BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
AND WHY YOU NEED IT

Discover the story of your data and how business Intelligence (BI) can boost your productivity. Read on and learn how BI enables organizations to make smarter, data-driven decisions by looking at the past, present, and future. 

Understand Your Data to
Understand Your Story

Technologically speaking, BI provides views of internally structured data for products, services and departments. It uses advanced calculative functions, like online analytical processing (OLAP), reporting, predictive analytics, data/text mining, bench-marking and Business Performance Management (BPM), to give businesses an in-depth view of their progress overtime.

In simpler terms, BI provides the story of your organization's successes and areas for improvement. You can't understand that story until you understand the importance of BI.

Visual Story Telling

Most quantitative technical data is formatted into visual dashboards and graphics, which are designed to help managers and leaders make intuitive decisions as they identify trends and insights about their organization. Once more, these visuals are designed to answer important questions, allowing leaders to customize the visuals and control how they view different parts of their story.

Smarter Businesses Know How
to Manage Their Story

In practice, you can view your organization’s data and use it to drive change, grow revenue, eliminate inefficiencies, and keep customers happy. If you are doing it right, you can use BI to create a comprehensive view of your business — the real story of your organization — which helps you make smarter decisions.

Reasons Why You NEED
Business Intelligence

Avoid the Guessing Game by Using Real Data

Guessing puts your organization’s future at risk and can have serious consequences. Having the data you need to make smarter decisions allows you to play out your “what-if” scenarios with a higher chance of success. Armed with the right data, you can choose your path knowing the pitfalls you may encounter and how to overcome them. 

Beat Out Competitors with Access to Live Data

When your employees have access to a wealth of data in the form of business KPIs, dashboards, and reports, it enables them to make decisions quickly and confidently. With real time BI updates, your organization has an advantage over your competition. Leaders can swiftly mitigate damaging situations. Team members can immediately shift priorities. Organizations that make data-driven decisions quickly tend to capture more of the market than their competitors.

BI Provides Customer Insights that Equal More Revenue

All businesses ask the same questions: 

• "Are we deepening our relationship with our customers?"
• "Are we missing opportunities to up-sell or cross-sell into other products?"
• "Are we connecting with our customers at the right time?" 

Answers to these and other questions can be tracked using BI dashboards and reports. Accessing this live data is the best and easiest way to interpret customer data, which you can leverage for higher sales. Dig deeper and find better ways to segment your customers, plan for their buying habits, and build campaigns that address their needs and meet your sales goals.

Improve Your Productivity Through Monitored Data

According to Deloitte, for every $1 an organization spends on BI, it makes back $30 in productivity.

In other words, BI can be used for more than just monitoring your revenue and your customer's buying habits. it can monitor every aspect of your business.

For example, with BI, you can examine your whole supply chain from beginning to end. Use live data to discover where things fall apart. Not enough stock? Incorrect order fulfillment? Broken or defective products? BI can identify these issues and more in real time.

Use the data to change your processes whenever changes are needed. By lowering errors and mitigating supply delays, BI supercharges your productivity, which increases your overall efficiency and puts dollars back in your pocket.

Enhance your Story and Your Future
with Business Intelligence

Knowing where to go matters, but knowing where you are and how to get where you want to be is equally important. BI provides this insight. It lets you think strategically about the future of your company by looking back on the story of your business thus far.

In today's world, collecting data has become a standard operating procedure. That said, if you are not using data to uncover insights that will guide your business into the future, you will become a business of the past. The right BI tools and dashboards enable you to make smarter decisions, mitigate risks, and they will keep your story going.

THE ROI OF INCENTIVIZING LEARNERS

Whether it's selling light bulbs or serving diners in a fine restaurant, the best salespeople are those who most enthusiastically understand their product. Learn More about BlueVolt's exclusive $BlueBucks™ incentive program.

"We together, AD and BlueVolt, have created a very easy way to integrate BlueVolt learning into any organization."

 -Debby Hite, AD Rewards Program Manager

Affiliated Distributors

Learn, Recommend, Sell, Flourish, Repeat...

Think about the best waiters – they recommend what they love - they don’t just ask what you want. That comes from competency and it’s what allows people to flourish.

The Affiliated Distributors (AD) and BlueVolt Partnership

Debby Hite has been the AD Rewards Program Manager at Affiliated Distributors for 8 years. In 2021 she is expanding the AD Rewards program beyond it's current focus on electrical businesses. Debby is an expert on incentive programs to motivate channel partners. Five years into BlueVolt she provides a "one stop shop" for training over 6,500 sales people.

Andrew Olsen, BlueVolt's Partner Success Manager, leads the effort to help associations grow and manage the distributor and supplier experience within the BlueVolt sharing network. 

Providing Learning Incentives Pays Off

In the video above, Debby and Andrew sit down to discuss how incentive programs achieve the ultimate goal of AD supplies and members: to sell more.   

Topics Include:

• Saving on travel while still training people to flourish
• Analyzing ROI with sales metrics and training data, per SKU
• The power of accountability
• The value of accurate reporting
• Zoom Fatigue - The good news is that everyone knows how to work online now
• Why time is of the essence

Why this is cool: Anyone, anywhere can get on-site training and connection with your brand. Here's how some of our customers use this:

• SAFETY: Put QR codes on warehouse or manufacturing equipment for instant proper tool use and safety requirements.
  
  
• BUILD BUSINESS: Print QR codes on signs and brochures at tradeshows and events to get more partners to learn about your products and brand.
  
  
• SELL MORE: Have QR codes on in-store retail displays to show consumers your unique product features.

Users simply use their smartphone cameras to take a picture and voila, instant access to your training.

Course Enrollment QR Codes:
Scan. Click. Train.

A customer stops by a retail store in search of a tool. They encounter 15 options. Which should they buy?

Yours of course! But how do you help them make that decision?

Immediate, Accessible Training

A buyer is ready, wallet open, about to purchase.  You don't want them to leave empty-handed to go home and do research. The most powerful path to closing a sale is accessible training. Train the buyer here and now, right in the "tool aisle".

Microlearning with the click of a QR Code

If you had a QR Code posted by your tool, and the buyer could scan it and immediately learn about your benefits, you've just made a sale. Do that hundreds of times for hundreds of tools and pretty soon you've got ongoing revenue growth.

In this video we'll show you how to do this in a matter of seconds. Guess how you can access the video immediately?

Scan the Code!

Check it out today and start expanding your reach all the way out to retail buyers! Don't send them home for training. Train then now on any mobile device.