Self-service Business Intelligence for Commercial Property Leasing

Commercial Real Estate Leasing is an extremely competitive sector of the Real Estate Industry and the players are required to be imaginative and have information at their fingertips to avail of the opportunities that arise as well as quickly respond to government, economic and market pressures that might challenge their business models. Having market and business metrics at the tips of your fingers therefore becomes a necessity.

Interactive Business Intelligence gives Commercial Real-estate professionals number of benefits:

• Allows you to have a data based strategy for real estate portfolio optimization.
• Provides a broad spectrum of self-service, easy to use business intelligence tools with customizable levels of access,
• reporting or analytics per user.
• Allows for both internal and external performance measurement and benchmarking.
• Interactive BI breaks down multidimensional Data mashups with beautiful, rich data visualizations that support your
• natural ability to spot patterns.

Download the white paper here for a step-by-step introduction to Self-service Business Intelligence for Commercial Property Leasing.

Click2Analyze Sales Performance Analysis Dashboard

Your ability to track, analyze, and understand all aspects of your sales – what is being sold to which customer, when and by whom – is critical to identifying profitable customers. It is also important to keep track of your company's and sales people's sales performance to keep the company sales at top.

KMS Click2Analyze Sales Performance Analysis dashboard is compatible with any ERP system enabling companies to analyze their sales performance, giving you the full range of analysis, from the dashboard to the individual transaction.

Now with Click2Analyze Sales Analysis dashboard, you have complete visibility to business-critical customer, sales, product, budget, and channel data in a single, powerful yet easy-to-use business performancemanagement application.

Click2Analyze Sales Performance Analysis Dashboard can easily be integrated with your enterprise systems, even for companies running different ERP and CRM systems in differentdivisions. The dashboard provides a rapid ROI due to its rapid deployment and ease-of-use.

Sample Analysis

• What is my market share per country and product?
• What are my target sales and how are my current sales against these target values?
• How many customers were acquired, retained or lost in the present month, quarter or year?
• What are my lost sales due to lost customers? 
• What is the frequency of purchase of my active customers?
• Who are my high selling and highly profitable or low selling but highly profitable customers?

KMS Sales Performance Analysis Dashboard

The KMS Sales Analysis dashboard is being used by more than 100 companies is Asia Pacific to drive growth and boost sales.

The package consists of:

• KMS Click2Analyze Sales dashboard
• Executive dashboard
• Sales Analysis dashboard
• Customer Statistics dashboard
• Portfolio Analysis dashboard
• What-if Analysis dashboard
• Detailed Report dashboard
• KPI dashboard
• Software licenses for 5 named users
• One year of maintenance
• User training

You can find more details here : KMS Click2Analyze Sales Dashboard Product Page

Free Qlik Sense / QlikView Demo Session in Singapore on September 16th

Qlik has recently released a new version and more mature version of Qlik Sense, Qlik Sense 2.0, and also a brand new concept / platform named Qlik Analytics Platform. Besides, Qlik Sense now also has a cloud version where you can use this cutting edge data visualization software as SaaS.

There will be a QlikView / Qlik Sense introduction event at 9am - 11am on 16th September 2015 in Singapore Management University. In this event, you will not only have a chance to learn about Qlik product and platform family, you will also have chance to see the newest features of Qlik Sense and QlikView.

This event is a free and for registration and details you can visit Free Qlik workshop for Business Users and IT professionals: Interactive Business Reporting and Analysis with QlikView & Qlik Sense page.

Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense
Imagine analytics so intuitive, anyone in your company could easily create personalized reports and dynamic dashboards to explore vast amounts of data and find meaningful insights. And imagine if this could be done while ensuring accuracy and reliability of data and analytics. That’s Qlik Sense —a revolutionary visual analytics platform that supports self-service visualization, guided analytics apps and dashboards, embedded analytics, and reporting, all within a governed framework that offers enterprise scalability and trust for IT.

QlikView
The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-making.

