With Oracle 11g, you can take your business intelligence to the next level with spatial business intelligence. What does that mean? It’s simply a name for a set of features that allow you to view key data based upon that data being graphically represented on maps which depict state level, regional level, country level, etc.
Read More...Oracle has released a brand new white paper discussing how Oracle EPM is the bridge to Fusion applications. While the white paper does not contain a lot of specific details, it does provide a nice foundation to begin to outline a strategy if an organization is considering moving to Fusion and either has Oracle EPM
Read More...In our last blog about project risk, we made mention of our Project Progress Assessment Workshop which supports risk identification, management and mitigation. PeopleSoft implementations can be complex and challenging with many projects running within the core project. Ensuring that all activities, obligations, project structure and deliverables are met on time is a challenge unto
Read More...In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every
Read More...Risks are inherent in every project, whether it be PeopleSoft ERP or Business Intelligence (BI). Risks are present before the project begins, all throughout the project and even after the project is officially closed. There is no way there aren’t risks, nor is it advisable to minimize or ignore them, for if they are not
Read More...I get asked the following questions often: What is real-time data warehousing? Is there such a thing as real-time? Who defines ‘real-time’ anyway? Is real-time really just ‘near-time’? It comes down to this concept: the ability to have valuable, quality data in your data warehouse as quickly as that data is generated within your operational
Read More...There is a nice reporting tool in PeopleSoft which is seldom used or not used enough. That tool is PeopleSoft XML Publisher.
Read More...Last summer, we debuted a series of free Business Intelligence (BI) lunch & learn sessions for interested clients. We were tremendously impressed by the amount of interest this generated, so we’re doing it again, starting now.
Read More...MIPRO is a nationally-recognized leader when it comes to the successful implementation of the PeopleSoft Maintenance Management (MM)/ALM suite. We have performed more implementations of this product than any other services firm out there. This is a bit of a bragging right, of course, but also an important fact to support our knowledge and expertise in the MM space. We have blogged about both ERP and Business Intelligence and the takeaways from those post is simply that ERP allows your organization to run your business and BI allows you to manage it. In this post we bring the world of BI to the world of PeopleSoft MM/ERP together in complete harmony.
Read More...In our BI manifesto whitepaper, we discuss and outline how to effectively build a dashboard and avoid common mistakes. Dashboards have a very specific use and should not be confused with reports; this in itself is a common conceptual mistake. The following are key elements of a well-designed dashboard: Dashboards should be designed to answer
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