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 […]
Mazen Manasseh – Director of Data & Analytics
Mazen is a Director of Data & Analytics at Perficient and an accomplished professional services leader with 20 years of being a customer advocate. An analytics solutions delivery expert in functional domains covering Supply Chain, Financials, HCM, Projects and Customer Experience. Being a thought leader in the business analytics space, he conducted numerous business training sessions and spoke at technology conferences around analytics and machine learning.
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EPM & Transactional Analytics on Oracle BICS
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 […]
How to Enable OBIEE Commentary with Writeback
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.
OBIEE Collaborative Analytics Enables Decision Making & Action
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 […]
Marketing Analytics in Action with Oracle BICS
If you are using one or more on-premise or Cloud Marketing or Sales applications and looking for a way to effectively gain insight into your data, watch this short video to see how Perficient’s Marketing Analytics solution can help you. Perficient’s Marketing Analytics is a quick start solution that enables marketing managers, analysts and executives […]
Oracle Transactional BI: OTBI vs OTBIE
At Collaborate 16, Pawan Kumar from Perficient presents the key characteristics that benefit adopters of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise (OTBI-E). Below are the main points I am highlighting from Pawan’s session that help differentiate between the two products and shed some light on how each product is most […]
What is the Best Integration Product from Oracle?
When it comes to choosing the right data integration solution, Oracle offers multiple products that may seem redundant but in fact target different purposes even though an overlap in the capabilities exists. Oracle clarified the distinctions among the various integration products during the Collaborate 16 conference this year. The decision making process around which […]
Collaborate: Perficient Explains REST API Methods for Oracle BICS
There are several ways of integrating data with Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). While some of these are tailored for end users and therefore offer agility and ease of use, others are targeted to scale and support automation. In my Collaborate 16 session tomorrow, I will be going through the different techniques and demos of […]
9 Ways Oracle BI Cloud Positioned to Offer Governance & Agility
When it comes to choosing the right Cloud BI platform, there is usually a trade off between governance and centralization on one hand and agility on the other. BI software vendors like Tableau and Qlik, that are relatively newer to the game than traditional BI platforms, have changed the rules of what defines a better BI […]
Sell More: Drive Revenue Growth with Analytics
In this 20-minute demo, watch how Perficient can accelerate your adoption of a state-of-the-art Sales Analytics solution leveraging Oracle’s BI Cloud Service and Perficient’s long history of implementing BI solutions for the Sales Line of Business. If you are a VP of Sales, a Sales Manager or an individual Sales Rep, you will find this BI solution valuable for staying on […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: What to Expect Next
In the coming few days, Oracle will be rolling out an upgrade of their Business Intelligence Cloud Service. There are a couple of main things to expect: First, the UI will look different but function in the same way. It is basically a new skin to BICS, with a slightly different way of navigation. Second, […]
Why is Oracle’s OBIEE 12c Important?
Last week, Oracle released version 12c of OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). There are several features that are new to 12c, among which is the UI which has now been updated to become more modern compared to the prior 11g interface. The most interesting feature that has been added is the new Data Visualization […]