Business intelligence underpins every decision you make. It contributes directly to your success. It arms you with the knowledge you need to make informed, thoughtful, prudent decisions. Think about your ERP as your organization’s brain and, using it, you can make those decisions.
Data is just data…until you collect it, synthesize it, amalgamate it, and consume it. To gain insight into why you have certain outcomes, or how to achieve other outcomes, you must gain an understanding of your business performance. From that understanding, you can make choices, model how those choices may alter your course, and ultimately make decisions that result in a competitive advantage. This is the real value of business intelligence.
To extract the intel, you need from your data you need to understand how to fully access all of your data – which may come about through data migrations or via integrations with other trusted applications. Your ERP can pivot and report on a broad range of this data. There are also tools purpose built for extracting and modeling your data. KALM can help on both fronts.
Velixo
Velixo is one of the many business intelligence tools available that may be a fit for you. If your teams are accustomed to working heavily in Excel and there is a desire to maintain Excel as a workspace for modeling and analysis, Velixio is a possible solution. With real time reporting and the ability to produce fully dynamic reports according to your specifications, data analysis, drilldown, summaries and models are easily created. Seamless integration with your ERP allows you to tap into the transactional data housed in your ERP while also permitting you to share back with your ERP the reporting and automation you create. KALM brings expertise in how to setup and utilize the Velixio tool so that your Excel users will feel right at home…all while being fully connected to your ERP.
Power BI
Power BI has a long-standing reputation as one of the most powerful data intelligence tools available. Harnessing the ‘power’ of Power BI is, without question, a strategic gamechanger when done successfully. With the Power BI collection of apps, software services, and connectors, you are able to analyze, visualize, and share data. This solution has the purpose-built ability to access data at scale from across your ecosystem of applications. With that Power BI connects data sets, transforms it and creates data models based on where you are…or your inputs of where you want to be. From there, you can build visualizations, identify patterns, trends, and even integrate into the Excel files your team may be utilizing today. KALM has worked, across ERP platforms, with Power BI from integration to implementation, to developing, creating, and supporting reports and analyses. We can do the same for you and train your team in how to extract the most value for your organization.
