Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Mark Polly, Sales Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on Gary Dolsen’s digital focus at IBM while attending IBM’s Digital Experience Conference.  IBM’s Digital Experience Conference got underway today in Anaheim.  For those that have followed IBM WebSphere Portal in the past, Digital Experience is a really set of individual point products that include WebSphere Portal, […]

Bill Busch, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about Oracle’s In-Memory database option: Last month Oracle announced Oracle In-Memory database option. The overall message is that once installed, you can turn this “option” on and Oracle will become an in-memory database.   I do not think it will be that simple. However, […]

Starting in 2015 all issuers of Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) on the Healthcare Marketplace will need to provide Quality Rating System (QRS) measurements that will be aggregated and scored to provide consumers with a star rating for each product offered. Although there are still details to be worked out by CMS, the required measures for […]

Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]

When I speak to clients about In-Memory features in SQL Server, I find that Columnstore indexes just haven’t gained much traction as a marquee feature. The functionality itself is quite useful in the BI/DW realm as far as potentially boosting query performance by 1.5 to 10 times. But I think it gets overlooked because the […]

I recently attended a Gartner webinar titled:  CEO Concerns 2014:  Business Gets Digital.  It was a very interesting and insightful into how organizations’ investments across the company have evolved and how those strategies relate the latest Digital trends.  To set the stage, the survey recipients (2013) were between 391 and 410 CEOs and senior executives […]

Kathryn Watson, Solution Architect at Perficient, presented at KScope14 today about reversing the star schema in Oracle BI logically in the metadata Administration tool of Oracle Business Intelligence. It has long been accepted that classically designed dimensional models provide the foundations for effective Business Intelligence applications.  But what about those cases in which the facts […]

This week, Perficient is exhibiting and presenting at Kscope14 in Seattle, WA.  On Monday, June 23, my colleague Patrick Abram gave a great presentation on empowering restaurant operations through analytics.  An overview of Patrick’s presentation and Perficient’s retail-focused solutions can be found in Patrick’s blog post. Today, Wednesday, June 25, I gave my presentation on […]

Patrick Abram, Director at Perficient, presented at KScope14 this week about using Oracle products for restaurant operations analytics: Multi-unit, multi-concept restaurant companies face challenging reporting requirements. How should they compare promotion, holiday, and labor performance data across concepts? How should they maximize fraud detection capabilities? How should they arm restaurant operators with the data they need […]

Last week, we held a webinar, The Modern Data Warehouse – A Hybrid Story. As the world of data evolves ever so quickly, it transforms the industry and creates a need for new approaches to business intelligence. Data warehousing technology that worked well for years, serving its purpose to manage and understand business driven data, […]

Perficient is exhibiting and presenting this week at KScope14 in Seattle, WA. On Monday, June 23 I presented my retail-focused solution offering built upon the success of Perficient’s Retail Pathways, but using the Oracle suite of products. In order to focus the discussion to fit within a one hour window I chose restaurant operations to […]

At Oraclae’s KScope User Group meeting yesterday, I heard a really riveting presentation given by Jake Porway, Founder of DataKind, which made me take pause. It really brought to light Big Data’s capacity to impact all aspects of business *and* human life itself.  The point made was that we are at an inflection point in […]