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The Reports of the Death of ERP Systems Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Many industry pundits have been predicting the death of ERP systems for quite some time now. Back in 2001, the TechRepublic web-site conducted a survey to determine respondent’s expected lifecycle of ERP software. Perhaps not surprisingly, the poll – essentially a loaded question – revealed that 78% of respondents expected ERP systems to be obsolete in 10 years or less. These expectations are not surprising for a number of reasons. First of all, ERP implementations are challenging, which would s
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What is Fraud Costing Your Organisation?
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How do you respond to fraud in your organization? Can you spot it ahead of time or as it’s happening? Or do you discover it after the fact, when it’s too late to do anything about it? According to the ACFE’s Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud & Abuse, the typical organisation loses 5% of its revenues to fraud each year. Applied to the estimated 2011 Gross World Product, this figure translates to a potential projected global fraud loss of more than $3.5 trillion.
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How to Use Business Intelligence to Make Smart IT Decisions
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For many organizations, CFOs either manage IT investments or at least have a heavy influence on how IT budgets are spent. Despite this financial focus at the executive level, however, most ERP implementations still fail to deliver expected return on investments on those initiatives. The irony of this fact is reflected in our 2013 ERP
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Ten Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Design
When the term design is used in mobile business intelligence (BI), it often refers to the user interface (UI). However, when I consider the question of design in developing a mobile BI strategy, I go beyond what a report or dashboard looks like.
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50 Top Tips for Analytics
Like so many other technologies, business intelligence is steadily becoming democratised. A few years ago, BI was the province of IT specialists and business analysts – a relatively niche, expert community. Today, it’s recognised that analytical insight is far more powerful when placed directly into the hands of everyday folk making everyday business decisions.
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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Release to Customers
Just before the SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP announced the Release to Customer (RTC) of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, Edge BI 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013. Here are the highlights.
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11 Tips for Deploying ERP Applications
In a global mobile environment, organisations are looking for ERP systems that do more than integrate with a legacy system. But with so many solutions available, how do you choose the software that's right for your enterprise? IT executives and ERP experts offer 11 tips to get a return on your software investment.
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Key Analytics Trends For 2013
Business analytics has evolved dramatically from its humble beginnings in core data warehousing more than 30 years ago. It’s evolved from simple, decision support solutions to advancements in business intelligence (BI), enterprise performance management (EPM), and, most recently, intelligent data concepts and predictive analytic applications.
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Leveraging Rapid Deployment Solutions For Analytics And Beyond
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Today, organisations face multifaceted problems and need to quickly realize the value of their technology solutions whether it’s for business intelligence (BI) or other technology implementations. Business challenges have become more complex and are often riddled with ambiguity that makes it harder to address using traditional methodologies in analytics and beyond. As a result, to answer the most pressing business questions, we’re still left with an age—old problem—balancing functionality against scarce time and resources. Rapid deployment solutions (RDS) can provide an alternative method..
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Data to Decision: Big Insights vs. Big Data
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Everyone is talking about “Big Data,” but what they really want are “Big Insights.” To realize significant insights requires an effective analytic strategy. Many companies believe they have an analytic strategy when what they actually have is an architecture, which is important but certainly not all you need. An analytic strategy requires continuous strategic and tactical business alignment, defining and updating your analytic strategy in view of your business goals and objectives, and analyzing and updating your current analytic roles, analytic skills..
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The Top 10 Trends In Analytics 2013
I don't know about you, but my head is spinning with the phenomenal amount of change going on in the industry: here's Timo Elliots roundup of the ten top trends in Business Intelligence and Analytics for 3013.
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Is your business being strangled by the information monster?
I often come across people frustrated by the amount of time they spend entering information into systems as opposed to time spent in front of customers. This leaves many to think that technology isn't helping; rather the opposite - it's actually getting in the way of achieving their objectives.
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4 Rules of Innovation: What Nike And SAP Know
Recently Fast Company highlighted the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013, with Nike being identified as the most innovative. In an article that graced the cover of Fast Company’s magazine last month, Austin Carr broke down the reasoning behind this nomination and identified four key factors that Nike employed company-wide to help them become so innovative.
