Halo Business Intelligence

Logility, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions, has acquired privately-held Halo Business Intelligence, a San Diego-based supplier of advanced analytics and business intelligence solutions for the supply chain market.

To deliver on your company’s future demands for data and insights, you will need to maintain your existing data warehouse – and add the great new capabilities available with big data management and in-memory analytics.

There is one shipping firm in the world, maybe the galaxy, that is counted on more than FedEx, UPS, and DHL combined. In fact, this organization has an even more complex supply chain. It takes its own orders, makes its own goods, and ships them all in one night.

If you drive a car then you know what a dashboard is. There are two main gauges that we are all very familiar with - the speedometer and the fuel gauge. The other gauges we don’t usually take much notice of.

For mid-size and fast growing companies, keeping track of cash position and cash flow in a meaningful way is difficult!

Go beyond canned KPI’s and pre-built analytics and understand your business the way that makes the most sense to you.

So the promise of using statistical algorithms, forecasting and predictive analytics is now added to the list of a company’s number one priorities. There is a sense of urgency surrounding this new high profile initiative. One may ask, “What’s next?” Well, here are a few steps that you will need to take to deploy your forecasts successfully.

In the world of commerce, every business ecosystem has a type of supply chain that is critical to corporate operations. These supply chains rely on a network of plants and facilities to add value to and transform raw materials into a final product. Any disruption or sub-optimization in the supply chain can and will significantly impact a company’s profitability.

Distribution or dissemination of information is probably one of the most critical aspects of supply chain business intelligence and information management.

Collaboration of information and timing and are two extremely critical aspects of supply chain business intelligence and information management.

I will be the first to admit that there are lots of different ways to categorize data. And I would like to add, that there is not necessarily one right way to do it. But at the end of the day, understanding the totality of a problem is easier if you find a way to break it down into component parts, categories, or summarize the information. The following is a framework attempt to categorize by maturity (and difficulty) the important...

Analytics are now an integral part of any supply chain information management system. Modern computing power and advances in analytical software have made powerful analytics not only possible, but practical for most businesses sitting on top of a cornucopia of supply chain data. Analytics run the gambit from historical data dumps to models that suggest the best course of action based on a set of probable outcomes.

You can’t predict anything with 100% certainty, and your predictive power wanes the farther out you gaze. The study of KPIs over time is all about finding patterns and signals, then applying human intelligence in order to make better decisions and gain wisdom.

With organizations that rely heavily on their supply chain, designing actionable performance level metrics, those that actually matter is even more important than the top level financial drivers.

Evaluating BI vendors can be a confusing and complex process. However, knowing the right questions to ask can greatly reduce the risk of selecting the wrong solution provider. The right BI solution must provide business decision makers with the information needed to obtain operational and strategic business objectives.