Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management Software - iStart.co.nz
Welcome to the Business Intelligence research pavilion. Below you will find information from most of the leading vendors of these solutions and services in New Zealand, including contact details, case studies, articles, demos, web links, brochures and white papers to assist you research and locate the best solution for your organisation. Check also the iStart Diary for local seminars on this subject. All vendors showcased below will be glad to assist with your enquiries.
- Business Intelligence Overview
- Business Intelligence Solution Providers
- Business Intelligence Buyers Guide
- Articles / Industry Reports
- Other Resources
Solution Providers
Solution Providers
Jet Reports, Inc. was founded in 2002 to offer Microsoft Dynamics clients a user-friendly reporting solution. Jet Reports integrates Excel and Dynamics for use by business people throughout any organisation. More than 50,000 users in 89 countries have made Jet Reports the fastest growing Excel-based reporting solution in the world.
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Microsoft BI delivers a full range of familiar, tightly integrated BI capabilities that enable individuals, teams, and organizations to better manage performance. Most likely, your organization already uses or has access to Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint Server, Performance Point Server and SQL Server to deliver reporting and analysis that enhance productivity, collaboration and performance.
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iQ4bis is an independent software provider with a well-earned reputation for the development and delivery of intuitive business analytics solutions for medium-sized companies. As an established and respected global innovator, we have been delivering high impact tools to our international client roster since 1985.
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“Building the bridge between data and decision making”
Montage Business Intelligence is an independent business intelligence, customer analytics and performance management specialist. Although platform and tools agnostic, we partner with key vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, Wherescape and SAS. Our team is one of the largest and most experienced in New Zealand – we don't dabble in BI alongside other services, it's our core business!
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EMDA specialises in comprehensive business solutions for manufacturing and distribution companies, providing products and services to customers throughout New Zealand and Australia, and extending into Asia Pacific. As New Zealand agents for Infor’s range of business software, EMDA works closely with Infor to deliver high quality solutions for manufacturing, distribution, e-commerce, financial and sales, as well as the entire spectrum of supply chain management.
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Greentree’s business software is today’s ultimate painkiller and multi-vitamin.
Imagine all your staff having the operational intelligence at their fingertips to perform at their best. Discover how automating many common and regular processes will have your business humming. Picture your talented people being freed up to spend more time developing new ideas and making better decisions. We are unashamed technology and business buffs; fanatics; addicts. Call us what you will, we have one obsession: building the best business software.
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Turning unruly data into business intelligence requires specialised tools that analyse, drill down or mine data to help users make informed decisions and ensure an organisation is more efficient and more competitive.
If information is the corporate lifeblood then you need to know how healthy you are and compare your vital signs with your competitors. If you can't put your finger on the data you need when you need it, you risk losing business and the confidence of your customers.
Business Intelligence systems are usually associated with Data Warehouses, essentially database repositories designed to support an organisation's decision making. Data Warehouses are batch updated and can contain enormous amounts of information, typically including customer transactional history.
Once all the pieces are in place, including a standardised infrastructure, databases that talk to each other, real-time document conversion and storage and management software, you begin to create what may be described as a 'corporate memory'. Business intelligence or data mining tools are used to dig through this information revealing patterns and relationships within the business activity and history. Management reports based on this kind of analysis can help organisations with their strategic and competitive positioning. The benefits may include identifying who the best and worst customers are, which products make the most or least profits, fine-tuning of marketing or pricing policies, the retention of customers and predicting market trends.
Business-intelligence tools can provide significant value, but measuring their return on investment still presents a challenge as it can take time to see the real world benefits. Some business intelligence packages have a reputation for being complex and difficult to use, so training could be a critical factor in getting people up to speed with these tools.
Articles/Industry Reports|
Don't jump: ten tips for managing performance in a crisis |
It’s tempting to just slash costs when a recession bites. However, it pays to give some considered thought to what should go and what should stay. Many a good business has been built in a recession and the lessons learnt in lean times can turn to gold when the environment improves (and it will improve!) |
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Plain sailing: doing BI effectively |
A business intelligence solution can be a highly effective tool for turning a mountain of organisational data into a goldmine of insightful information. But for New Zealand organisations who have mastered BI, including Wellington’s CentrePort, there’s more to getting it right than just deploying the technology. |
| Killer KPIs: getting your business metrics right | Performance management and business intelligence tools can be powerful business enablers. To make the most of them you need to start by getting your key performance indicators right. READ MORE |
| Big vendors get wise to Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence is now high up on the list of corporate IT priorities. We find out what organisations should consider when looking to leverage their ERP investment by adding on a BI solution. READ MORE |
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As simple as A, B, C? |
While activity-based costing (ABC) can be a powerful tool for analysing profitability it has met with mixed enthusiasm over the past two decades. Has its day finally arrived? |
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BI goes deep |
As business operations become increasingly more complex in the global environment, enterprises require enhanced business intelligence at the deepest level - embedded within essential business processes. How is this accomplished? |
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Are CFOs from Venus and CIOs from Mars? |
The operational relationship between chief financial officers and chief information officers can be likened to Venus and Mars - according to a recent global survey by Deloitte. |
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BI systems - make your next move count |
Too many business decisions are based on ‘gut feel,’ according to recent surveys, but to get a clear picture of how your company is performing you need a Business Intelligence System. Adam Gifford reports. |
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Avoid embarrassments get business intelligence |
The embarrassing about-turn in recommendation by the independent directors of Carter Holt Harvey that shareholders now accept Graeme Hart’s takeover bid is a lesson to all business managers in the importance of good reporting. As Michael Foreman finds out, there are business intelligence solutions out there to support the growth of any size organisation. |
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Do Financial Analysis More Efficiently With Excel 2002 and XBRL |
See how investors can use Web services to get more timely and accurate financial data. Microsoft, NASDAQ, and PWC created a demonstration that delivers updated corporate data into a Microsoft Excel version 2002 spreadsheet by using an XML Web service and XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). |
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Business Intelligence: All eyes on the dashboard |
Dashboards use an organisation’s data to present managers with clear, actionable information in a highly graphical, intuitive format – making smart decision making easier. |
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Get Smart! 3 steps to better business |
Businesses today are continually asking questions about how to cut expenses and improve profitability. Increasingly, a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution is the tool they’re turning to for answers – David McNickel finds out how it’s done. |
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