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Integrating ERP Systems Across Multiple Locations
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Multisite ERP implementations are not at all unusual. Unless you work for a small, local company, chances are your business is spread across multiple locations. According to our 2013 ERP Report, 50% of organizations implementing ERP software have four or more sites undergoing deployment. Multisite implementations can be arduous and intimidating...
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Are Your Analytics Short-Sighted?
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We’ve all heard the old management phrase, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” but the reality is far more complicated than that. It isn’t practical or economically feasible to measure everything in a business. At the end of the day, it’s not about measuring what’s measurable— it’s about measuring what matters. Organizations have to choose what to measure when they’re building their analytics, which isn’t a trivial task. Measure Past, Present and Future Most analytic applications have historically focused on measuring past performance on a quarterly, monthly, weekly basis.
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BI as Easy as “Search”
Lothar Burow likes simplicity. As the head of business intelligence at the Bayer Group, he wants every employee – not just the controlling experts – to be able to perform their own analyses. And this makes him part of a growing trend.
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Finance As Analytical Partner To The Business
Bloomberg says that the CFO’s role today has evolved well beyond traditional accounting and compliance and they are now expected to play a central role in crafting strategy and creating value for investors and other key stakeholders. However they do recognize the challenges ahead?
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Herding Chaotic Spreadsheets
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Surprisingly, after more than a decade working with business intelligence (BI), I still hear customers complain about spreadsheets proliferation and the information chaos they create. Yes, even after several generations of BI tools we seem to be unable to solve the issue—we can’t get rid of spreadsheets! Data manipulation nightmares related to the use of spreadsheets may happen in your businesses and could lead to lasting repercussions (a recent example of that is the London Whale scandal).
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2 Ways Business Intelligence Dashboards Bring Business Success
A number of companies have begun investing in business intelligence software to help them drive value out of the mass amounts of data on hand. BI helps a business in more ways than one (here’s 10), but most of all it helps with standardizing, sorting and centralizing so it can be utilized by all.
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Designing the Intelligent Enterprise
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Organisations are jumping on the big data bandwagon—but all too often, the driver is performance and the platform. Even though both are important, starting there is like putting the cart before the horse. It can leave you scurrying to find business initiatives to justify your platform investment and ongoing funding. The value in big data is what your business can do with it—it can distinguish itself from the rest of the pack by becoming an intelligent enterprise through transformation and innovation.
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Top 10 Mobile Business Intelligence Apps
Thanks to a plethora of mobile apps, business people can perform a variety of business intelligence tasks on their smartphones and tablets. Just as business is no longer confined by the walls of a company’s physical facilities, so has business intelligence (BI) largely untethered itself from the centralised workstation. “Mobile BI is no longer just a nice-to-have but is quickly becoming the principal way business users demand to consume analytics,” says Brad Peters.
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Consol extends partnership with T-Systems
Africa’s largest glass manufacturer, Consol Glass, has extended its contract for five years with T-systems.
The extension underscores a successful six-year partnership, which has, among others, seen Consol migrating its SAP business application infrastructure to T-Systems’ cloud computing platform in 2011, in a deal worth R25 million.
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Anarchy in Enterprise Software: The Revolution of Tier III ERP Vendors
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Much skepticism and uncertainty has clouded the ERP industry for the last several years. Bloated and ineffective implementations, high risk, ERP failures, lawsuits and cumbersome software have given many ERP vendors somewhat of a black eye over the last several years. In the midst of it all, however, Tier III ERP vendors are making significant inroads in the market.
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John Deere’s Advice for using HANA
Deere’s Derek Dyer helps fellow ASUG members as they grapple with the critical business and IT questions surrounding the HANA platform.
According to Dyer, there’s a number of opportunities that HANA can provide for example, the ability to simulate financial closing in minutes as opposed to weeks; intelligent self-service mobile options for users; predictive maintenance and real-time analytics on Deere equipment. And, as Dyer pointed out, don’t forget about the potential for the simplification of Deere’s IT stack.
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