In recent years line-of-business applications including accounting, human resources, manufacturing, sales and customer service have appeared in the cloud. Cloud -based software as a service (SaaS) has replaced on-premises applications that were previously part of ERP and CRM environments. They have helped companies become more efficient but have also introduced interoperability challenges between business processes. Their advantage is that cloud software can be rented, configured and used...
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Topics:
Sales Performance,
Supply Chain Performance,
ERP,
Office of Finance,
Order Management,
Operational Performance,
Business Analytics,
Business Performance,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Customer Service,
Financial Performance,
CFO,
SFA
During recent IBM analyst big data event, I learned about a new product, IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence. It extracts and processes customer-related data from multiple sources to analyze customer-related activities and has capabilities to predict customer behavior and actions. Predictive Customer Intelligence is built on IBM’s big data platform and supports extraction and integration of data from multiple sources, internal and external, and from structured and unstructured data. It can...
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Topics:
Social Media,
Customer Analytics,
Customer Experience,
Voice of the Customer,
IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Customer & Contact Center,
Customer Service,
IBM,
Information Applications,
Call Center,
Contact Center,
Contact Center Analytics,
IBM Watson,
Text Analytics
Mobility continues to be a hot adoption area in business intelligence, according to our research across analytics and line of business departments. Nearly three-quarters (71%) of organizations said their mobile workforce would be able to access BI capabilities in the next 12 months according to our next generation mobile business intelligence research. Roambi, a provider of mobile business intelligence applications, has made important strides this year after moving to deploying its products in...
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Topics:
Mobile Business Intelligence,
Sales Performance,
flow,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance,
Cloud Computing,
Customer & Contact Center,
Information Applications,
Roambi,
box,
Digital Technology
Tagetik provides financial performance management software. One particularly useful aspect of its suite is the Collaborative Disclosure Management (CDM). CDM addresses an important need in finance departments, which routinely generate highly formatted documents that combine words and numbers. Often these documents are assembled by contributors outside of the finance department; human resources, facilities, legal and corporate groups are the most common. The data used in these reports almost...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Mobile,
ERP,
Human Capital Management,
Modeling,
Office of Finance,
Reporting,
Budgeting,
close,
closing,
Consolidation,
Controller,
Finance Financial Applications Financial Close,
IFRS,
XBRL,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance,
Financial Performance,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
CFO,
compliance,
Data,
benchmark,
Financial Performance Management,
financial reporting,
FPM,
GAAP,
Integrated Business Planning,
Profitability,
SEC Software
At its annual industry analyst summit last month and in a more recent announcement of enterprise support for parallelizing the R language on its Aster Discovery Platform, Teradata showed that it is adapting to changes in database and analytics technologies. The presentations at the conference revealed a unified approach to data architectures and value propositions in a variety of uses including the Internet of Things, digital marketing and ETL offloading. In particular, the company provided...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Teradata,
IT Performance,
Operational Performance,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance,
Customer & Contact Center,
Information Applications,
Information Management,
Internet of Things,
Operational Intelligence,
Teradata Aster
The developed world has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to information technology. Individuals walk around with far more computing power and data storage in their pockets than was required to send men to the moon. People routinely hold on their laps what would have been considered a supercomputer a generation ago. There is a wealth of information available on the Web. And the costs of these information assets are a tiny fraction of what they were decades ago. Consumer products have...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Mobile,
Predictive Analytics,
Sales Performance,
Social Media,
Customer Experience,
Performance,
Operational Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance,
Customer & Contact Center,
Financial Performance,
IBM,
finance,
Sales Performance Management,
Social,
Financial Performance Management,
SPSS
Cornerstone OnDemand is a large pure-play vendor of talent management software, with more than 1,700 clients, more than 14.5 million users and more than 60 percent growth in revenue over the past 12 months. At the company’s annual customer conference this year, CEO Adam Miller talked about a trend in the market of talent management applications going beyond automating a series of processes to help engage employees within organizations. I agree with this analysis and would extend the trend to...
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Topics:
Social Media,
Human Capital Analytics,
Human Capital Management,
LMS,
Employee Engagement,
Employee Onboarding,
Usability,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Cloud Computing,
Workforce Performance,
Cornerstone OnDemand