Stephen Jannise over at Software Advice has an interesting take on where Oracle might go next with its M&A activity. Some of these (RIM, for instance) are pie-in-the-sky plays, but they do make some sense in the larger enterprise space when you consider the most emergent trends.
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
Read More...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...CIO Zone has a very good list of what they consider to be 12 of the hottest emerging tech trends for the enterprise. One in particular — Asset Intelligence — caught my eye. Here’s their synopsis: Today, with advances in auto-ID, sensors, remotes and wireless devices, it’s now possible for any and all business assets
Read More...Susan Cramm, writing for HarvardBusiness.org: We have an opportunity to help business leaders manage IT as an organizational asset — not simply an organizational structure. Technology will fall far short of expectations if business leaders continue to try to operate IT via remote control. Emerging technologies — such as social media, business intelligence, business process
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