generate insights into business drivers organization-wide, providing all encompassing, integrated real-time visibility
across traditional enterprise functional and business process silos. This can engender increased consistency, efficiency and
effectiveness in supply chain planning, demand management, customer experience management, HR, retail, logistics,
operations, distribution and production planning.
By eliminating manual, batch driven data & periodically recurring consolidation processes, and by automatically
garnering both structured and unstructured data within the corporation and across its business network, Data can propel us
to the proclaimed Nirvana state and live up to its promise. When you combine this with any-time, any-where access on
any-device to the right person, at the right time so that they can make the right decision, we will be off to the races. As
Robert Frost so eloquently wrote in his famous poem, " The woods are dark & deep, but I have many miles to go before I
sleep". The beginning has been made... Though hope is not a strategy (as many of us in sales, have learnt or have been
told by our managers), I am optimistically confident that we can mine the data goldmine and strike it Big. As I say, Go
Big or Go Home!
Some data-centric intelligence solutions are on the right track, with their customers' getting real and quantifiable ROI on
their BI spends. Read here about how Kempinski is leveraging Infor's enterprise performance management (dEPM)
platform to enhance its decision making, and positively impact its businesshttp://www.infor.com/company/news/pressroom/pressreleases/kempinski-implements-buisness-intelligence-platform/
The first few steps have been taken.... now it is up to us to continue the path forward and leverage the data laden crystal
ball. Till next time, happy gazing....
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