...University of Phoenix CIS/207 Business Intelligence Systems or (BIS) for short is a wonderful support information system that is and should be used in all business organizations. Business Intelligence Systems assists organization managers and professionals in determining the analysis of current and past activities, and aids them to predict future events in the organization or business. This leaves room and time for strategic planning processes in the organization. Business Intelligence Systems mostly carries the weight of strategic and well analyzed decision making. This is a system that any business organization should take into consideration, due to the fact that it promotes the opportunity for organizations to acquire, extract, and analyze data for beneficial information. Business Intelligence Systems gives organization managers and professionals the ability to acquire and determine solutions to a vast amount of future organization scenarios and complications. This aids in the rendering of the best possible result or outcome so that upper management in an organization can take action. Utilizing Business Intelligence Systems is the best way for higher management in organizations to make or determine accurate decisions for their organizations; the ability for upper management to use this system leads any organization to success. Most organizations tend to capitalize due to the benefits brought by utilizing the Business Intelligence System. Any organization can benefit...
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...There are many software packages that one may use in order to make the best decisions for your business. Many popular software packages include; Cognos, Tableau, Information Builders, Saas, and Microsoft Reporting Services. Each of these provide the individual with many different functions including strengths and weaknesses and ease of use to learn. Many of them are more expensive and therefore more reliable when deciding on what software to use to better your business. From business intelligence to financial performance and strategy management to analytics applications, Cognos software can provide what your organization needs to become top-performing and analytics-driven. With products for the individual, workgroup, department, midsize business and large enterprise, Cognos software is designed to help everyone in your organization make the decisions that achieve better business outcomes—for now and in the future. Cognos is IBM's business intelligence (BI) and performance management software suite. (Boylan) The software is designed to enable business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports. Cognos is composed of nearly three dozen software products. (Boylan) Because Cognos is built on open standards, the software products can be used with relational and multidimensional data sources from multiple vendors, including Microsoft, NCR Teradata, SAP and Oracle. Import, merge and analyze data on your desktop, including personal...
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...BERKLEY WAGONFELD Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO Introduction Twila Day left the meeting excited, but also a little nervous. Her Technology and Applications Group had just been given approval by the Director’s Council of SYSCO to proceed with a companywide deployment of 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...
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...WAGONFELD Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO Introduction Twila Day left the meeting excited, but also a little nervous. Her Technology and Applications Group had just been given approval by the Director’s Council of SYSCO to proceed with a companywide deployment of 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...
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...1. Why does SYSCO need BI? SYSCO needs Business Intelligence to increase efficiency by organizing information generated by its operations. SYSCO has two different divisions, the broad-line companies and the specialty companies, which have separated profit and loss statements. With the use of BI, people can easily access the statements between these different divisions. There is a lack of consistency between part numbers, customer identifications, order statuses, and other important information which makes it difficult for managers to monitor and compare performance. 2. How can SYSCO take advantage of BI? Business Intelligence can be advantageous to SYSCO by providing statistical analysis, graphical representations and access to important data. With the use of dashboards, users at every level can easily access summaries of important information. BI software can combine data from separate warehouses and databases to help managers make better business decisions. With all the information centralized, managers save time when accessing other divisions’ databases. BI uses data mining to automatically sort through large pools of data to determine trends and patterns that could have otherwise been overlooked by managers. 3. What are the potential obstacles? The potential obstacle of Business Intelligence implementation is determining how much software to buy and when to buy it. SYSCO needs to determine the correct balance of software with the current needs of the company....
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...Jacob Moore GBA 673 Business Intelligence Jacob Moore GBA 673 Dr. Lara Preiser-Houy, CDP August 20th, 2013 1|Page Jacob Moore GBA 673 Table of Contents Abstract ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Background ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Conceptualization ..................................................................................................................................... 4 BI 1.0 ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 BI 2.0 ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 BI 3.0 ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Opportunities ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Challenges ........................................
