Defining business intelligence (BI)

The term business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications, practicing for the compilation, assimilation, analysis, management and presentation of business information also at times to the information itself. The solitary objective of the business intelligent is to enhance better business decision making.

D.J Power concept for business intelligence

• The concept of business intelligence emerged during the period of 1958 when D.J Power gave the concept of “Decision Support System”. According to D.J Power, BI is the concept and technique in order to enhance and promote the business decision making by implementing the “Fact-Based-Support-System”. BI is occasionally used compatibly with brief books, report, query, paraphernalia and executive information systems. Business Intelligent systems are called the data driven systems (DSS). …read the rest of this entry»

Conceptual Framework of Business Management

Since the evolution of this world, Trade, business, Commerce, Export, Import, retailing, gambling, buying and selling had been the leading entrepreneurs in all the development of the planet. Same as the management has become a big question mark before us. Many scientists like economists, sociologists, public administration experts, public policy analysts, business analysts, human resource developmental experts, philosophers, astrologists, political panels and religious practioners have defined the business management in their own observation. Where the majority of them characteristically elucidate the business management as the symbolic value of planning, organization, leadership, control, capital, financial, machinery and technologicalism, human being assets as well as the nature’s resources.

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The term investment implies different meanings in business management, economics and finance but all are closely related to each other.While the bank interest rate to the consumers is defined as the current rate of return given on the savings.

Investment decision plays key role in purchasing assets for business enterprises as they tend to maximize the profits. So in business management, they have to evaluate the net benefit of making further investment and also the factors on which investment depends, the most important of which is bank interest rate.

According to the Macroeconomics concept the interest rate given by banks and investment are inversely related to each other. If banks increases the interest rates the people draw money out from the business and put it in the banks as they get high return from there thus high reward from the banks.

The business owners who made investments in their business by borrowing from the banks cut down their investment if the bank interest rate increases as they have to pay high costs of making investment which reduces their profitability.

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If you are thinking that electronics’ makers sailing smooth despite economic downturn, you need to think again at least the revision of profit forecast from Panasonic seems to suggest so. The company has slashed its profit forecasts by 40% for the present fiscal year.

Panasonic was expecting to make 560b yen in the current fiscal year that to end next March, but now the company has cut it down to 340b yen.

According to the company, the current economic slowdown that started in the US was spreading in other parts of the world and just like other businesses it was hitting sales of electronics’ makers as well.

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The term revenue means the income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to the customers. Income which a company earns through dividends, interest or royalties amount paid by other companies is also called as revenue. Revenue may refer to the income earned through a business in general, or it may refer to an amount received during a period of time. Profit or net income is generally calculated by subtracting total expenses from total revenue with in a given period. Revenue is also known as “REVs“.In the case of a non-profit organization, annual revenue is termed as gross receipts.

The sources of revenue for these non-profit organizations are as follows:

• Aid from government organizations
• Donations from individuals and corporations
• Income from activities related to the organization’s mission
• Income from fund generating activities
• Financial investments such as stocks and shares of the companies
• Membership dues

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