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RangeFinder in the Workplace: Sales and Marketing Edition

Friday, March 23, 2012

Business Intelligence provides sales and marketing teams with information and insights they need on customers, prospects, markets and competitors. With powerful dashboards, analytical and reporting solutions sales and marketing teams are able to better and more accurately track, monitor and analyze every aspect of a sales cycle. BI makes it easier to identify cross-selling opportunities, locate profitable customers, tracking competitors, and to create strategies to successfully reach sales quotas and revenue goals. With the addition of RangeFinder, you can make it even easier to visualize how your company is doing compared to historical data as well as your competitors to make educated and informed decisions that may enhance your companies future.

RangeFinder in the Workplace: Manufacturing Edition

Friday, March 16, 2012

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RangeFinder in the Workplace: Manufacturing Edition

Manufacturing includes all of the processes needed to convert raw materials or components into finished goods, especially with the use of industrial machines and on a larger scale. Manufacturing KPIs can reflect process efficiency, resources consumption and quality of the outputs. RangeFinder can be utilized in manufacturing just like it is utilized the Insurance Industry from episode 1 of this multi-part series.

RangeFinder in the Workplace: Insurance Edition

Friday, March 9, 2012

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RangeFinder in the Workplace: Insurance Edition

With the release of our first Xcelsius/Dashboard Design Add-on component, we decided to put together a multiple part series of blog posts that could showcase how RangeFinder can be utilized within specific business sectors. The first edition of the series is taking aim at the insurance industry and which KPI’s can be visualized by RangeFinder to provide exceptional value to end users.

Underwhelm Your Users with a Well-designed Dashboard

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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Underwhelm Your Users with a Well-designed Dashboard

Dashboard and visualizations are a hot topic right now. You can’t go to an SAP BusinessObjects event or a user group meeting without seeing over half of the presentations focusing on dashboards and visualizations. And, like with any cutting-edge technology, it seems everyone is trying to get in on the action. While that’s a good thing, sometimes people lack the basic knowledge and skills to utilize those tools to deliver effective analysis.

Making Your Measures Behave

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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Defining measures gets interesting because while they are tied to a high-level corporate goal, they also touch nearly every other aspect of the organization, making it a challenge sometimes to balance all of the competing interests. Plus, as soon as you start converting their behavior into numbers, people will simple adapt their behavior to have good numbers and may not deliver the overall results you had hoped.

How to Alienate 12% of your Audience Without Even Trying

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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How to Alienate 12% of your Audience Without Even Trying

I’m color-blind. I can see colors, just not the same way the majority of you do. I didn’t write this post to complain about my color-blindness. Rather, now that dashboards and data visualization continue to become more wide-spread, we’ve got a few issues to talk about.

In Search of Clarity

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Our customers typically have mountains of data, spanning all areas of the organization. Some of their data spans decades. They look to us to help them make sense of it all, and utilize that information to drive better decision-making. It’s often a challenge not so much from a technology aspect, but from a human one. Sometimes when we ask an executive which metrics are most important to them, we get the reply “all of them”.