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Golf Solutions Designed at Barnham Broom Golf Club in Norfolk

 Many sports tend to be biassed towards one sex or another. For example, football is a sport dominated by men and does not become much more masculine than rugby! On the other side of the fence, netball definitely falls into the women's category. However, there are some sports that share gender gracefully, which appeal to both men and women. Reddit live streaming Golf is undoubtedly one of these sports and has no age limits. Spread across courses in the UK you will find some unlikely groups of people bound by their love for this great outdoor sport. Some will play every day, while others will only play on the weekends, perhaps as a way to relieve the stress of a difficult week at the office. No golfer tends to join a club and membership packages vary widely in price. Most golf clubs simply offer standard packages with the assumption that one size fits all and offers a bit of flexibility. However, some offer more realistic membership packages, considering how much you will be playing...

Self-service Business Intelligence for Commercial Property Leasing

Commercial Real Estate Leasing is an extremely competitive sector of the Real Estate Industry and the players are required to be imaginative and have information at their fingertips to avail of the opportunities that arise as well as quickly respond to government, economic and market pressures that might challenge their business models. Having market and business metrics at the tips of your fingers therefore becomes a necessity. Interactive Business Intelligence gives Commercial Real-estate professionals number of benefits: Allows you to have a data based strategy for real estate portfolio optimization. Provides a broad spectrum of self-service, easy to use business intelligence tools with customizable levels of access, reporting or analytics per user. Allows for both internal and external performance measurement and benchmarking. Interactive BI breaks down multidimensional Data mashups with beautiful, rich data visualizations that support your natural ability to spot patterns. Downloa...

Click2Analyze Sales Performance Analysis Dashboard

Your ability to track, analyze, and understand all aspects of your sales – what is being sold to which customer, when and by whom – is critical to identifying profitable customers. It is also important to keep track of your company's and sales people's sales performance to keep the company sales at top. KMS Click2Analyze Sales Performance Analysis dashboard is compatible with any ERP system enabling companies to analyze their sales performance, giving you the full range of analysis, from the dashboard to the individual transaction. Now with Click2Analyze Sales Analysis dashboard, you have complete visibility to business-critical customer, sales, product, budget, and channel data in a single, powerful yet easy-to-use business performancemanagement application. Click2Analyze Sales Performance Analysis Dashboard can easily be integrated with your enterprise systems, even for companies running different ERP and CRM systems in differentdivisions. The dashboard provides a rapid ROI...

Overcoming Oracle Essbase challenges with Jedox Webinar

It's video week at Jedox ! This recorded webinar addresses Hyperion Essbase users and reviews key issues faced by business users and developers of legacy calculation engines and planning systems. Learn how the modern Jedox platform can address these challenges to provide greater user satisfaction, less IT burden, and a rapid Return on Investment. Organizations that simplify and optimize planning, forecasting and reporting free up valuable resources, so they can focus on growth. However, many organizations feel stuck with slow platforms that are not user-friendly, expensive to maintain, and difficult to upgrade. Often users were forced to select a tool like SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), or Oracle because it came with their ERP, rather than by selecting the most suitable tool from the market. Other tools like Hyperion Essbase and Hyperion Planning had some unique features 20 years ago, but have been overtaken by newer and more modern platforms that combine planning ...

QlikView 12 Released

Qlik has finally released the new version of its business intelligence platform, QlikView 12. The major change in the QlikView 12 compared to QlikView 11 (which was released in 2011) is the data engine. QlikView now uses the same QIX Associative Data Indexing Engine (QIX) that powers Qlik Sense . Other than the data engine improvement, QlikView also has enhancements in its security and mobile experience. All functions on web client are now available on touch devices without limitations.  Other changes are improved clustering, native connectors to web services and accessibility of Data Market to QlikView. Qlik has released a new platform, Qlik Sense, in September 2014, after two years without any major release and the release date of QlikView 12 was since awaited by existing users of the platform. The last major release of QlikView was QlikView 11 released in 2011. Since the company was releasing a new version in every year the expectation was that Qlik (then called QlikTech...

