Business Intelligence Advantage Newsletter, April 2006

What You Need to Know BEFORE Investing in a Business Intelligence Solution
So, your organization has reached the point of investing in a business intelligence (BI) solution. The goals and expectations have been set, existing and future infrastructures have been analyzed and discussed, price ranges have been determined, and you might even have a few products that you are ready to consider. Almost all the meetings have concluded and now you are eager to purchase and implement. As you stand at the fork in the BI solution selection superhighway, the first question you may ask yourself is, “With so many vendors and products out there, which is right for my project?” Well, here are three questions that, once answered, will help you make that decision easier. More>>

Steps to Ensure Successful e-Government Implementations
The four processes that make up e-Government – e-services, e-commerce, e-democracy, and e-management – were created in order increase the participation of all U.S. citizens in what makes our country unique: our government. In 2003, President Bush signed a document regarding the implementation of his management agenda for e-Government. The purpose of the document was for the government to be more results-oriented, efficient, and citizen-centered. It was also designed to “eliminate billions of dollars of wasteful federal spending, and reduce the government's paperwork burden on citizens and businesses, and improve government response time to citizens - from weeks down to minutes.” The key to the implementation being successful, however, is that all of the four major dimensions work together as one under the e-Government system. More>>

The ABCs of BEx
SAP's Business Explorer (BEx), is the front end reporting agent for its SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW). BEx provides an organized interface where users may build reports of data that lies in the BW. Users may leverage several interfaces to get to their data, among them are the Web or Microsoft Excel. Further, the BEx reporting tool allows different views of data in an array of combinations; hierarchies, calculations, restrictions, conditions, and exceptions. More>>

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Implementing a Business Intelligence Strategy
A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Standardization. More>>

Strategy Management in the Public Sector
To manage performance, organizations must plan and manage the activities that drive performance. But establishing the connection between detailed daily activities, desired high-level outcomes, and budgets is one of the biggest challenges facing management in the public sector today. This paper takes a look at lessons learned in the private sector and how these can be applied to the public sector to transform business performance management. More>>

Naval Medical Information Management Center awards $2M contract to Data Management Group
The Naval Medical Information Management Center (NMIMC) has awarded Data Mangement Group, a leading business intelligence solutions provider offering commercial, government and non-profit organizations information technology consulting, implementation, and training services, a contract to support the Military Sealift Command's Navy Medical Ships; the USNS Comfort and the Mercy. This contract has an estimated value of $2 million and a time span of approximately two years. More>>