In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how to get the most value to their organizations from these systems. As with every industry vertical, there is some uniqueness to CPG/Retail market. I am very
Read More...We have discussed previously the importance of data quality to business intelligence. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that topic here in this post. It is plainly obvious that your business intelligence will only be as good as the quality of your data; this, in turn, means the quality of business answers derived
Read More...If our server logs are credible, Business Intelligence requirements gathering continues to be one of the most highly searched terms and asked-about BI subjects that we encounter. We have authored several posts on this subject, including outlining at a high level the MIPRO approach to ensure business intelligence requirements are gathered and assessed appropriately. This
Read More...We have posted multiple posts on the new PeopleTools 8.5 release (here’s our most popular; here’s our shameless plug), in addition to several posts on the value of Oracle OBIEE and BI apps. However, today’s post will talk about PeopleTools 8.5: for customers who have both PeopleSoft and Oracle OBIEE, there is some additional value
Read More...Previously, we have discussed the value of Oracle BI apps for PeopleSoft, and we have examined some key implementation considerations. Today, in this final post on the topic, I would like to chat about the biggest buzzword of them all: ROI. The key question for many customers is this: does it really make sense to
Read More...Now that I have provided my opinion and thumbs up approval of the Oracle BI apps, let’s discuss the nuances of implementing them. With all of Oracle BI’s pre-built ETL, data structures and reports, one would probably think it should be very straightforward. Well, if your shop is totally vanilla and you accept the metrics as
Read More...Having practical experience in supply chain, PeopleSoft ERP (SCM) and Business Intelligence (BI), I am naturally drawn to anything that combines the attributes of all three. Oracle BI applications for procurement and spend can do just that. We have spoken previously about how PeopleSoft query tools are BI tools and not a full-on BI enterprise product.
Read More...Something I find many folks don’t know, at least on one level or another: most of today’s business intelligence (BI) solutions have been designed and built with integration into Microsoft Office in mind. Arguably, Excel is the main medium to which most BI information is exported (or in some cases, it can be the BI
Read More...First off: wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that Business Intelligence (BI) requirements gathering was such a popular topic. I say this becuase since I wrote my first post on the subject, about 20% of this blog’s daily traffic comes to us via search strings related to BI requirements gathering. Clearly, people understand the importance –
Read More...But don’t let the title fool you. I am not one of those Business Intelligence (BI) consultants who thoroughly bashes and discounts Excel. I think Excel is a flexible, powerful tool that has almost limitless uses and value. In fact, before becoming a convert to enterprise BI, I used Excel to create the world’s greatest
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