How to score with business intelligence
Sport seldom fails to provide useful analogies for understanding those tricky areas where business processes and technology meet.
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CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION
Palm Pre
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How can you make the smart call?
By Adrian Weckler
What is a smartphone? Is it an all in-one computing device that also makes calls? Or is it merely a sleek mobile panel that relies on downloading apps for its functionality? As we report in our cover story (page 8), it is a mixture of both.
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Ensure your company takes the clever option
By Gordon Smith
Like the old joke about eating an elephant one piece at a time, a business intelligence project can be broken down into five phases. That way, what could have been a mammoth task shouldn’t force a company to bite off more than it can chew.
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Strive for a better performance level
By Dermot Corrigan
In today’s difficult economic climate, companies must perform to their optimum level. Managers need to give strategic direction, while fine-tuning operational performance, if business success is to be achieved.
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Choose the correct metrics for your business
Measurement in the context of business performance management (BPM)means choosing and using the right metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) that suit your business.
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Making your best better
By Adrian Weckler
BPM systems must work alongside the various other applications and software that are running your business, drawing data in from disparate sources, in order to help make the most informed and appropriate management decisions.
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Transforming the way we work
By Dermot Corrigan
The twin trends of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and socialisation are impacting across all types of business software, and the business performance management (BPM) sphere is no different.
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Paying the Price
Whether it is the end of the month or the end of the week, getting paid on time is critical in everyone’s life. That is one reason why the payroll function in business is hugely important. Yet it is generally taken for granted.
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Training pays in the long run
By Leslie Faughnan
One of the most important factors in payroll software is training. This need was reinforced by Andrew Doyle, managing director of Keysolve.
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