I’ve been in the automation business now for over 27 years,
and it seems that for the past 20 of them, we’ve been wrestling with the
concept of #MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) to #ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning). And it amazes me that we are
still having these conversations.
Why? I have my own ideas, and
since this is my blog, you get to find out what they are!
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
How Automation Systems are like Chopped (Food Network)
OK so this may be a stretch, but I was watching Food
Network’s Chopped television show the other night (a guilty pleasure) and I
noticed that it’s not about the actual cooking—it’s about time management,
strategy, creativity, and differentiation.
The premise of the show is that 4 contestants are given a
disparate basket of ingredients—for example, pork belly, guavas, rice wine
vinegar and pine nuts, and are challenged with making a cohesive, tasty dish
out of it. They compete against each
other for the title of Chopped Champion.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Why You Should Consider Mobility
Mobility—it means a lot of things these days. Getting information immediately on a smart
device. Having your system travel with
you, unbounded by physical walls of the plant.
Or, “untethering” your application from its PC-bound form.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a growing
number of mobile applications being offered.
If you look on the iStores, there are hundreds of SCADA, HMI, and EMI/BI
offerings, from both large vendors (such as Invensys) as well as smaller, point-solutions
folks who develop applications strictly for the mobile phone or device. The great part though is that you now have
choices. Monday, July 30, 2012
Lates trend in Mobile Application Development: Mobile Business Intelligence
Growth in Mobile Application Industry is reaching new heights; there is a huge rush in the MobileApplication Development industry to bring business applications to these mobile devices. Toeing on these lines, developres have moved a step further in delivering hardcore enterprise applications like Mobile Business Intelligence, catering to the need of business enterprises whether big or small to have an upper hand in cut throat competition. Creating such a technology where information at your fingertips with the help of Mobile Reporting is the need of the hour, as it is increasingly important to survive in this fast growing competitive world.
The need and desire by professionals/ corporates / Business tycoons/ students / academiciansto have an access to their data with the help of mobile devices, led to continuous development and thus, Mobile Business Intelligence came into exsistence. Instead of relying on someone else to create their unique Mobile Reporting, such applications can give them intuitive, simplified tools to do it themselves. Hence this application can give them access to various trends in the market as they can get access to their data faster.
As the modern day proffessionals connected or associated with any field, have a modern version of an office workspace, one which is not restricted to four office walls, a desktop computer with a small area of carpeting. With the demand from every corner of every business and industry, for a more intelligent mobile application, which can grant access to analytical data, regardless of their proximity to the office, such applications are on the rise. Solving this basic requirement,Mobile Business Intelligencesuccessfully endues the organization savings with efficiency and delivering successful outputs, and thus results in thriving business. Compromised of the smart phone reporting service, Smart Glance, and Mobile Reporting connecter, this provides data connectivity.The user begins receiving reports and data almost immediately once this application is configured his/her device, thus resulting in the creation of a virtual office, wherever you are.
Taking Business the establishment’s ability to make educated business decisions in real time, based on agile interpretation of various streams,Mobile Reporting; feature of Mobile Business Intelligence,supports state of the art mobile devices as the Apple iPhone, iPad ,iPad touch, Black Berry, android and Micrisift Phone 7. Becoming a strategic tool for businesses as they try to navigate through the current economic shoals by staying up to date on critical business data, this technology is assisting this generation to achieve their goals with high parameters.
The need and desire by professionals/ corporates / Business tycoons/ students / academiciansto have an access to their data with the help of mobile devices, led to continuous development and thus, Mobile Business Intelligence came into exsistence. Instead of relying on someone else to create their unique Mobile Reporting, such applications can give them intuitive, simplified tools to do it themselves. Hence this application can give them access to various trends in the market as they can get access to their data faster.
As the modern day proffessionals connected or associated with any field, have a modern version of an office workspace, one which is not restricted to four office walls, a desktop computer with a small area of carpeting. With the demand from every corner of every business and industry, for a more intelligent mobile application, which can grant access to analytical data, regardless of their proximity to the office, such applications are on the rise. Solving this basic requirement,Mobile Business Intelligencesuccessfully endues the organization savings with efficiency and delivering successful outputs, and thus results in thriving business. Compromised of the smart phone reporting service, Smart Glance, and Mobile Reporting connecter, this provides data connectivity.The user begins receiving reports and data almost immediately once this application is configured his/her device, thus resulting in the creation of a virtual office, wherever you are.
