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Currimjee Informatics Newsletter
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| Issue 1 - July 2008 |
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Innovation :: Experience :: Service :: Expertise |
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Message from the General Manager
Dear Partners,
Globalisation is now well entrenched in our business life as well as in our personal life. As a country we compete with other nations of this world. While competition is a tangible factor in an export oriented economy like ours, we also now compete for imports of basic commodities such as rice and flour and essential commodities such as energy and cement. Lately however, we are also competing to retain our talents and facing the stark realities of a buoyant labour market.
We at CINF see our role as a key partner of our customers to provide solutions to these challenges. We have focused our efforts on doing what we do best, we allow flexibility of choice and cost where required and we emphasize value where it is important. Executing on business strategies depends upon the gaps we see or not in skills and efficiency in the organisation's processes as a whole. Thus, we need tools to help us measure where we are, model where we want to be and plan the way through.
The future of organisations depends on the ability to have access to information when it is needed for the reasons mentioned above. Our belief is that the organisation does not work best in a 'task' mode. What works are organisations which operate around shared objectives and where process crossovers never fall off. This calls for a process approach. Front end operations and business support functions such as HR and Finance need to be much closer and aligned today as the support required has to be farsighted and innovative in its application.
Our portfolio and services reflect our commitment to succeed in leveraging technology to provide solutions to those challenges we all face. Through this newsletter, we hope to share with you as much insight and information as we have access to, through our experience and our partner resources. We would also see great value in getting your feedback and views on areas where we can add to your own reflection on how to improve your business.
We wish you a fruitful reading
Raj Lalji
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In this issue...
: : IBM Cognos - The Importance of Dashboards
: : IBM Cognos - Continuous Planning And Rolling Forecasts To Support Adaptive Management
: : Infor FMS SunSystems for Hospitality
: : Oracle BI Standard Edition One
: : IT Managed Services
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IBM Cognos - The Importance of Dashboards
“Dashboards and scorecards are multilayered performance management systems, built on a business intelligence and data integration infrastructure, which enable organizations to measure, monitor, and manage business activity using both financial and non-financial measures.”- Wayne Eckerson
Dashboards provide operational managers and staff immediate visibility into KPI performance. Dashboards help managers and analysts track and analyze departmental activities, processes and projects. In addition, they let executives and senior staffs chart their progress against strategic objectives. Send us an email for more information
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| IBM Cognos - Continuous Planning And Rolling Forecasts To Support Adaptive Management |
Business-as-usual is NOT a route to success. Organizations are using innovative practices to create sustainable improvement in financial and operational performance. By grabbing on to new ways of doing business and replacing outdated practices and solutions, finance can drive enhanced productivity, performance, and profitability.
Adaptive organizations see planning as a continuous, inclusive process, driven by and emerging knowledge, and not constrained by the current financial year. In organizations subject to continuous change, it might be appropriate to set regular strategic reviews or to make a review dependent on some significant event. Send us an email for more information
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Infor FMS SunSystems for Hospitality
Having a powerful having financial management system (FMS) that is focused on your business issues can prevent costly inefficiencies can eat away at your profitability.
Infor’s financial solution for hospitality enables you to quickly design and deliver operational and management reports based on a single data source. Infor FMS SunSystems helps you gain greater control of your business by promoting a thorough understanding of what is happening, as it happens. Infor FMS SunSystems offers a variety of capabilities: Ease of Implementation; Flexibility; Integration; Scalability; Single Product Set; Euro and GAAP Compliance; Multiple Currency Support; Multiple Languages and Support. Send us an email for more information
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Oracle BI Standard Edition One
Emerging businesses rely on agility and innovation to compete and differentiate their products and services from larger, incumbent competition. High quality, readily available, and up-to-date information has become an increasingly essential element to quick and effective decision making for emerging organizations.
For companies already using an Oracle database; Oracle BI Standard Edition One will enable them to: create and deliver all manner of highly formatted business documents; integrate and analyze data from multiple applications and sources; define, manage and access key business information, metrics and KPI’s in one place; build personalized, interactive dashboards that drive insight into action and enable self-service ad hoc analysis of business data. Send us an email for more information
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IT Managed Services
Managed Services is the offspring of CINF’s ambitious and realizable plans to deliver total outsourcing services to its valued customers. Managed Services packages a set of onsite and/or offsite proactive and innovative services for our valued customers.
The main objective of this service is to enhance customer experience through end to end integrated solutions.
Managed Services provides a set of Total IT outsourcing solutions to:
- Reduce operating costs
- Improve customer service levels by increasing availability and security
- Have access to consistent cutting edge technologies and remain competitive
- Extend capabilities and fill gaps with our pool of certified professionals
Supporting the vision of being Innovative, Managed Services is powered to study and develop strategic services and allow our customer to maintain choice, flexibility, and control. Send us an email for more information
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