Right after I posted my blog on Spark and Hadoop, I came across this article. IBM made a big announcement that they are putting their weight behind Spark. They are committing more than 3,500 developers and programmers to help move Spark forward. This combined with significant support from the Big 3 Hadoop distributors (HortonWorks, Cloudera, […]
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Will Spark Replace Hadoop?
I have seen a number of articles asking the question of whether Apache Spark will replace Hadoop. This is the wrong question! It is like asking if your your DVD player will replace your entire home theater system, which is pretty absurd. Just like a home theatre system has many components, a TV or Projector, a Receiver, […]
OBIEE 11.1.1.9 – BI Publisher Set Up Fails on Windows Server 2012
The journey of discovery continues. I can report a successful install of Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2, but I encountered one last bug and set of supplemental instructions worth sharing. During the Configuration Progress step of the Enterprise Install the “Setting Up BI Publisher” step never completed. From the screenshot below you […]
APPCRASH During Install of Oracle BI on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2
Installing any commercial software on a newly certified operating system often leads to a journey of discovery. In this case, Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 installed on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 raises an alarming error during the installation process. The crash warning above occurred during an Enterprise Install on a freshly built Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 […]
Insights From Reliable Asset World
Perficient was a Gold Sponsor of this year’s conference, which brought together experts in asset maintenance related processes, training, tools and machinery. The keynote speaker at the conference was Perficient’s David Reiber. As former owner of General Motors Global Maximo Deployment, David knows a thing or thousand about asset maintenance and reliability. What I found […]
OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Unable to Login with MSAD / LDAP (virtualize=true)
I would like to follow up on John Whitaker’s post, OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0: What You Need to Know, by adding a note about an important patch that was released on June 3, 2015. Using an external security provider with Oracle Business Intelligence is increasingly common. When configuring Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, or other 3rd party authentication provider it […]
Leveraging Digital Experience and Marketing
When we talk about Omni-Channel Marketing, we want to integrate marketing automation tools – campaign management, segmentation, etc – with Digital Experience platforms. IBM has a complete suite of tools in marketing automation, content analytics and digital experience. In this session at the IBM Digital Experience Conference, Connie Triassi, Angela Caruso and Bryan Daniel talked […]
Two-Minute Video: Customer Success with Oracle Sales Cloud
In this new video from Oracle, hear from Tom Munley, General Manager for the Oracle Emerging Solutions group at Perficient, about how Oracle Sales Cloud with OBIEE helped the organization implement a new quota management program — and bring together a sales team dispersed throughout the US. See the Two-minute video: Perficient and Oracle
Richer, More Personalized Customer Experiences for an API Economy
At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the digital disruption that is already underway: […]
Great BI Experiences with IBM Cognos, SPSS and Digital Experience
Pankaj Bose spoke at the IBM Digital Experience 2015 conference about how IBM Cognos, Digital Experience and SPSS can be integrated together for a great Business Intelligence Experience. Typical business challenges include: How to build, run and manage a mobile, cloud and social solution Complexity of great experiences Lack of centralized storage and poor, incompatible […]
Rolling Forecasts in Healthcare Improve Accuracy
The assumption that rolling forecasts improve accuracy really tests the validity of our data in healthcare. Do we know enough about the metrics that are driving a useful driver-based forecast? The rolling forecast is usually a quarterly budget with a two to three year horizon that keeps a close eye on the organization’s trajectory. Typically […]
3 “Cool” Big Data Vendors
Gartner recently published its “Cool” Vendors in Big Data for 2015 list. To qualify, “vendors must meaningfully combine multiple types of functionality”. These companies were selected based on their ability to effectively address complicated challenges of this space such as big data storage in the cloud or big data privacy. Now, let’s look at the […]