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Analyze This
Is better analytics the key to business success? In his "The Halcyon Days of Analytics," Steve Finikiotis of management consultant Osprey Associates argues that firms should be using analytics more effectively. It's an intriguing post, but a little thin on specifics. To wit, this statement: ...
Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Data Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Databases, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Financial Planning, Analytics, Tool
Blog posts 2008-06-24
Three Steps to an Uncluttered Outlook Inbox
As anyone who receives more than 50 e-mails per day can attest, effective inbox management is essential. Microsoft exec Amit Mital offers a surprisingly simple three-pronged approach to dealing with e-mail overload, starting with the creation of three inbox folders: The first one should be just for you, so set...
Tags: Inbox, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Business Intelligence, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-05-20
The Secrets to Performance Management
Robert Youngjohns, CEO of Callidus Software, explains why he thinks selling is more of a science than an art.
Tags: Video, Performance, Callidus Software Inc., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
Videos 2008-01-24
How to Manage Ignorance; Inside the Book Peter Drucker Never Wrote
Organizations devote abundant time and resources to knowledge management, but what about ignorance management? The nuggets are often nestled somewhere between what you know you don't know and what you don't know you don't know. So how do you get at them? If the stories of fallen...
Tags: Data Management, Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Knowledge Management, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-12-12
How to Motivate and Engage Front-Line Managers
Considering only 25 percent of employees are truly engaged by their work -- and if you believe 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of people -- that leaves a lot of employees either going through the motions or otherwise underachieving. Managers are no exception. ...
Tags: Data Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sales Force Management, Business Intelligence, Leadership, Performance Management, Manager, Performance, Sales, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-12-04
Whiteboard Video: Enterprise Dashboards
Shadan Malik, president and CEO of iDashboards, explains how enterprise dashboards deliver the business intelligence executives and managers need to make better decisions. Length: 00:03:43 by BNET staff
Tags: Dashboard, Video, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, BNET staff
Blog posts 2007-04-24
Living by Numbers | BTalk Australia
Leading businesses rely on Business Intelligence for strategic and operational decision making. Today Phil Dobbie talks to Noel Pettitt, Teradata's Vice President, South Pacific, about the importance of a data warehouse as a repository for your business information. How can it be used and what sort of...
Tags: Podcasts, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Storage, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing, Hardware, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2008-07-03
Read "Numerati" for a Penetrating Look at Data Mining
The “Numerati” are an evolving class of quant-humping, algorithm experts who will be playing an enormous role in shaping our society, our economy and our lives. They are the types who founded Google and Yahoo but they are going beyond simple searching to manipulating and massaging the tremendous mass of...
Tags: Data, Mathematician, Numerati, Steve, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-09-03
A Cynic's Rules for Business
Starting this month, I’m going to be adding a “weekend” blog entry to SalesMachine. Since I don’t work on the weekends, and I assume that you don’t either, these weekend posts are going to be a bit broader in choice of topic, and may drift a bit outside...
Tags: Cynic, Pricing, Taxes, E-mail, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Free Trade, Construction, Blogging, Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Internet, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2008-08-09
Business Objects Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Mohammed Moawalla with Goldman Sachs. Mohammed Moawalla – Goldman Sachs Yes good morning. John, can you elaborate a little bit around some of the weakness in the quarter and just indicate whether some of...
Tags: Administration, Business Intelligence, Business Objects, Call Transcript, Cartesis, CEO, Credit Suisse Group AG, Customer, Data Management, Databases, Earnings, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Management, Marketing, Opportunity, Pricing, Q3, Quarter, Question, Revenue, Sales, Sales Strategy, SAP AG, Seeking Alpha, Software, Solution, Term, Tools & Techniques, XI
Earnings calls 2007-10-24
Oracle Enters Hardware Business, Risks Angering Long-time Partners
Oracle has taken an interesting strategic turn by moving into the hardware business: a pair of servers, optimized to run Oracle's database and built and supported by HP. This seems like one of those decisions that will either prove to be a canny move or blow up in the face...
Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Storage, Business Intelligence, Databases, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2008-09-25
Tech Roundup: YouTube Revenue, Google and Start-Ups, eBay in Cloud, More
What VCs and entrepreneurs really want are at opposite ends of the funding earth, eBay is considering offernig cloud data warehousing and business intelligence, consumer electronics take a big hit, Gartner's top ten list of strategic technologies looks familiar, and YouTube's double secret revenue plan is so secret that even...
Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., YouTube Inc., eBay Inc., Operational Accounting, Business Intelligence, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Erik Sherman, Electronics, Chad Hurley, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology
Blog posts 2008-10-16
Blowing Up Business As Usual
At some companies, employees skip meetings, set their own schedules, and take unlimited vacation time. Surprise: They also get more done.There's no shortage of approaches to organizational and performance management — from balanced scorecard and total quality management to management by walking around and rightsizing, just for starters. One of...
Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Balanced Scorecard, Performance Management, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Business Intelligence, Team Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Results-Only Work Environment, Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson, Productivity, Organizational Management, Best Buy, Google, General Electric, Semco, Corporate Culture, BNET Feature Package
Articles 2008-09-26
HMS Holdings Corp. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator instructions Your first question comes from the line of Richard Close with Jefferies. Richard Close – Jefferies Hi. Couple questions here. Bill, maybe if you could comment a little bit on the scope expansions. I think you said New York, New Jersey,...
Tags: New Jersey, Call Transcript, Earnings, HMS Holdings Corp., Research & Development, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-10-31
CEOs Should Use the Net to Pinpoint Marketing
Effective CEOs can use data mining to greatly improve their marketing and win customers. That is the message from Bob Donnelly, a business columnist who has worked with IBM, Pfizer and Exxon along with smaller companies. It might sound rather obvious but Donnelly insists it works. Some...
Tags: Customer, Bob Donnelly, Internet, Marketing Research, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-10-31
Morningstar Acquires SEC Filings Service 10-K Wizard For $12.5 Million
Morningstar, the investment research and data firm, has acquired one of the services we use multiple times a day: 10-K Wizard, one of the providers of SEC filings research and alert services, for $12.5 million subject to working capital adjustments. Besides filings itself, 10K has been developing data mining...
Tags: Morningstar Inc., SEC Filing, Service, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Mutual Funds, Productivity, Retirement Plans, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Benefits, Marketing, Information, Biz & Fin, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali
External links 2008-12-04
BI Role In Making Corporate Decisions
A decision that deals with the safety, success, and livelihood of a business can be defined as a corporate decision. These decisions can range anywhere from financial issues and customer satisfaction to product popularity and environmental trends. Regardless of the topic, when making a corporate decision the well-being of a...
Tags: Decision, Exforsys.com, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
SAP ERP - The Great Equalizer
Nowadays varieties of programs are designed for the purpose of company's suits. They will convert the data into the information, usually for a specific purpose or function. For example Shop floor workers need one level of information, in real-time, about the process or production; executives need a different view of...
Tags: Data Warehouse, Data, SAP AG, ERP, Main Articles, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
White papers 2008-01-01
Empowering The Human Capital
A well-defined Performance Management System PMS with focus on talent development, career progression and succession planning can be a good HR practice to establish an organisation as preferred employer. The PMS should be implemented at all levels of hierarchy with very clearly defined reward and recognition system. This not only...
Tags: Talent, Performance, Human Capital, Indian Express Newspapers, Performance Management, Professional Development, Business Intelligence, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Career, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Operational Business Intelligence (BI): Getting Real-Time About Performance
Companies are trying to improve efficiencies and performance of many real-time operational business practices, including customer experiences, inventory & purchasing, manufacturing yield, BAM and BPM. This Aberdeen Group white paper explores strategies and capabilities that best-in-class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
Tags: Business Intelligence, Performance, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Software
White papers 2007-12-01
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