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, […]
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How to Improve Organic Search Click-Through Rates with Schema Markup
Have you ever wondered what triggers those little stars and other extra snippets of information that sometimes show up in search results? The answer is Schema.org structured data markup. And if it’s not implemented on your site, you’re missing a powerful opportunity to boost your search engine optimization performance. What Is Schema.org? According to the experts […]
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 […]
IBM’s Advanced Analytics Portfolio
IBM’s Advanced Analytics story is now powerful yet simple. It focuses on ALL! Hybrid (heterogeneous architectures), trust (ensuring end-to-end accuracy and trust in the entire system), and agility (speed of thought analysis) are the core principles for this transformation to IBM’s Analytics portfolio. The product stack comprises Cognos Analytics, Watson Analytics, and Spark sparking SPSS […]
Advanced Analytics for All
IBM’s Advanced Analytics story is now powerful yet simple. It focuses on ALL! Hybrid (heterogeneous architectures), trust (ensuring end-to-end accuracy and trust in the entire system), and agility (speed of thought analysis) are the core principles for this transformation to IBM’s Analytics portfolio. The product stack comprises Cognos Analytics, Watson Analytics, and Spark sparking SPSS […]
Data Management the IBM Way
In a bid to win the race to Insight, IBM itself has undergone a major transformation in its Data and Analytics product portfolio. At #IBMInsight, IBM Executives each day organized several Keynotes and Super Sessions to unveil their ever-evolving approach to modern day data architecture, where Analytics and Cloud are integral components of a transformational […]
Redefining Data Management – Open, Hybrid & Simplified
In a bid to win the race to Insight, IBM itself has undergone a major transformation in its Data and Analytics product portfolio. At #IBMInsight, IBM Executives each day organized several Keynotes and Super Sessions to unveil their ever-evolving approach to modern day data architecture, where Analytics and Cloud are integral components of a transformational […]
Leading with Insight at #IBMInsight
The message at IBM Insight 2015 was loud and clear: “Insight is the new currency.” Therefore, organizations must strive to lead, and not just compete, in this “Insight Economy.” The companies that will leverage data in its totality (“big” and “small”) combined with cognitive computing and analytics will be the intelligent brokers of game-changing information […]
Insight is the New Currency
The message at #IBMInsight this week was loud and clear, “Insight is the new currency”, and therefore, organizations must strive to lead, and not just compete, in this “Insight Economy”. The companies that will leverage data in its totality (“big” and “small”) combined with cognitive computing and analytics will be the intelligent brokers of game […]
Financial services firms challenged in using data to serve customers
“Retailers are light years ahead of Wall Street in analyzing their data to find out what their customers want,” said to Peter Giordano, managing director at Oppenheimer & Co. “Instead of analyzing customer data, the industry still relies on salespeople, relationships and actual trades to tell us what clients want.” Big data might be a […]
24 Hrs BI availability using Oracle Partitioning/Swap methodology
This blog deals with Global Organizational Data needs where there is insufficient window of non-Business hours to run heavy batch loads and at the same time a provision to access the data 24 hours with negligible or no interference. Why 24 hours availability is needed? Organizations have a high need for 24 hour availability of […]
The End of IT?
A few years ago Adrian Cockcroft, cloud architect at Netflix at the time, posted this blog which caused quite a stir among the IT community. It described how Netflix had almost done away with DevOps (or even plain Ops) using the cloud (AWS in this case) to come up with yet another new IT buzzword called NoOps. Many […]