Adempiere Business Intelligence
**Integrating Adempiere with Pentaho Open BI Suite**
(Soheil Qanbari)
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What is Business Intelligence...
Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term which refers to applications and technologies which are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about their company operations. Business intelligence systems can help companies have a more comprehensive knowledge of the factors affecting their business, such as metrics on sales, production, internal operations, and they can help companies to make better business decisions. Business Intelligence should not be confused with competitive intelligence, which is a separate management concept.
Business Intelligence is not a product nor a system. In fact it is an architecture and a collection of integrated functional and operational decision-support applications and databases that provides the business community easy access to business data. Of course it specifically focuses on the decision-support applications and databases as well.
Why is Business Intelligence important?
We all know that an organization is like the human body with close integration amongst the various organs of the body. We also know that there are communication problems, which create confusion amongst the various activities. Sometimes, what may seem as nonsense will be the process and common sense will be ignored. We also know that the top management may require something else and the middle and junior management provides something else, resists to provide or is unable to provide.
The top management drives the business direction, for a business to thrive, the top management has to make the correct decisions, correct decisions can only be made based on data available. The more relevant this data is, the better decision making process will be. Business Intelligence tools fulfill this requirement of businesses. Business intelligence applications and technologies can help companies analyze the following: changing trends in market share, changes in customer behavior and spending patterns, customers' preferences, company capabilities and market conditions. Business intelligence can be used to help analysts and managers determine which adjustments are most likely to affect trends.
BI systems can help companies develop consistent and "data-based" business decisions--producing better results than basing decisions on "guesswork." In addition, business intelligence applications can enhance communication among departments, coordinate activities, and enable companies to respond more quickly to changes (e.g., in financial conditions, customer preferences, supply chain operations, etc.). When a BI system is well-designed and properly integrated into a company's processes and decision-making process, it may be able to improve a company's performance. Having access to timely and accurate information is an important resource for a company, which can expedite decision-making and improve customers' experience.
In the competitive customer-service sector, companies need to have accurate, up-to-date information on customer preferences, so that the company can quickly adapt to their changing demands. Business Intelligence enables companies to gather information on the trends in the marketplace and come up with innovative products or services in anticipation of customer's changing demands. Business Intelligence applications can also help managers to be better informed about actions that a company's competitors are taking. As well, BI can help companies share selected strategic information with business partners. For example, some businesses use BI systems to share information with their suppliers (e.g., inventory levels, performance metrics, and other supply chain data). BI systems can also be designed to provide managers with information on the state of economic trends or marketplace factors, or to provide managers with in depth knowledge about the internal operations of a business.
BI Includes
BI decision-support applications facilitate many activities, including:
Multidimensional Analysis
Another term for multidimensional analysis is multivariate analysis. So This term is derived from a specific aspect of this type of analysis, i would say, to analyze measures in another words facts from the perspective of multiple variables or characteristics. These variables (characteristics) usually describe business objects or dimensions. For example, in Adempiere Product Types like Item, Resource, Expense and Service describes product , Assume product being the business objects or dimensions. Occasionally, the variables can become dimensions in their own right. For example, the variables Product Type can be accepted as dimensions. In other words, a dimension can be built for a business object or for a variable of that business object as well.For More Info Click Here
Data Mining
Data mining capability requires building a BI decision-support application, specifically a data mining application, that is using a data mining tool. The data mining application can then use a sophisticated set of advanced components like artificial intelligence,pattern recognition, databases, traditional statistics, and graphics to present hidden relationships and patterns in Adempiere between system elements found in the organization's data pool.Data mining is the analysis of data with the goal of discovering gems of hidden information in the large quantity of data that has been captured in the running business. Data mining is different from statistical analysis, They both have strengths and weaknesses. For More Info Click Here.
Business Analysis
Perform detailed analysis of the business problem or business opportunity to gain a solid understanding of the business requirements for a potential solution (product).Analysis of BI projects emphasizes business analysis rather than system analysis, and analysis is the most important activity when developing a BI decision-support environment.Business analysis issues such as defining the organization's information needs,identifying data sources, and analyzing the current and desired quality of data.Also Business analysis issues Define the business analysis issues and the information needed to meet the strategic business goals by stating the high level information requirements for the business.For More Info Click Here.
Balanced Scorecard
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Visualization
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Querying, reporting, and charting
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Knowledge Mgmt
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Mining
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Digital dashboard
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Forecasting
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RoadMap...
RoadMap In Progress Now i am focusing on editing the proper Roadmap for Integrating Adempiere with Pentaho Open BI Suite.So the Adempiere map will be uploaded soon.
