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Most successful businesses use a Sales Trend Analysis to report on and predict sales performance. As a small business, knowledge of this information is power! Being able to view and track Sales Trends year-on-year, as well as sales per sales representative, means that you’re kept up to date and empowered to use this information to […]
Have you ever used the VLOOKUP formula with the approximate match in Excel? By using this formula, you’re able to extract the correct trade discount percentage based on the quantity of a specific item purchased. In this tip, we demonstrate how to set this up. If TRUE or 1 is specified in the Range_lookup argument text […]
Ever pictured the most popular business reporting and analytics tools as superheroes, fighting to defend businesses against pesky misinformation? Well, our in-house business intelligence specialist, Nigel Naicker, has. Here’s his creative account of how two well-known heroes, Excel and Power BI, can unite and use their superpowers together to defeat misinformation for good! The city […]
More and more companies are calling for the necessity of business intelligence (BI) and reporting. It’s fast becoming the it word in business, and regularly features in the discussions of many business circles. However, there seems to be a gap in understanding why we need BI. What’s the point of having BI? What’s the big […]
How would you like constant access to a library of additional reports? The Sage Intelligence Report Utility allows you to select the reports you like and automatically imports them into your Report Manager. All you need to do is download and install the Report Utility, select the reports you want, and click the Download button. […]
In the first part of this series, I compared becoming a new parent to nurturing relationships with new customers (and also managing their payments). The intent was for entrepreneurs to take 5 minutes every now and then to reflect on one element of their businesses to help them grow. In this article, I will focus on […]
As an accountant, my most valuable commodity is time. Being responsible for daily capturing, month end procedures and group reporting, I often don’t have time to breathe! Fortunately, a lot of my responsibilities are hastened because I use business intelligence (BI), which helps me extract key information from large volumes of data directly from our […]
I recently became a parent. For those who have gone through this experience, you’ll know it’s an emotional one, and the way you view the world changes. Even if that change is only because you are viewing it through half-closed eyes because of a lack of sleep. For those that don’t have children, the experience […]
As a Business Analyst in a company utilizing an Agile development methodology with a high release-to-market approach, it has become truly evident and apparent that user stories are powerful tools in the software delivery process. Conjuring on average about 3 to 5 user stories on a good day, the practice of creating, communicating and processing […]
Cloud technology; modern day society’s means to life. A social and educational necessity to the millennial, Xennials’ daily newspaper and a spring of economic and financial opportunity for households and governments. It has become an increasingly integral part of our daily lives, how we interact, how we obtain information and how we perform our professional […]
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