Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

Larry Zagata | MIPRO

Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every

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Identifying and Managing Project Risk

Risks are inherent in every project, whether it be PeopleSoft ERP or Business Intelligence (BI). Risks are present before the project begins, all throughout the project and even after the project is officially closed. There is no way there aren’t risks, nor is it advisable to minimize or ignore them, for if they are not

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What Is ‘Real-time Data Warehousing’?

I get asked the following questions often: What is real-time data warehousing? Is there such a thing as real-time? Who defines ‘real-time’ anyway? Is real-time really just ‘near-time’? It comes down to this concept: the ability to have valuable, quality data in your data warehouse as quickly as that data is generated within your operational

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Business Intelligence for PeopleSoft Maintenance Management

MIPRO is a nationally-recognized leader when it comes to the successful implementation of the PeopleSoft Maintenance Management (MM)/ALM suite. We have performed more implementations of this product than any other services firm out there. This is a bit of a bragging right, of course, but also an important fact to support our knowledge and expertise in the MM space. We have blogged about both ERP and Business Intelligence and the takeaways from those post is simply that ERP allows your organization to run your business and BI allows you to manage it. In this post we bring the world of BI to the world of PeopleSoft MM/ERP together in complete harmony.

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Building an Effective BI Dashboard

In our BI manifesto whitepaper, we discuss and outline how to effectively build a dashboard and avoid common mistakes.  Dashboards have a very specific use and should not be confused with reports; this in itself is a common conceptual mistake. The following are key elements of a well-designed dashboard: Dashboards should be designed to answer

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Business Intelligence and CPG/Retail

In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how to get the most value to their organizations from these systems. As with every industry vertical, there is some uniqueness to CPG/Retail market.  I am very

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BI Sidebar: Master Data Management and Data Quality

We have discussed previously the importance of data quality to business intelligence. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that topic here in this post. It is plainly obvious that your business intelligence will only be as good as the quality of your data; this, in turn, means the quality of business answers derived

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MIPRO Workshop: Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering

If our server logs are credible, Business Intelligence requirements gathering continues to be one of the most highly searched terms and asked-about BI subjects that we encounter.  We have authored several posts on this subject, including outlining at a high level the MIPRO approach to ensure business intelligence requirements are gathered and assessed appropriately. This

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