Data Visualization by Tableau Introduction in Singapore

If you are looking for a chance to know Tableau data visualization platform in Singapore, Knowledge Management Solutions , a Business Intelligence and Data Visualization solution provider and Tableau partner in Singapore, is offering a half day free Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau 9 Tableau is a business intelligence and data visualization software platform that allows anyone to connect to data in a few clicks, then visualize and create interactive, shareable dashboards with a few more. It’s easy enough that any Excel user can learn it, but powerful enough to satisfy even the most complex analytical problems. Securely sharing your findings with others only takes seconds. The result is BI software that you can trust to actually deliver answers to the people that need them. Data Visualization with Tableau in Singapore Who should attend? Business people, General Managers, Analysts, Operations Managers, IT Managers, HR Managers, Finance Managers, Marketing Managers, Sales ...

Free Qlik Sense / QlikView Demo Session in Singapore on September 16th

Qlik has recently released a new version and more mature version of Qlik Sense, Qlik Sense 2.0, and also a brand new concept / platform named Qlik Analytics Platform. Besides, Qlik Sense now also has a cloud version where you can use this cutting edge data visualization software as SaaS. There will be a QlikView / Qlik Sense introduction event at 9am - 11am on 16th September 2015 in Singapore Management University. In this event, you will not only have a chance to learn about Qlik product and platform family, you will also have chance to see the newest features of Qlik Sense and QlikView. This event is a free and for registration and details you can visit  Free Qlik workshop for Business Users and IT professionals: Interactive Business Reporting and Analysis with QlikView & Qlik Sense page. Qlik Sense Qlik Sense Imagine analytics so intuitive, anyone in your company could easily create personalized reports and dynamic dashboards to explore vast amounts of data and find meaning...

Qlik Sense Cloud

Qlik's self-service business intelligence Qlik Sense now has a cloud based offering which is named Qlik Sense Cloud . This is a hosted, Software as a service, version of Qlik Sense where you can privately share your applications with others. Qlik Sense Cloud pricing information is currently not available and in fact, the current version is free! You can add up to 5 users freely to view your Qlik Sense application on your cloud. Currently the total app size is restricted to 1 GB and each Qlik Sense application cannot be more than 25 MB in size. Below, you can watch a nice introduction and getting started to Qlik Sense Cloud video. You can simply create your Qlik Sense applications on Qlik Sense Desktop (also freely available) and upload them to your Qlik Sense cloud. Below in Qlik Sense Cloud - Registration and Orientation video, Michael Tarallo from Qlik shows how easy it is to register with Qlik Sense Cloud.

Financial Data Analysis by Jedox event in Singapore

Jedox is an Excel based financial planning software. Financial data is often difficult to audit and unreliable because of ineffective controls in Excel. The issues surface in overworked teams, manually reconciling data scattered across multiple systems and countries. Traditional BI/PM software needed specialised technical teams to develop and maintain them. Waterfall implementations meant Finance filled out requirement documents, explained basic finance concepts to the technical team - and then waited for the result. The business process (that Finance was still ultimately responsible for) was no longer under Finance’s control. To manage this, agile companies adopt the Jedox Suite. Jedox gives you unified planning, consolidation and reporting in one intuitive solution. Knowledge Management Solutions , an authorized Jedox partner in Singapore, is having a free event to introduce this great platform to finance specialists in Singapore at 3pm - 5pm, on 28th August 2015. The address of this...

Sales Performance, Pipeline and Productivity Data Analysis Dashboard Demo by Qlik Sense

Would monitoring the health of your pipeline by region, industry, function, rep, division, etc. help you improve forecast accuracy? Are you remaining competitive in your industry and can you identify areas for improvement to increase your win rate?  Sales Performance, Pipeline and Productivity Data Analysis model holds the sales opportunities in pipe and closed business. Additional information like region, division, customer industy, segment and function is available to dissect, analyze and forecast. Finally, there is a competitive analysis view to see who the company compete against and the company's effectiveness in those competitive situations. The application consist of the followign views : Dashboard - This view shows the current quarter's sales pipeline. Performance / Effectiveness Dashboard - This view helps to analyze the current quarter sales performance (Quote, Pipeline, Revenue) by region and Sales rep. Pipeline Analysis Dashboard - This dashboard helps to deconstruc...

