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Business Intelligence Is Undergoing A Radical Change
May 17th, 2012
Business Intelligence Becoming Easier to Use
January 6th, 2012
When looking at a number of blogs and articles about predictions for 2012, many mention BI or business intelligence becoming a larger focus for organizations. The prediction is spot on, more organizations are turning to business intelligence solutions to get a better understanding of how their business or organization is operating and how it can operate more efficiently.
What is left out of many of these blogs is why the use of business intelligence is growing. What’s spurring on this wider adoption of business intelligence solutions? The truth is business intelligence is becoming easier to use. In the past it was hard for executives to even access business intelligence data. IT departments had to be depended on to pull data and sometimes even explain that data to decision makers in an organization.
Business intelligence solutions like Workplace BI make it easy for members of an organization, no matter what level or department they belong to to access business intelligence data in easy to understand business intelligence visualizations. Workplace BI, our real estate business intelligence solution, utilizes business intelligence visualizations created by Tableau to show valuable trending data on the usage of different resources inside and organization.
Along with making business intelligence data easy to understand, business intelligence solutions are gaining in popularity because they are make data so much more easily accessible across the organization. How has business intelligence data become more accessible? One way is that many of these solutions are now available via SaaS or Software as a Service. This allows organizations to give access to business intelligence data to their employees through web browsers and mobile devices.
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Making Business Intelligence Data Easy To Understand & Access
December 15th, 2011
I read an article this morning about how business intelligence has surpassed the Cloud or mobility on many of CEO and CIO priority lists. Even though CEOs and CIOs are placing a new importance on business intelligence there seems to be an issue with connecting users to meaningful data.
For us at PeopleCube, we focus on real estate business intelligence. Real estate business intelligence can be information on the utilization of rooms and resources, energy consumption pertaining to individual or company wide resources, and even actual versus planned utilization of rooms.
Many organizations are becoming more concerned with reducing energy consumption and costs associate with their real estate and they are looking to employ business intelligence solutions to track their actual consumption. In cases like this organizations are trying to change habits of employees and how they work, so it’s extremely important that all of this business intelligence data is accessible across the whole organization.
Easily Accessible Business Intelligence Data
In the past business intelligence was something that was generally handled by an IT department- reading strings of data and interpreting it for executives. With solutions like Workplace BI, business intelligence is not only much easier to understand but also easily accessible across an organization. Through business intelligence visualizations created by Tableau, members across an entire organization can easily see energy consumption and usage data organization wide or even down to an individual room or resource. With the software being delivered by way of SaaS, it also allows more members of an organization to easily access it through a web browser.
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PeopleCube’s Kellie Hunter at Sapphire Marketing’s New York Road Show
April 4th, 2011
On April 5-6, PeopleCube’s Kellie Hunter will be in attendance and speaking at Sapphire Marketing’s New York Road Show. The event will be held at the Midtown Loft & Terrace you can register here.
While at Sapphire Marketing’s New York Road Show Kellie Hunter will be discussing the latest developments at PeopleCube. In fact, over the past 9 months alone we’ve introduced a new version of Resource Scheduler, released an update to our PeopleCounter real-estate management solution, and we just announced the availability of Workplace BI 2.0, the latest version of our innovative real estate business intelligence software featuring integration with Tableau Software visualizations.
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PeopleCube Delivers Unprecedented Business Management Tool with Workplace BI 2.0 Powered By Tableau
February 28th, 2011
Workplace BI Provides Greater Real Estate Performance Analysis through
Improved Visualizations and Simplified Interactive Data Dashboards
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts—February 28, 2011—PeopleCube, provider of intelligent workplace management technology, today announced Workplace BI 2.0, an innovative real estate business intelligence tool used to capture workspace-utilization data from multiple points and present the information through interactive visualizations. These visualizations, driven by technology from PeopleCube partner Tableau Software, enable organizations to measure, monitor, and analyze real-estate utilization trends so they can identify organizational inefficiencies and make adjustments to improve real-estate performance and reduce costs. A free informational webinar about Workplace BI 2.0 has been scheduled for Wednesday, March 9, at 12:00pm ET; registrations are currently being accepted at http://www.peoplecube.com/wbi20webinar.
“Workplace BI is the first real estate business intelligence solution to offer innovative visualization technology,” said John T. Anderson, PeopleCube president and CEO. “By partnering with the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, Tableau Software, we can provide our customers with the critical interactive business management tools they need to make educated, cost-saving real estate decisions.”
Christian Chabot, CEO and cofounder of Tableau Software, said, “By employing our interactive visualizations as a core component of its real estate analysis solution, PeopleCube is helping its customers discover opportunities for massive savings. Unlike most BI solutions, data visualizations communicate ideas, patterns, or trends not clearly visible by looking at complex, multidimensional tables alone. This visual approach can help organizations to rapidly pinpoint their real-estate inefficiencies and optimize future real estate operations.”
