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Raportare sau BI C - 0 views

Raportare sau BI Ce sau de ce? http://www.marketwatch.ro/pdfs/MW%20131.pdf Controlul asupra companiei, obiectiv pe care îl doreºte orice manager, poate fi  exercitat numai p...

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BI Brief - Four Legs of a Successful Business Intelligence (BI) Project Team - 0 views

  • 1. Project Sponsorship and Governance 2. Project Management 3. Development Team (Core Team) 4. Extended Project Team
  • 1. Project Sponsorship and Governance IT and the business should form a BI steering committee to sponsor and govern design, development, deployment, and ongoing support. It needs both the CIO and a business executive, such as CFO, COO, or a senior VP of marketing/sales to commit budget, time, and resources. The business sponsor needs the project to succeed. The CIO is committed to what is being built and how.
  • 2. Project Management Project management includes managing daily tasks, reporting status, and communicating to the extended project team, steering committee, and affected business users. The project management team needs extensive business knowledge, BI expertise, DW architecture background, and people management, project management, and communications skills. The project management team includes three functions or members: Project development manager - Responsible for deliverables, managing team resources, monitoring tasks, reporting status, and communications. Requires a hands-on IT manager with a background in iterative development. Must understand the changes caused by this approach and the impact on the business, project resources, schedule and the trade-offs. Business advisor - Works within the sponsoring business organization. Responsible for the deliverables of the business resources on the project's extended team. Serves as the business advocate on the project team and the project advocate within the business community. Often, the business advocate is a project co-manager who defers to the IT project manager the daily IT tasks but oversees the budget and business deliverables. BI/DW project advisor - Has enough expertise with architectures and technologies to guides the project team on their use. Ensures that architecture, data models, databases, ETL code, and BI tools are all being used effectively and conform to best practices and standards.
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  • 3. Development Team (Core Team) The core project team is divided into four sub-teams: Business requirements - This sub-team may have business people who understand IT systems, or IT people who understand the business. In either case, the team represents the business and their interests. They are responsible for gathering and prioritizing business needs; translating them into IT systems requirements; interacting with the business on the data quality and completeness; and ensuring the business provides feedback on how well the solutions generated meet their needs. BI architecture - Develops the overall BI architecture, selects the appropriate technology, creates the data models, maps the overall data workflow from source systems to BI analytics, and oversees the ETL and BI development teams from a technical perspective. ETL development - Receives the business and data requirements, as well as the target data models to be used by BI analytics. Develops the ETL code needed to gather data from the appropriate source systems into the BI databases. Often, a system analyst who is a expert in the source systems such as SAP is part of the team to provide knowledge of the data sources, customizations, and data quality. BI development - Create the reports or analytics that the business users will interact with to do their jobs. This is often a very iterative process and requires much interaction with the business users.
  • 4. Extended Project Team There are several functions required by the project team that are often accomplished through an "extended" team: Players - A group of business users are signed up to "play with" or test the BI analytics and reports as they are developed to provide feedback to the core development team. This is a virtual team that gets together at specific periods of the project but they are committed to this role during those periods. Testers - A group of resources are gathered, similarly to the virtual team above, to perform more extensive QA testing of the BI analytics, ETL processes, and overall systems testing. You may have project members test other members' work, such as the ETL team test the BI analytics and visa versa. Operators - IT operations is often separated from the development team but it is critical that they are involved from the beginning of the project to ensure that the systems are developed and deployed within your company's infrastructure. Key functions are database administration, systems administration, and networks. In addition, this extended team may also include help desk and training resources if they are usually provided outside of development.
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2013 ERP research: Compelling advice for the CFO : Enterprise Irregulars - 0 views

