Category: Sales Execution

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How to use Surveys to Improve Execution at Retail

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Lots of companies do surveys. Surveying is important, especially at the beginning of key selling periods to drive execution, but most companies do it all wrong and waste the effort they put into the survey. You have…

How To Improve Your Results by “Getting in the Game”

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Many companies in our industry are doing things the old fashioned way. Their common practice is to review monthly reports of sales summarized by geography and or product, then react by applying pressure to “do better” down the chain…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

6 ways to avoid scope creep in your next BI project

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One of the greatest threats to a successful Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project is scope creep, and the consequence is often a poor return on investment – or even failure, if not managed properly. We define “scope creep” simply…
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Six Ways to Prove the Business Intelligence Data Matches in Your BI Solution!

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Are you struggling or worried that the business intelligence solution you spent money on won’t be utilized fully?  Are your employees resistant to change, or are you hearing rumblings in the break room that your staff is dreading the use…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

GreatVines Development Methodology

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We asked our Director of Software Development, Christian Warden, to write up a description of the development methodology we use at GreatVines. Axioms of Software Development The GreatVines development methodology follows…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

Filter Reports in Report Manager using Keywords

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Microsoft’s Report Manager has already proven its capabilities as a powerful frontend portal, for easy distribution of reports to the business. The folder based interface in a browser makes navigation intuitive and comfortable for most users…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

Hiding Unrelated Dimensions in a BI Tool!

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The main power of OLAP viewers (Business Intelligence Tools) is the ability for employees to do Ad Hoc reporting and analysis.  If one simply chooses the measures and dimensions they want to look at, the tool will return the data they are requesting…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

Microsoft’s Master Data Management as a system?

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Master Data Management (MDM) is important because dirty data means poor adoption, poor decisions and poor BI, but to think of it as a separate system is very difficult.[quote align=”right” color=”#999999″]Imagine SAP having to accept…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

How to Install Pubs Database in SQL Server 2012 in 1 query

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Upon request I published how to install Pubs database for SQL Server 2012. Several have had trouble attaching it following the guide for How to install Northwind for SQL Server 2012. One can download Northwind and Pubs here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23654 where…