Business intelligence isn’t always about the facts. Don’t get me wrong, there will always be a place for dashboards and BI reports. Making business decisions without them is unimaginable so we all appreciate SQL based business intelligence systems with star schemas that point to meaningful fact values. One of the many lessons learned from the […]
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Day by Day: An Oracle Personal Assistant for Enterprise Analytics
You are in a hurry and away from your office desk but really need an important piece of information before your next call or meeting. If only Siri or Google Voice can help. These personal assistants can’t answer questions related to your secure enterprise data, at least not without some serious amount of programming. Last […]
Empower EPM Planning with Oracle Cloud Analytics #C17LV
There are several analytical capabilities that Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) products, whether Hyperion on-premises or Cloud EPM, have to offer. Financial reports and ad-hoc analysis in Excel are all great. However, in general EPM reporting capabilities remain restricted to whatever data you have in EPM. Are you looking to do one or more of […]
What you need to know about BICS Remote Data Connector (RDC) 1.1
For companies that are happy with their on-premise data warehouse there is a fear of having to create a new data warehouse when migrating to the cloud. Luckily for Oracle BI Cloud Service customers there are two excellent ways to avoid having to redo your warehouse. The first method is using Oracle BICS Data Sync to do […]
A Modern Approach to Financial Reports Reconciliation
Gone are the days when several spreadsheets, pen and paper, and calculators are needed to reconcile financial reports. A common challenge in financial reporting is validating that what gets reported on executive dashboards matches with more detailed financial statements and transaction level reporting. What aggravates this endeavor is the fact that executive level dashboards are […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS): Data Sync for Automated Data Load
In a few days Oracle will release Data Sync, a utility that facilitates the process of loading data from various on-premise sources into BI Cloud Services (BICS). The Data Sync utility comes as an addition to several other already available means of loading data into BICS: data load wizard to upload data from files, SQL […]