POWER BI – WHY, WHERE AND WHEN? Power BI is the new buzz word in the Microsoft world with good visualizations and Natural Language Query like “Show Sales by Products where city is London” giving chart showing the results. While many of the customers are really impressed with this capabilities they are confused where to use […]

All About Microsoft BI – Options, Objectives and Licensing. At Acuvate we have been having discussions with many customers about the Microsoft BI system. There are two main aspects which comes in this conversation. 1. I thought SQL Server is a Database, Is the ETL Component – SSIS a separate product which I need to […]

How Business Users Can Maximize ROI From MS BI In the last blog we have explained about Microsoft BI Eco system and when to use what. Now the next conundrum is about the many reporting tools in the Microsoft BI eco system and how and when to use which reporting Tool? It can be best […]

Engage People Through Innovation Management Employee engagement has been a big driver in many organizations large and small. In Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends report, based on more than 7,000 responses in over 130 countries around the world, 85% respondents rated Engagement as Very Important/Important. Studies have shown how employee engagement benefits organization productivity. […]

5 Ways It Can Drive Employee Engagement Employee engagement has usually been an HR thing. But things seem to be changing. By 2020 Gartner predicts, 20% of Organizations will include employee engagement improvement as a shared performance objective for HR and IT. So how is it that IT can help with employee engagement? In my […]

Maturing From Customer-Vendor To Partners And Why? In the age of Uber, AirBnB and other technologies enabling customers & vendors to find each other, doing business has become a micro-transaction. This is great for the B2C business (I hire Uber every day and I simply love it). But when it comes to B2B, it’s a […]

Bridging the Gap Between Social and Enterprise Analytics After most companies decided to standardize their transaction systems and implemented ERP’s, huge amount of data got captured in the organization. Unfortunately data alone served limited purpose to take the right decisions at the right time to improve Business. The huge amount of data did not mean […]

Not WYSIWYG, Customers Want WYWIWYG (What You Want Is What Is You Get) The “Build or Buy” Problem IT Department in organizations have moved up the value chain to become business enabling functions. This means IT has to align with Business by providing quick (faster time to market) solutions along with being flexible. Having said […]

Self Service BI – 5 Lessons From The Supermarkets From fast food chains to supermarket, the world had been using more self-service. It is there in the corporate too in the form of the many Employee Self Service applications. Self-service BI however is just catching up. While doing this weekend’s grocery shop, I saw some […]

5 Things We Can Learn From Successful Intranets We have come a long way from the first intranet software solutions we were introduced to over two decades ago, which were essentially static websites which allowed employees to access information from a centralized point. Intranets, at this point, were nothing more than a HTML page on […]

World’s First Bots On Skype For Business! With the steady growth of chatbots in the B2C space, platforms like Skype, Facebook, Kik, Line etc., have all started supporting chatbots. The launch of the Microsoft Bot Framework provided a streamlined process for the development of bots on several such platforms. But when it comes to the […]

Top 4 Roadblocks For Office 365 Adoption Work smarter, not harder. This seemed to be the mantra which catapulted Office 365 straight to its widespread adoption across various organizations. Office 365, which was first introduced in 2011, as an answer to Google Apps, brought together all existing Microsoft’s services onto the cloud. Office 365 accomplishes […]