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Business Intelligence Advantage - A Newsletter brought to you by Data Management Group
 
March, 2007
Why Your EPM Strategy Might Be A Perfect Imperfection

In Brief
Because Business Intelligence now encompasses a broad range of tools and technologies, it can be a daunting task to determine which one is right for you. Looking beyond a tool’s simple report capabilities, one key consideration should be how the reports are to be delivered. This could be as one standalone application or integrated within all of your applications, or both. Look for more criteria like this in our April webinar series.

Featured Articles
The Perfect Imperfection
As the CFO of a major organization, you heard the windstorm that is Sarbanes-Oxley, you listened to your CIO expound the virtues of an integrated information platform: "one version of the truth". So you signed off on the check. You paid a few hundred thousand dollars for an end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software solution; a few more hundred thousand dollars for impressive looking consultants with impeccable references who sounded like they knew your business. Now you are able to pull up a futuristic and glitzy looking dashboard with knobs and dials that tells you at any one time what each department, division, region and country is doing. In fact you have a near flawless, apparently perfect information asset. However, there's one problem: all your operational managers are still using Excel. Even worse, they download data from the different tools in the end-to-end suite into Excel, manipulate it and in some cases, type it back into your EPM package. So you still have a lot of the problems you started with: poor audit trail; data inaccuracies; inability to rely on the numbers, etc. You have a situation that might be described as: a perfect imperfection.
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Google Transit™ Trip Planning Service
An “Open Source” of Information
Transit agencies may increase ridership and fare box revenue by participating in Google Transit, but agencies should be mindful of the potential challenges of other open source projects.
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Training
Instructor Led Training

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Trainer's Talk

  • How to Display a Dashboard in a URL in BusinessObjects Performance Manager XI
    It is possible to display a corporate analytic dashboard through a URL. This feature is useful with Portal Integration Kits (PIK), as the default viewer normally does not display dashboards. Why does this behavior occur? More>>
  • How to Customize the Default Welcome Page in Cognos 8
    How to customize the Default Welcome Page? More>>

White Papers
The Global Advancement of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
This research paper from Business Objects and BusinessWeek outlines the future of EPM and how companies are adopting it. The message is "EPM is no longer a nice to have -- it's critical to your survival as a company". More>>

Enterprise Performance Management Business Paper
EPM works with your existing systems to intelligently structure information and processes so that you can understand and act. EPM is driven from a strategic foundation of business intelligence (BI) systems common across an organization. More>>
DMG In The News
Data Management Group Expands Executive Team with New Hires and Promotion
Data Management Group, a strategic consulting firm focused on helping organizations make better business decisions based on end-to-end business intelligence and enterprise performance management solutions, has hired Randy Michael as VP of professional services, John Morrissey as managing director of public sector and channels, and has promoted David Schmidtknecht to chief financial officer. All are based out of Data Management Group’s Washington, DC area office. More>>

Data Management Group Continues to Grow...
Data Management Group is a recognized Mid-Atlantic leader providing information technology, strategy and data management services to clients in both the commercial and government sector. We work with our clients to deliver business intelligence solutions designed to help businesses increase their corporate revenue, drive business growth and effectively compete in their markets. Due to phenomenal growth in strategic planning and data management services, our unique and exciting company is now expanding and looking for qualified individuals to join our staff.

Current DMG Openings

Next Month
  • Selecting the Right Tool for the Right Job
  • Open Source Business Intelligence
  • Data Management Group heads to SAPPHIRE

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In This Issue

Selecting the Right Tool for the Right Job - Web Seminar

Executive Seminar - Unified Communication & Collaboration

WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
"We were immediately able to gain insight into the production SAP® system and generate business intelligence for executive stakeholders as well as gain insight and understanding of the performance of the Municipal Authority. ROI was received immediately by leveraging existing internal BI resources for reports development lessening the workload on our internal ABAP report writer."

Don Crawley
Manager, Application Development & Support
Information Technology
Halifax Regional Municipality
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EVENTS
CONFERENCES
FOSE 2007 Conference - Washington, DC, March 20-22
Connecting Government Buyers With Technology! Do you need to make the business/IT connection for your team, department, enterprise and agency? Attend the only government centric event where cutting-edge technology products, services and solutions are presented to the government community together with engaging education sessions. More>>

WEB SEMINARS
Selecting the Right Tool for the Right Job
Business Intelligence (BI) projects use to involve simple tools mostly provided by Application embedded reports and/or database queries so the choices were easy. However, today BI is a mature practice with a wealth of vendors with tools that have been around for more than 5 years now. Therefore, when you are ready to launch a BI project, the choice of tools to build it around can be daunting when considering the cost of making the wrong choice. In this webinar we will explore some of the top tool vendors' product suites to contrast where one might fit your needs better than another. We will outline some common situations that would cause your decision to go one way or another. More>>

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR
Unified Communication & Collaboration - Virginia Beach, VA, April 19
Tired of boring presentations? How about a role-play event? We'll have at least 3 Microsoft experts showing you how to use many Microsoft products in harmony, in real-world scenarios. More>>


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