Larry Ellison ends his welcome keynote at Oracle Open World on Sunday evening with Big Data. He announces 2 new cloud services from Oracle related to big data: 1. Big Data Preparation: A cloud product that serves to prepare, repair, enrich, govern and publish data before its ready for analysis. For instance if you are […]
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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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Oracle Product Announcements at OOW15
In his welcome keynote on Sunday evening, Larry Ellison announces a set of new Oracle Products. The overall focus is the Cloud. Here is a summary of the new product announcements: 1. 2 new oracle cloud apps: Manufacturing and E-commerce in the cloud 2. New tool to build apps and easily extend any Oracle SaaS […]
Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Starts With a Bang Both Indoors and Out
Oracle is big and mighty and Oracle is evolving to stay relevant at the forefront for many years to come. This is the message you get if you happen to pass by the Metreon today to watch a movie, shop at the Westfield mall in San Francisco or travel across the world to have an […]
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 […]
Perficient & CPI Card Group: An Oracle OpenWorld BICS Case Study
Interested to get a closer look at how quick-to-deploy and scale-able Oracle BI Cloud Service is? Meet us at Oracle Open World on Oct 29th, for a best practices and case study of CPI Card Group, a leading provider in payment card production and services. Tyler Wilson of CPI Card Group will join me in telling […]
BI Cloud Service: How to Automate Delete Jobs with DataSync
If you have used ETL tools like Informatica or ODI, you probably know that it is possible to perform delete operations on a target database, like a data warehouse. But if you are using Oracle BI Cloud Service with the Schema Database as a data warehouse for BICS, you won’t be able to connect to […]
Integrating OBIEE with Essbase for an Executive Mobile Dashboard
Client Headquartered in Denton, TX, Sally Beauty is an international specialty retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of more than U.S. $2.6 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the company sells and distributes to more than 4,000 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, […]
Oracle BI Cloud – Quick Demo of Different Data Loading Methods
The Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) offers various options through which data may be loaded into the BI cloud database. I am focusing here on BICS that comes with the Database Schema service as a reporting database. In addition, there are several ways through which you may extract data from BICS. It may be […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: Data Sync Released & DBaaS Supported
Today Oracle releases Data Sync, a tool that facilitates loading data into the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) by offering a variety of capabilities: Loading data from on-premise relational databases or data files into BICS Schema Database Scheduling data load jobs Monitoring data load jobs Sending out email notifications Earlier this week, Oracle has upgraded […]