Taking Business the establishment’s ability to make educated business decisions in real time, based on agile interpretation of various streams,Mobile Reporting; feature of Mobile Business Intelligence,supports state of the art mobile devices as the Apple iPhone, iPad ,iPad touch, Black Berry, android and Micrisift Phone 7. Becoming a strategic tool for businesses as they try to navigate through the current economic shoals by staying up to date on critical business data, this technology is assisting this generation to achieve their goals with high parameters.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Few Ways to Increase Sales Using Mobile BI
Mobile business intelligence results in a thriving business. Amongst savings in efficiency and ownership of the metrics and in turn driving these metrics for successful outputs, Mobile BI truly endues the organization. The sales process of the company in highly influenced with the use of Mobile Reporting and BI.
Some of the key points which show that a sale is influenced by the use of Mobile BI are listed below:
Cognition of methods in deals
Having a mobile with Mobile BI application in hand, the sales team can keep a tab of the key performance indicators of winning deals. They get an in-depth know how of what is needed to win deals and can also keep a track of them in the process. This gives them the privilege of discussing winning ways in meetings and general conversations on the phone about the methods to adapt for getting the right combination of techniques for winning sales deals. The aid received in understanding the positioning of your products and the attributes of the service provided by you get highlighted with the proper use of Mobile BI. The constant availability of data helps in getting success for the sales team.
Mobile Reporting can be used by the management for discussing key issues of deals with the sales team. The management is able to get proper insight not only about the performance of their team, but also about the performance of their products. They can in turn aid the sales personnel in closing important and tricky deals. The manager can also instruct their team to sell product bundles for increasing the ROI for the clients. Such excellent applications and uses of Mobile BI make it a must have for any organization or company.
Supervision of buying cycles
The revenue cycle of any organization is related to the engagement procedure for customers followed by the company and keeping a close tab on the buying cycles of clients. These are the key performance indicators for any organization. The applications provided by Mobile BI provide this important data via Mobile Reporting. It also gives a proper timeframe for engaging with clients. This data is handy when you engage your esteemed customers for effectively maximizing the revenues of the company.
Save time on unwanted activities
The most frequent problem faced by sales teams of different industries is spending quality time on activities which provide very little or no yield for the company. The use of Mobile will assist them in focusing only on activities that produce good yields for the organization. Shifting attention to high yielding activities will in turn reflect on the revenue generation of the company. Increased revenue result in increased rewards for the employees and also increased efficiency on part of them. It is a win-win situation for everyone involved.
To conclude, It is a must have as far as increasing the sales of your company goes. It is bound to help you get recurring income from customers who are satisfied on account of the brisk service provided to them by the sales force.
Some of the key points which show that a sale is influenced by the use of Mobile BI are listed below:
Cognition of methods in deals
Having a mobile with Mobile BI application in hand, the sales team can keep a tab of the key performance indicators of winning deals. They get an in-depth know how of what is needed to win deals and can also keep a track of them in the process. This gives them the privilege of discussing winning ways in meetings and general conversations on the phone about the methods to adapt for getting the right combination of techniques for winning sales deals. The aid received in understanding the positioning of your products and the attributes of the service provided by you get highlighted with the proper use of Mobile BI. The constant availability of data helps in getting success for the sales team.
Mobile Reporting can be used by the management for discussing key issues of deals with the sales team. The management is able to get proper insight not only about the performance of their team, but also about the performance of their products. They can in turn aid the sales personnel in closing important and tricky deals. The manager can also instruct their team to sell product bundles for increasing the ROI for the clients. Such excellent applications and uses of Mobile BI make it a must have for any organization or company.
Supervision of buying cycles
The revenue cycle of any organization is related to the engagement procedure for customers followed by the company and keeping a close tab on the buying cycles of clients. These are the key performance indicators for any organization. The applications provided by Mobile BI provide this important data via Mobile Reporting. It also gives a proper timeframe for engaging with clients. This data is handy when you engage your esteemed customers for effectively maximizing the revenues of the company.
