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	<title>Hexaware Blogs &#187; Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View</title>
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		<title>Predictive Analytics – The Cure for Business Myopia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/predictive-analytics-%e2%80%93-the-cure-for-business-myopia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Process Simulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Myopia]]></category>
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Myopia = Shortsightedness. Theodore Levitt published his landmark paper titled ‘Marketing Myopia’ in 1960 that led to a paradigm shift in how companies viewed their business models. Marketing Myopia refers to ‘focusing on products rather than customers’, and how such a short-sighted view is bound to eventually lead to business failure.
One reason that short sightedness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask for Maps &#8211; Location Analytics!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/ask-for-maps-location-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 09:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muneeswara C Pandian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[location analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we look at a metrics performance, we are interested with three W’s ‘What happened’, ‘When it happened’ and ‘Where it happened’.
The ‘What’ informs about the metric’s health whether it’s doing good or bad against a pre defined threshold. The ‘When’ informs the time period of measurement whether it’s current day or YTD etc. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIG DATA – Beyond the Hype</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/big-data-%e2%80%93-beyond-the-hype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apache Hadoop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadoop connectors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Map Reduce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unstructured Data]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If one were to run a Map Reduce job on a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), consisting of all white-papers, articles and presentations created in the past couple of years on Business Intelligence &#38; Analytics, to count the most frequently occurring 2-grams (2 words that occur together), BIG DATA would most certainly trump others. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operational System Metadata glues Business Intelligence with Collaboration, Decision and Action</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/operational-system-metadata-glues-business-intelligence-with-collaboration-decision-and-action/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/operational-system-metadata-glues-business-intelligence-with-collaboration-decision-and-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muneeswara C Pandian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Action BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaborative BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metadata]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=6393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the increasing need to enable ‘collaboration’ and to automate ‘actions’ in the decision making process, the integration of Business Intelligence environment with Operational System Metadata is much more critical now.
The metadata from an operational system that will be required are the following two items
1. Inventory of business process in the system
2. The list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing Your Business Intelligence Portfolio</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/assessing-your-business-intelligence-portfolio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predictive Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social media Analytics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Intelligence and Analytics has assumed many different dimensions and has a very wide scope in an organization. Mindmap showing the complete canvas of BI is available at – http://bit.ly/gEYGIR. Adding to the complexity is the plethora of new trends taking place in the BI landscape http://bit.ly/uqgSHA, that it becomes difficult for enterprises to assess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Adjacent Possible in Business Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/the-adjacent-possible-in-business-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analytical workloads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predictive Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-service BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social media Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Johnson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is that time of the year when everyone has the license to write about their views on technology trends in 2012. In that context, I was inspired by this wonderful book titled &#8216;Where Good Ideas Come From&#8217; written by Steven Johnson. There are many fascinating nuggets in this book but I was completely intrigued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trim Tabs in Business Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/trim-tabs-in-business-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthikeyan Sankaran</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analytics anchor points]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Canvas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canvas for BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trim tabs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What are Trim Tabs? &#8211; Trim tabs are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aero-dynamic forces and stabilize the boat or aircraft in a particular desired altitude without the need for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Wish List for Data Integration Platforms</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/2012-wish-list-for-data-integration-platforms/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/2012-wish-list-for-data-integration-platforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muneeswara C Pandian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Trends in Data Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data element]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[platform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Data Integration (DI) platforms like Informatica, DataStage, BODS, ODI, SSIS and others are the backbone for a well designed Business Intelligence application. DI platforms ensure that all the required data are provisioned at the right time, with quality.
In the process of configuring and running DI platforms, we come across few scenarios where DI platform needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Counterparty Risk with Actionable BI Solutions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/managing-counterparty-risk-with-actionable-bi-solutions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/managing-counterparty-risk-with-actionable-bi-solutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheba Fernando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counterparty risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Counterparty risk?
Counterparty credit risk is traditionally defined as the risk that a counterparty to a transaction fails to perform under its contractual commitment for the variety of products that the Bank trades with the counterparty such as forex instruments, letters of credits, repossessions, derivatives, etc. Counterparty credit risk is an inevitable component of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Management, Information Management…then Decision Management</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/data-management-information-management%e2%80%a6then-decision-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/data-management-information-management%e2%80%a6then-decision-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muneeswara C Pandian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence – A Practitioner’s View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hexaware.com/?p=5031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the architectural set up of a Data Warehouse (or Business Intelligence/BI) system, we can define two layers, they are

Data Management and
Information Management

Data Management performs the function of data collection from Business Transaction systems, validation of data, integration of data and provisioning the data for analysis and interpretation.
Information Management performs the function of deriving information [...]]]></description>
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