Insights

As a learning organisation, element61 stimulates its consultants to further build on their already vast experiences through investments in a personal development plan and a company-wide content development initiative. Through formal training, presence at industry events, networking, recommended reading and internet based information exchange, our consultants further dive into specialized topics of their own interest.

These result in what we call "Insights", own produced research content, often complemented by personal experiences and opinions. Below you can find our currently published list of Insights.

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Project Management in a BI/DW/PM environment

Introduction Business Intelligence and data warehouse projects are often seen as costly and never ending on time or even worst as costly projects that never deliver any benefits.

maandag, 8 februari 2010

The Power of Location Intelligence

In the world of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management, every so often a new term is launched, often proclaimed as the next big thing.

Kris Bouckaert

dinsdag, 2 februari 2010

Microsoft PowerPivot: Microsoft’s answer to self serviced BI ?

PowerPivot, then still codenamed Project Gemini, was announced at the second annual Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle on October 6, 2008.

vrijdag, 8 januari 2010

elementary for BI & PM Migration Projects

IntroductionIn information technology, migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment to another operating environment. Moving to a different environment is considered a migration because it involves taking steps to ensure that current applications continue to work in the new environment and making sure that new features are exploited. Migration can involve moving to new hardware or new software or both.

maandag, 23 november 2009

Information requirements gathering

Introduction As in any project, also in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects, a time exists for discovery of what is wanted and/or needed followed by a time for building what results from the requirements. In typical project management best practices, this discovery process is done through a phase called "requirements analysis”.

vrijdag, 16 oktober 2009

IBM Cognos TM1 & Cognos 8 BI

Introduction: What does the improved integration between Cognos 8.4 BI and TM1 have to offer IBM Cognos TM1 is a relative new addition to the IBM Cognos software stack, following Cognos' acquisition of Applix in 2007, just prior to its own acquisition by IBM. The core TM1 solution is a real-time, interactive multidimensional OLAP database with in-memory and write-back functionalities, and is therefore perfectly suited to support all sorts of Performance Management (PM) applications.

donderdag, 27 augustus 2009

The rise & fall of Performance Point server 2007

The Background and functionality of Performance Point Server Over the last years, most Business Intelligence software vendors have been gradually extending their BI offerings to include CPM (Corporate Performance Management) related functionalities of Planning, Budgeting, Consolidation, Profitability Management and Scorecarding.

woensdag, 29 juli 2009

Multi-dimensional modeling in SAP BW: art or science?

Fast and reliable access to your information is one of the key success factors for any Business Intelligence or Data Warehousing application. Within the technological architecture of SAP BW the multi-dimensional model of InfoCubes has a tremendous impact on performance. A good dimension design optimizes performance in three ways:

maandag, 27 april 2009

The Economic Downturn: why Performance Management is Key to come out stronger

Introduction There is no escaping the harsh reality of the current economic climate. The crisis in the financial industry has lead to a worldwide recession or even depression and most macro-economists seem to agree that this will not end until 2010 at the earliest. Furthermore, the effects of this crisis will be felt for many years to come. While some sectors may be impacted more than others, it is clear that few industries or companies will escape its effects.

Toon Puissant

woensdag, 22 april 2009

Data Governance defined & why it is crucial to the organisation

According to The Data Governance Institute, Data Governance is "The organizational bodies, rules, decision rights, and accountabilities of people and information systems as they perform information-related processes”.

woensdag, 15 april 2009