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...BI Software at SYSCO BI Software at SYSCO Business Intelligence SOFWARE at SYSCO 1. What will be the biggest obstacles faced by the business intelligence implementation as it expands throughout SYSCO? A) Highly Decentralised Business: SYSCO was a highly decentralized business composed of over 100 operating companies. The process of Business intelligence implementation calls for centralized architecture and data/information sharing. The success of SYSCO has been predominantly due to the autonomous functionality given to the operating companies. Though, BI calls for a centralized approach, a conflict between the two approaches will have to be managed in a constructive way. B) Implementation Timeline: Twila Day wanted that the deployments within SYSCO operating companies should start as early as July 2003, just 6 months away. So, the time vs. effectiveness dilemma will come up. C) Various ERP systems: Even after implementation of a centralized ERP in 2003, most specialty companies still had their legacy systems in place and this meant that the information was not consistent across all parts of the corporation. D) Small Scale BI applications: Some of the companies across the organization had already small BI applications in place for the decentralised structure that they had. It will be difficult to manage along with these BI applications and also it will be very hard to squash out these applications to have a consistent BI application across the corporation...
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...Cloud Business Intelligence 1 Cloud Business Intelligence A Research Project Submitted as part of Final exam for BMGT531 By Praneeth Pabbaraju (ID # 111-00-3655) Naveen Veeramachaneni (ID # 111-00-2643) Narasimha Naidu Madireddy( ID # 110-00-4194) BMGT 531, Business Intelligence Spring 2012, Section 1260 Professor Paul Jaikaran University of Northern Virginia Cloud Business Intelligence 2 Business Intelligence: The term Business Intelligence was coined by Hans Peter Luhn of IBM wherein he describes the Business Intelligences as ability to find the interrelationships among the available data and guide the set of actions to reach the desired goal. What all an organization needs to be a leader in the market is information. Information can be available in large forms like web resources, text data, graphs and statistics. The more information a firm has the more powerful it is getting on. Firms need to assess the future market condition with the available previous and present data so as to be a leader. The major goal of Business Intelligence is to dwell in all the available information, refine it and organize it in such a way that right information is passed to right people through the right way. Now, data can be in vast amounts, of which some might be useful and some might not be useful. Business intelligence tools like reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management...
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...Integrating Business Intelligence with the Enterprise Course Overview This course will look at the problems enterprises face with regard to i) The integration of business intelligence (‘BI’) software with other enterprise information systems, ii) The significance of a data model in BI and iii) The bottlenecks that prevent easy production and dissemination of BI. We will be using, as an example, the BI features of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, namely SQL Server Analysis Services and SQL Server Reporting Services. However, it is not necessary for you to acquaint yourselves with either of these: the course will stress general principles and will merely use the software products as illustrative examples. I shall be concentrating on two substantive areas of BI, namely On-Line Analytical Processing (‘OLAP’) and ad hoc Reporting. I have chosen to use OLAP in order to illustrate what happens when the data source is more complex than the simple tabular structures of relational databases. I have chosen ad hoc Reporting because it is hugely important in industry and commerce and is very costly and time-consuming for many enterprises. When OLAP is used in conjunction with ad hoc Reporting, the result is known as “Dimensional Reporting”. The BI reports that are made possible by this approach go beyond the simple tabular reports associated with traditional database systems. The course will emphasise the importance of design in BI. However, we shall not...
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...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 endeavor information...
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...Information networks and business intelligence: decision locus and political hotbed By: Julie Stephens Case, Module 2 ITM 501: Mgt. Info. Syst. And Bus. Strategy Trident University Dr. James Marion, Core Professor October 25, 2011 To have a successful organization in today’s economy; employees must be given the tools needed to keep up with the changing market. Many top executives have made tough decisions and have made good decisions and poor decisions along the way regarding Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence (BI) is a term that refers to a variety of software applications used to analyze an organization’s data. It is a discipline made up of several activities, including data mining, analytical processing, query and report writing. This paper will discuss two Business Intelligence case studies and lessons learned from the studies regarding creating, implementing, and using business intelligence. LESSONS LEARNED Reviewing Marshfield Clinic’s early investment in an electronic patient records system is a concern. Although many clinics are turning to electronic patient records now, an early investment may mean that the system they elected to implement is not capable with newer technologies that management may want to incorporate in the future. Not anticipating changes and making preparations for it could cause issues later. Because this system has been utilized by the clinic for a period of time, did they take into consideration...
