We have discussed these things before: business intelligence requirements gathering, maintenance management, and even business intelligence for maintenance management. The following example dialog is intended as an easy way to understand how asking the right questions can lead to getting the right answers for your business when it comes to business intelligence requirements gathering. This is
Read More...How’d you like that headline? Yes, you and I both know KPI is an acronym for Key Performance Indicator but the goal for most organizations is to utilize these valuable metrics to keep profits increasing. KPIs are the lifeblood for any company; they provide the pulse of the business. All of the various metrics that
Read More...Chris Taylor over at Process Excellent Network has a piece about the damp world of Business Process Management (BPM) gaffes that struck me as interesting. In it, Taylor riffs on his seven deadly sins of BPM, which are: Taking the word management in vain Working in process silos Reinventing the wheel Making it hard to
Read More...Good article from Mike Schmidt over at Manufacturing Business Technology about how a lack of proactive, intelligent asset management is a true risk to the organization: If you’re not managing assets properly, you don’t know what the cost of those assets are and (what the cost is) to repair those assets,” he says. “That creates a
Read More...In several of our previous blogs we have discussed the proper way to build a business intelligence enterprise solution. Many of you have responded in agreement with much of the content and the steps required to truly unlock the potential of BI. However, there are a number of readers who have reached out and asked
Read More...I recently overheard a conversation at a higher education institution that went something like this: Facilities Mgr.: Good morning, how can I help you? Caller: I need a new bulb for this projector. FM: Sir, what projector? Caller: The projector in my classroom. FM: Okay, where is your classroom? Caller: I’m in the Johnson Building.
Read More...Prior to jumping into the world of PeopleSoft consulting, I spent many years implementing accounting solutions, as well as conducting instructor-led training for those applications. In my years, I had some great classes, and I had some that just plain left me scratching my head. Was it me? Probably not: nobody except the lead developer
Read More...I came across this article over at CFO.com and couldn’t agree with it more. It illustrates the importance of collaboration between business stakeholders and IT to any successful technology project — a topic we’ve all heard a dozen times. What’s the big deal? We all do things with the best of intentions; nobody ever begins
Read More...In previous blog posts I wrote about the value of XML Publisher, and I’ve outlined instructions on how to create an XML report. In the video blog below we take it a step further and show you how to create a simple XML report with a chart and table. We take you from the creation
Read More...In our previous video blog, we demonstrated the concepts of how to use PeopleTools 8.5 for improved business intelligence. We showed how to apply navigation collection, embeddable pagelets, XML publisher and related content to your business practices. In this follow up screencast, we demo how to actually use PeopleTools to create an embeddable pagelet and
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