Although OOW15 is getting all the headlines, including the announcement of OBIEE 12c (more info to come), Oracle has announced two new Patch Set Updates (PSU) for OBIEE 11g. OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 Bundle Patch 11.1.1.7.151020 is available for Windows64, Linux32 and Linux64; this document details the installation and bug fixes. OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Bundle Patch 11.1.1.9.5 is available […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Cortana Analytics and Information Management
In previous posts I’ve provided an introduction to Microsoft’s cloud-based Cortana Analytics Suite, and we’ve looked at what data and event ingest capability it provides. This time, I want to shed some light on what happens after Ingest. Where do you land the data so that you can work to transform it into actionable intelligence? […]
Oracle’s Big Data Discovery in the Cloud
Larry Ellison ends his welcome keynote at Oracle Open World on Sunday evening with Big Data. He announces 2 new cloud services from Oracle related to big data: 1. Big Data Preparation: A cloud product that serves to prepare, repair, enrich, govern and publish data before its ready for analysis. For instance if you are […]
Oracle Product Announcements at OOW15
In his welcome keynote on Sunday evening, Larry Ellison announces a set of new Oracle Products. The overall focus is the Cloud. Here is a summary of the new product announcements: 1. 2 new oracle cloud apps: Manufacturing and E-commerce in the cloud 2. New tool to build apps and easily extend any Oracle SaaS […]
Intel Data Center Strategies at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich defined four areas of focus for their enterprise data center efforts. These are important areas for Oracle and Intel to get ahead of the market because of the exploding cloud and data landscape. Make it Easy The cloud will deliver great benefits, but why is it taking so long to transition […]
A Modern Approach to Financial Reports Reconciliation
Gone are the days when several spreadsheets, pen and paper, and calculators are needed to reconcile financial reports. A common challenge in financial reporting is validating that what gets reported on executive dashboards matches with more detailed financial statements and transaction level reporting. What aggravates this endeavor is the fact that executive level dashboards are […]
Predictive Analytics: Higher Ed’s Moneyball?
Yes, I admit it. I listen to NPR most evenings. I suppose I prefer my news read to me by people speaking softly very close into the microphone. Tonight on NPR’s All Things Considered I listened to the latest installment in their Ideas series which explores innovation in education. Neal Phillips, English professor at Valencia College […]
Oracle Visual Analyzer: Data Discovery for iOS and Android
One of the great features of the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) is the included mobile functionality. Oracle has recently updated the iPhone and Android Oracle BI Mobile apps to support Visual Analyzer, a data discovery and visualization tool included in the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). Visual Analyzer is a powerful, yet easy to […]
Data and Event Ingest with Cortana Analytics
In my last post, I introduced Microsoft’s Cortana Analytics Suite, a collection of Azure-based PaaS and SaaS offerings bundled to provide a comprehensive toolkit for building Advanced Analytics and IoT solutions. These are cloud-based resources to perform a variety of functions, from collecting telemetry from remote devices, to predicting diabetes-related hospital readmissions, to showing real-time race […]
Perficient & CPI Card Group: An Oracle OpenWorld BICS Case Study
Interested to get a closer look at how quick-to-deploy and scale-able Oracle BI Cloud Service is? Meet us at Oracle Open World on Oct 29th, for a best practices and case study of CPI Card Group, a leading provider in payment card production and services. Tyler Wilson of CPI Card Group will join me in telling […]
Introducing Microsoft’s Cortana Analytics Suite
As far back as this year’s Ignite event, Microsoft has been mentioning “Cortana Analytics” by name. But at the first-ever Cortana Analytics Workshop in Redmond this past Sept 10 and 11, they unveiled a bigger offering and vision linking their current slate of cloud-based data platform tools. It’s known that Microsoft has been using Big […]
How to Stay Ahead: The Next Competitive Advantage
The realization of competitive advantage has changed significantly over time. In the early days of IT automation, custom-built systems that handled the transactions of accounting or sales were a tremendous competitive advantage. Over time, building custom systems that handled all the transactions of a business provided competitive advantages to the leading companies who were able […]