Monday, June 08, 2009

BI techniques

- Performance Benchmark Comparison: Compare important KPIs with benchmarks that make sense (e.g. actual versus budget). Additionally, compute metrics that relate to performance and compare them across divisions, products, market segments, etc.

- Performance Alerting: Use KPI comparisons to identify performance.

- Trend Analysis and Alerting: Short or long term trends of performance metrics are good indicators of problems that are not apparent.

- Forecasting and Alerting: Even if current metrics are within acceptable bounds, the future may be problematical. Apply predictive models and reasses the adequacy of forecast critical metrics is valuable.

- Alerting to Unusual Situations: Time series analysis will often highlight hidden issues (e.g. with changes in customer, supplier, manufacturing or marketing activity).
For example, the credit rating of a customer may be altered if the statistical properties of its payment pattern alter significantly.


Business Intelligence for your CRM system

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