  • ERP vendor selection. As the following graph shows, the primary candidates for ERP software were SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Epicor, and Infor:
  • The cloud question. Despite the hype, only 14 percent of respondents are using ERP delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Although the best cloud vendors can deliver superior security and reliability than most internal IT departments, market momentum to ERP in the cloud is not there yet, as the following diagram illustrates:
  • Important lessons. Implementing an ERP system is always complex because the deployment drives changes to both data and processes that extend across departmental boundaries inside the organization.
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  • Software projects aren’t just technical endeavors. They’re also political, financial, emotional, structural, strategic, process and people-centric initiatives. Ignoring any one of these dimensions is done at the project manager’s peril.
  • Today’s CFO must balance the demands of two competing forces: the extraordinary wave of innovation (and the process changes these bring) against the regulatory, control-driven forces who want every process, every exception, and device to be documented, controlled and secured. In recent years, CFOs have spent tens of billions of dollars (or more) with audit firms to document the control points and risks within their existing ERP solutions.
  • ERP can bring significant benefit but implementation requires careful attention to both business planning and technology activities. For this reason, achieving project success and business value demand that CFO and CIO work together as a collaborative unit.
  • Therefore, it is essential to create this partnership and show your entire organization that the business and technology teams can communicate, collaborate, and share knowledge on a systematic and consistent basis. This collaboration is the true underlying strategy for gaining maximum value from ERP or any other enterprise initiative.
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MicroStrategy Suite | MicroStrategy - 0 views

  • Free reporting software Now enhanced for mobile intelligence Perfect solution for departments Scalable as your needs expand For Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX operating systems and any data source, including Hadoop, SAP BW, Microsoft Analysis Services, Essbase, and IBM TM1.
  • Simple development and maintenance of Mobile apps and dashboards Powerful Visual Data Discovery capabilities Packed with robust analytics Free online support and training Perpetual license to use forever Quick Start Guide brings you from download through your first report
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    "Free Mobile and Business Intelligence Software MicroStrategy's award-winning business intelligence software and mobile app development platform are now available in a convenient free software suite, designed for departments to start building and using mobile apps, dashboards, and reports quickly and easily... and at no charge."
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CEO Sage: Eficienţa sistemelor ERP depinde de utilizatori şi de modul în care... - 0 views

  • În exploatarea soluţiilor ERP, ca şi în alte arii de activitate, exemplul trebuie să vină de la vârful piramidei. În condiţii de utilizare eficientă, un sistem ERP colectează o cantitate enormă de date şi devine o oglindă a dezvoltării unui business. Accesarea şi exploatarea acestor date devin critice. „Astăzi, în cele mai multe cazuri, directorii conduc în orb, în timp ce accesul la toate informaţiile disponibile i-ar echipa cu oglinzi retrovizoare, dar şi cu anumite oportunităţi de analiză în profunzime a datelor. Lumea se mişcă prea rapid pentru ca directorii să îşi permită să conducă o afacere fără a cunoaşte în timp real toate informaţiile necesare”, explică Christophe Letellier.
  • 2. Luarea de decizii în mişcare Timpul este o resursă preţioasă pentru directori, tocmai de aceea fiecare minut al zilei trebuie să fie productiv şi eficient utilizat. Aici intervin beneficiile unei soluţii ERP mobile. „Dacă dispozitivele mobile permit managerilor să acceseze informaţia uşor şi rapid, oriunde şi oricând, atunci ei vor deveni utilizatori activi!”, consideră CEO Midmarket Europe Sage. Posibilitatea de a vizualiza informaţii în timp real în orice clipă, care să ducă la cele mai bune decizii, este vitală în acţiunea de a creşte utilizarea sistemelor ERP în rândul managerilor cu putere de decizie. 3. Atuul implicării directe în joc Colaborarea reprezintă acum un indicator real al performanţei. Sistemele ERP sunt echipate cu instrumente pentru fluxul de lucru şi colaborare, iar aceste caracteristici se vor dezvolta tot mai mult. Colaborarea presupune inclusiv implicarea activă a factorilor de decizie care să contribuie la fel de mult ca orice alt angajat, fiind sursa primară de legitimitate, în detrimentul poziţiei ierarhice. Soluţiile  ERP trebuie astfel să devină destul de simple, încât să îi încurajeze pe manageri să participe şi să contribuie. Această schimbare va veni prin intermediul funcţionalităţii mobile şi a capacităţii de analiză, permiţându-le să acceseze toate informaţiile existente şi necesare luării deciziei. Grupul Sage are peste 6 milioane de clienţi şi mai mult de 13,500 angajaţi în 24 de ţari, acoperind Marea Britanie şi Irlanda, Europa în majoritate, America de Nord, Africa de Sud, Australia, Asia şi Brazilia. Principalii competitori sunt, printre alţii, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft.
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