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The “Roles” of Business Intelligence
Many organizations use business intelligence technologies to drive their businesses forward. The key is to deploy solutions that users can leverage to…
How Different Members of Your Company Can Use Predictive Analytics
As part of a business intelligence system, predictive analytics process historical data (such as customer buying trends, inventory performance, financial performance, and…
Business Intelligence Software BuyerView 2014 Highlights
As a business intelligence software provider, Silvon is always looking for research that helps us better understand the BI market (where it’s…
Guidelines for Estimating the Payback of a Demand Forecasting Solution
Most companies that make the decision to move to an automated demand forecasting solution are primarily driven by: Obvious forecast accuracy challenges…
Assessing the Lifetime Value of Your Customers
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is a critical concept for virtually every organization that’s customer-centric. At a granular level, it helps companies decide…
Using Business Intelligence to Determine Customer Profitability
Can you answer these three questions about your customer base right now? How many of your customers are unprofitable? Why are those…
Improving Demand Forecasting
Every major company decision, from financial planning to project execution, starts with a prediction of future sales—so demand forecast accuracy matters. Under-estimating…
Comparing Performance to Plan with BI: It Should be Simple… (Part II)
In my last post I discussed getting your plan into your BI system. This allows for easy comparison to actuals so that…
Flexible Information Delivery – FID, for short (Part II)
In my earlier post on Flexible Information Delivery (or FID), I described a few ways in which different types of users may…
Dashboards Give Executives the Green Light for Business Visibility
A major challenge facing manufacturers and distributors today is the linking of key metrics across the enterprise to gain greater visibility into…