Operations

Fortune just released their list of the 100 best companies to work for in America. The survey, which was compiled by Great Places to Work, generated feedback from over 230,000 individuals. The data collected and analyzed took into consideration a variety of aspects that have the potential to influence people’s feelings towards their workplace, including […]

Attendees at last year’s Money 20/20 were given a sneak peek at Bank of America’s future ATM, which was referred to as a “personal financial concierge.” The new ATM will tightly connect with mobile phones in order to enable customers to pre-stage transactions. From their phones, users can begin the process of withdrawing and depositing […]

The history of the car in America is fodder for folklore, led by the invention of Henry Ford’s Model T and the modernization of the assembly line. Inspired by the idea that a car should be placed in every garage, Ford set out to create a widely available and affordable vehicle that would normalize ownership […]

There are plenty of articles out there about how the pharmaceutical industry may be affected by Donald Trump’s presidency. The problem is that nobody exactly knows how things are going to pan out over the next few years. When it comes to health insurance, the price of drugs, and the quality of providers across the entire health […]

Money20/20, the world’s largest conference geared towards the financial services industry, brought big announcements from heavy hitters at its 2016 event. Bank of America’s head of digital banking, Michelle Moore, introduced Erica (a play on the company’s name), a digital assistant driven by artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and cognitive messaging. The technology, which can also […]

What are Late Arriving Facts? In data warehouses, dimensions are processed first and the facts are loaded later, with the assumption that all required dimension data is already available in the system and a Parent fact is already available before a child fact. But, this scenario may not always be the case because the nature […]

Developers have more access than ever to the right tools and resources that enable favorable development outcomes. Open source solutions over the past few years have gained particular interest for their low cost, agile, and interoperable characteristics, enabling the development and acceleration to market of mobile, web, and social solutions. Such was the challenge of […]

In an effort to create more competition in the financial services industry, give consumers more control over their data, and enhance consumer protection, new regulations, such as the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2), have been adopted in Europe. Some companies, such as BBVA, were early adopters of technology (e.g., APIs) that opened access to […]

In an Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) application, you can always create alternate hierarchies. We have created them for Entity, Accounts, and any of the custom dimensions. The guideline is always when the consultants leave, the HFM administrator must be able to efficiently maintain the application and meet the company’s management information and reporting needs. […]

I recently read through a guide on the Top 15 Financial Services Trends for 2017 by my friend and colleague Eugene Sefanov. Business Process Management (BPM) platforms continue to add more capabilities for greater impact on all industry verticals allowing organizations to remain relevant in an ever changing digital economy.  The following is some insights […]

Physical SQLs are essentially the same as Logical SQLs. Behind the scenes, Logical SQLs are converted back to physical SQLs by BI server using the OTBI Fusion public view objects (PVOs) defined in the RPD physical layer. Physical SQLs leverage the same Data Sync built-in Oracle BI Connector used by logical SQLs for extracting ERP Cloud data from OTBI. The process […]

Fragmentation of Essbase block storage databases occurs as a result of routine data changes, data loads, and calculations. Essbase has two database statistics that measure database fragmentation: the average clustering ratio and the average fragmentation quotient. Check out this article from the Oracle Customer Engineering & Advocacy Lab for a more thorough description of BSO […]