Financial Data Analysis by Jedox event in Singapore

Jedox is an Excel based financial planning software. Financial data is often difficult to audit and unreliable because of ineffective controls in Excel. The issues surface in overworked teams, manually reconciling data scattered across multiple systems and countries. Traditional BI/PM software needed specialised technical teams to develop and maintain them. Waterfall implementations meant Finance filled out requirement documents, explained basic finance concepts to the technical team - and then waited for the result. The business process (that Finance was still ultimately responsible for) was no longer under Finance’s control. To manage this, agile companies adopt the Jedox Suite. Jedox gives you unified planning, consolidation and reporting in one intuitive solution.

Knowledge Management Solutions, an authorized Jedox partner in Singapore, is having a free event to introduce this great platform to finance specialists in Singapore at 3pm - 5pm, on 28th August 2015. The address of this free Jedox event is Singapore Management University 60 Stamford road
Singapore, 178900.

For more details and registration, please visit Register for Jedox Finance Data Analysis event. Watch a short video of Jedox below to see the capabilities.

QlikView for SAP: How to unlock the value of your data hidden in SAP

QlikView is one of the most popular business intelligence platform today. Its popularity is not an accident. With its super fast and user-friendly data discovery interface, rapid development cycle, fast response time, it provides a very capable platform to extract the hidden value in the enterprise data.

SAP is on the other hand one of the most popular ERP solutions in the market today. Although it also provides BI capabilities, many customers choose QlikView as their BI platform to extract data from SAP. With QlikView, you can consolidate information from SAP BI, SAP R/3 or any other data source easily and then search and analyze this data with Google-like ease and speed. QlikView also provides a QlikView Connector for SAP Netweaver which enables SAP customers to get easy and quick access to all the data hidden in different SAP systems in QlikView.

KMS, an authorized QlikView partner in Singapore is having a free event named "QlikView for SAP: How to unlock the value of your data hidden in SAP" on 13th August 2015, 9:30am - 11am, Singapore Management University. In this event several aspects and benefits of using QlikView as data analysis and business intelligence platform on top of SAP installation.

QlikView for SAP event in Singapore will present the benefits of QlikView BI platform for SAP users.

You can follow the link or image below for details and registration :

QlikView for SAP Event

Oil and Gas Analytics

Oil prices shrunk from $115 a barrel to less than $50 a barrel forcing energy firms to reconsider their strategy. Break-even price of producing a barrel of oil needs to be reduced to counter falling prices. Reports have stated that better data analysis could boost production of oil & gas companies by up to 6-8 percent.

There is a whitepaper about Oil and Gas Analytics from Knowledge Management Solutions, a Singapore based Business Intelligence and Analytics solution provider, explains how BI can boost Oil & Gas Industry :

• Exploration and production analysis
• Loss code analysis
• Drilling and Completion analysis
• Health, Safety, Environment & Security analysis
• Production Optimization analysis

A sample Oil and Gas Analytics dashboard screen - Production Surveilance

You can download the White paper on Interactive Business Intelligence for Oil & Gas Industry.

Navision Sales Analyzer Dashboard

Navision Sales Analyzer is a Business Intelligence Dashboard for sales which built on the powerful Tableau data visualization platform. Developed by Singapore based Knowledge Management Solutions, it empowers Microsoft Navision users to analyze and visualize data and to make strategic calls about sales and marketing.

• Plan revenue
• Analyze the impact of promotions
• Discover performance of products
• Compare product market share Vs. market growth
• Perform market basket analysis
• See customer buying behaviour clearly

You can watch a video introduction of Navision sales analyzer below. If you would like to find out more, KMS has a free demo event to introduce the product to the market. Click here to join : KMS Navision Sales Analyzer Demo.

KMS has been voted and endorsed as the 2014 Top vendor of BI Information Delivery & Analytics

Singapore, October 8th 2014 – Singapore based Business Intelligence Solutions Provider Knowledge Management Solutions Pte. Ltd. (KMS) has announced today that it has been voted and endorsed as the 2014 Top vendor of BI Information Delivery & Analytics by CXO Honour Singapore. Over 700 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) across Singapore were invited to take part in an unbiased online survey with CIOs naming their preferred Vendors in selected segments and categories over the full technology landscape.

The award came as Knowledge Management Solutions was preparing to celebrate its 10th year in Business Intelligence in December 2014. The company, which started as a vendor specific BI solution provider successfully turned itself into a BI Information Delivery and Analytics Solutions Provider in the previous years, offering a decade old experience in BI on some of the best platforms in the market today, QlikView, Tableau and Jedox.

