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Why Mid-Sized Businesses should invest in an integrated Excel-based Business Intelligence solution: Reason No. 1

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Business Intelligence (BI) will give companies a competitive advantage during the next decade and there are many compelling reasons why mid-sized businesses should make it a priority to invest in an integrated Excel-based BI solution sooner rather than later. Below is just one reason why mid-market enterprises need BI. Reason 1: Automate reporting processes All […]

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5 reasons why SMMEs should invest in an Alchemex Business Intelligence solution

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ALCHEMEX is the leading developer, enabler and support-provider of affordable Excel-based Business Intelligence (BI) software for small to medium enterprises.  Alchemex reporting software provides an integrated, automated, and Excel-based BI solution, presenting preformatted drillable Excel reports, executable at the click of a button. As more and more small and medium enterprises recognize the need for […]

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Why Small Businesses should invest in an integrated Excel-based Business Intelligence solution: Reason No. 5

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Typically the barriers to adoption of BI are cost and complexity. Small businesses face tighter budgets, less sophistication and fewer people. An integrated BI solution makes deployment rapid without any IT hurdles, allowing for an immediate return on investment. Because it is a module of your existing accounting package, no new relationships or extensive IT […]

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Why Small Businesses should invest in an integrated Excel-based Business Intelligence solution: Reason No. 4

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All companies face constant pressure to increase profitability, improve cash flow, reduce costs, and reduce risk in order to improve financial performance. The ability to make good decisions and proactively solve issues is crucial to success at every level of an organization, every day. And as smaller companies grow or face stiffer competition, the need […]

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Why Small Businesses should invest in an integrated Excel-based Business Intelligence solution: Reason No. 3

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It is a must for a small business to have the commercial intelligence to understand and act upon market trends for their products and services. For a big corporate, developing and introducing a product in the market based upon misread market interpretations will not necessarily become a survival problem. But if a small business makes […]

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Why Small Businesses should invest in an integrated Excel-based Business Intelligence solution: Reason No. 2

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Small businesses, in most cases, need to be agile and responsive in order to gain and maintain a competitive edge. An integrated Business Intelligence (BI) solution successfully addresses the number one pain point of many business software end users – reporting that is inadequate and inflexible – making it a necessity in today’s aggressive market […]

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SMMEs will need BI to flourish as the economy recovers

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Small business is usually the bright spot in any recovering economy. As the economy emerges from the recession, business owners may well grow their companies which means that they will need to look for small business software to automate certain operations and scale for growth. Business Intelligence (BI) could become essential for SMMEs to reduce growing pains in the face of prosperity. The many benefits from a low-cost, quick to deploy business intelligence solution that delivers trusted information in the familiar face of Excel could be just what the recession doctor ordered for SMMEs to flourish.

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Gartner speaks same BI language as Alchemex

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At Gartner Inc.’s annual Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas last week, the white flag was waved on using Excel for BI. Gartner analysts and BI managers said that efforts to stop Excel BI use were bound to fail and that the use of Excel as a BI tool is inevitable.

This is what BI vendor Alchemex has been saying for the last eight years: For SMMEs especially, BI in Excel is the route to go.

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Does MS Excel play a role in BI?

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There is a real need amongst small and mid-sized organisations for meaningful data to facilitate better decision-making to ultimately drive organisational performance. Many “what if” decisions made every day, in businesses of all sizes, are based on spreadsheets. Yet control over spreadsheets—and the accuracy of data they contain—remains low, risking the quality of decision-making. The […]

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