It’s absolutely stunning atmosphere here in Chicago. What a breathtaking use of technology and level of energy with 23,000 technology folks here at Microsoft Ignite. It took two full days just to arrange chairs for the keynote! Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about how businesses are being transformed and will be the focus of Microsoft […]
Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’
Introducing Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Today, during annual Microsoft Build conference keynote, Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (executive VP of cloud and enterprise group) introduced new Azure service which is going to be available in public preview in June: Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Large enterprise today can’t effectively function without big data realtime analytics. Realtime analytics means processing large amounts of […]
Webinar – Microsoft Big Data and Advanced Analytics
I recently participated in a webinar on the topic of Big Data/Advanced Analytics and how the Microsoft platform supports it. My colleague Shankar RamaNathan spoke first about the various challenges of truly seeing ROI out of Big Data initiatives. Then I spoke about how the Microsoft Data Platform, both in the cloud and on-premises, provides […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: Data Sync Released & DBaaS Supported
Today Oracle releases Data Sync, a tool that facilitates loading data into the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) by offering a variety of capabilities: Loading data from on-premise relational databases or data files into BICS Schema Database Scheduling data load jobs Monitoring data load jobs Sending out email notifications Earlier this week, Oracle has upgraded […]
Big Data and the Skies
Earlier this week, I read a news article about the use of Twitter, or more accurately, the use of data collected from Twitter to prohibit a passenger from boarding a United Airlines flight. Strangely enough, the person banned from the flight was probably among the people who should know the most about cyber-security and perceived […]
Winning the Customer Experience Battle: Three Points to Remember
How Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation and the Cloud Enable the Most Successful New Business Models A few thousand Oracle users, partners, and employees sat (and stood, as necessary) at Mandalay Bay, waiting for that day’s keynote to begin. The CIO of Oracle, Mark Sunday, was scheduled to give us the latest buzz on cloud computing. […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS): Data Sync for Automated Data Load
In a few days Oracle will release Data Sync, a utility that facilitates the process of loading data from various on-premise sources into BI Cloud Services (BICS). The Data Sync utility comes as an addition to several other already available means of loading data into BICS: data load wizard to upload data from files, SQL […]
Leveraging Your Oracle Resources for Big Data Value
As companies transform their businesses to be data-driven and leverage the benefits of Big Data, they quickly realizing that lack of Big Data centric data scientists and wranglers is blocking their value attainment. One of the limiting factors in Big Data resources, are the skills that have typically been required to leverage Big Data. Java and […]
BI Cloud Migration: A Streamlined Approach
For many professionals, the move from test to production can bring more than a few challenges. You might have a fully functional system on the Test instance, but migrating everything to Production requires a reliable process. Mazen Manasseh takes us through the essential steps for a successful business intelligence cloud service migration. BI Cloud Service […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: How to migrate from Test to Production?
With an Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) subscription, you get accesses to two instances: Test and Production. The test instance can be the initial playground where the upfront development work is carried out before pushing the developed components to the Production instance. The development work may entail creating tables in the Oracle Cloud Schema […]
Webinar: Big Data & Microsoft, Key to Your Digital Transformation
Companies undergoing digital transformation are creating organizational change through technologies and systems that enable them to work in ways that are in sync with the evolution of consumer demands and the state of today’s marketplace. In addition, more companies are relying on more and more data to help make business decisions. And when it comes […]
A Day in the Life of an Office 365 User
Office 365 comprises of a lot of services and features which can be overwhelming for an end user. More often than not, we hear concerns from organizations and individual users of how roll out of new products and technologies fail. I do not see this as a technology problem, rather a communication and change management […]