KMS has received the award at by CXO Honour Singapore inaugural Red Carpet Honour 2014 Reception on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at The St. Regis Singapore.

About Knowledge Management Solutions

Headquartered in Singapore and with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Indonesia, Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS) is one of Asia Pacific regions oldest and largest Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions provider. Incoorporated in 2004, KMS has served more than 400 customers in the region. The company provides business intelligence, data visualization and corporate performance management solution development on top of today’s best agile BI platforms : QlikView, Tableau and Jedox.

www.kms-world.com

About CXO Honour Singapore

CXO HONOUR is a platform that enables an inclusive local community of senior ICM industry leaders to have sustained engagements and partnerships. CXO HONOUR® is a very powerful platform for vendors in the Infocomm & Media (ICM) sector to promote and market their products, services and solutions to the C-level suite (CXO) within the enterprises. 

www.cxohonour.com

Centralized QlikView Security Management Module - Click2Manage

QlikView is a fantastic business intelligence platform but it does have some limitations when it comes to security management. Although the application is quite secure (it is used in a lot of banks where security is extremely important) but setting up security is cumbersome. QlikView platform by default lacks a single, easy manageable and scalable security module. The built-in security framework is highly manual and script based to setup. Although it is manageable for 50-100 users, security management becomes a real burden for a few hundred to few thousand users. In addition to manageability issues, QlikView default security framework lacks the following:

Role based security setup assignment – Every users security configuration is done separately even a large group of users share the same security configuration where role based security assignment is crucial.

GUI based security configuration – Security configuration in QlikView is script based. Although QlikView Publisher (an add-on product to QlikView Server) offers somehow GUI based security setup, this is still not role based and the Publisher is an expensive addition to the QlikView platform.

Audit trail – Although almost all actions of users in QlikView are logged, security access configuration changes are not logged so there is no way to understand who changed what sort of security configuration

Layered security admin structure – QlikView’s security access manager, ADMIN, can do every changes about security. This prevents defining different levels of security admins to distribute the load of security configuration and creates significant security issues.

Encrypted security setup storage – QlikView does not provide an encrypted security setup storage.

Click2Manage

Click2Manage is a centralized QlikView Security Management Module developed by Singapore based Knowledge Management Solutions. Click2Manage still sits on the standard QlikView security access model in the background but provide a layer on it to overcome its limitations. Click2Manage deploys easy GUI based management interface to create and manage the SECURITY profile for QlikView Security setup. The module:

- Offers a web based GUI

- Stores security access matrix in secured, encrypted SQL database

- Deploys role based security to simplify security management

- Enables row level, field level, sheet level and application level security

- Interact with AD for user authentication and also supports Custom Created Users

- Provides audit logging

- Provides layered security management

Click2Manage offers a web based GUI and security setup features like role based security groups.

Benefits

Easy management of security for hundreds or thousands of users and profiles.Security setup with out of the box tools provided by QlikView server and publisher may be sufficient for 50-100 users, but it becomes labourous and unproductive for a few thousands of users. Click2Manage provides an easy to use, intiutive user interface and modules to overcome this problem.

Single point of QlikView security administration. Click2Manage provides a single point of QlikView security administration for all enterprise dashboards.

Secured Storage of QlikView security setup Click2Manage provides secured storage of QlikView security setup in an encrypted database and managed by a secured administrative environment for organization where IT policies mandate such setups.

Detailed audit reports for QlikView security setup updates Many organizations require strict audit reporting on the changes of QlikView security profile by security administrators. Click2Manage keeps track of all changes to security matrix across all dashboards and when requested produce detailed audit reports.

QlikView and Salesforce Seminar in Singapore on 25th April 2014

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView’s disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers.

QlikView is a great platform to develop business analytics application to provide Salesforce users with key-pipeline related data at their fingertips. A QlikView Salesforce Analytics application allows you to easily load and analyze all your CRM information directly from your salesforce.com account. With QlikView for Salesforce, information can be explored intuitively and visually – with drill-down detail in just a few clicks.