Save time on unwanted activities
The most frequent problem faced by sales teams of different industries is spending quality time on activities which provide very little or no yield for the company. The use of Mobile will assist them in focusing only on activities that produce good yields for the organization. Shifting attention to high yielding activities will in turn reflect on the revenue generation of the company. Increased revenue result in increased rewards for the employees and also increased efficiency on part of them. It is a win-win situation for everyone involved.
To conclude, It is a must have as far as increasing the sales of your company goes. It is bound to help you get recurring income from customers who are satisfied on account of the brisk service provided to them by the sales force.
How Mobile Reporting Is Delivering Real Value?
Mobile business intelligence has launched itself in this era for providing solutions which are designed for giving the users an interface which is not only intuitive but also easy for using. With Mobile BI, the rate at which decisions are taken by organizations has increased drastically as compared to the companies who are still not adept at using the power of Mobile Reporting platforms.
Moreover, the return on investment i.e. the real value in terms of benefits provided by Mobile BI is not just concerned with fast decision making for the management and stakeholders of any organization. To get a complete idea of calculating the real value delivered by Mobile BI we also need to mull over the fact that its use renders employees to make more use of Business Intelligence. Add to this is the fact that Mobile BI applications are easy to use.
Mobile BI users a latest utility and interfaces which in turn are responsible for delivering real value to your organization. Setting of dashboards for the solutions provided by Mobile BI with the relevant data needed aids in getting the prefect status about the performance of your business at any given time and place.
Mobile Reporting also ensures a secured access to important corporate communications. Mobile BI is more about becoming agile and responsive to the customer needs with brisk solutions and that too without having to take a resistive path. The ability of performance of the employees on field in heightened with the use of Mobile Reporting. This in turn will reflect on the revenues of the company. On account of the brisk decisions taken on field, the end customers of the company are also benefited. The issues regarding the clients get resolved faster in the process. This leads to lesser attrition rates as far as the clients go.
Mobile BI always keeps you informed about the process of your work. You gain maximum visibility of your work anytime and anywhere. You project pipeline is always under your scanner and this helps in proper scheduling of work. The companies using Mobile BI are successful in improving the overall sales process.
The solutions gifted by Mobile BI provide the users an easy method to interact, navigate and access important information, analyze it correctly and then take decisions the right way. The decisions are more data driven than instinct driven. This data is also among the firewalls of the company making it more secure.
Moreover, the return on investment i.e. the real value in terms of benefits provided by Mobile BI is not just concerned with fast decision making for the management and stakeholders of any organization. To get a complete idea of calculating the real value delivered by Mobile BI we also need to mull over the fact that its use renders employees to make more use of Business Intelligence. Add to this is the fact that Mobile BI applications are easy to use.
Mobile BI users a latest utility and interfaces which in turn are responsible for delivering real value to your organization. Setting of dashboards for the solutions provided by Mobile BI with the relevant data needed aids in getting the prefect status about the performance of your business at any given time and place.
Mobile Reporting also ensures a secured access to important corporate communications. Mobile BI is more about becoming agile and responsive to the customer needs with brisk solutions and that too without having to take a resistive path. The ability of performance of the employees on field in heightened with the use of Mobile Reporting. This in turn will reflect on the revenues of the company. On account of the brisk decisions taken on field, the end customers of the company are also benefited. The issues regarding the clients get resolved faster in the process. This leads to lesser attrition rates as far as the clients go.
Mobile BI always keeps you informed about the process of your work. You gain maximum visibility of your work anytime and anywhere. You project pipeline is always under your scanner and this helps in proper scheduling of work. The companies using Mobile BI are successful in improving the overall sales process.
The solutions gifted by Mobile BI provide the users an easy method to interact, navigate and access important information, analyze it correctly and then take decisions the right way. The decisions are more data driven than instinct driven. This data is also among the firewalls of the company making it more secure.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Mobile Business Intelligence
The concept of Mobile Business Intelligence has been present for a decade. But initially a dedicated server was necessary for taking advantage of the features offered by Mobile Business Intelligence. It is a trend that sales professional need to devote bulk of their time in traveling and visiting customers. Not only the sales people, but some of the senior executives also spend quality time away from their offices.
This necessitates the need of access to information anywhere and at anytime. This will aid them in getting access to vital information for correcting problems or identifying the right opportunities when they are not at headquarters. Mobile Business Intelligence does just that.
