Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management Software - iStart.com.au
Welcome to the Business Intelligence (BI), Performance Management solutions research pavilion. Here you will find information from the leading vendors of these solutions and services in Australia, including articles, case studies, demos, web links, contact details, white papers and brochures to assist you to research and determine the best solution for your company. Visit the iStart Diary for events and seminars on this subject in your local area. All vendors show cased look forward to assisting you with your enquiries.
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Solution Providers
Phocas is simple, intuitive business intelligence software that unleashes your business potential. A framework that is customisable to suit your business needs, Phocas reveals opportunities that deliver immediate impact and helps you make business decisions for the future.
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Microsoft Dynamics is a line of products that automate and help improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management. Delivered through a network of Microsoft partners, these integrated, adaptable solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.
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Greentree’s business software is today’s ultimate painkiller and multi-vitamin.
Imagine all your staff having the operational intelligence at their fingertips to perform at their best. Discover how automating many common and regular processes will have your business humming. Picture your talented people being freed up to spend more time developing new ideas and making better decisions. We are unashamed technology and business buffs; fanatics; addicts. Call us what you will, we have one obsession: building the best business software.
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SAP helps organisations turn insight into action. SAP Business Intelligence transforms vast amounts of data into practical and timely business information for more effective decision making. SAP acquired Business Objects, the market leader, in late 2007.
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iQ4bis is an independent software provider with a well-earned reputation for the development and delivery of intuitive business analytics solutions for medium-sized companies. As an established and respected global innovator, we have been delivering high impact tools to our international client roster since 1985.
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Turning unruly data into business intelligence requires specialised tools that analyse, drill down or mine data to help users make informed decisions and ensure an organisation is more efficient and more competitive.
If information is the corporate lifeblood then you need to know how healthy you are and compare your vital signs with your competitors. If you can't put your finger on the data you need when you need it, you risk losing business and the confidence of your customers.
Business Intelligence systems are usually associated with Data Warehouses, essentially database repositories designed to support an organisation's decision making. Data Warehouses are batch updated and can contain enormous amounts of information, typically including customer transactional history.
Once all the pieces are in place, including a standardised infrastructure, databases that talk to each other, real-time document conversion and storage and management software, you begin to create what may be described as a 'corporate memory'. Business intelligence or data mining tools are used to dig through this information revealing patterns and relationships within the business activity and history. Management reports based on this kind of analysis can help organisations with their strategic and competitive positioning. The benefits may include identifying who the best and worst customers are, which products make the most or least profits, fine-tuning of marketing or pricing policies, the retention of customers and predicting market trends.
Business-intelligence tools can provide significant value, but measuring their return on investment still presents a challenge as it can take time to see the real world benefits. Some business intelligence packages have a reputation for being complex and difficult to use, so training could be a critical factor in getting people up to speed with these tools.
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Every Map tells a story |
You could call them maps with attitude. They’re maps with business intelligence information overlaid on them and they can provide rich insights into business performance... |
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Four show the KPI way |
Four Australian manufacturing and supply chain companies describe how business intelligence is helping them measure their activities, including the counting of higher profits. Simon Sharwood explains. |
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Business Intelligence by the numbers |
As There's no doubting that a good BI solution can be a highly effective tool for turning a mountain of organisational data into a goldmine of insightful information. But just how well are Australian organisations measuring their businesses and what kind of intelligence is BI really delivering? |
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Business Intelligence goes deep |
As business operations become increasingly more complex, enterprises require enhanced business intelligence at the deepest level - embedded within essential business processes. So how is this accomplished? |
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Big vendors get wise to Business Intelligence |
Business Intelligence is now high up on the list of corporate IT priorities but a host of BI acquisitions by major IT vendors last year appears to be changing many aspects of the BI landscape in 2008 – so what will this mean for your business? |
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Get smart! 3 steps to better Business Intelligence |
Businesses today are continually asking how to cut expenses and improve profitability. Increasingly, a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution is the tool they’re turning to for answers – David McNickel finds out how it’s done. |