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...System) is a software company that has been leading IT analysis since 1976. The company was started on the campus of North Carolina State University when two facility members (Jim Goodnight and John Sall), used grants provided by the United States Department of Agriculture to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data. At the time there was a need for computerized statistics programs, the grants provided allowed Goodnight, Sall and a consortium of eight land-grant universities to create the programs needed. When the grant funding came to a halt in 1972, the group of statisticians agreed to chip in $5,000 apiece each year to keep the project running. The analytical software was licensed by pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, banks, and also by the academic community that had given birth to the project ("SAS Company Stats," n.d.). With a growing customer base that already numbered close to 100 academic, government and corporate entities, it was evident that success as an independent operation was possible. Goodnight, Sall and two other facility members decided to leave NCSU and develop SAS Institute Inc. - – a private company "devoted to the maintenance and further development of statistical analysis systems." The Company’s mission is to deliver solutions that drive innovation and improve performance ("SAS Company Stats," n.d.). II. Organizational Strengths and Weaknesses A. First organizational Strength SAS Institute offers analytical software in over 24...
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...Organization’s Vision and Missions: Our Vision “Our Persistent Improvement through Continual Innovation will Enrich, Inspire and Simplify Lives“ Our Missions 1. The company will be one among many small software companies in Dhaka, Bangladesh but it will be a unique one. Unlike other small companies in locality we will have a great deal of focus on Business Intelligence (BI) solution. 2. The primary product of the company will be the development of educational software for growing number of computer users in Bangladesh. 3. The company will continually try to develop Business Intelligence (BI) skills for home and abroad. 4. Overseas selling of customized enterprise solutions will be our second most important revenue source. 5. We will retain talents, appreciate achievements and enrich our skills on regular basis. 6. Organogram: Figure 1 Organogram of Micromeria Software Solutions Figure 1 Organogram of Micromeria Software Solutions Business Environment Analysis: Marketing Environment: 1. Competitive forces – Although the software industry of Bangladesh is relatively small now (having single digit percentage contribution to national GDP) it is very rapidly growing - According to BASIS (Bangladesh Association for Software and Information Systems) statistics the domestic IT service industry market has grown at 20 to 30 percent per annum during the last few years.. According to BASIS industry statistics from 2012 there currently are...
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...Enterprise systems (ES) are large scale application software packages that support business and data analytics in complex organisations. These systems having maninted a large amount of critical and complex data are designed typically for high intensity transcation performance and high data security. Also, operational excellence could be achieved with the effective implementation of enterprise systems. This can be better understood with the given example – A customer requests company X (pharmaceutical drug manufacturing company) for information of approximate price for the order he is willing to deal with them. In this case, company X can not only address the plea of customer with the exact price but also very rapidly with the usage of an enterprise system. This task can be performed firmly as the enterprise systems help in integrating every detail such as client information, order, manufacturing, delivery, price of rawmaterials, chemical formulae, time taken in the inventory, packaging costs and many more. These enterprise systems can also be customized in special cases where the software systems doesnot appropriately suite the business needs. However, it is not advisable based on previous research in this field which showed the detoriation of the software system or low intensity performance in case of any major changes made. Thus, it is advisable to gain maximum benefit out of these enterprise system softwares by tuning them to the business of interest. Like many other systems, this enterprise...
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...Business Context/Key Business Drivers What is the business of the company and their industry position? • SYSCO corporation is involved in procuring, marketing, and distributing food and food-related products and services to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities in the United States and Canada. It is the world’s largest broadline food distributor with more than 400,000 clients in a wide array of fields. • SYSCO is belong to food wholesale industry, crowding the market along with its main competitors such as Ben E. Keith Company, Bunzl plc, and Edward Don & Company. What specific company or industry situation(s) represented the key rationale/reason (Business Drivers) for this initiative? • Information Technology is the critical business driver for SYSCO to drive the cost & time efficiency (by organizing a large number of datasets) and understand well the business pattern such as sales tracking by customers and business forecasting (by analyzing and monitoring selected datasets). Initiative Objectives/Benefits What were the key business objectives of this initiative (I.e. what specific problems were they trying to solve)? • The effort to make a better use of the large number of datasets and information generated by its 100 operating companies in order to serve its customers better. • SYSCO has already had an ERP systems and Data Warehouse to integrate business process across its operating companies and to organize large number of datas...
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