Data + Intelligence

Information Technology (IT) has come a long way from being a delivery organization to an organization part of business innovation strategy, though a lot has to change in the coming years. Depending on the industry and the company culture, IT organization will mostly fall in the operational spectrum and a lot of progressive ones are  […]

Recent studies indicate more than 90% of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years, and the cost of maintaining that data is increasingly becoming a liability for IT, Legal and Business groups. As the amount of structured and unstructured data dramatically expands, the expense of maintaining data stores is outpacing the reduction […]

Some interesting facts and figures for your consideration: 90% – of stored data in the world today was created in the past 2 years 50% – annual data growth rate 34,000 – tweets sent each minute 9,000,000 – daily Amazon orders 7,000,000,000 – daily Google Page Views 2.5 Exabyte – amount of data created every day (an Exabyte […]

One of the common HR reporting needs is to determine the Utilization and Availability of employees. These metrics may also be studied at a higher level. For example, checking Workforce Utilization Percentages across a company’s different organizations provides insight into how overstaffed or understaffed each organization is. This blog describes an OBIEE design methodology to […]

Picking up from my earlier blog post, there are two kinds of MDM tool types, one targets specific domain (Customer and Product are the most common ones) and the others follow a multi-domain (Customer, Product, Location, Supplier etc. all in one) strategy. Most of the analysis I found are either for Customer Domain or Product […]

Forrester recently released some research titled “Reset on Big Data” and this research highlighted the lag between IT’s understanding of Big Data’s role within the enterprise data ecosystem.   In short, business leaders were 40% less likely to cite Big Data’s role as an extension to the current the current analytical environment.  This is not surprising […]

Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about sessions, calculations and filters in Framework Manager: In Framework Manager, an expression is any combination of operators, constants, functions, and other components that evaluates to a single value. You can build expressions to create calculation and filter definitions. Acalculation is an expression that you […]

In Framework Manager, an expression is any combination of operators, constants, functions, and other components that evaluates to a single value. You can build expressions to create calculation and filter definitions. A calculation is an expression that you use to create a new value from existing values contained within a data item. A filter is […]

A report that uses multiple facts may be prompted on dimensions that are not necessarily conforming to all the facts. At first one may think such a functionality is not valid. This posting demonstrates how such reporting requirements are common and are achievable in OBIEE though not in a very straightforward manner. It is a […]

DNA – DeoxyriboNucleic Acid – is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms… this is the most common text book definition. Soon, a second definition may need to be added to the dictionary, one where DNA equals ‘biological’ storage. As a matter of fact, […]

My exposure to Master Data Management as a tool and all the surrounding process, organization and platforms dates back to 2005 in one form or another. MDM as a tool and its expected functionality are evolving constantly. I was curious to see what MDM tools and vendor landscape looked like in 2006 compared to MDM […]

We have all witnessed the great impact healthcare reform has had on the healthcare industry. The landscape is changing so quickly it can be overwhelming for everyone involved. The new environment is more competitive and complex than ever and consumers are now in the driver’s seat. I say consumers because lets face it healthcare patients […]