Part III – Impact of Data Warehouse and ETL Design Best Practices After conducting numerous initial assessments for ERP implementations and upgrades, we have seen that all too many reporting solutions were not built according to data warehousing best practices. Because of this, upgrading to a new ERP release can be almost as costly … continue reading
Posts with tag: Business Intelligence
posted by Tom Lovell in BI Blog on April 30, 2012
One of the most, if not the most daunting issue facing organizations today is what to do with the ever increasing amounts of information available to the enterprise. Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, recently observed, “We didn’t have a zettabyte(10 “to the 21st power” bytes) of information on this planet until the middle of the … continue reading
posted by Jamal Syed in BI Blog on February 28, 2012
Part II – Why BI: Challenges with ERP Reporting In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the time, resources and budget required for ERP upgrades and the questions you should ask before embarking on an upgrade. In part II, we will dive into the importance of implementing BI best-practices within your ERP upgrades/ implementations. … continue reading
posted by Dan Franceschina in BI Blog on February 2, 2012
The latest economic downturn exposed many organization’s weaknesses in their annual planning processes. Companies have long grumbled about the time and resources needed to create an annual plan but have had to put up with the process as a necessary evil as they search for a replacement method. In general, the four main objectives … continue reading
posted by Peter LePine in BI Blog on January 17, 2012
If you’re like me, you’re probably receiving Webinar invites and other marketing materials from the leading Industry Analysts predicting the “next big thing” in BI, Information Management & DW (data warehousing). At Emtec, we take a slightly different perspective; we pay attention to what’s on our Clients’ radar in 2012 and provide pragmatic recommendations & … continue reading
posted by Peter LePine in BI Blog on December 7, 2011
By “critical mass” I’m referring to the failure to advance from a tactical / departmental level of usage, to true adoption of the BI platform at an enterprise level. In my experience, every organization starts out with enterprise-wide goals, but often ends up with a departmental deployment and is unable to scale beyond that. There’s … continue reading
