The sun is shining, the skies are clear and blue, the birds are chirping, and we are sitting in our cubes.  Working extremely hard, tackling obstacles, completing deliverables, but alas, we are still sitting.  Getting fit is no doubt one of the biggest New Years’ resolutions, but often our schedules get in the way of that goal.  It is now…

This is the second installment in the Business Intelligence Adoption series.  The first post (Business Intelligence Adoption: Goal Setting) discussed gathering high-level strategic goals and measuring performance against those goals.  This post will discuss aligning employee activities to achieve corporate results.  The final post will cover analyzing performance activity. Many companies track only the financial performance against high-level strategic goals…

What do business users look for? Ways to sell their products to customers, increase profits, analyze the impact of launching new products and campaigns, measure effectiveness of any changes introduced, what items needs to be replenished to meet the demand … and the list goes on. Business Intelligence (BI) provides a platform for business users to intuitively access, visualize and…