Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

As times have evolved so have our data challenges — but we have been trying to solve it for ages. Giving it dedicated resources, robust hardware etc. we still end up missing SLAs in our traditional On Premise & Cloud hosted worlds. Add to the fact the constant dependency on personnel to manage the data […]

Financial analysts are often looking for a daily tracker of their organization’s sales. Daily sales tracking requires bench-marking against budgets and forecasts. However, it is often the case that plans are defined at a higher level compared to actuals. In addition, while actuals are available from ERP, plans are maintained in a separate application for […]

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been awarded Domo’s Rookie of the Year Award at the Domopalooza 2020 virtual conference. We’ve been partners with Domo for about a year now and look forward to continuing our relationship and sharing our delivery specialization and industry expertise. Domo Rookie of the Year This award recognizes our exhibited […]

Are you looking to supplement your Oracle EPM applications with enhanced analytics capabilities? At Perficient, we have successfully implemented analytics solutions that complement both on-premises Hyperion applications as well as Oracle EPM Cloud business processes: Planning and Budget Cloud Service, Financial Consolidation & Close Service, and Essbase Cloud. Our methodology requires minimal data movement leveraging […]

The Oracle EPM suite provides best-in-class business process applications when it comes to activities such as financial planning, consolidation and period-end close. Organizations are often looking for ways to easily incorporate financial information, out of EPM applications, into consolidated reporting with other systems (such as ERP, Sales, HR, and others). Also, there is great value […]

OAC and OAS are congruent products and therefore enable organizations to leverage both deployments simultaneously. Going from OAS to OAC or vice-versa is as simple as creating a snapshot from one place and restoring it onto another. However, there are some differences between the two. In this post I am summarizing what these are at […]

Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) is the latest Oracle release to supersede Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). Current OBIEE customers can upgrade to OAS at no additional licensing cost. Whether you are on OBIEE 11g or 12c, upgrading to OAS has the following main advantages: Business users benefit from enhanced Data Visualization and Data Preparation […]

At the heart of all business software is always a database. But what once used to be a cumbersome component, something that only developers and system administrators had to deal with, has evolved to become a directly reachable solution of itself. With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), the Business Analyst is now able to be […]

First a quick summary of machine learning (ML).  At a high level and simplifying a bit, there are basically two types of ML: Supervised learning – a labeled data set is used to train an ML model to make predictions. The ‘trained’ ML model is then applied against a data set to make the predictions […]

MicroStrategy World 2020 is about a month away, happening February 4-6 in Orlando, FL. Sunny, warm weather and the latest MicroStrategy releases will make for an awesome and exciting, education-packed week. Perficient is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the event this year.  Our experts look forward to meeting you in the expo hall […]

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is Oracle’s cloud-based platform for reporting, analytics, data exploration, and data visualization. It encompasses many capabilities and multiple products. As a result, it was hard to limit the post to just 5 features given that there is so much to choose from. That being said, the following are my top 5 […]

I spend a bit of time data wrangling. I try to pay mind to what the predictive analytic technique needs. Likewise, it does things on its own too. Then again, when interpreting results, I think on it again. Worse, when I try to compare models or create an ensemble, I really need to know. So, […]