reportal is business intelligence and ERP software that supports Crystal Reports distribution, SSRS distribution, and scheduling and automation operations. The platform enables users to publish, manage, distribute and schedule Crystal and SSRS reports from a single, centralized web portal, provides full web-based report management functionalities, and provides users with a cost-effective licensing model.
Essentially, most of the really popular buzzwords ones have become cliché, and therefore make it easy for a customer to spot the sales pitch, and customers do not like to buy sales pitches. They like to buy service and products.
NEWSTAR is a enterprise resource planning software system that is designed specifically to meet the needs of residential construction and related construction business management operations. The platform provides users with a centralized system for managing multiple construction company workflow requirements including scheduling, estimating and purchasing operations, accounting and business intelligence functionality, and supports land development organization processes.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a business intelligence platform designed to make marketing simpler. The platform is made up of several different studios. The Email Studio engages customers through email campaigns with automated and personalized messages. The Mobile Studio gives users the ability to send SMS messages, push notifications and group messages and can be integrated with email strategies.
Syncapse Social Marketing Platform is a social marketing business intelligence platform designed to harness social data into actionable consumer segments. The software allows users to manage interaction across multiple channels on one interface as well as transcend disparate data sources with global oversight. The application is based on machine-driven intelligence to inform planning with standardized metrics and simple, flexible reporting. Additionally, the platform provides dashboards to visualize intelligence and to make faster decisions.
We perform our jobs better when we make smarter, faster decisions. Agile BI is a direct route to better performance because it facilitates self-service and speed. As these two elements are realized, the BI system becomes that much more important to users. Speed and self-service are two pathways to system acceptance.
Data is everywhere. Big or small, external or internal, every company seems to be feverishly hunting for the next piece of cold, hard data that will finally give them the answer that will point their company in the right direction. It might have begun in the sales world, but the desire for more metrics has come to dominate conversations about efficiency in all departments, and human resources is no exception.
FirstRain, a web-based customer intelligence platform, is announcing today their new mobile enterprise customer intelligence service–FirstRain for Touch, built upon the Salesforce Touch Platform. Not only is FirstRain for Touch meant to integrate with a business’s existing CRM system, but it also allows organizations to develop their own customer intelligence applications quickly and easily, then deploy it to their own workforce.
March 7th, 2013 | | Comments Off on The BI(G) Disappointment: Troubling Gaps Between Business Intelligence Expectations and Realities
Domo surveyed 1,064 individuals in business leadership roles in a wide variety of departments, across a large number of industries. Domo wanted to know how the average business professional feels about the information they have—or do not have—and how they are interacting with that data. The company’s internal study examined the role of business information from a number of important perspectives, including the real-time nature of data, the devices used to access the data, and how information is being consumed within the organization.
March 7th, 2013 | | Comments Off on The 7 Deadly Sins of Dashboard Design
In the new world of business intelligence (BI), the front end of an executive management platform, or dashboard, is one of several critical elements needed to maximize the value of your data and traditional BI investments. Dashboards have the ability to leverage and transform your business intelligence into the real-time at-a-glance insights you need to enhance decision-making, reduce costs, increase productivity, respond faster to market conditions, simplify process management, optimize business operations and outpace the competition. Unfortunately, too many dashboard projects fail to meet their potential as a result of organizations committing 7 common mistakes outlined in this article.