Reporting for Management: BI-based Analytics It’s a typical complaint made by managers: “Why can’t I get the insight I need from my ERP reports?” To answer this question, you need to understand how standard ERP reporting works, and how [...]
DataSelf BI-based Reporting: Benefits . . . and BeneficiariesWhen evaluating the merits of BI-based Reporting™ software, it’s typical to consider the following questions:Why do you need it? (What business pains are you trying to address?)What does the software do?How does [...]
Understand, Anticipate and Respond to Sales Fluctuations with DataSelf’s Year Over Year Variance Report Consistency. If only sales were consistent. Customers whose sales totals stayed high, items whose popularity didn’t wane, and salespeople who were equally successful with all their [...]
The Truth Hider: Uncovering Reporting's Single Version of the Truth If you look back upon the most notable ‘arch-villains’ who battled Batman, the one that seems most appropriate to criminally-bad reporting is The Riddler. Renamed – only slightly – [...]
The Time Eater: Reporting in Seconds, not Days If there’s one thing that all superheroes have in common it’s timing. Seconds before a crash, moments before an explosion, and in the twinkling of an eye, a crisis is averted. [...]
The Superpowers that Create Data Heroes The moment was iconic. In the 1989 Batman Movie, Batman (played by Michael Keaton) rescues Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) from the Joker (Jack Nicholson) using one of his utility belt tools. With [...]
Business Reporting: What do companies REALLY want? We recently surveyed both technical and non-technical staff regarding what they wanted to improve the most in their ERP system’s reporting module. The results of the survey were surprising – not [...]
Business Intelligence Versus BI-Based Reporting "The Value of reports relies on the quality of your data." With the increased use of Business Intelligence tools over the past decade, people seem to have forgotten that as powerful as BI technology is, [...]