Supply Chain - Inventory and Product Availability Dashboard Demo by Qlik Sense

This Supply Chain - Inventory and Product Availability Dashboard demo application provides visibility into inventory levels (in-store, depot, and in transit) and potential insights into availability through out of stock measures and sales information. Lack of availability can mean lost potential sales. Too much inventory creates excess costs. The demo app is designed to give visibility into the Retail environment to Consumer Products companies. The source data is the Retailer who makes information available from their store EPOS and depot systems to the Consumer Goods company. This demo gives consumer goods company and any retailers a picture of product stock levels in store, depot and in transit, as well as sales analysis. The app supports Consumer Products companies in their effort through allowing users to reduce out-of-stocks and lost sales potential, as well as identifying potential alternative sources of replenishment. This data can be viewed at the multiple levels and locations,...

Retail Store Performance Dashboard Demo

Retail Store Performance dashboard demo is a free, online QlikView demo which showcases how an interactive business intelligence platform can be used to analyze the performance of stores from a regional level all the way down to the individual store level. The user can analyze sales versus budget, sales versu target, customer satisfaction, Year to date scorecard for regions, as well as detailed sales trends and numbers. The application also has an integrated map chart where the user can perform geospatial analysis. The Retail Store Performance dashboard ties corporate strategy to store level execution at all levels of the store operations hierarchy.  Timely and accurate store performance metrics can be analyzed in the corporate office, in a store, or through a mobile device for traveling store operations and field management. You can access the application by filing  Data Analytics with Qlik Demo/App Request Form  (select "Retail Store Performance Dashboard Demo" in the ...

OEE Analysis Dashboard by QlikView

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) provides an overall measure of performance for a process. Developed by Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized, OEE is commonly used as a key performance indicator (KPI) in conjunction with lean manufacturing efforts to provide an indicator of success. OEE Analysis Dashboard by QlikView is a rare freely available business intelligence example which provides a performance overview for manufacturing, provide diagnostic capabilities in order to improve performance over time to understand the current level of performance: What is it getting better or worse?  Why is my performance at its current level?  What are the drivers behind the performance?  By machine, By cell, By time period?  What resources do I invest where to have the biggest impact? The application sits on top of a shop floor data collection system and would contains information about the performance of shop floor...

Microsoft Power BI Desktop

Microsoft’s cloud-based business analytics tool, Power BI, came out with a brand new addition in late July 2015,  Power BI Desktop . Officially named Power BI Designer, this free desktop tool aims business analysts and can be used to analyze data in a wide range of data sources. Power BI is also capable of ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) and can cleanse, transform and model interrelationships between the data; explore the resulting mashed up datasets. Microsoft Power BI Desktop can create interactive reports and dashboards with simple drag and drops and these reports can then be published to the Power BI service for use by end users. As Microsoft announced earlier in 2015, users will be able to choose between two versions of Power BI – a free service and a paid one (Power BI Pro), which comes with additional features and data capacity, costing US$9.99 per user per month. Microsoft indeed has a very powerful platform offering for business intelligence but it has be...

How Qlikview works?

The core feature of QlikView is an in-memory, associative data model which feeds the visualization in a very unique way. In a traditional business intelligence application, the data visualization layer interacts with data through queries which are basically scripts executed by the platform. So if you for example select a country to drill-down to the sales numbers in that country, the data visualization layer runs a script, queries the data, retrieves the data from the data layer and updates the charts and reports in the screen. QlikView on the other hand do not use this query mechanism. Application and data layer are tightly integrated in QlikView and data relationships are handled in engine level not application level. This means the QlikView charts and reports are integrated with in-memory data model and they know how to filter themselves when user drills down. The mechanism above help QlikView developers to write significantly less software scripts which shortens the development an...

