Meeting|PM|Bi-Weekly|Project Team, mid-level leaders|C|Team will meet bi-weekly to discuss progress and resource status. This will determine if budget or other resources will need to be changed and request will result from this meeting| Performance Report|Section Leaders|Bi-Weekly|Team Leads|C|Leads will meet immediately following Resource Meeting to discuss performance of employees and the project to identify required changes| Process Meeting|Section POC|As needed|Related Personnel|A|Prior to a major task/ milestone, previously identified personnel will meet to discuss plan...
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...intelligence (BI) software. The effort was intended to help SYSCO, the largest food distributor in North America, make better use of the information generated by its operations and serve its customers better. The Director’s Council, a group of senior managers with substantial power and influence, had been impressed enough by the results of a prototype to recommend full-scale adoption. Day’s IT group would provide the bulk of the required technical support, as well as consulting and training on the use of BI. They would be assisted in this work by the professional services group of Business Objects, the BI software vendor chosen by SYSCO as the new corporate standard. While there was a great deal of development and configuration work to do on the BI software, Day was hoping that deployments within SYSCO’s operating companies could start as early as July 2003, just six months away. Day was not concerned about the magnitude of the effort—she had been involved in two recent successful IT projects that were both larger in scale and scope—but she did intend to watch progress closely, especially in the early stages. She felt that BI was unlike other types of enterprise software in use within the company, and she wanted to see how it was received and what controversies, if any, arose. The prototype development effort had been remarkably smooth, and she was eager to make sure the full project continued this happy trend. She also had to decide exactly how much BI...
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...Institute of Science & Tech., Islamabad, Pakistan rizince@yahoo.com, mnak2010@gmail.com Abstract Knowledge Management (KM), either in a tacit or explicit form, plays an important role in decision making. Business Intelligence (BI) has acquired significant importance in the business world due to the recent technological advancements and availability of state-of-theart software tools. Presently, most of the organizations across the globe are adopting BI solutions to promote business, retain customers, earn maximum profits, reduce recurring expenditures, etc. KM, on the other hand, has not gained significant acknowledgement from an implementation perspective. Moreover, the effect of BI on KM and vice versa is rarely observed. In this paper, we propose a model where KM and BI can benefit from each other. Since both of the said fields have a wide range of features, the proposed model is based on specific features. For that purpose, we have identified a number of Critical Success Factors (CSFs) related to both BI and KM technologies reported in contemporary research. Afterwards, we have drawn a comparison pertinent to the effectiveness of these CSFs with the similar research studies. The comparison shows that our model that combines both BI and KM technologies is more useful as compared to their individual utilization. Keywords: Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Tacit Knowledge, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Organizational Learning 1. Introduction ...
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