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TARGIT's BI Accelerators awarded

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:26:00 +0100

The awards are based on a number of criteria, including a secret shopper exercise, which has enabled Dynamicsworld to gain insight into the effectiveness of the Add-Ons in the Microsoft Dynamics channel.

Whilst it can be suggested that a hedge fund will have different requirements from a health authority, and therefore the needs from an Add-On will be different, there are still a number of requirements that are germane to all businesses:

Value for Money
Ease of implementation
Product support
The increase in effectiveness due to use of the Add-On
Simplicity of integration
Add-On Functionality
Number of installations

These are the main criteria and the remaining elements that make up the final list are Client Recommendations, DynamicsWorld Popularity, Certified for Microsoft Dynamics and their network's Secret Shopper Profiling.

Learn more about TARGIT BI Accelerator

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Dynamics CRM Online for TARGIT

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Seamless integration
TARGIT BI Accelerator implements SQL Server Integration Services access to CRM Online seamlessly through a set of unique TARGIT custom components for SSIS. These components are installed as part of the acceleration process and include a serviced component (COM+) and a custom SSIS Connection Manager and Data Reader. No additional software is needed.

TARGIT BI Accelerator is TARGIT's data source integration tool for TARGIT Business Intelligence. TARGIT BI Accelerator offers a simple way of setting up a fully operative TARGIT BI solution on top of your Dynamics CRM system in a very short amount of time.

Download and Support
TARGIT BI Accelerator for Dynamics CRM can be downloaded from targit.com/ms-dynamics-crm. For the best possible support, please use the built-in "Get Assistance" functionality.

TARGIT most widespread BI tool

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:57:00 +0200

CTO of TARGIT, Dr. Morten Middelfart, is happy with the result of the survey. “This has been our goal for many years. Our entire product philosophy is based on the idea that knowledge should reach out as far as possible in an organization with the fewest possible clicks, and this gives companies the motivation to use and spread out the product internally,” he explains. “Almost half of the TARGIT customers in the study are even using our mobile BI solution at the moment or are planning to start using it within the next year. This means that TARGIT takes the lead on the mobile BI market with our TARGIT iTop for iPhone and iPad.” According to BI Survey 10, TARGIT’s mobile BI app is the most widespread of its kind among BI users whose BI vendor offers such an app.

Flemming Madsen, VP of Sales at TARGIT, also notices the economic aspects of BI Survey 10. “In a time of crisis, it is worth noting that TARGIT continues to exceed cost-extensive competitors, such as SAP, SAS, Microstrategy, and Qliktech when it comes to the total amount of investment costs,” he says and continues, “This is partly due to the short implementation period, and it is also included in the survey that there is a high degree of customer satisfaction connected with the support that TARGIT provides.”

BI Survey 10 establishes that TARGIT is the preferred tool for Business Intelligence buyers when compared to the company’s closest and biggest competitors. In 80 percent of the cases where TARGIT BI Suite is presented, the potential customers choose to buy TARGIT rather than a BI tool from a competing vendor.

Barney Finucane, leading analyst at BARC, believes that TARGIT is popular with both existing users and potential buyers of the BI solution. “The primary reasons why people buy TARGIT are user-friendliness and functionality. This may explain TARGIT’s high win rate as well as why TARGIT is so widely used in organizations who have already invested in TARGIT,” Barney Finucane concludes.

Read the BI Survey 10 summary

Sims Metal: Mining for knowledge

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Sims Metal Management group ICT director Peter Barclay explains: “We have many sites across the UK and over the last few years we have been focusing on how we can gather, view and access information from all these sites so that we can create an accurate view of what is happening in our business, hour by hour and minute by minute. With this level of information we can effectively analyse performance and make the decisions necessary to optimise our operations and meet the ongoing demands of the business. We started this process by deploying standard business management systems based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the recycling and waste management specific enwis) solution from Qurius."