If you are in Singapore and a Salesforce user, do not miss this seminar on QlikView and Salesforce by Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS). KMS will perform a demo presentation which will cover the following topics:

- Drive higher levels of sales efficiency and effectiveness
- Measure pipeline trends across the entire sales cycle
- Analyze customers and prospects across multiple dimensions and data sources
- Plan and track more effective marketing campaigns and linked sales activities
- Increase demand generation, cross-sell and up-sell opportunities

Sample QlikView Salesforce Analytics Dashboard

Date: 25th April 2014     |      Time: 10 am to 1 pm
You can register here. Or email carlota@kms-world.com with your name, designation, company, official email, phone# for registration. 

QlikView Workshop: Build your first Business Intelligence Application in 1 day

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView’s disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers.

You are invited to join Knowledge Management Solutions Pte Ltd for a 1 day QlikView hands-on Training Session in Singapore. The hands-on approach allows you to build a QlikView application that integrates real data from several different sources and presents it in dashboards, analyses and reports.

QlikView Business Intelligence dashboards allow organizations to measure and track the performance of key processes.  QlikView’s click driven, visually interactive interface gives users instant access to top level metrics and record level detail, revealing unanticipated business insights.  Through QlikView disruptive, in-memory associative approach, business users have experiences unprecedented success and satisfaction.

You can register here. Or email carlota@kms-world.com with your name, designation, company, official email, phone# for registration.

Date:  
7th of February, 2014

Time:  
9 am to 6 pm (registration starts at 8:30 am)

Venue:  
55 Market Street #03-01Singapore 048941

Agenda:
1. Introduction to QlikView Business Intelligence
2. Create your Business Intelligence Application with QlikView
Tea Break
3. Data extraction from different sources
4. Data modeling
Lunch break
5. Design of graphs and charts
6. Build your advanced dashboard (Analytics and Reporting)

Notes: This is a paid training event at SGD300 (original price is SGD1,250).

KMS QlikView Service Packs in Singapore

QlikView is one of the most popular business intelligence solutions in the market. It is also highly popular here in Singapore where a QlikTech (the company developing the QlikView application) has a regional office and some 11 partners serving the customers.

Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS) is the largest partner of QlikView in Singapore. The company was in fact once QlikView South East Asia from 2004 (when they have brought QlikView in Singapore and became the 3rd office of QlikTech outside Europe after South Africa and Israel) to 2010 (when QlikTech came to Singapore and took the name back). KMS is still the largest QlikView partner in the region with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

KMS now offers irresistible service packages for QlikView to existing QlikView customers. Called Elite Service Pack and Lite Service Pack, the company opens its expertise on QlikView and business intelligence (one of the most in the world) as QlikView Server Monitoring, QlikView Enhancements, QlikView Training Services, Access To Knowledge Management Solutions Online Learning Management, QlikView Health Check, Special Offers & Rates plus Designated Account Management Team.

The Service Packs are very good solutions for companies with QlikView who need someone to develop more applications and do extra stuff related to QlikView. Instead of hiring someone with QlikView experience, which is difficult to find and expensive, they can for example buy Elite Service Pack which is priced at 5,000 SGD per month or 50,000 per year. The package comes with 50 man-days QlikView Enhancement feature which includes changes to existing QlikView applications, new QlikView application development, QlikView scripting, QliKView version migration, applying patches, etc.

For more information download QlikView Service Packs (PDF) brochure.

QlikView Service Packages in Singapore

Description of Features
QlikView Server Monitoring
Assist in-house IT Infra on QlikView
- Solving issues on QlikView Reload Jobs
- Solving QV application access issues by users
- Periodic Reports
- Alert any impact of OS related service/security patch upgrades on QlikView

QlikView Enhancements
- Changes to Existing Applications
- New Application Development
- QlikView Scripting
- QliKView Version Migration, Applying Patches, etc.

QlikView Training Services
ELITE
Conducted once every 2 months, 6 times/yr
1 trainee per session
1 training class type per session
LITE
Conducted once per quarter, 4 times/yr

5 trainees per session

Free Power-User Training
QV Server
QV Power User Training
QV Data Modeling Training

Access to KMS’ Online Learning Management
- Online courses and learning with LMS QV introductions, online courses, feature updates
- QV license maintenance must be

QlikView Health Check
- Perform review of QlikView applications used
- Emphasis to optimize QlikView functionality to enhance
reporting & analysisneeds of users
- KMS’ QlikView Application Expert to visit onsite
- Provides for 2 half-day sessions per year

Special Offers & Rates
Get special discount on KMS’ Add-on Tools ie.
- Click2Manage
- Click2Mail
Special discount on professional service manday rate. Valid for QlikView system under valid licence maintenance.

