Tag Archives: value

This new Mobile BI (Ooo, shiny!) seems somehow to lack, well, newness.

In this post, Professional Services Manager Richard Parsons argues that there are more important things on which to focus than “new Mobile BI”.

I am getting drenched in wide-eyed enthusiasm for Mobile Business Intelligence (BI). It is getting tiresome.  It is obscuring more important things, and making it harder for people to actually drive on making a difference.

It is very true that with BI we deliver business performance improvement.  There is… Continue reading

Is Microsoft Excel the bad guy at ANZ and Oracle their saviour?

Verses  Verses

I came across this article and immediately thought CALUMO can help ANZ through their Excel Hell issues.  It is a common problem that all organisations have … you know: loads of spread sheets, linked, emailed to people, sent back [broken], stored on the K: drive, no L: hang on the folder name has changed, you don’t have access to that… Continue reading

BI In Education – University of NSW

First of trilogy of End User case studies, here is a short and potted history of deiverables at University of NSW.

CALUMO was invited by UNSW to assist them in reducing overheads and costs of their budgeting and reporting system.

Utilizing their existing technology and adding the CALUMO application layer, UNSW was able to provide effective management reporting across the University as well as a budget interface for… Continue reading

Why the National Trust use CALUMO for Reporting, Budgeting and Forecasting

Will Holmes À Court, CEO of National Trust of Australia (NSW), a not for profit (or loss) organisation presented how they use CALUMO for Business Intelligence at the last Club CALUMO User Group.

Will showed the group many reports consolidating data from various underlying systems as well as budget & forecast templates he and his finance team created for data acquisition from the field. The reports and input templates… Continue reading

Valuing Business Intelligence Projects

In this comic April Fools video, Bruno Aziza interviews L. Vaughan Spencer about Business Analytics (or Business Intelligence).  Spencer tries very hard to tell us why analytics is important. He includes in a rap about Time Series, Score Cards etc.. Aziza asked “Why are analytics so important for organisations?” The best reason Spencer gives is  “they [Analytics ] are a must squared to have” and “without analytics what are you?… Continue reading