The Washington Post’s Brian Krebs: An investigative series I’ve been writing about organized cyber crime gangs stealing millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses has generated more than a few responses from business owners who were concerned about how best to protect themselves from this type of fraud. I recommend to read some online
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...Some astonishingly good links for you today. But first I want you to understand that I recently bought a new table and chair set, and everything came packed in a 523 lb. box (yes, 523 lb.) that I had to wrestle to the ground and dissect with a box cutter, after which I settled in
Read More...ZDNet’s Phil Wainewright, in an especially interesting post, explores the value of SaaS beyond the standard marketing fare of lower cost and faster time-to-live: Today, I’m at a NetSuite customer event in London and CEO Zach Nelson has just displayed a chart quoting IDC and Gartner data that shows on-demand ERP sales are growing at
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...Quick moment of self-indulgence: if you are in the St. Louis area and planning to attend the St. Louis Oracle/PeopleSoft RUG meeting, come by and see us. Larry Zagata, our Business Intelligence practice director, will be there speaking about turning enterprise data into actionable, useful business intelligence. It’s been a huge hit at prior conferences,
Read More...Quick update: Oracle has now officially released PeopleSoft Portal 9.1. This is a highly-anticipated release due to the app’s adoption of Web 2.0 features and tight integration into the core PeopleSoft products. In addition, PeopleSoft Portal 9.1 includes collaborative workspaces and very strong (and very smart) tagging capabilities. I previously blogged about some of the
Read More...Before we get to our standard Friday links, a question. This morning, a water cooler conversation broke out that got us talking: what are the best movie scenes you remember? Lots of answers to this, but these are the ones that everyone agreed really stood out. There’s the famous Glengarry Glen Ross monologue, which many
Read More...Catarina Fake on why working hard, while a popular business dogma, is misguided: Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be.
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
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