Let’s be honest: we all get way too much email. In professional communication, it’s all too common to send an email only to find that days later, the recipient didn’t take the time to read it or – worse – deleted it. Before you blame them, ask yourself: did I make it easy for them
Read More...It’s Friday, and at some point – after you’ve finished tweaking that BI dashboard you’ve been working on -- you have to do some recreational reading to brush up on snazzy topics for that BBQ on Saturday night. Allow me to help.
Read More...With web technologies finally at a point where they rival those previously reserved for the thick-client computing, cloud applications are massively viable – and, to boot, offer tremendous advantages to their users (as well as their hosts). It’s not just about sharing, it’s about the universal cloud being able to offer processing, analytics, logic and a common-man-accessible UX.
Read More...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.
Read More...“We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent
Read More...Did you have time this week to find the very best things on the Internet? No? Well neither did I, so I proffer to you this fine quasi-rushed collection of various links below in the hopes that one of them makes your weekend. Is that a stretch? Yeah, probably. Nonetheless, here goes: Sitting is really
Read More...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
Read More...This week I perused the Internet in search of personal enlightenment. Instead I got a lot of cat pictures and a bunch of stuff about this guy named LeBron James. Plus these links, which I’m sure you’ll find as fulfilling as I did. 2010: The year Apple enters a new golden age. Novelist Nic Brown
Read More...In your eyes, how powerful is IT these days, especially as it relates to the bygone days of IT glory? I’m genuinely interested in your perspective.
Read More...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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