Platforms and Technology

Instead of opting to accept Apple Pay or Android Pay, Walmart has decided to launch its own payment service called Walmart Pay. The largest retailer in the world describes Walmart Pay as “a fast, easy and secure way for customers to pay with their smartphones in Walmart stores,” and it is compatible with both iOS […]

As we look towards the New Year I thought it would be interesting to take a step back and learn from where we’ve come from. As you know, we have worked with a lot of organizations this past year on digitally transforming their business (see our recent guide: Reimagine Your Business in a Digital-First World […]

As more and more data moves to the cloud and adoption of cloud SaaS products continues to increase, we need more sophisticated ways to extract, transform, and interact with that data. This spring at the //build conference, Microsoft previewed the “Office 365 Unified API”. That product is now in full production and has been renamed […]

The ability to stay on top of ever changing trends within your business environment is constantly a challenge. One facing many organizations today is that of digital transformation. Four key trends around digital transformation that we uncover in this latest guide, include: – Increased focus on the customer experience – Continued connectedness – this is […]

According to a 2015 Oracle survey of CFOs, the need for cloud-based performance management solutions continues to grow. Sixty-five percent of the finance executives surveyed listed the primary motivation for choosing a cloud-based EPM solution was to get up and running quickly. Fifty-three percent respondents said their primary motivation was to avoid large upfront investments […]

I am marrying a man who happens to dislike the Salesforce1 mobile app. Over the past few days, it has been a big subject of debate as he tried to figure out ways to work around using it on his iPad mini, such as using Opera as his mobile browser which does not support Salesforce1. Being […]

Why to automate anything should be obvious. In addition to efficiency, there are also considerations on consistency, repeatability, and predictability to programmatically carry out tasks. Considering DevOps, automation is an effective vehicle to minimal user interventions from both Dev and Ops for establishing application infrastructure, configuring run-time, and deploying a target application. This automation provides […]

Today’s Internet scale services are built using microservices. Example microservices are protocol gateways, user profiles, shopping carts, inventory processing, queues, caches, etc. Microservices can further be defined by: Is (logic + state) independently versioned, scaled, and deployed Has a unique name that can be resolved Interacts with other microservices over well-defined interfaces like REST Remains […]

I’m looking forward to co-presenting a webinar on Thursday, Dec. 3rd on how the cloud can deliver the benefits of predictive maintenance sooner, and I invite you to join. Abstract: Asset-intensive industries are becoming increasingly instrumented and connected, motivated by the immediate need to improve efficiency or via interest in the potential of the Internet […]

Beginning December 1, 2015, Microsoft will be officially rolling out a number of new features within Office365 that significantly enhance the Skype for Business workloads.  These features have been in preview form for a few months now, but December 1 marks the date where it becomes generally available (GA) for all tenants within Office365, across the […]

Remember Google Glass? That head-mounted computer resembling a pair of glassless eyeglasses? You are forgiven if you have forgotten. Google’s first attempt at ubiquitous computing sure had cachet when it went to market in the spring of 2014 and was dubbed the natural next step in digital-first design. That cachet disappeared less than a year […]

In this post, I will review some formatting tricks with Obiee reporting. I recently got this opportunity to work on a project where reporting needs were quite different than usual. More than the reporting data, there were more challenges while it came to formatting the report in the required format. For Obiee reporting, Mozilla Firefox […]