It is not surprising how pervasive Excel is in business today, despite many discussions about whether this is a good thing on not, in helping companies deliver on their BI initiatives. No matter what efforts are made to implement solutions that ultimately deliver information in what I call proprietary formats, most users end up exporting […]

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I have been asked on numerous occasions which option is better, should a Vendor or End User select the Enablement or Training route when learning a new product. My opinion is that Enablement and Training, though closely related, are really quite different options and that they each meet different needs. Training meets the initial learning […]

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Anybody else wondering how social networking applies to their business? If we sell Business Intelligence Solutions what relevance does Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and the rest have to my solution. What if the average demographic profile of your target market is  likely to be more familiar with a mouse as a rodent than a mouse as control to enter a second […]

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One thing that the best business schools and training organisations don’t teach is how enablement drives software adoption. What is enablement? Where does it fit in? Isn’t it just normal product training? How much of a software vendors expense budget should be allocated to enablement resources and capacity?

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Barack Obama swept to victory in the US presidential elections on the back of a very slick political campaign which was unprecedented in its use of the web as a tool to attract votes, but George W Bush was probably more powerful because of his access to funds and his family’s name being so intricately […]

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The world of online marketing is ripe with opportunities to connect to many and varied customers on a global scale but is equally fraught with the possibility of confusing your prospect. Almost to a point where failing to understand your customers requirements or using inappropriate methods to connect to them can cause serious and irreparable […]

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What would the Oscars of the BI world look like? Would the big production houses that have dominated the industry for years be at the top of the nominations list, or would an unconventional upstart lead the list of nominations from their peer group? Isn’t it fascinating to watch how Slumdog Millionaire has generated so […]

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Hands up please all of those “salt of the earth” small to mid sized business owners who need and want a simple solution to their Business Intelligence requirements. Nothing fancy or excessive or crammed with an acronym loaded sales pitch. Something that creates efficiency for you, gives you great visibility of the important matters that […]

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That’s a question we are constantly asking and can only speculate at this stage. For various reasons we don’t believe so but time will tell. Having provided BI solution to the mid sized space , and specifically working with FD’s and FM’s of businesses, for as many businesses as we have, we have learnt that […]

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I was recently asked a number of questions by John Stokdyk who is the Technology Editor of Siftmedia in Bristol regarding our new technology offering in the cloud. Specifically, he enquired as to whether our reporting service at www.mymonthlyreports.com is a gimmick or a real part of our future plans. I thought this was a […]

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