Intelligent Analytics
What’s Your Dashboard “Type?”
To stay competitive, organizations need Business Intelligence (or accurate, actionable information about key business metrics). Performance dashboards come into play next by serving…
Driving Category Management with Sales & Marketing Analytics
Category Management is a function that helps suppliers develop a category purchase marketing strategy for an individual retail account that best meets…
What Do BI Tools Really Do For You?
After years and thousands of deployments, it’s time to look back and reflect on the real benefits of Business Intelligence. The…
Driving Business Performance with Analytics
Have you investigated ways to improve your company’s operational performance on more than one occasion, but been challenged with having the right…
Are Retailer-Demanded Price Cuts Killing Your Bottom Line?
Here are some cost reduction tips to help offset the financial impact of lowered retailer purchase pricing Organizations today are spending as much…
CFOs: Taking Charge with Analytics
So much has been written about the promise of business analytics to analyze data for competitive advantage. But, who should own analytics?…
Good Visibility Drives Enterprise Performance
There is an old cliché that says “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” While that is certainly true, the real…
Are Customers Getting Ready to Stray From the Fold?
6 Ways That Manufacturers Can Exploit Business Metrics To Maintain Customer Satisfaction What a sinking feeling when you find out that your…
The Problem with Spreadsheets for BI
All of us at times have extended the use of spreadsheets past their intended application ― frequently into the world of database…
Dashboard Design: 5 Pitfalls to Avoid
As the benefits of performance measurement become more broadly known, analysts are seeing a tremendous uptick in the number of organizations that…