Transform your business with superior analytics

Best Practices in Decision Making

Putting Analytics to work is about improving performance in key business domains using data and detailed analysis

Action : 3 step process

Analytics & Decisions

Analytics1 Decisions2 Right Action3

Expense Reduction

Improved Productivity

Revenue Generation

Key Business Drivers

Reduce Operational Cost

Reduce Personal Cost

Reduce System Cost

Increase Throughpu

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Less Time on work

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New Sales

Customer Retention

Increase Sales Profit

Increase efficiency profit

Comply with Govt.

Regulations

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Decisions

A Business Analyst (BA) analyzes the organization and design of businesses, government departments, and non-profit organizations; they also assess business models and their integration with technology.

There are at least four tiers of business analysis: Planning Strategically - The analysis of the organization

business strategic needs Operating/Business model analysis - the definition and analysis

of the organizations policies and market business approaches Process definition and design - the business process modeling

(often developed through process modeling and design) IT/Technical business analysis - the interpretation of business

rules and requirements for technical systems (generally IT)

Business Analysis

Choose carefully your BI Tools, looking for standardization. Of course, you can and should choice a BI vendor to front-end, and others to the back-end as data warehouse platform or ETL tool. The standardization is mainly in the BI front-end tools (query, reporting and analysis); you should choice only one BI suite of tools that attend all the front-end requirements.

Ongoing training the users on the BI tools and how to use better the data in the tools, also offering the right BI tool to the right user group, recognizing the importance of BI front-end tools in attracting the users.

Always keep in your mind that Business Intelligence has to delivery the right information when it is required, in the right format, in the right time to the right people.

Selecting BI tools

A NexTop is a business intelligence cloud computing tool, that enhances the experience by offering a PC like interface and simplifies interaction of dash boarding, ad-hoc reporting and charting. It provides a common platform that is open and collaborative. Productive increases using the WebTop.

NexTOP, Ultimate BI tools

NexTOP Features• Interactive dashboards, charts & tables• Allows User to import their own data - either through Excel

and Google Docs, and future will allow SQL• Virtual Segmentation, helps you to keep your data organized• Customize report generator• Collaborative documents and reports • Embed snippet for charts, tables & reports• Single Sign-on to Many External Integrated websites

NexTOP Features cont.

• One click access to reports, tables & charts• Blogs with RSS• Articles/Discussions with document upload/download and

RSS• Automated Forecasting module with simple click• Sharable Virtual Segmentation• External data sources like OECD, IMF World Bank• Moveable Icon’s and customize background and colors• ODBC capabilities for extracting from excel and google

docs• Semantic web advance search engine

NEXTOP, Desktop Experience Online

NexTOP, A business intelligence cloud computing tool