How do you take mountains of raw data and turn it into actionable business intelligence? Is there a way to do this without legions of staff and thousands of spreadsheets? And more important, how do you make sure the data is accurate and available when its needed? In this whitepaper we define the problem and outline…
Ah, the good-old eighties. The decade that gave us Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear, power ballads by Journey, and the emergence of the data warehouse. That’s right, the data warehouse! More than 30 years ago, the birth of the data warehouse allowed business leaders to adopt a set of techniques and technologies aimed at…
Software’s Ability to Play Nice with Others Saves Time, Reduces Errors and Increases Profits In a perfect world, all of your business software – CRMs, HR systems, financial systems, etc. – would integrate well with each other, allowing you to automatically extract, consolidate and report on pertinent data for the purpose of better decision-making. This…
Have you given much thought to the quality of the data you use to make decisions for your company? If the data isn’t accurate you are likely to draw the wrong conclusion. How can you be sure that the hours reported for a specific project are accurate? You might decide to commit more resources to…