Inviting Professionals and Experts for authoring initiatives

Establishing Making - It - Happen as ‘ Formal & Measurable ’ Business Discipline

BIPMinstitute.com- A brief

BiPMinstitute.com is working on world’s largest knowledge-reference for Business Intelligence & Performance Management.

BiPM provides valuable portal, collaboration & community platforms (like Forums, Blogs, Articles, White-papers, Case-Studies, Glossary, Books and Links). However the CORE purpose of BiPMinstitute.com is to develop authoritative, practical and constantly updated knowledge reference, which people can use for their day-to-day implementations. The size of this undertaking can be seen from the sample content structure in the following sections.

Our guiding principles for the knowledge-Reference:

Authoring opportunity is open to all.
Each page is a living page and constantly updated. (Unlike articles and white papers)
Each page is cross-linked. You should be able to navigate to all content related to a subject through cross links.
The authors and contributors will be acknowledged on the page, with link to their site or profile.
One can do online ‘addition’ to an existing page, but cannot ‘Edit’. The additions will be included in the main page after an editorial review.

BiPMinstitute.com Collective authoring Initiatives

BiPMinstitute.com is a big undertaking. We invite professionals and authors to be part of this initiative, to complement, supplement and enrich the content generated by BiPMinstitute.com. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this platform, OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure. There are 8 initiatives to start with:

Initiative #1- Business Intelligence Encyclopedia
Initiative #2- Performance Management Encyclopedia
Initiative #3- Functional Management Encyclopedia
Initiative #4- BI & PM Tools/Software Encyclopedia
Initiative #5- KPIs-Metrics Repository
Initiative #6- Dimensions & Measures-Facts Repository
Initiative #7- BI Functions Repository
Initiative #8- Latest Trends Track Initiative

Value Proposition for Authors and ‘How it works?’

We provide your permanent intellectual real-estate:

Unlike an Article or a white paper, our knowledge-reference will be constantly updated. A page never gets out of date on BiPMinstitute.com. You will be acknowledged as “originally authored by” for every page your author, even if others contribute to it over time. We will also maintain the snap-shots of your authorship.

Writing for BiPMinstitute.com is like writing a section in a book, and not an article for a magazine.This is a brief value proposition. If you are keen, we can provide you a greater clarity and perspective, on why this is a great & rewarding creative work by you. For more clarity on value proposition, please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com

We provide you authoring support services:

Formatting your submissions
Cross-linking and hyper-linking your submissions
Categorizing and tagging your submissions to different sections and content classes.
Creation and updation of your profile page (you do it yourself or through us)

We provide following editorial services:

Scoping of your pages so that they complement and supplement the other pages.
Language and references you can use so that your pages fit in the flow of the content.
Providing you writing guidelines.
Provide you suggestions on ongoing basis for updating your pages.

Webmaster Services:

Hosting & Administration.
Search Engine Optimization.
Submitting your pages to Directories and Search Engines.
Promoting your pages in other sites.

How it Works?

In-brief, it’s is a fairly simple approach. We will request you to provide a more detailed scope of the section or chapter you would own. Once we have agreed on the scope, broad content structure and timelines, you may start writing. Once a logical part is complete, we will place it on the site. We go first come, first serve. If you are keen, you can contact authoring@bipminstitute.com with the areas you are interested in and would like to write about, as we will provide all the further clarity on our operating model.

Initiative #1- Business Intelligence Encyclopedia More Details

This initiative comprehensively covers all aspects of Business Intelligence including non-BI Data and information management. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiative OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure. The sections included are:

BI Architecture and Governance**
Data Quality (including Data Profiling and Data Mapping & Assessment)**
Data Integration (including Data Federation, EII)
Data Conversion & Migration
Meta-Data Management
Data Warehouse**
OLAP**
Master Data Management (including CIM, PIM, EIM..)
Enterprise Reporting
Data Analysis
Performance Reporting
Data Visualization
Knowledge Management

Initiative #2- Performance Management Encyclopedia

This initiative comprehensively covers all aspects of Performance Management. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiative OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure. The sections included are:

Strategic and Business Planning**
Execution Management**
Performance Management
Decision Management
Problem Solving
Leadership & Culture
Business Modeling

Initiative #3- Functional Management- apply BI & PM in business functions More Details

Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiative OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure. A section is assigned for each major organizational function. For each function, there are chapters assigned to sub-functions. With-in each chapter, a detailed coverage is provided on the success-drivers, SWOT, Data-Management and BI application for the sub-function. The sections included are:

Sales & Distribution**
Order fulfillment Management
Customer Service and Support Management
Customer Management**
IT Management
HR Management
Product Management
Marketing Management
Financial Management
Compliance, Governance and Risk Management

Initiative #4- BI & PM Tools/Software Encyclopedia More Details

This initiative comprehensively covers all aspects tools features. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiative OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure.

A section will be dedicated to each of the tool categories. As each tool is unique in itself

How this tool category fits into the overall BI architecture?
Architecture features
Administrative Features
Database Administration Features
Functional Features
Deployment Features

The Tool Categories are:

Overall Tool and Vendor Evaluation Framework**
Data Monitoring Tools
Data Profiling Tools
Meta Data Management Tools
Data Integration (including Data Federation and ETL Tools)
Data Warehouse Servers
OLAP Servers**
Enterprise Reporting Tools**
Data Analytics Tools
Performance Reporting and Management tools (including CPM Suites)
Business Modeling Tools
Data Mining Tools
Business Intelligence functional Applications
End-to-end Business Intelligence engines

Initiative #5- KPIs-Metrics Repository

We envisage this database to contain over 500 KPI-Classes covering all organizational functions. A KPI-class can spwan may KPIs, depending upon the way we want to slice. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiative OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure.

One page will be dedicated to each KPI-Class and it will contain:

The definition of the KPI-Class
Formulae for calculation of the KPI
Clarification on the inclusions and exclusions in the KPI calculation
Different KPIs which can exist in that KPI class.
The dimensions around which you can slice and dice the KPI
Interpretation of the KPI performance. What is meant when it is red, green or yellow.
Business Objective associated with the KPIs
Linked KPIs

Initiative #6- Dimensions & Measures-class Repository More Details

This repository will have a page dedicated to each Dimension or Measure. Measures the fundamental measures on basis of which the KPIs are created. For example sales revenue is a measure and sales revenue Q-on-Q growth is a KPI. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiatiive OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure.

For dimension, it will have:

Definition of the Dimension
Attributes and definition
Hierarchies within the Dimension
Functional Areas to which this dimension is linked to
Associated Dimensions
Data Management around the dimension including data quality, data integration related issues.

For measures-class, it will have:

The definition
Different measures within the measure-class. For example sales revenue measure-class can have measures like sales revenue before sales tax, after sales tax, including shipment charges, excluding shipment charges etc..
Data Management around the measure including data quality, data integration related issues.

Initiative #7- BI Functions Repository More Details

This repository will contain the BI and PM functions, which are used by various tools. The functions and their application will be explained in non-programming language, with emphasis on the application and not on coding. Please contact authoring@bipminstitute.com for being the co-author of this initiatiive OR/AND if you have suggestions on our content scope & structure. The purpose is not to provide the bookish definition of the functions (which you can get from Excel help-file for many of the functions), but on application. Even most simple functions can be grossly mis/under-utilized or can be very creatively applied depending upon our knowledge on their business & application perspective.

Each function will have a page, which will include in business language: