Converting Your Reporting to Oracle BI Publisher

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Converting Your Reporting to Oracle BI Publisher

We’re seeing this more and more: as Oracle’s OBIEE platform gains steam, many organizations are making the move to convert existing reports from Crystal, Actuate or Oracle Reports to BI Publisher. Report conversion can be a daunting task, not necessarily from the technology move, but moreso from simply understanding, cataloging and consolidating the current collection

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Big Data and Business Intelligence

Big data seems to be the hot topic of conversation lately as it pertains to business intelligence.  We get asked often about what organizations should be aware of as they explore this avenue. The obvious perils of big data include performance concerns, such as the ability to process and analyze data quickly and efficiently enough

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Piloting the Power of Business Intelligence

In several of our previous blogs we have discussed the proper way to build a business intelligence enterprise solution.  Many of you have responded in agreement with much of the content and the steps required to truly unlock the potential of BI.  However, there are a number of readers who have reached out and asked

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How Strategic Is Your BI Solution?

In the late 90’s all of the buzz talk was around ERP, and understandably so.  A lot of the buzz I hear today is about Business Intelligence (BI). There are probably a variety of reasons for this. Chief among them, in my experience, is the notion that ERP was pervasive in the 90’s because of

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Think You’re Not Being Data-Mined? Think Again.

Say you’re a father of a teenage girl. One day, you get the mail and notice a Target coupon book addressed to your daughter, and it’s full of impending-baby supplies: supplements, lotion, diapers, cotton balls. You’re outraged. What is Target trying to do? Encourage another teenage pregnancy? You do what any father would do: you

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ERP Makes a Comeback

Dan Tynan, writing for CIO.com: For the past decade, ERP has been the poster child for IT projects that overpromise and underdeliver. It was notorious for painfully complex rollouts that took years to implement, required massive customization, and were often only partially realized. Billions of dollars were spent just trying to get ERP systems to work

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A Look Inside: PeopleSoft 9.1 Enhancements

With all of the talk focused on the new Oracle Fusion HCM applications with their on-premise, on-demand and SaaS options, it seems that the old PeopleSoft workhorse of 9.1 HCM applications may have been forgotten.  But wait!  Here comes the latest feature pack (v2.0) which shines some new light on the PeopleSoft HCM suite. PeopleSoft

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