Gartner has posted the 2010 Magic Quadrant for BI platforms, and in terms of hitting a sweetspot between ability to execute and vision, Oracle has been squarely positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant. The full report is full of good information, but there are a few things worth noting: Oracle has established the Oracle BI Enterprise
Read More...From the UK’s Sussex Safer Roads comes perhaps the best public service ad I’ve ever seen. It’s cinematic, creative, paced perfectly and, in the end, quite poignant. From concept to casting to photography to execution, this is nearly perfect. Love it. (Via Jason F. over at 37signals) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm
Read More...Before we get to the links, one reminder: if you use PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) or are considering it, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to attend the Oracle Maintenance Summit. This event is being held on March 9-10 in Redwood Shores, CA, and has 117 companies and nearly 300 attendees so far. If
Read More...I don’t often wander too far into pop culture on this blog, but Esquire’s Chris Jones has a simply awesome profile of Roger Ebert that explores the man, dying and unable to speak, in the midst of his own personal renaissance as a writer. Ebert writes about his own impending mortality as bravely and candidly
Read More...Derek Sivers’ 3-minute TED talk on leadership lessons from this dancing guy got a standing ovation.
Read More...Jason Kottke reminds me of how much I’ve always loved fractals, despite not having the chops to understand them fully at a mathematical level. Like Kottke, when I built my 386-based computer (running at a searing 33 MHz) a zillion years ago, I remember installing a DOS-based fractals program that would attempt a deep dive
Read More...Like smart web content but hate juvenile comment bickering? Shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that you can apply to your browser to hide comments on many popular websites (YouTube, I’m looking at you). Speaking of comments, Engadget put them on hiatus for a while and the folks over at Macheist have decided that their
Read More...While at one of our clients, we recently fielded a question about Nevada’s new data security laws and how they may impact a company and its HR operations. We’ve been able to find the following information think it might be useful to a broader audience. So, here goes. Nevada enacted a new data security law
Read More...Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching. This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Business Intelligence (BI) and
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