“Be the joyful digital disrupter, not the hesitant and befuddled digital disruptee.” – Bob Evans, SVP Communications, Oracle I’m a big fan of the recently concluded series Mad Men. The main theme of the show was societal change: Recognizing what has happened, what is happening, and dealing with it in one’s professional and personal lives. […]
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IT Spending Trends for 2015: The Real Story is Revenue
“I want to be the IT guy who’s out of the IT business.” –CIO at an asset management company. Earlier this week, I was reviewing Computerworld’s 2015 Tech Spending survey results, published a few months ago. Looking at the numbers again, it’s clear that the story isn’t about specific technologies as much as it […]
Infographic: U.S. Data Consumption Growth
According to a study from the University of California at San Diego, U.S. data consumption per person in 2015 has risen to 8.75 zettabytes annually, equal to a daily consumption of nine DVDs per person per day. (The reference works for me, although I think some kids today look at DVDs the way I look […]
Using EPM File Transfer Utility and Automate Utility
Some of the most common questions we get from customers considering a move to PBCS is how interfaces will work. For example: Can the Cloud Service be deployed with another on-premises application? How can the Oracle PBCS interfaces be automated? The answers to these questions lie within the EPM File Transfer Utility and the EPM […]
A Proposal for CIOs to Consider
After a recent conference on the modern customer experience, my colleague Sheri Hastings had some great takeaways, described in two separate posts on our Digital Transformation blog, “How George Proposed to Jane and Why CIOs Should Care.” If “Evolve or Die” is the core message, then the Fortune 500 is the case study: Fifty percent […]
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 […]
Winning the Customer Experience Battle: Three Points to Remember
How Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation and the Cloud Enable the Most Successful New Business Models A few thousand Oracle users, partners, and employees sat (and stood, as necessary) at Mandalay Bay, waiting for that day’s keynote to begin. The CIO of Oracle, Mark Sunday, was scheduled to give us the latest buzz on cloud computing. […]
Building a successful Searchandizing strategy…
What is searchandizing? Obviously search in the context of merchandising. Retailers have taken this technique to a different level. Constant price pressures and competition from online retailing has spurred the innovation in this area both in terms of tools, approach and overall strategy. In the early dot com days several online retailers have built custom […]
Ruminations from OAUG Collaborate 15
I’ve had many conversations with all levels of users, developers and managers working with Oracle software while at Perficient’s booth #716 here at #Collaborate15 this week. I always love meeting with people and hearing about how they are using systems, how they approach problems and new projects and discussing solutions with them. Yesterday, I had […]
#HIMSS15 Hot Topic: The Patient’s Experience as a Consumer
I spent some time yesterday with our friends at Oracle in the company’s #HIMSS15 booth exploring how technology enables the patient journey from the moment they learn about a hospital or physician practice to their life cycle of care. We reviewed Oracle’s portfolio of cloud solutions including: Oracle Social Cloud: Helps marketing teams manage and scale relationships […]
Dynamic Member Creation in Hyperion Planning
For this new blog post, I am excited to tell you about one of my favorite features: Dynamic Member Creation. Beginning with Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) release 11.1.2.3, Dynamic Member Creation is available in pre-delivered plan types such as Project Financial Planning, Public Sector Planning and Budgeting; and as part of the core Planning […]
Leveraging Your Oracle Resources for Big Data Value
As companies transform their businesses to be data-driven and leverage the benefits of Big Data, they quickly realizing that lack of Big Data centric data scientists and wranglers is blocking their value attainment. One of the limiting factors in Big Data resources, are the skills that have typically been required to leverage Big Data. Java and […]