http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/ Nari Kannan's blog explores how new approaches to Business Intelligence can help organizations improve business process performance; whether these processes are creative or operational ones, internally-focused or customer-facing, intra-departmental or across functions. en Copyright 2009 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:37:02 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss My Last blog entry was on Biggest Threat to Social Networks? Spam? . Did not want to leave the impression that all Social Networks are useless. In fact, I have been very impressed with LinkedIn and how it helped me... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/Dojq2BH43Kg/powerful_professional_social_n.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/06/powerful_professional_social_n.php Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:37:02 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/06/powerful_professional_social_n.php Today, for the third time in a week, I got three spam messages from Twitter users. All of them were now following me, and wanted me to follow them. All three were from Porno sites parading as Singles sites! This... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/UmH75tTJl84/biggest_threat_to_social_netwo.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/06/biggest_threat_to_social_netwo.php Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:03:41 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/06/biggest_threat_to_social_netwo.php FAQ pages abound these days almost in every company's website. The last five or ten years have seen FAQ pages have a real positive impact on Help Desk processes in companies. I have used and am full of admiration of... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/qfG42lAiics/how_can_lowly_faq_pages_simpli.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/06/how_can_lowly_faq_pages_simpli.php Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:26:09 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/06/how_can_lowly_faq_pages_simpli.php Whenever we think of industries making gizmos or providing services, cheaper and at better quality, the typical media coverage is on Technical Sizzle, new groundbreaking technology improvements that promise bigger and better productivity and better quality! In many cases this is... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/Lz-fOr2Hz2o/tech_sizzle_does_not_pay_off_a.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/tech_sizzle_does_not_pay_off_a.php Fri, 29 May 2009 15:08:13 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/tech_sizzle_does_not_pay_off_a.php "We make heavy use of our Data ETL Tools, the State of the Art Data Warehousing Solutions and we drive many of the Strategies and Tactics of the Company" is the refrain you hear from users of Business Intelligence in... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/IUNzeSKFdx0/the_yawning_gap_between_bi_hyp.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/the_yawning_gap_between_bi_hyp.php Fri, 15 May 2009 23:54:23 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/the_yawning_gap_between_bi_hyp.php Some years ago, I went to our local library and looked up the Alamanc of Business and Industrial Ratios in the Reference Section. I compiled the following interesting table:   The interesting thing about the above table is that in almost... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/-jvEd2SC7Mg/want_to_double_your_profits_fo.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/want_to_double_your_profits_fo.php Mon, 11 May 2009 18:18:27 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/want_to_double_your_profits_fo.php Vivek Kundra, erstwhile CTO of the District of Columbia has been appointed CIO of the U.S Government by President Obama. Vivek outlines the plans he has as the Federal CIO in many forums like this one here. His previous project... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/tj1IAWcbOkM/what_kind_of_government_bi_wou.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/what_kind_of_government_bi_wou.php Tue, 05 May 2009 15:40:01 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/05/what_kind_of_government_bi_wou.php Business Intelligence tools have always evolved as a sort of a Rear-View Mirror, Post-Mortem Analysis set of tools. How much of widget X did we sell in Region Z, Zone B by Saleperson G? How did we perform on Accounts... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/p8jtPgURyKc/drawbacks_of_business_intellig.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/drawbacks_of_business_intellig.php Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:25:24 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/drawbacks_of_business_intellig.php Consider the Healthcare Vertical, as compared to Banking, Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing and pretty much, any other vertical! In Banking, branch banking, central office banking, check clearing, wire transfers across great distances are all digital and consumers do loads of Internet... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/okaYjSQq5cQ/why_is_healthcare_it_slated_to.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/why_is_healthcare_it_slated_to.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:51:57 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/why_is_healthcare_it_slated_to.php There are quite a few naysayers that say "Yes. But..." for Electronic Health Records citing all kinds of issues such as, they are nor perfect yet, to really lame ones from some Doctors that say that it takes "us away... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/q_km7ypnY-4/electronic_health_records_-_ye.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/electronic_health_records_-_ye.php Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:08:41 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/electronic_health_records_-_ye.php In another life, as CTO of a startup company that attempted large scale Process Improvements in the Auto Insurance Claims Processing area, I have met with multiple, large, Insurance Companies. To the last person in those companies, they all instinctively... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/lG9LCWrSeXg/measuring_before_and_after_of.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/measuring_before_and_after_of.php Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:27:46 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/measuring_before_and_after_of.php I was really impressed with the latest Rental Car reservation I made with Alamo Rent A Car. They sent me a confirmation email message and right there there was a link for me to enter all my Driver's License information,... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/Z8qADopVvxs/making_the_end_user_do_all_the.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/making_the_end_user_do_all_the.php Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:10:03 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/making_the_end_user_do_all_the.php In most business processes, something magical happens when all relevant information is stored in one place and made accessible to people involved in the Business Process! Let's assume you are a country, processing applications for passports for your citizens. It... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/zWrp8M8kcDk/centralized_information_is_hal.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/centralized_information_is_hal.php Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:15:03 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/04/centralized_information_is_hal.php In this very tough economic environment, technologies that seem to be still doing very well are Digitization, Storage and Document Management. I am guessing that the root of all this success is Digitization. There is an enormous effort going on in the... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/eD1e5HihreI/digitization_opens_the_floodga.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/03/digitization_opens_the_floodga.php Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:20:40 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/03/digitization_opens_the_floodga.php Just e-filed my Tax returns. The Federal filing was free but the tax preparation software I used charged me for filing the State Return. The situation with e-filing tax returns now is much better than five years ago. At least... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewFrontiersInBusinessIntelligence/~3/UrLmqwO1cS4/paying_for_e-filing_taxes_shou.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/03/paying_for_e-filing_taxes_shou.php Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:11:02 +0000 nari http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2009/03/paying_for_e-filing_taxes_shou.php