Designated Account Management Team
KMS will assign a designated team for QV Server Monitoring
Service and other value-added services.
- Account Manager
- Project Manager
- Technical System Consultant
Reports and Updates:
- Customer Update meetings in each quarter
- Status of monitoring activities
- Status of support activities
- Single-point-of-access/contact

Business Analytics Professional Short Courses

According to a recent survey conducted by IBM among 3,000 Chief Information Officers (CIO) around the globe, Business Analytics and Cloud Computing will be in the top 5 technology priorities for middle to large sized companies for the next 5 years. Business Analytics, with Singapore Government's focus on productivity increase and marketing afford of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics software solutions provider SAS, is a buzzword in Singapore recently. There is no week passing without a new development in the business analytics area.

Business Analytics can be defined as a practice of gaining business insight by exploring corporate data with the help of statistical tools. Business Analytics tools has a great potential to increase productivity in offices where high skilled, high paid employees spend a significant portion of their time to manually massage data using spreadsheets.

Below is from The Performance Ideas Blog:

"Business Analytics has a huge potential to help us increase productivity. And I would argue that there is plenty of ‘low-hanging’ fruit. Think about a story that happened to me a short while ago: A CFO decided to implement a dashboard of about 50-60 KPIs (let’s not start arguing about that part…). His team was excited and started building a 65 page Powerpoint master template. The CFO was delighted. Guess what – three people spent almost two weeks per month on preparing this dashboard. Lot’s of time was wasted on extracting data from different source systems. Lot’s of time was wasted on creating Excel lookups, queries and charts. To sum it up: A big waste of time. The low hanging-fruit came in the form of a traditional BI platform. We hooked up the source systems, created the reports once, linked different charts to Powerpoint and voila: the monthly reporting book. It took one person about a day per month to check & refresh the data (there was still some manual labor involved). Consider the difference: three people for 10 days vs 1 person for 1 day. 30 man days vs 1 man day. Not bad?"
Source: The great productivity leap?

Knowledge Management Solutions (KMS), the largest and the oldest QlikView expert partner in Singapore, is having detailed QlikView Courses where you can learn to use QlikView Business Discovery Platform to gain insight from massive and/or business data for making informed decision.

KMS offers different types of training courses in Singapore. Other than standard 5-days fully detailed QlikView Developer Courses , KMS also offers 2-days long QlikView Power User training courses as well as a 1-day introductory Build Your Own Business Intelligence Application in a Day.

You can mail them here : levent@kms-world.com

QlikView Pricing and Cost

Business Intelligence cost can vary from scope to scope. More, it can vary for the same company and the same scope due to the approach, special prices, etc. Unfortunately most vendors do not publish their business intelligence software licensing and pricing publicly. You need to engage with them to get prices and you have almost noway to know exact pricing. These vendors usually sign a non-disclosure agreement with their existing customers so you cannot even get an answer for the cost and pricing by detailed investigation.

QlikView, one of the most innovative business intelligence solutions in the market, is one of the few business intelligence solution provider whose licensing and pricing options and prices are publicly available. QlikTech (the developer of QlikView) is not only transparent on the pricing and licensing but also provides many options for its customers to have optimum license mix.

This is great news if you are looking forward for a business intelligence solutions and QlikView is on the card but this flexibility is also a source of confusion for newcomers to QlikView world. QlikView Sales Managers usually do not make the life easier as most of the answers about QlikView pricing from them will be "it depends".

Knowledge Management Solutions, largest QlikView consulting expert in Singapore and South East Asia, has a short Qlikview-Licensing-And-Pricing paper explaining different license options and their features (and limitations) in the context of QlikView pricing and cost.

QlikView is one of the few business intelligence software in the market
with licensing and price options are publicly available.

Finding the best initial installation and defining the best roadmap may save you substantial amount of money if done by an experienced QlikView consulting company. So we suggest you take a look at this paper.

You can download this QlikView (PDF) paper here: KMS-Qlikview-Licensing-And-Pricing.pdf.