How CRM Can Help your Business Retain Customers Loyal Customers Are Engaged Customers For every successful business, customer loyalty and customer retention lie at the heart of their success. No business can build a successful foundation without strong customer loyalty. Loyal customers are engaged customers, and engaged customers mean better business at every step of

Why You Should Still Care About Web Design   Your Customers Live Online Most of modern humanity spends at least part of their day online. For many of your business’s customers, the internet plays an enormous role in how they consume news, entertainment, and socialize. It’s important to remember that consumers now make many of

Melding Microsoft’s Power Business Intelligence and System Center Configuration Manager to Discover your Data Analytics has become a popular business buzzword used to promise everything from improved workflow to increased revenue. But beneath the jargon and lofty promises, the fact remains that data is only as useful as it is translated correctly. Although many businesses

Is Single Sign On Right for your Business? Businesses increasingly rely on multiple usernames and passwords for their employees to access their accounts. It is common for many employees to enter three to four different passwords in a single day. For many people, memorizing so many different password and username combination is a draining task.

Contracting or Collaborating? How to Best Utilize Business Intelligence Consultants For organizations that struggle to interpret or comprehend their data, accurate analytic conclusions or reports are difficult to create. In these situations, data can often become a distraction. Fortunately, organizations can utilize business intelligence (BI) consultants in ways that greatly aid their data reading endeavors.

The Importance of Pre-Interview Screening The costs of poor hiring decisions can be devastating for a work place. In order to better operate a smooth and consistent working environment, as well as avoid toxic employees; recruiting  departments need to address questions of fit and compatibility with prospective hires. Proper and diligent use of pre-interview screenings

TenEleven Group, Healthcare Business Intelligence TenEleven Group, a healthcare company specializing in behavior health, needed to better understand their current data bases. They felt that building a data warehouse could help them in their analysis and interpretation. A data warehouse would allow them to manage their overlapping data in one location. Although TenEleven did have their

Does moving your SharePoint to the Cloud make sense for your business? If you are on the fence about migrating your on-premises SharePoint farm to SharePoint Online in Office 365, or if you previously decided against migrating to the cloud, it may be a good time to evaluate your options. As SharePoint Online has become

Affirma has announced that it is now recognized as an official Qlik Partner.  Qlik is a business intelligence and visualization software company and has been a Gartner Magic Quadrant Business Intelligence leader for the sixth straight year. Affirma has formed a new partnership with Qlik to continue growing our business intelligence (BI) consulting capabilities. Affirma

Affirma is getting geared up for PASS Summit 2016 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, WA from October 25-28. PASS Summit, more commonly referred to as SQL Pass, is the largest annual Microsoft SQL conference hosted by PASS, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to educating and connecting business intelligence (BI)