BAASS Insights Technology Blog

The big question is: What is the importance of business intelligence? Before diving into this, it’s important to understand the topic in itself. Business intelligence is the transformation of raw data into meaningful information for your business; the term encompasses the processes and methods of analyzing, displaying, and reporting from your business operations for the goal of performance optimization. Through business intelligence, organizations can have an all-around view of their business, allowing for better decisions to be made.

Can you name the top pain points in your warehouse? If you are like most warehouse managers, these warehouse management “pains” are generally not far from your mind.

Equipment servicing, HVAC systems, and many other systems rely upon service management to keep equipment running smoothly. Good service management also includes cost quotations, invoices, and other templates related to typical jobs performed by your service department. If your idea of templates is running to the file cabinet and grabbing a hard copy to fill in, think again.

As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), it is your responsibility to ensure the financial health and stability of your business organization. This requires a lot of time and energy spent searching for and analyzing business data, compiling information into tables and charts, and presenting facts to the rest of the C-level suite.

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Tony Robbins

In business, change is often a notion that comes with reluctance. The old saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies to many of us as each fiscal cycle passes. Sometimes, an opportunity for improvement is among us and as technology becomes a more integral part of business, we must look to the future and challenge tradition with innovation.

For those of you brave enough to delve into the Crystal report-writing world, here is a helpful tip for reports that have many lines of details.  Don’t you find them hard to read sometimes? 

Wouldn’t it be nice if, like in the newer versions of Sage ERP, the lines alternated colour – white, grey, white, grey...?  It’s easy.

A prominent aspect of business involves networking events. You likely spent some time trying to perfect your handshake for your first networking event. You had to be mindful of having not too tight of a grip, but not too light of one either, all while maintaining eye contact. On top of all this, you spent hours trying to come up with the perfect conversation starter.

You’ve planned for months to purchase and implement your new customer relationship management (CRM) system. Now that the system is in place and your customer records have been imported, it’s time to get the most benefit from it.