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business value chainInformation Technology (IT) is the strength of every business. IT is rarely used for planned thinking, but the investments in the IT enabled projects have been in huge demand. If you think, it is just a computer application, and then you are very wrong. I am sure, each and every organization has the knowledge of the advantages, effects and the implications of the Business IT.

Almost everyone is well aware of the fact that the IT is capable of making maintainable and sustainable competitive benefits. In the business arena, the IT is used through value chain of activities that facilitates the business organization to control and optimize the operational functions for effortless decision making process. Read the rest of this entry

Online Analytical ProcessingAt whatever point that a business owner or operator decides that good business intelligence is going to be a crucial part of their activities, it is important to assess and select some of the various tools that will assist towards achieving the ultimate objective of creating a viable business.

One of those tools will have to be Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). The purpose of this article is to provide a generalized framework in which the data skimmed online can be processed and eventually embedded within the day to day infrastructure of a business.

Of course, the level of detail, investment and sophistication will vary between a small firm and the multinational organization. However the basic concepts still remain the same. Read the rest of this entry

business analysis toolsDo you believe that business intelligence is some mumbo jumbo fantasized by greedy management consultants who are after your hard earned cash? Are you a business owner or manager who will not employ business analysis tools? Do you think you know your business inside out? Are you confident that there is nothing you can learn about your business? In other words are you complacent? If you are any of the above then you can think again.

If you have a particularly small business which employs less than 10 people and is primarily based locally, then chances are that you know a lot about your business or if not, just enough to make sure that it doesn’t go under. However if you are running a larger show, you may never be able to understand what goes on in your company and surely that is a recipe for disaster. Read the rest of this entry