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Make Solid Sales Decisions with Accurate Business Intelligence

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model is disrupting traditional approaches to business analytics. The long deployment cycles, high costs, complicated upgrade processes and IT infrastructure required of traditional on-premise business intelligence solutions are no longer acceptable in the era of on demand.

Most people have a general misconception regarding transcription services; that it's merely typing work that doesn't require much intelligence or hard work. However, that's far from true. Here are the seven most common transcription myths, busted: Audio files are crystal clear and easily transcribed Except on rare occasions, most transcriptionists struggle with poor audio quality, …

For my money, Stephen Few is the best source of data visualization expertise. And as a blogger, he is unfiltered and never afraid to tell you what he really thinks. With that in mind, I wanted to dip my toe into the data visualization waters to provide LucidEra customers with a few high-level guidelines to help you determine what type of gadget visualization to consider for your Spring '09 SaaS BI dashboards.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post for the Sales Bloggers Union called, "Sales 2.0 Technology - Real Opportunity or Sales SOS?" Thanks primarily to the Sales 2.0 LinkedIn Groups (The Sales 2.0 Network and Sales 2.0), the post has generated some interesting commentary and advice from a number of notable experts in the field. Here are some of the insights people have shared on the topic.

To succeed in your job, you make decisions every day based on your grasp and outlook for your business. In today's difficult economic climate, if something goes wrong, saying "I didn't know" is not a good excuse. To maximize your success you need good visibility into your business.