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Business intelligence tools are key to building profits

One of the key challenges any business faces in times of turbulence is how to sustain and enhance profitability. Profit is, no matter how one puts it, the very motive of all commercial endeavors and the management is answerable to the stakeholders for the profitability performance.

Profit, simply put, is the gap that exists between a firm?s revenues and its expenditure. So, as long as the company is able to increase its revenues at a certain rate and its expenditure increase at an equal or lesser rate, the company?s profits are likely to improve ? this is a layman view of things. Revenues are, in turn, dependent on volume and price.

However, this is where the management has to show its knowledge and skills to the stakeholders ? ok, we know that there is a crisis situation but that is what we were hired for?.if it were all smooth and easy, why would professional management ever be required?

This is where cost-cutting, production efficiency and smarter financial management can help. Increasingly, business analysis and financial benchmarking tools such as Business Scorecard and Industry Metrics are being used by industry leaders seeking to sustain and enhance profitability. By highlighting areas of operational and financial inefficiencies, and presenting industry benchmarking and best practices data, these financial intelligence tools provided by fintel are helping managers to control costs and thus, maintain or even enhance the gap between revenues and expenditures.

This is much better than your last attempt:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=314225

You remembered to include your company name this time, although it's buried down in there.

You still haven't included a link to your firm, so the most basic principle of spamming is still eluding you. Also, you should always proof your content after posting. Then you wouldn't have those unprofessional character substitutions ( '?' ) scattered throughout.

I recommend others not do business with a firm that can't grasp the most simple of Internet marketing techniques. By now it's obvious you're just autoposting a canned message to get your name out, don't check your posts or discussions for follow-ups, and have no interest in actually discussing BI here, tool.

In order to know what the financial position of your company is, you must compare the true figures extracted from the financial statements to other figures. Such comparisons are the essence of business and financial ratios. These ratios can be established from the various key figures on the financial statements. Business ratios can be a powerful tool because they allow you to immediately grasp the relationship expressed. You can easily access your business performance over time by calculating and recording a group of ratios at the end of every accounting period. This will help you to compare your business with others in the industry.The comparison of you ratios to those in other business will help you to see the possibilities for improvement in major areas. Among the dozens of financial ratios, Efficiency Ratios, Profitability Ratios, Solvency Ratios, Liquidity Ratios and Financial Ratios are some of the most commonly considered ratios to have the most value for making small business decisions.

Where can I find a plug-in BI Analytics tool for Word documents? I need to do word/phrase analysis on very big word documents. Then run various reports on how many times a certain word(s) was used.