Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Information Technology (IT) has come a long way from being a delivery organization to an organization part of business innovation strategy, though a lot has to change in the coming years. Depending on the industry and the company culture, IT organization will mostly fall in the operational spectrum and a lot of progressive ones are  […]

One of the common HR reporting needs is to determine the Utilization and Availability of employees. These metrics may also be studied at a higher level. For example, checking Workforce Utilization Percentages across a company’s different organizations provides insight into how overstaffed or understaffed each organization is. This blog describes an OBIEE design methodology to […]

Picking up from my earlier blog post, there are two kinds of MDM tool types, one targets specific domain (Customer and Product are the most common ones) and the others follow a multi-domain (Customer, Product, Location, Supplier etc. all in one) strategy. Most of the analysis I found are either for Customer Domain or Product […]

A report that uses multiple facts may be prompted on dimensions that are not necessarily conforming to all the facts. At first one may think such a functionality is not valid. This posting demonstrates how such reporting requirements are common and are achievable in OBIEE though not in a very straightforward manner. It is a […]

Organizations of all sizes are looking more seriously at the cloud, and beginning to understand the scalability and cost savings benefits of a hybrid solution. Given the benefits of a properly implemented hybrid solution, it’s logical to consider other areas of the business that can gain from the cloud – one of those being your […]

My exposure to Master Data Management as a tool and all the surrounding process, organization and platforms dates back to 2005 in one form or another. MDM as a tool and its expected functionality are evolving constantly. I was curious to see what MDM tools and vendor landscape looked like in 2006 compared to MDM […]

MDM is a popular topic and many organizations are in different stages of MDM journey. Many times clients (primarily IT) want to engage consultants who can recommend a MDM tool and start the implementation, bypassing the Planning / Pre-planning stages. Typically this leads to a MDM solution which is not thought through completely or end […]

I came across this blog post from Andrew White, a Research analyst at Gartner controversially titled BI’s days are numbered – Here comes BPM again. The core message of the post is this that BI and data analytics are a means to an end – and it is the change in processes (effected through BPM) that will result in impact […]

After attending many marketing sessions on In-Memory database like HP Vertica, Oracle Exalytics, Kognitio, SAP HANA, and SQL*Server 2014 with in-memory capabilities, finally I got an opportunity to look under the hood.  I  attended the SAP HANA training, and had the firsthand experience in playing with the In-Memory database. Gartner says, at least 35% of […]

Earlier in the year, we held a popular webinar on utilizing Power BI, a new Microsoft offering (then in preview). Of course, much has changed since that previous webinar, with Power BI being available to the general public and the release of SQL Server 2014. In light of those changes, my colleague, Andy Tegethoff, a […]

Perficient and the Chickasaw Nation will co-present at the IBM Vision 2014 conference, the premier conference for financial and operational performance management, sales performance management, disclosure management and risk analytics professionals, which is being held May 18-21 in Orlando, FL. DMF-1269: Transforming the Management, Analysis and Delivery of Critical Data at Chickasaw Nation with IBM […]

Within the last few months, you’ve probably heard about about Power BI for Office 365, the new cloud-centric BI front end tool set from Microsoft. You may have even attended one of our webinars on the topic, while Power BI was still in preview – it has since moved to general availability. (If you missed […]