In the recent years, Mobile Business Intelligence has evolved enormously for giving the employees the much needed control to satisfy their analysis and reporting motives. The feature of Mobile Reporting provided by Mobile Business Intelligence aids the employees when they are working off site. The Mobile Dashboard type information delivery has been made possible by the various applications provided by Mobile Business Intelligence. The Dashboards add value to the operational reporting process through the dimensions of data visualization. Such techniques, that Mobile Business Intelligence provides, enhance better interpretation of information for the users.
Every company who has a long list of employees who work in remote areas from the base, or are mostly away from their office, need to access the tremendous benefits available with the use of Mobile BI. The timely access to corporate data obtained by the use of Mobile Business Intelligence not only provides for an improved operational performance; the efficiency also increases dramatically. The decision making activity gets boosted due to the extension of the critical data to the employees on the field. This is a major advantage of opting for Mobile Business Intelligence applications. The increased productivity provided by this activity is bound to boost the revenues of any company.
Mobile Business Intelligence accelerates the decision making process and renders a better insight to the people involved. Just imagine the amount of time that is saved between the identification of an issue and the final decision making. Mobile Business Intelligence lays a solid framework for affirming fast and better decisions via reports which are easily procured.
Things to remember when opting vendors for Mobile Business Intelligence:
• A simple yet spontaneous interface
• Maximum flexibility for users to run, interact and access reports in a manner they need.
• Admittance to the authentic corporate data
• The ability to adapt to any common handheld device
• Intelligent security for keeping corporate information confidential
Hence, we can conclude that the permeating use of Mobile Dashboards ameliorates the overall performance of the business. It has been proved that the organizations that use Mobile Business Intelligence virtually deploy double the workforce which they already have. The benefits offered by the use of Mobile Business Intelligence are significant if correctly incorporated in the operations of the company. A sense of empowerment will be visible in the employees who will further boost the prospects of the company as well as themselves.
After seeing the overall advantages offered by the technology of Mobile Business Intelligence, every company wanting to heighten its performance will opt for it.
This necessitates the need of access to information anywhere and at anytime. This will aid them in getting access to vital information for correcting problems or identifying the right opportunities when they are not at headquarters. Mobile Business Intelligence does just that.
In the recent years, Mobile Business Intelligence has evolved enormously for giving the employees the much needed control to satisfy their analysis and reporting motives. The feature of Mobile Reporting provided by Mobile Business Intelligence aids the employees when they are working off site. The Mobile Dashboard type information delivery has been made possible by the various applications provided by Mobile Business Intelligence. The Dashboards add value to the operational reporting process through the dimensions of data visualization. Such techniques, that Mobile Business Intelligence provides, enhance better interpretation of information for the users.
Every company who has a long list of employees who work in remote areas from the base, or are mostly away from their office, need to access the tremendous benefits available with the use of Mobile BI. The timely access to corporate data obtained by the use of Mobile Business Intelligence not only provides for an improved operational performance; the efficiency also increases dramatically. The decision making activity gets boosted due to the extension of the critical data to the employees on the field. This is a major advantage of opting for Mobile Business Intelligence applications. The increased productivity provided by this activity is bound to boost the revenues of any company.
Mobile Business Intelligence accelerates the decision making process and renders a better insight to the people involved. Just imagine the amount of time that is saved between the identification of an issue and the final decision making. Mobile Business Intelligence lays a solid framework for affirming fast and better decisions via reports which are easily procured.
Things to remember when opting vendors for Mobile Business Intelligence:
• A simple yet spontaneous interface
• Maximum flexibility for users to run, interact and access reports in a manner they need.
• Admittance to the authentic corporate data
• The ability to adapt to any common handheld device
• Intelligent security for keeping corporate information confidential
Hence, we can conclude that the permeating use of Mobile Dashboards ameliorates the overall performance of the business. It has been proved that the organizations that use Mobile Business Intelligence virtually deploy double the workforce which they already have. The benefits offered by the use of Mobile Business Intelligence are significant if correctly incorporated in the operations of the company. A sense of empowerment will be visible in the employees who will further boost the prospects of the company as well as themselves.
After seeing the overall advantages offered by the technology of Mobile Business Intelligence, every company wanting to heighten its performance will opt for it.
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