Interesting list. Of these, I see the biggest hitters being: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does
Read More...Some of the best tweets streaming across my HootSuite screen over the past two days. These were all under the #OOW hashtag. I will post more during the week, time permitting. (Other hashtags you can check out are #OpenWorld, and #OOW09, but #OOW seems to be the main player.) IntraSee: Big time stat of #oow:
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...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...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...Couldn’t resist sharing this. (Via Larry Zagata)
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
Read More...If you’ll allow us a quick moment of self-indulgence: we’re thrilled to announce that we have achieved Certified Advantage Partner (CAP) within the Oracle PartnerNetwork ecosystem. This comes after making Certified Partner (CP) last year and redoubling our efforts to make Certified Advantage Partner (CAP) this year. MiPro achieved CAP status by excelling in two
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