Data + Intelligence

As we move into 2017, Digital Transformation is seen as a core competency instead of innovation for information leaders (especially sales and marketing). In addition, digital spend is an important contributor in 2017 for IT and spend is projected to increase 2.9% (Gartner IT Spend Worldwide Forecast). Here is what the industry analysts have to […]

With the recent acquisition announcement of Documentum by OpenText, many customers are considering alternative platforms to drive their business in the future. An analysis of the acquisition and future direction of the Documentum product leaves many questions about its growth. While this change of ownership doesn’t signal the immediate end of life and support for […]

In the increasingly noisy world of communication channels and touch points, marketers realize it takes a lot more than a creative campaign to stand out from the competition. Knowing your customers and creating an experience that’s second to none are essential. According to eConsultancy: Every customer is on their own unique journey… marketers can ‘own’ […]

As a part of Perficient big data practice, I have been working on identifying some open source data stores and search frameworks that enable the user to quickly query what he needs, and to process massive events/message stream, in addition to several frameworks such as Spark, ELK, Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, I get to know about […]

At the end of this month, I’ll be teaching the Planning 11.1.2 Install and Configuration Oracle University course in the near future. In this course, you learn about the processes involved in installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining Planning. You learn about the layers in the Enterprise Performance Management System infrastructure. Discussions include planning the installation, […]

As businesses expand into new areas of marketing they’re adopting hybrid applications, both on-premises and cloud, to support their growing needs. But multiple applications silo customer information across the business, limiting a 360-degree view of the customer and the ability to analyze different marketing initiatives. Join us for this encore presentation delivered at Oracle OpenWorld […]

Google Analytics is web analytics tool which has advanced modes of capturing statistical data of applications. While IIB dominates the middleware world with its robust integration capabilities, this blog provides an approach to utilize the REST services of the Google Analytics API to consume various reports containing various metrics of the native applications. The metrics […]

As we move into 2017 and most of us are still recovering from the Christmas party, I want to pass along some focus areas for data gurus in 2017. I’ve provided some insights from industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester), Venture Capitalists, and the multi-million dollar software companies that are driving the next wave of data and analytics such […]

We are quickly counting down to the end of 2016, but that means that 2017 is just around the corner.  Here are four trends to watch for in the document capture market in 2017: Upgrades Technology moves fast – and document capture technology is no different.  With new innovations coming such as cognitive, mobile, and […]

In a previous post, I described how the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) integrates with Oracle Cloud (Fusion) Apps.  For users of on premise Oracle BI, there are other methods of integrating with Fusion Apps.  The easiest of which is Oracle BI Applications 11g as it comes with prebuilt content, data warehouse and ODI ETL […]

Most of the enterprise data warehouse using Informatica PowerCenter to build the warehouse. After build the data warehouse and make it incremental load daily or several time per day. But data warehouse is not real time, it also has some gap between the source database and Target database. How can we make Data Warehouse Real […]

It was actually during the setup of the show that I noticed and snapped this picture and thought about a few things.  There’s a warning on every ladder produced that states the highest step / rung and which side should be used on a folding ladder.  Clearly this guy didn’t pay attention to it or […]