Collaborative BI: Harnessing the Extended Enterprise to Boost Productivity

 
 
 
The quality of a business decision rests upon two key factors - information, and context. In order to satisfy the first half of that equation and capture, assemble, and deliver actionable information to the right people, companies are increasingly turning to Business Intelligence (BI) tools. However, the challenge for many organizations is the second piece of the puzzle - providing the context and the expertise needed to take timely information and transform it into meaningful business insight. Increasingly, top companies are tapping into the brainpower that resides not only within their organization, but in various elements of their "extended enterprise," such as customers, suppliers, and distribution partners in order to wrap the right context around their information and support better decisions.

Join Mike Lock, Research Director at Aberdeen, and Rod Radojevic from Infor during this web seminar to explore the connection between collaborative knowledge sharing and analytical activity. The presentation will discuss how Best-in-Class companies are creating a more pervasive and self-service analytical environment both internally and externally in order to build greater extended enterprise visibility and drive substantial business performance gains as a result.

During this webcast, attendees will learn:
  • Top business pressures driving the need for business intelligence and global collaboration
  • The most visible market trends around the need for faster information
  • Tangible end-user performance achievable through the use of collaborative BI
  • Best practices around alignment of organizational resources
  • Key takeaways to create a more pervasive and effective analytical environment

About our Presenters:


Michael Lock, Research Director & Group Leader, Technology Markets, Aberdeen Group
Within Aberdeen’s business intelligence (BI) research practice, Michael has written on a broad range of topics including unified communications, enterprise mobility, IT service management, server virtualization, green storage, BI in the healthcare environment, and wireless expense management. Michael’s current research focuses on how organizations are aligning resources both internally and externally to better manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a BI strategy. The research examines how Best-in-Class companies are able to optimize their financial resources, human capital, and time utilization in order to reduce the TCO of BI and bring analytical capability to more decision makers in the organization.



Rod Radojevic, Director, Product & Industry Marketing, Infor
Rod Radojevic is the Director of Solutions Management for the business intelligence and performance management products at Infor. He has over 20 years of management and technology related experience, including positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Electronic Data Systems, Infor and several other leading organizations. Rod has been involved with a number of business intelligence projects and managed corporate-wide reporting and analysis and strategic planning processes. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a former American Management Association Faculty Instructor for performance management and technology related topics.