Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at Corda’s Visual Evolution User Conference. Corda’s CenterView product delivers a powerful Business Intelligence dashboard solution to improve performance management, while even allowing dashboard access from mobile devices such as your iPhone.
Corda CEO Neal Williams presented a 9 step KPI (Key Performance Indicator) process to identify driver and outcome metrics that matter most for creating successful Business Intelligence processes. Interestingly, Neal explained that the selection of data sources is often the most flawed part of the process because most business analysts take a bottoms-up approach by choosing easy-to-get-to data sources which lead to suboptimal business decisions. Neal stressed the importance of taking a top-down approach, including a very careful analysis and selection process to determine which data sources create the most accurate and timely results.
It became very clear that our product can go a long way in ensuring business analysts get the best, freshest and most valuable data for their BI dashboard. During my presentation, one person commented, “I asked my IT department for some critical data, data that I can easily access in my web browser, but the response was it could take 6-12 months to get the data”. With Kapow Web Data Server it would have taken at most, a few hours.
As an example, I encourage you to read the article, “Hyper Management of working capital: Technology suport the work of corporate treasury“, which describes how FiServ uses Kapow robots to access complex, hard-to-get-to data sources residing at more than 300 banks spread over 10 countries. FiServ struggled with this problem for years with no other alternative than error-prone, manual cut-and-paste. Now successfully in production as a joint solution of Corda and Kapow Technologies, Fiserv is a great example how Kapow Web Data Server can help business analysts settle for nothing less than the best, most timely data sources.
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By: Stefan Andreasen 