MicroStrategy Singapore Symposium

MicroStrategy has announced that  2015 MicroStrategy Symposium Series is coming to the Marina Bay Sands on October 21st. In this event, MicroStrategy will showcase how MicroStrategy 10 brings ease-of-use to true enterprise-grade analytics. Latest in Enterprise Analytics, Mobility, and Security will also be shared. You can have first hand experience of how MicroStrategy 10 sets new standards for data discovery, big data, advanced analytics, and more. MicroStrategy Singapore Symposium will be packed with keynotes, technical sessions, and workshops focused on enterprise analytics, mobile, and security. The full agenda is available online. • Visionary keynotes from MicroStrategy executives and customers • Informative sessions on data discovery, big data, enterprise security, and much more • Hands-on workshops with MicroStrategy 10 • The opportunity to network with technology innovators, partners, and sponsors All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of MicroStrategy...

Credit Risk Management Dashboard Demo by QlikView Business Intelligence Platform

Business and risk have always been seen to go hand-in-hand and the need for banks to strengthen their risk management framework is vital. Exposing the true risk profile to the users has been a challenging business problem due to multiple data sources and differences in operational processes and metric definitions. To mitigate this situation, a financial institution should provide a holistic view of the risks faced by the organization at any point in time. When up-to-date information on risks can be analyzed and put at the users fingertips, firms will inevitably find it easier to maximize profit AND reduce risk. The purpose of the Credit Risk Management demo is to illustrate how QlikView can be used by a financial institution to manage credit risk. By providing a unified picture to the entire business, QlikView helps everyone have the same, up to date, picture of their risk exposure instead of disparate spreadsheets floating around the business. Credit Risk data is also interesting to t...

QlikView for Salesforce.com

Salesforce is the of the most popular cloud based Customer Relationships Management (CRM) product available in the market today. Organizations today invested in Salesforce.com today can also enjoy the business intelligence interfaces provided for them to make sense of Salesforce data. But leaving CRM functionality in Salesforce.com while integrating the data from Salesforce into a more flexible but third party BI platform has definite advantages. For example, you can blend data from Salesforce and other in-house systems to analyze it together. QlikView provides a Salesforce connector which can extract data into QlikView to develop powerful analysis, reports and dashboards and empower users with rich and interactive visualization. These dashboards in return will help you to improve key CRM KPIs like sales forecast accuracy, pinpoint cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and achieve more customer centric service and support delivery. You can instantly try out how a QlikView dashboard for...

QlikView SAP Template

QlikView SAP Templates known as "SAP Qlikstart Templates" are pre-built QlikView applications to be used with QlikView SAP Netwaver connector. QlikStart templates provide a sample set of key information deliverables for your SAP™ modules that combine data extraction scripts, pre defined calculations and a variety of sample analyses in a front end application combining dashboards, charts and reports. QlikStart templates contain value for both IT and the business, for IT a series of predefined extraction scripts with table joins and calculations provide valuable insight.  The business user can start using the predefined reports to analyse their business within a very short time. You can download SAP Qlikstart Templates  here. The link contains a 29 MB Rar file which has three documents for each template below : two QlikView qvw files for data extraction and actual application and a document to explain how to setup these QlikView SAP templates.  If you do not have a licensed...

QlikView for SAP: How to unlock the value of your data hidden in SAP

QlikView is one of the most popular business intelligence platform today. Its popularity is not an accident. With its super fast and user-friendly data discovery interface, rapid development cycle, fast response time, it provides a very capable platform to extract the hidden value in the enterprise data. SAP is on the other hand one of the most popular ERP solutions in the market today. Although it also provides BI capabilities, many customers choose QlikView as their BI platform to extract data from SAP. With QlikView, you can consolidate information from SAP BI, SAP R/3 or any other data source easily and then search and analyze this data with Google-like ease and speed. QlikView also provides a QlikView Connector for SAP Netweaver which enables SAP customers to get easy and quick access to all the data hidden in different SAP systems in QlikView. KMS , an authorized QlikView partner in Singapore is having a free event named "QlikView for SAP: How to unlock the value of your da...