Data itself has little or no value. But if data can be recycled into information, and furthermore into knowledge, it can be the biggest asset in your business. "We have developed a standard systems implementation model that we roll out to new sites so we can bring them into an integrated company-wide system very quickly, which allows us to develop accurate and timely reports in a consistent format. In this environment of centralised reporting, we have been able to look at the potential for other tools, such as BI, to enable us to analyse current and historical data, predict trends and make more informed decisions for the overall running of the business. This is important to us because in the scrap industry, a competitive edge is vital. In our business, suppliers are as important as customers and it is essential for us to monitor trends in supply. If supply dries up, we have nothing to sell so we need the knowledge of what is happening in the industry to ensure we can be proactive in maintaining and developing our supply channels," says Peter Barclay.

BI provides summarised views on historic, current and predicted business operations, and thus supports better decision making. For example, in a typical recycling company, a huge amount of data (from historical transactions) will exist for vehicle movements. This data can be summarised in a view that shows, perhaps by vehicle type or territory, the utilisation or revenue generation of the vehicle or route. Looking at a comparative view of this data over a period of time, perhaps a few years, the business decision makers will be able to see what type of vehicle, or which geographical area is the most profitable.

The ICT Director eloborates: "We already have accurate and detailed reports. We are looking at BI to enable us to drill into the individual elements that make up these reports. We want to understand what’s happening to generate these results and with this knowledge carry out the necessary activities that will deliver improvements. Similarly, the tools can automatically generate alerts that highlight key areas that need to be dealt with. To achieve this, we are implementing Jet Enterprise and TARGIT BI. Jet Enterprise will organize the data into cubes of information that the BI tools can analyse and use. Creating these cubes normally requires some pretty specialist programming skills, but Jet allows us to produce these very easily. TARGIT then provides an easy to use tool for analysing this data and giving us the all important information on trends and developments that we are looking for."

By entering into the BI tool the planned purchase of new vehicles, development of new sites or increase/decrease in customers in a particular area, a predictive view of performance can be created. This information can influence many decisions in a business such as type of vehicle to purchase, the territories on which to focus the sales forces’ efforts, driver performance or where to create a new transfer station etc.

"The BI market has changed recently. These solutions used to be fairly expensive and almost always proprietary. With applications like TARGIT, Jet and enwis) all based on Microsoft architecture, they have been able to provide tools that are easier to set up and use and that are much more affordable. We have had BI cubes for a long time, but only very few people could access them in a meaningful way. TARGIT gives us an affordable end user tool that can be used effectively across the entire organisation. BI gives management the tools they need to really understand the business and this results in better decisions being made for the running of the company," concludes Peter Barclay.

Learn more about fast integration to MS Dynamics NAV

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200

TARGIT number 1 in Computerworld's Top 100 list

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:04:00 +0200

The list, which places Dis/Play as runner-up and Microsoft Denmark in third place, covers all Danish-based corporations that provide software targeted for a specific business process such as CRM, HRM, CMS, BI etc.

“We are proud to win the prize for being the top vendor in the business software category for the second year in a row. Since the overall criteria is financial performance, it clearly indicates that TARGIT is capable of turning our strong product into business value for our customers”, says Morten Sandlykke, CEO at TARGIT.

When selecting the nominees, Computerworld considers the following four areas: growth in turnover, return on capital employed, profit ratio and efficiency ratio defined as a result of main activities per employee.

See the complete list (Danish)

The picture shows the four winners in the software categories (from left to right): SAP Denmark, Sitecore, E-Boks and TARGIT represented by Business Development Manager Jesper Berntson.

Cisco and Fleet Support win BI-Community awards

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:53:00 +0200

Fleet Support, for the overall EMEA award Category, convinced the jury with its enthusiastic brought submission on their new well adopted TARGIT e-Customer solution bringing together decision support reporting and guiding analytics for better business management.

CISCO was selected as the winner in the Large Private Companies Category with their TARGIT Market Intelligence Dashboard providing strategic insight and prescriptive analysis for business management combining a range of external and internal data sources.

The vision awards for business impact were created to recognize companies that use software to gain business benefit, support innovation, contain costs, improve efficiency and impact company strategy.

Read Fleet Support's TARGIT case

In 2009, this jury already recognized TARGIT customers Mercedes Group Lambert as well as All Break Systems, by awarding both of them prizes in the category “Operational BI”. Mercedes Lambert also received the first prize in the category.

