Mazen Manasseh – Director of Data & Analytics

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) was updated recently to support direct connectivity with Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) and EPBCS. Consequently, we can now source data live from PBCS applications without the need to extract and import into OAC. I have seen several financial departments use PBCS as a source for budgets and forecasts […]

“Catching up” is the term that came to mind when I used to check out what’s new with Oracle Analytics in previous years. This year, however, I frankly say I was impressed with what I saw at Oracle Open World last week. The rules of the analytics platform game have changed, tremendously. This is after […]

I spend much of my time figuring out what things organizations are doing well when it comes to their enterprise analytics, what makes them better, and how to get there. After a few communications consulting for a new customer, I came to realize that they are likely categorized in one of three groups, most if […]

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 […]

At the Collaborate 17 conference, I attended the official announcement of the release of Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), delivered by John Hagerty, VP of Product Management. It was a clear message from Oracle BI Product Management that Oracle’s Cloud BI offerings are positioned to provide a solution for “Everyone”. “Everyone” here is primarily twofold: First, BI […]

A couple weeks ago, Oracle released Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). But there was already Oracle Cloud offerings for BI, mainly Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) and Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS), so why is this new? And how is it different? Simply, OAC doesn’t abolish its predecessor Cloud BI services, but it makes them more […]

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 […]

Earlier this week, Oracle upgraded its BI Cloud Service platform as well as DataSync (now version 2.2) for cloud integrations. With those 2 upgrades come great benefits if you have any of the following and looking to do consolidated business analytics from multiple source systems and allow for cross-functional insights: Salesforce: There is no need […]

Often times companies that rely on Oracle’s EPM products, whether these are on-premises like Hyperion Financial Planning or in Cloud like PBCS, lack a robust approach of navigating to transactional details within the context of an EPM summary view. This becomes a bigger challenge when there are multiple transaction systems involved in financial consolidation. Watch […]

This post is a follow-up to my previous post: OBIEE Collaborative Analytics Enables Decision Making & Action In this blog, I provide detailed instructions and design aspects of implementing OBIEE Dashboard Commentary levergaing the Write Back feature. There are several steps involved, at the database, middleware and dashboard levels.

Organizations that rely on Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) as their standard analytics platform may have already reaped the benefits of a common enterprise reporting solution from a data accuracy and accessibility perspective. However, they are most likely still using traditional means of collaboration. This entails communication of reported results, explanation of what they mean, their […]

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