Free Tableau Demo in Singapore for manufacturing

Tableau Software has recently released their brand new data visualization platform version, Tableau 9.0 in April and in June officially released the new version in Singapore. If you are keen to try out this mind blowing self-service business intelligence platform, you can download a free Tableau download (14-days trial) and also watch this 23 minute full demo of the platform, Getting Started with Tableau . For those in Singapore, Knowledge Management Solutions, an official Tableau Software partner based in Singapore (with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jakarta) is conducting a full 1.5 hour demo of Tableau on 31st July 2015 - 9:30am - 11am in Singapore Management University campus. You can see the details and form to register here : Tableau for Business Users Event . This Tableau 9.0 demo for Business Users event is regularly conducted and this session targets manufacturing. Still, it is offers a demo for every one including non-manufacturing industries to experience how Tab...

Free Hands On Qlikview workshop in Singapore

QlikView is one of the most powerful and popular business intelligence platform in the market today. It has a really powerful interactive interface, data massaging module and rich set of charts, reports and graphs which can help you to create almost all types of business intelligence dashboards you need. Although complex QlikView dashboards may require some experience and IT skills, one do not need these two to benefit QlikView. With a very short learning curve, you can easily start to create powerful dashboards on your own. To do this, you can follow online QlikView videos, free QlikView training modules as well as regular QlikView classroom trainings in your area. You can also join a hands on QlikView workshop to kick start your QlikView experience. Avensys Consulting, a QlikView partner based in Singapore is regularly conducting Qlik hands on workshops in Singapore to introduce QlikView to business users. Open to every business executive who are struggling to make sense of their ...

Oil and Gas Analytics

Oil prices shrunk from $115 a barrel to less than $50 a barrel forcing energy firms to reconsider their strategy. Break-even price of producing a barrel of oil needs to be reduced to counter falling prices. Reports have stated that better data analysis could boost production of oil & gas companies by up to 6-8 percent. There is a whitepaper about Oil and Gas Analytics from Knowledge Management Solutions, a Singapore based Business Intelligence and Analytics solution provider, explains how BI can boost Oil & Gas Industry : Exploration and production analysis Loss code analysis Drilling and Completion analysis Health, Safety, Environment & Security analysis Production Optimization analysis A sample Oil and Gas Analytics dashboard screen - Production Surveilance You can download the White paper on Interactive Business Intelligence for Oil & Gas Industry .

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2015

Gartner's infamous  Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms for 2015 has just been released. You can see the quadrant below. We will write about it a little later. Also compare it with Magic Quadrant of 2014 (see below). For now some notes : Tableau's stellar rise to leaders quadrant and now becoming the outliner performing better than all others is much more pronounced now in 2015. And this is still before the exiting new release of Version 9. Gartner says "Tableau has clearly defined the market in terms of data discovery, with a focus on "helping people see and understand their data." It is currently the perceived market leader with most vendors viewing Tableau as the competitor they most want to be like and to beat. At a minimum, they want to stop the encroachment of Tableau into their customer accounts." Tibco Software fell from leaders to visionaries. Gartner says "The future of Tibco itself is uncertain, following the acq...

Navision Sales Analyzer Dashboard

Navision Sales Analyzer is a Business Intelligence Dashboard for sales which built on the powerful Tableau data visualization platform. Developed by Singapore based  Knowledge Management Solutions , it empowers Microsoft Navision users to analyze and visualize data and to make strategic calls about sales and marketing. Plan revenue Analyze the impact of promotions Discover performance of products Compare product market share Vs. market growth Perform market basket analysis See customer buying behaviour clearly You can watch a video introduction of Navision sales analyzer below. If you would like to find out more, KMS has a free demo event to introduce the product to the market. Click here to join : KMS Navision Sales Analyzer Demo .