Business Intelligence and Information Management Specialists
C3's Top Six BI Trends for 2012
Following Gartner’s BIIM Summit in Sydney, Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall, managing partners of C3 Business Solutions, share with CIO online the top six business intelligence trends they believe will drive the industry in 2012. Read more...
Making Mobile BI Mainstream
Conrad Bates talks about Mobile BI in the business world with Technology Spectator. "The rapid take up of mobile, tablet and android technologies...has not been confined to the consumer world. Businesses, too, are arming workforces with these tools as part of everyday ‘work wear’, driven by the ever increasing value being placed by senior management on the ability to stay one step ahead via instant access to commercial information." Read more...
CFO Summit 2012 Benefits Realisation Through BI
C3 Business Solutions’ Managing Partner, Conrad Bates presents at the 2012 CFO Summit showing the Benefits Realisation of Agile Business Intelligence.
View presentation here…Better data flow saves $2m-$3m per 1000 staff
Within an hour of two planes flying into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, Walmart had placed an order with its supplier for extra stocks of American flags. Having a fully automated stock control system gave the company a competitive advantage because it was the first to respond to the trend of a massive spike in flag sales that continued over the coming weeks and months. Read more...
C3 Integrity V3.2 Release
C3 Business Solutions is pleased to announce the release of C3 Integrity Version 3.2, our award winning, pre-packaged Business to Business data integration tool that enables customers to quickly retrieve critical information from multiple sources, in various formats.
Big Data: Changing the face of Business Intelligence & Information Management
Everyone is talking ‘Big Data’…it’s the tech buzz word du jour. There is certainly merit in the discussion as Big Data will change the information landscape of the future and, for those who embrace it, will provide strong competitive advantage and insight like never before. Successful Business Intelligence projects of tomorrow will need to consider Big Data as part of their data landscape for the value that it delivers.
BI in Insurance
Business Intelligence & Information Management for the Insurance Industry
Business intelligence and analytics provides competitive advantage to insurers and has already been employed by industry leaders around the world to cement and grow their position in the marketplace today and into the future. Overall however, the BI maturity of the insurance industry in Australia is low so there is substantial opportunity for those brave enough to tackle it.
BI Drives Innovation
Driving innovation is an unfulfilled desire for many organisations. Where business intelligence comes in is very simple. It frees up people to spend more time thinking and gives them the information they need to do that thinking properly.
Carbon Tax: What Does it Mean for your Organisation?
The new Carbon Tax (and subsequent ETS from 2015) is our first step towards becoming a clean energy economy and many would say that it is long overdue.
Gartner Says…Business Drives BI without IT?
According to Gartner research released earlier this year, for the first time ever, ‘ease of use’ has become more important that ‘functionality’ when it comes to BI systems.
BI Number Five in CIOs Top 10
Overall, BI ranked five on the list of top 10 priorities for CIOs in 2011, according to Gartner’s annual global CIO survey published last month. Gartner claims that the strength in the BI market shows its strategic importance.
Social Media delivers more Effective BI
In a paper presented at the International Conference on Decision Support held in Lisbon earlier this year, Dr Rob Meredith and Mr Peter O'Donnell, both respected Australian lecturers/researchers, argue that Web 2.0 and social media, beyond their value as sales & marketing tools, can be used to successfully enhance BI applications.
Common BI Mistakes
You'd think the name 'Business Intelligence' would guarantee success. Yet it's alarming how oftwn poorly managed BI results in outcomes that pay little attention to the client's actual business and the capacity to intrinsically improve overall decision making value.