• Enabling Business Agility and Reuse
  • Governing the Infrastructure
  • Improving Business Processes
  • Leveraging Information and Intelligence
  • Leveraging the Connected Web
  • Securing Enterprise Applications
  • Supporting Industry Solutions

New Frontiers in Business Intelligence

When does SaaS Work and When not?

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By Nari Kannan on November 24, 2008 10:04 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
Software as a Service (SaaS) is often touted as the latest and greatest thing since sliced bread and the software industry is dead! Not quite so fast! In my own actual experiences I have found a number of truths that anybody... Read More..

Open Source Business Intelligence in Tough Times

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By Nari Kannan on November 14, 2008 2:29 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Tough times have always engendered sudden growth spurts of Open Source Software. The last time it occurred was soon after the Dot Com bust. This was the time when a lot of Open Source software like Linux and Java related... Read More..

Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing (DW) and Complex Event Management (CEP) - Hot Technologies!

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By Nari Kannan on November 6, 2008 6:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
What are the Hot technologies, even when the economy is looking very weak, you hear rumors and news of layoffs in the Technology and IT Users Spaces? They seem to be Master Data Managament (MDM), Data Warehousing and Complex Event... Read More..

How Large Do Process Data Warehouses Get?

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By Nari Kannan on October 30, 2008 6:35 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
When measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of Business Processes, the size of the data warehouse you are creating are surprisingly tiny when compared to data warehouses that store sales data. In that sense, they are very similar to data warehouses... Read More..

Heat Maps provide a Hot Way to Visualize Business Intelligence

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By Nari Kannan on October 27, 2008 3:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I have always been completely bowled over by how well a single Visualization can show you some much of information that you may not be able to see very easily even if you have gigabytes of data in digital form!... Read More..

Business Process Outsourcing and Business Process Management

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By Nari Kannan on October 20, 2008 7:53 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Dennis Byron in another blog, raises and discusses well, the differences between Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). http://www.bpminaction.com/blog/2008/10/bpm_in_bpo_what_business_proce_1.php In our company, we work closely with many Business Process Outsourcing companies, especially Offshore companies. I have observed... Read More..

A Framework for Business Process Performance KPIs

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By Nari Kannan on October 12, 2008 9:54 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
If you were to measure Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s for Business Processes, what would you measure? A Proper Framework approach ensures that you balance Efficiency Metrics with Effectiveness Metrics and also, you make it as comprehensive a set of metrics... Read More..

Cost Reductions Beyond Cutting Tea and Coffee in The Break Room!

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By Nari Kannan on October 6, 2008 7:34 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
When you think of Cost Reductions in a company, you usually think of someone cutting off free coffee and tea in the break room! How can Cost Reductions become a potent competitive weapon that can take your competitors lots of... Read More..

Business Intelligence Should Help Squeeze Inefficiencies Out! - Honda Motor Company Example

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By Nari Kannan on September 30, 2008 3:27 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Ever since human beingss invented Agriculture and Industry, we have been on a never ending quest for better, more efficient and more effective, ways to do things we have done. Agriculture has gone from very heavily manual work to very... Read More..

Bad Times in the U.S Financial Industry - How Process Intelligence can help?

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By Nari Kannan on September 26, 2008 1:09 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Whether the U.S Government bails out Financial Institutions or not, there is a lot of restructuring of instituitions, assets, liabilities and particularly, bad loans in the Mortgage Markets and others. All of them require a lot of business processes that... Read More..
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Nari Kannan's blog explores how new approaches to Business Intelligence can help organizations improve business process performance; whether these processes are creative or operational ones, internally-focused or customer-facing, intra-departmental or across functions.

Nari Kannan

Nari Kannan is an entrepreneur and a technologist with over two decades of experience. He is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Ajira Technologies, Inc, a company that designs and develops Process Intelligence tools. His current focus is on how Continuous Business Process Improvement can help companies compete very effectively. He thinks that when some new frontiers in Business Intelligence are explored, this can happen. He started out as a senior software engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. He has since served variously as VP of Engineering or CTO of five Silicon Valley startup companies dealing with a variety of problems in Business Process Improvement, IT Consulting, Automotive Claims Processing, Human Resources and Logistics applications. Contact Nari Kannan at nkannan ( at ) ajira.com .


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