Read Group Lambert's TARGIT case

Learn more about the awards

Technology Evaluation Centers blog - Thinking Radically: The CALM philosophy in Business Intelligence

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

In this interview, Dr. Middelfart discusses his vision of the BI space, his research, and how TARGIT is planning to help companies overcome future challenges with their BI needs.

JG.
What do you think are the major changes in the way we do BI nowadays as opposed to how we did BI 8 to 10 years ago?

MM.
Having worked in BI for the past two decades, I am afraid that the next decade does not have a huge revolution in store. If I think back to the early 1990s—the challenge then was to give users easy and fast access to valid data. That challenge pretty much remains today. Sure, technology has improved in terms of processing power, storage, connectivity, and mobility, but overall the challenge stands. Moreover, the challenge does not stop at valid data, because, in my mind, an even bigger challenge is information quality—meaning that the information users get out of BI systems can be completely understood by them and that it is coherent across an organization. Information quality goes much further than data quality, as valid data can be misunderstood if a user does not understand its context and meaning and is not able to relate it to other data.

Lack of information quality is, to my mind, still the biggest challenge for organizations seeking to harness the power of information and to turn that into competitive execution. The worst thing about lacking information quality is that it can stall the decision process when users need to find consensus about the “truth” before a decision and subsequent action can be taken.

Having said this, we will of course see an increase in mobility as well as an increase in cloud-based delivery models, but these technological trends are not going to solve the fundamental information quality problem. In other words, if we are not careful, then we will just exploit technology to be even more efficient in confusing users, anytime and anywhere.

My hope for the next decade is that we will apply technology more wisely and address the fundamental problem that users face, allowing them to make well-informed decisions fast and in sync with their peers in their organization.

Read the full interview

TARGIT Ironmen qualify for the World Championship

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The three men are happy to have won admission to the prestigious event next year after they unsuccessfully attempted to qualify for this year’s Hawaii World Championship at the Ironman in Nice, France.

Rasmus Thomsen was the fastest of the three completing in 9 hours and 52 minutes. He came in third in his age group. Thomas Mortensen, who is also coach for the other two and instructor at TARGIT's running academy, completed in 10 hours, and he came in fourth in his group. Gregers Rye completed in 10 hours and 8 minutes and came in first in his group taking the lead of 16 minutes.

Last but not least, the three Ironmen from Hjørring were the three highest ranked Danes in Wales.

The picture collage are made of pictures taken at Challenge Copenhagen in 2010.

Saving thousands of Euros on reporting

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:46:00 +0200

Even though their TARGIT solution has only been live since January 2011, the independent automotive fleet management service company Fleet Support has already gained a great return on investment.

Fleet Support's customer retention is estimated to an average turnover per customer amounting to € 200.000, and with the Online Dashboard, they are able to attract new business deals, estimated to an average of € 200,000 per deal. Additionally, they have reduced costs by € 30-40,000 in ad-hoc reporting and € 40,000 in standard reporting.

Read the case at full length

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Dr. Morten Middelfart speaks at Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:46:00 +0200

Dr. Morten Middelfart will talk about his research in the BI field and how organizations may attain BI synergy by teaming human capacity with computing. He will speak October 20th at 12,15 pm (in Oceanic 1).

TARGIT will also be exhibiting in the BI Market place section of the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011 (booth #1024). There, a TARGIT team will give demos of TARGIT BI Suite.

This major event takes place between 16-20 October in Orlando, Fl. USA and TARGIT hopes to see you there. Book a meeting in advance: info@targit.com

Get more info about the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011

Learn more about Dr. Morten Middelfart's research @ www.targit.com/research

Improving productivity and operations with TARGIT BI Suite

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:46:00 +0200

At AerRianta International North America, employee engagement increased after implementing TARGIT BI Suite as they had the ability to see how their efforts contributed to the corporate goals and objectives.

These corporate goals and objectives were now materialized as KPI’s within the TARGIT BI Suite, whereby management, and all employees throughout the organization, could easily understand where the company stood on a daily basis.

Read the case at full length

TARGIT publishes research behind BI solution

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:46:00 +0200

Dr. Morten Middelfart also tours the world with live presentations of his thoughts on the future of Business Intelligence.

His latest presentations were at FIA-USP, Brazil´s largest Business School, and at Sao Paulo School of Business on June 28 and 29 respectively. The sessions drew in more than 200 top executives and potential clients alike and the attendees learned how organizations can attain BI synergy by teaming human capacity with computing.

