Re: Business Intelligence

We started on a BI project to consolidate all information from all our 
databases so users would have to use only one tool.
This included data from MAPICS, Oracle, SQL Server and spreadsheets.

The purpose was to replace all the other tools we currently used. 
We chose Business Objects.

If your primary purpose is just to do BI on MAPICS data, you might 
consider FRx for financials or Infor's BI solution for MAPICS.
http://www.mapics.com/software/PMT/XA-EBI.asp

Manage this as a project, for the first data mart keep a limited scope.
I'd suggest reading some of the books by Ralph Kimball.
http://www.rkimball.com/html/articles.html 

Ron


David wrote:

Anyone doing any "business intelligence" projects?  What types of
performance indicators are you measuring?  What tool(s) did you use?
Was it a worthwhile effort or just another good marketing idea gone
awry?

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