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Knowing Business Model is Key to Financial Success

The Professor — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:03:09 +0000

Many vendors and industry pundits promote tools and business concepts as if all IT service companies and solution providers were all the same – as if their concepts for growing a profitable business would work equally well for all companies in the industry. In fact there are at least 10 significantly different business models for IT services companies according to…

CoreConnex welcomes Tigerpaw as latest Partner!

Frank Coker — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:36:16 +0000

CoreConnex is very excited to announce Tigerpaw as our newest channel partner in a growing list of PSA software vendors. Our partners are a world class community of innovators who are passionate about improving the financial health and performance of their customers.

Tigerpaw is a leading developer of end-to-end business automation and service management software. Tigerpaw empowers thousands of businesses to…

Introducing: The Professor; Your Business Coach

The Professor — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:02:17 +0000

I would like introduce myself to you. I am a new member of the CoreConnex team: The Professor. I am available to all Corelytics™ Financial Dashboard users to answer questions about managing finances, setting goals, evaluating ratios, understanding benchmarks, using the dashboard and other related topics. Just email your questions to me at theprofessor@coreconnex.com.

My goal is to help you…

3 Ratios Every Business Needs to Monitor

Frank Coker — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:06:39 +0000

Understanding financial ratios is an important part of managing company performance. Large companies have had a long tradition of using ratios as a way to monitor and manage business performance. Small companies have tended to not use ratios because of the work involved in doing the calculations. That is all changing with tools like the Corelytics Financial Dashboard that not…

Clearing Things Up – Dashboard Maturity Model

Ray Makela — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:14:08 +0000

Dashboards are relatively new to the small business community (under 50 employees), yet the SBA (Small Business Administration) reports small businesses make up at least 50% of the nonfarm GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the United States. The potential for dashboards to help this important sector is just as signficant (maybe more so) as with large enterprises.

The challenge is in being able…

Doing the right things right — for your business

Tony Lael — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:55:51 +0000

If you have read Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish , CEO of Gazelles, Inc. you know that using the Do The Right Things Right Model is a critical habit that requires well organized data to see your business accurately.

Doing the right things and then making sure you do the right things right is such a simple concept that works - most of us don’t think…

Excerpts from the diary of a data junkie

Tony Lael — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:28:23 +0000

We have all been there – you wake up breathing heavily. You don’t know why you are awake, but you have to get to a computer because you think you may have discovered another way to manipulate your (all powerful) spreadsheet or database views to see things in a different light, learn something new or figure out a problem.

Maybe this urge comes to you while…

Creating a blog now became easier

Tony Lael — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:52:27 +0000

Start blogging fast and easy with Posterous – just send in an email, that’s it! We emailed our first blog post about SMB Nation 2009 today.

This is really making us think about how we stay in touch with our community of the increasing number of companies in the IT Solution Provider industry that are using the Corelytics Financial Dashboard.

If…

Who is Driving Your Business?

Tony Lael — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:49:59 +0000

As described in The E-Myth – Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About IT by Michael Gerber, all of today’s small business owners are playing three roles.

Entrepreneur - envisions the future, but lacks execution

Manager - organizes everything, but forgets the big picture

Technician – gets work done, but to the detriment of all else…

Use BI to take your business to new places

Bob Taylor — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:56:04 +0000

An uncertain economy and increasing competition for new business is driving the need for companies to move quickly in order to capitalize on opportunities. As a business owner today it is imperative that you be able to get the right information, at the right time to make adjustments to stay on course to hit your goals. Business Intelligence (BI) previously…