"For the evaluations and the demand after the event, we believe that the presentation of Morten Middelfart was a success and contributed greatly to the executives and partners, chiefly about the methodology and decision-making tools", says CEO Allan Pires, TARGIT Brasil.

Dr. Morten Middelfart will continue his tour to Iceland on September 9, the Platon IM Conference in Denmark on October 12 and he will lecture at the Poznan University of Technology in Poland on October 17-21.

His research can accessed online at www.targit.com/research

TARGIT at Ironman world championship qualification in Nice

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:46:00 +0200

The expectations and ambitions were great since Gregers' shape and level of performance under normal circumstances would be good enough for a top position and thereby one of the desirable admission tickets for Hawaii. At first, it went extremely well for Gregers. After 3.8 km of swimming, 180 on bike and 30 km of running, he was in first place in his category with a solid margin to the runner-up. But with only 10 km of the race left, Gregers collapsed and his race ended in an ambulance. After treatment with drop against dehydration, Gregers was fine.

"The combination of one of the world's toughest Ironman bike rides in the mountains and the baking heat is a harsh environment to push yourself to the max. Being a Dane, it's really difficult to train for these kinds of ordeals in our flat landscape and cold climate. Returning from Nice, Gregers is at least a valuable experience richer. Moreover, more than 500 of the 2700 competing triathletes didn't make it to the finishing line. The conditions were extreme to everyone", tells TARGIT's CEO Morten Sandlykke, who was competing in Nice himself. "According to my watch, it went up to 38 degrees Celsius, and it wasn't a joke completing an Ironman under these conditions. Gregers pushed himself further than his limit to achieve his ambition, but unfortunately, he didn't qualify this time."

Gregers has signed up for another Ironman race in Wales this September with the ambition of qualifying for the world championship in 2012.

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:46:00 +0200

TARGIT CTO, Dr. Morten Middelfart debates at the Platon IM Conference

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:46:00 +0200

Dr. Morten Middelfart will be part of a debate about Business Intelligence at the conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. He will also do a presentation of his thoughts behind the CALM philosophy that is the foundation for TARGIT BI Suite. The world's most influential experts in decision support, Nigel Pendse and James Taylor, will be keynote speakers at this year's IM Conferences in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.

Additionally, you will meet speakers from leading companies such as Carlsberg, FLSmidth, TARGIT, IKEA, McDonald’s, LEGO, Microsoft and more in the three cities, where Scandinavia’s largest convention on Business Intelligence and Master Data Management takes place this fall.

TARGIT will be exhibiting at the conference and will do live demos of TARGIT BI Suite. TARGIT offers potential participants to go to the conventions with a special TARGIT discount. If you sign up before 1 September 2011 (1 August 2011 for Stockholm, Sweden) at www.IM2011.net, please enter the following discount codes in the ”Discount Registration Code” field and get a 500 DKK discount in addition to the early bird discount:

IM2011 Stockholm – 29 September; Your price: DKK 2.495 (regular price: DKK 3.995). Discount code ”TARGIT-SE”
IM2011 Copenhagen – 12 October; Your price: DKK 3.495 (regular price: DKK 4.995). Discount code ”TARGIT -DK”
IM2011 Oslo – 26 October; Your price: DKK 4.495 (regular price: DKK 6.495). Discount code ”TARGIT -NO”

SAP users get TARGIT Business Intelligence

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:38:00 +0200

“This gives SAP users a unique opportunity to understand their business data and get a faster and improved overview”, says TARGIT VP of Sales, Mr. Flemming Madsen. “The tool, Xtract TARGIT, is for the many SAP customers, who would like to do more with their solution and do it faster – while doing it at an attractive price level”.

Specifically, the new tool gives large enterprises access to extract data from their SAP database and insert them in TARGIT’s Business Intelligence solution. “And here they will get their data presented in clear, graphical objects, which they can analyze without losing the big picture”, explains Flemming Madsen.

TARGIT has experienced a growing demand for the opportunity for dynamic analyses and reports from companies using SAP. “This is usually not possible without conducting month-long projects with high costs as a consequence”, ends the VP of Sales.

Schneider Electric and Kuwait Petroleum (Q8) are among the large enterprises that benefit from being able to use TARGIT on top of SAP.

The new TARGIT tool is developed by Theobald Software Gmbh, which specializes in products for SAP integration. The company has already completed more than 1000 installations.

BI Survey 10 asks for your opinion

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:55:00 +0200

The BI Survey uncovers the truth about why real-world organizations select BI products, how they use them, and with what success. It also compares the leading products on the market across a number of headline criteria such as performance, scalability and vendor support.

The BI Survey is an annual report based on the world's largest vendor-independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users.

BARC, Business Application Research Center, is a leading independent software industry analyst delivering information to more than 1000 customers each year.

If you are a TARGIT user, please voice your opinion.

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:40:00 +0200

TARGIT launches 2K11

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:16:00 +0200

“Cloud technology gives you much more flexibility for uploading, analyzing and sharing your data”, says TARGIT’s CTO, Dr. Morten Middelfart. “And you don’t need additional memory for higher performance since everything is handled in the cloud”.

New and improved features
TARGIT’s main focus is still the traditional Business Intelligence Suite, which has been improved significantly with the 2K11 version. In 2K11, users now get Sentinels in TARGIT NET. The patented Sentinels can be described as digital watch dogs that give you warnings in advance. The Sentinel technology is based on advanced algorithms that recognize patterns while monitoring your KPIs. They enable you to discover and react to changes faster than ever before.

The Intelligent agents in TARGIT BI Suite are now available in TARGIT NET as well.

The Suite also introduces an animated navigator on the startpage. This navigator will display your favorite documents in an attractive way represented by thumbnails and with effects like reflections and smooth animation.

TARGIT BI Suite 2K11 offers the new possibility to make advanced mathematical calculations with polynomic regression. This way of extrapolating makes it possible to run even more advanced calculations enabling you to see what might happen in the future. The scatter chart in TARGIT BI Suite supports this polynomic regression.

Read more about the new features and improvements in the 3-page presentation paper in English, German and Danish.

See the online launch of 2K11 for TARGIT Users (sign-up required)

Learn more about TARGIT BI Suite

And download the new demo

TARGIT awards resellers

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:16:00 +0200

TARGIT acknowledges this with the TARGIT Reseller Award annually. And the awards for “TARGIT Reseller of the year 2011” went to Business Impact in the US, Qurius UK in Europe, Norriq in Northern Europe, and Levtech in the Middle East.

The winners
Business Impact is Reseller of the year 2011 in the US thanks to their dedicated TARGIT Business Intelligence focus. They are acknowledged for having the highest growing rate of TARGIT-focused staff and maintaining the highest percent growth regarding winning new TARGIT business.

Qurius UK is Reseller of the year 2011 in Europe thanks to the commitment from Mr. Jamaine Campbell and his team at Qurius UK. They have managed to turn TARGIT Business Intelligence into a profitable business for Qurius UK. They use TARGIT BI Suite as a key-stone in their offerings and that assists them in selling other products in their portfolio.

Danish TARGIT Reseller Norriq is Reseller of the year 2011 in the Nordic Region. In addition to getting many new customers in 2010, Norriq’s existing TARGIT customers have very high priority. Norriq also has a skilled BI team, where the consultants know how to work TARGIT’s front end.

Levtech Consulting, based in the United Arab Emirates, has been a TARGIT Partner for only 1 year. Yet, they have already proven they can conduct successful business with TARGIT BI Suite with a growing pipeline and with their high expertise in implementing and utilizing the TARGIT BI solution.

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:01:00 +0100

TARGIT launches new cloud solution for TARGIT users

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:41:00 +0100

The motivation underlying TARGIT Cloud is to give analysts and controllers a tool for analyzing data much more dynamically than in a traditional data warehouse. This creates a sensible balance between the execution and follow-up offered by TARGIT’s Business Intelligence (BI) and the impulsive Analytics offered by TARGIT Cloud. Since Analytics and BI are integrated in the TARGIT BI Suite, the traditional risk of Analytics generating incoherent results across an organization is eliminated.

