Resources

We built this dashboard for one of our clients, an electrical provider in Ontario. It shows the performance of their service department over the last few years. You can easily judge their success without having to pour over spreadsheets. You can also drill down into some of the details to see, for instance, how many successful services were performed on a month-to-month basis.

The BI Builders recommend Data Integrator as a great addition to any BI or ad-hoc reporting environment. With ETL, universes, and meta-data, reporting users can get the answers they need with less work and can trust the results, with one version of the truth. Here are some tips for effective Data Integrator development.

The BI Builders and SAP have presented complimentary webcast about how to strategically leverage business intelligence (BI) in utilities organizations. The BI Builders shared best practices for utilities and examples of implementation successes from our Canadian clients. The webcast was on Feb 26th, 2009.

This whitepaper provides you with a framework for measuring the benefits of Business Intelligence, justifying your own BI investment, and extending the ROI for your BI solution. Find out how others are using BI in a variety of creative ways to make their organisations more responsive, productive, and profitable.

Recognizing revenue in the high-tech industry is seldom as simple as adding up your cash receipts at the close of business. A long list of regulations and accounting practices govern how revenue can be recognized - complicated further when different classes of product are bundled. Accounting software like as in SAP is an important step, but Business Intelligence is needed for actionable insight based on the right numbers.

A special offer on Rapid Mart implementation for SAP customers. A Rapid Mart is a quick and effective way to start getting Business Intelligence out of your enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle, Siebel and PeopleSoft. A Rapid Mart comes configured to connect to the most common ERP modules and includes dozens of commonly used reports, dashboards and universes ready for you to distribute.

As yet, no government has formally legislated that goods and services be labeled to show the carbon emitted, water used, or other environmental impact categories created during their lifecycle of production, distribution, and disposal – although some, such as France and Japan, have initiatives to encourage the practice. However, legislation is expected to come into force in the not-too-distant future.

Funding from the US$787 billion economic stimulus bill is finally making its way to local businesses. Most of the money must be committed to specific projects within 12 months. Is your business ready to sieze the opportunity?

Inappropriate or dirty data trumps even the best business analytics, BI and reporting efforts, every time. Delivering valuable information requires tools to monitor and correct data quality issues, procedures to ensure a high standard, and organizational structures to reinforce them. This slide deck provides the business case for Data Quality, the simple way for DQ governance, and a description of the software tools required.

This paper describes how the SAP BusinessObjects leverages activity-based costing as the foundation for robust customer, product, and channel profitability analysis; how best to utilize various methodologies; and what represents best practice for calculating the cost of high-volume customer accounts, sales order lines, or SKUs.

In this webast, sponsored by the Global BusinessObjects Network and ASUG, we describe the process of sending out customized reports to thousands, even millions of users. Advantages, examples, workflows and product demonstrations are shown.

This whitepaper by industry expert Michael Schiff explains what BI is and why mid-size companies need it, BI components and approaches to implementing BI. The paper also contains success stories from other mid sized organizations who have used BI to analyze data, identify trends, and forecast sales to plan for growth.

The BI Builders expert strategists present the tenets of a successful BI program. Business Intelligence is not just a collection of reports. This short paper describes how to use modular design in phases, align metrics to goals, build from data systems, and integrate the proper tools

The BI Builders expert strategists present the tenets of a successful BI program. Business Intelligence is more than just choosing the right technology, it is about people. BI supports positive change and effective decision making across the entire organization. Therefore, it requires the involvement of the entire organization to make it a success. This short-paper outlines some of the key points for organizational success in BI.

A short paper by BI strategist Houri Ramo that discusses data quality as a pillar of successful BI strategy. This paper contains data quality impact, quick wins and best practices for ensuring data quality.

The BI Builders has analyzed the results of a survey that covered some critical topics in business intelligence for utilities. The results and analysis reveal useful insight about what utilities BI programs are doing well, what they need to do, and what future challenges they may face.