Business Intelligence Strategy at Canadian Tire The Retail group has just sent me another quick win request‚ stated Michael Eubanks‚ director of marketing information technology (IT)‚ as he walked into his meeting with Andy Wnek‚ chief information officer (CIO) of Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC). That’s the second one this week‚ and I have heard whispers about more. Dealing with these quick wins is going to make it difficult to redevelop the business intelligence (BI) infrastructure. That’s
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Predictive Analytics: the Future of Business Intelligence Introduction By M. Zaman The market is witnessing an unprecedented shift in business intelligence (BI)‚ largely because of technological innovation and increasing business needs. The latest shift in the BI market is the move from traditional analytics to predictive analytics. Although predictive analytics belongs to the BI family‚ it is emerging as a distinct new software sector. Analytical tools enable greater transparency‚ and can find
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Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO 1 Case Overview SYSCO is a large food service company in the US Distribute food and related supplies to restaurants‚ schools‚ Highly decentralized company with many operating divisions Company has BI software in divisions already Case centers on the process related to a new BI software for the entire company‚ how much to buy‚ and the implementation of the new software 2 Case Objectives What is BI software? What are the business benefits
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Retail Business Intelligence: A Work in Progress Benchmark Report 2012 Nikki Baird & Steve Rowen‚ Managing Partners October 2012 Sponsored by: Executive Summary Rapid shifts in consumer behavior and proliferation of new channels are forcing retailers to cope with new data sources‚ new ways of looking at analytics and new analytics capabilities‚ like high performance databases and visualization techniques. Add in new form factors‚ like tablets and smart phones‚ and a discipline that is theoretically
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Business Intelligence projects start out as a simple report or request for an extract of data. Once the base data is aggregated then the next request usually is about summing data or creating more reports that have different views to the data sets. Before long complex logic comes into play and the metrics coming out of the system are very important to many corporate wide citizens. "Centrally managed business rules enable BI projects to draw from the business know-how of a company and to work with
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Test: Business Intelligence Applications PreSales Specialist Assessment Star (*) indicates the correct answer. Business Intelligence Applications PreSales Specialist Testbank (Bu bölümdeki tüm sorularý yanýtlayýn) 1. For which of the following types of business cases would you most likely need the highest level of executive sponsorship? Görüþ Bildirmek Üzere Ýþaretle (1) Puan Transformational (*) Efficiency IT Alignment Effectiveness
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology © 2005 - 2009 JATIT. All rights reserved. www.jatit.org BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: CONCEPTS‚ COMPONENTS‚ TECHNIQUES AND BENEFITS JAYANTHI RANJAN Institute of Management Technology‚ Ghaziabad‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ India Email: jranjan@imt.edu ABSTRACT For companies maintaining direct contact with large numbers of customers‚ however‚ a growing number channel-oriented applications (e.g. e-commerce support‚ call center support) create a new data
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How Business Intelligence is in today ’s global competition Jack Cheung 5-Mar-2013 • What’s Business Intelligence • How BI provides business values to enterprises • Popular BI applications – – – – – – BI reports and dashboards Budget planning Financial consolidation and reporting What-if analysis Balanced scorecard Data mining • Challenges of implementing BI projects • Hot BI topics in 2013 – Big data – Cloud – Social networking • BI career development • References • Q&A What’s
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Chapter 11: Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management Data Mining and Online Analysis * Data warehouses are useless without software tools * Process data into information * Business intelligence (BI): information gleaned with information tools Data Mining * Data mining: selecting‚ exploring‚ and modeling data * * Supports decision making * Finds relationships and ratios within data * Finds unknown relationships * * Queries are more
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Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO Case Review The main obstacles will be some resistance of the operating companies in participating share of the overall cost of the project. This is due to two reasons: cost and having previously implemented BI systems in these companies. Both of these questions present a clear business case to upper management‚ which will help to address/achieve new strategic plan for the company. BI capabilities would be clearer when it addresses such important questions
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