“Analytics data and results tend to be more ad-hoc, and the individual analysis is typically done once and then shared with any number of users. If it turns out that it needs to be done multiple times, then the analysis is migrated to become part of the Business Intelligence solution. In other words, you can say that TARGIT’s Analytics will continuously inspire the Business Intelligence that ensures swift execution and conformance to the goals set”, explains Dr. Middelfart. “Examples of such data could be surveys or fixed event budgets. I actually received a phone bill that didn’t correspond with reality. I put the data in TARGIT Cloud to clarify the problem and ended up getting reimbursed by the phone company”.

TARGIT Cloud is an add-on to TARGIT’s Business Intelligence solution, TARGIT BI Suite, and it enables you to share your data and analyses online and work on them with your colleagues. The add-on also allows you to share your data online with peers outside your organization.

TARGIT Cloud will be launched with the new 2K11 version of TARGIT BI Suite March 31.

Leading analyst firm places TARGIT in Magic Quadrant for BI platforms

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:40:00 +0100

“We are proud to be recognized by analyst firm Gartner as a Niche Player”, says TARGIT CEO Morten Sandlykke. “We believe the inclusion in the Quadrant will facilitate our growth in the global market, where we aim to reach 1.5 million users by 2015”.

According to Gartner, “ease of use is now surpassing functionality for the first time as the dominant BI platform buying criterion”. The report also states that “influential business users are increasingly driving BI purchasing decisions, most often choosing easier to use data discovery tools over traditional BI platforms — with or without IT's consent”.

“Ease of use is essentially our product philosophy”, explains TARGIT CTO Morten Middelfart. He is happy that Gartner recognized TARGIT in the report. "We want to give business insight in fewest clicks, and we feel that Gartner recognizes this - not least because of the users' judgments of TARGIT BI Suite".

In addition to ease of use, buyers look at affordability, which gives a vendor like TARGIT momentum.

About The Magic Quadrant:
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

New TARGIT University training sites Denmark and Norway

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:40:00 +0100

TARGIT has added a third physical training location in Denmark. The new location is Byggecentrum Kursuscenter in the middle of the picturesque landscapes near Middelfart.

The new location is expected to service TARGIT customers and partners from Southern Jutland and the Funen area. Together with the current training locations in Hjørring and Taastrup, the new site greatly complements the geographical spread of physical training centers in Denmark.

Also in Oslo, Norway, we have found a new training site to service our Norwegian customers and partners. The Oslo based company Visma is providing modern training facilities for our courses.

Please watch the online TARGIT University booking calendar for courses at these new sites.

TARGIT Tours Denmark, Norway, Germany and the US

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:40:00 +0100

Anyone with an interest in optimizing their business processes is welcome to visit the TARGIT seminars on the tour and learn more about TARGIT's BI solution. Participation is free of charge, and TARGIT encourages you to sign up as soon as possible - the seats are in demand

The "TARGIT Tour" is based on the idea to spread the message about Business Intelligence with "to-the-point"-seminars.

in the US: Finished
in Norway: www.targit.com/tourno
in Germany: www.targit.com/tourde
in Denmark: Finished (will return in May)

Mobile BI helps Biva to increase sales focus

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:25:00 +0100

”It has been a pleasure using TARGIT iTop the last few months”, tells Klaus Vestergaard, CTO of Biva. “It’s a gimmick which have created a ‘wow-effect’, especially among our sales reps. With TARGIT iTop, I can monitor the turnover per hour which and this gives me the opportunity to make fact-based decisions on the fly – no matter where I am”.

TARGIT iTop will assist Biva in the process of making the organization’s figures even more visible in order to make everyone able use them as guiding stars in their daily work. “With mobile BI, I hope to be able to create a change of culture in the organization which will assist in creating increased sales focus and focus on KPIs in the company in general”, the CTO explains.

He plans to acquire additional details on his cell phone from TARGIT iTop. “It is my intention to monitor our various product groups and stores. This will turn my iTop into a helpful tool in my everyday processes”, Klaus Vestergaard concludes.

The Sales Managers in Biva are expected to be the next to get TARGIT iTop. Further implementation of the application in the organization is under consideration.

About Biva:
Biva was founded in 1982, which gives them almost 30 years of experience of delivering furniture for the Danish living rooms. Today, Biva is among the largest Danish vendors of furniture with stores in all large cities in Denmark.