Data Interaction to Answer Unthought-Of Questions
Workplace BI 2.0 allows users to thoroughly analyze their real-estate utilization data using interactive visualization dashboards to understand exactly how their real estate and assets are being used. Users can interact with these visualizations to explore real estate utilization trends on a global scale all the way down to an individual cubicle or office to get a greater perspective on precisely when, how, and by whom space is being used. In this way, companies can gain a better grasp on the exact usage of their real estate and organizational assets.
“Having such a deep understanding of how rooms and resources are being used allows companies to go beyond the basic knowledge of utilization and can begin asking—and answering—real-estate questions such as ‘Why is one space being used much more than others?’; ‘Why is one room rarely booked?’; or ‘Why is our spatial utilization so low?,’” said Anderson. “By answering these heretofore unthought-of questions, organizations can make changes and improvements that will significantly enhance their workplace.”
Capturing Real Estate Utilization Information from Multiple Points
Workplace BI 2.0 allows organizations to capture space-utilization data from a number of devices to provide a comprehensive analysis of how real estate is being used organization-wide. Capturing room and resource reservation data from PeopleCube’s scheduling software, occupancy detection data from PeopleCube’s PeopleCounter, security information from badge readers and/or network transaction data enables Workplace BI to present via interactive visualizations the inefficiencies taking place within an organization.
For example, capturing and analyzing security-badge data helps companies identify high-traffic areas and know who is using them. This can help organizations identify why some areas are more popular than others and what real estate can potentially be repurposed, consolidated, or retracted all together.
“One of the greatest benefits of Workplace BI is its flexibility to capture data beyond our Resource Scheduler and PeopleCounter solutions,” said Anderson. “This flexibility allows organizations—from small businesses to global enterprises—to collect space-utilization data from multiple points and cross-analyze it to get a thorough understanding of where inefficiencies exist.”
Simplifying the Creation and Sharing of New Real Estate Business Intelligence Visualizations
Workplace BI 2.0 enables users without deep technical skills to access and create visualizations of their data easier than ever before—all without requiring IT assistance.
“The program is extremely easy to use and understand. With just a few clicks, real-time utilization data can be accessed, viewed, and manipulated in a way never before available that organizations can leverage to make informative real estate decisions,” said Anderson.
Data is shown in a simple dashboard format that allows users to create the visualizations they desire quickly and easily. In the same window they are able to modify charts and graphs and compare them to other visualizations to analyze their real estate and resource utilization. What’s more, users can share and publish these web-based visualizations just as easily as they create them, so this vital information can be distributed throughout the entire organization.
“What separates Workplace BI 2.0 with Tableau from other real estate business intelligence tools is that we’re not delivering static reports,” said Anderson. “The value comes from producing intuitive, interactive visualizations that allow organizations to pinpoint their real estate inefficiencies from the highest organization level all the way down to an individual workspace and then make adjustments to eliminate unnecessary costs.”
Integrating Industry-Leading Services with Cutting-Edge Technology
Workplace BI is more than a workspace management tool; rather, it is a service designed to help identify and eliminate inefficiencies in organizations ranging from small companies to global enterprises. Each Workplace BI engagement includes professional services to not only assist with the installation of the real estate business intelligence software, but also to help analyze and improve visualizations for customers’ unique data, and create new visualizations needed by each individual organization.
“PeopleCube takes great pride in its industry-leading customer retention rate of 96 percent and ‘best-in-class’ service delivery,” said Anderson. “By incorporating our professional services with Workplace BI, we are staying consistent with our philosophy to forge partnerships with our customers—to learn and understand what their greatest workplace management challenges are and to provide a path to consistent ROI and long-term success by delivering solutions that address these issues.”
Workplace BI 2.0 is currently available. More information is available from www.peoplecube.com or by calling +1 800 282 7319. To gain a better understanding of how Workplace BI can help improve the effective management of real estate, Jeff Roof of PeopleCube and Francois Ajenstat of Tableau Software will be hosting a free webinar “Visualizing Success: Cutting Costs and Maximizing Real-Estate Utilization with Workplace BI” on March 9 at 12:00pm ET. To register, visit www.peoplecube.com/wbi20webinar.
About PeopleCube
PeopleCube provides intelligent, on-demand workplace, resource, and energy management solutions that help customers maximize space utilization, increase operational efficiency, and reduce costs. Through its corporate headquarters in Framingham, Massachusetts, and offices around the world, the company supports 8,000 customers and more than 2.7 million users in small, medium, and large enterprises. More information is available at www.peoplecube.com.