KPI Partners Blog

by Jeremiah Johnson

Data scientists are master communicators.  They speak fluently with people in operations areas and those in information technology departments.  They understand technical jargon, business lingo and are information experts.  Unlike a jack-of-all-trades, who knows a lot but masters nothing, data scientists know plenty and often are experts in many fields.  Most importantly, they find solutions for business problems.

Tags: Data Warehousing, Database, Data Scientist, Big Data, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, ETL, Jeremiah Johnson, Data Integration, Blog, Datastax

Tags: Webinar, Sid Goel, Oracle E-Business Suite, KPI Cloud Analytics, Diane Grace, Alan Lee, Todd LaFavers, Video, Jeremiah Johnson, Oracle BICS

by Jeremiah Johnson

With more and more of life taking place on the internet, it has become imperative to have a web presence if you want to stay relevant in today’s day and age.  Whether you are a small business owner that wants to branch out into the digital market, or you are one small piece of a very large enterprise puzzle, getting your information online has never been more important.

Tags: Cloud Strategy, Cloud Services, Business Intelligence, Jeremiah Johnson, Data Integration, Cloud Application Integration, Oracle BICS, Blog

On December 11th, KPI Partners was joined by the Global Finance Team at Colorcon for a customer spotlight webinar which profiled the successes and challenges of the performance management solution at Colorcon.

Tags: Larry Manekin, Pharmaceuticals, Jeremiah Johnson, SmartView, Hyperion Financial Planning, Hyperion Workforce Planning, Performance Management, Colorcon, Hyperion, John Ronga, Blog

Premier support for Oracle Discoverer is ending in June 2014 and if you're feeling the pressure to migrate to another solution, you're not alone. Moving to Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle BI Applications, Oracle's newest flagship platform for business intelligence and decision support, is a decision facing many Discoverer customers.

Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Pre-Built Solutions, Oracle Discoverer, Malini Saxena, Migrations, Real-Time Supply Chain and Inventory Analytics, Business Intelligence, Jeremiah Johnson, Events, Oracle BI Applications, Kumar Krishnaswamy, Real-Time Financial Analytics, Blog

Tags: Financial Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Jeremiah Johnson, Blog

Oracle Exalytics was recently launched at Oracle's Open World Event, which was held during October in San Francisco. Despite the numerous of claims of product excellence and testimonies from former clients, guests at the event were largely left wondering about the $100,000+ product.  Since the product was largely unseen, it leaves many clients asking is Oracle's newest BI innovation, the self-described "BI Machine" an absolute necessity?

Several of Oracle's customers who've used the product seem to think so.  A key feature of the project that has been touted by Oracle enthusiasts is the product's ease of deployment. A current client of Oracle and Exalytics enthusiast, Nilson Group, which is based in Sweden, praised the software's ability to update on the back end, without causing any project delays. Allowing the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) to run on the Exalytics software eliminates operations problems that would otherwise be present on other systems.

Another client, Thomas Reuters, praised the new in-memory feature of the program that allowed it to analyze a 10 billion row data set, due to the capacity for in-memory storage. For a customer without Exalytics that attempted this same feat on traditional hardware, it would be impossible.

The main features that have been praised include the 1TB of ram (Oracle claims it can use even more data to its memory management capabilities) and exceptional processing speed, which has been known to remarkably serve up to 10,000 individual program users at once. Despite it's success, Oracle's newest program is not the end-all be-all solution.  No piece of hardware can take the place of the strategical and visonary components that only expert human resources can supply.  

For business owners that are looking to this newest development to solve glitches and memory problems, it looks like there is a solution. However, one must also consider the expertise and strategic vision needed to develop complete solutions customized to an enterprise or industry.

Time will tell if the newest addition to Oracle's high-profile business tools is indeed a must for the BI community.

Tags: OBIEE, Oracle OpenWorld, Jeremiah Johnson, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Exalytics, Blog

Living in a global, ever-expanding economy means there are more people interacting than every before. Consider retail giant Wal-Mart, for example. The company conducts over a million transactions with customers every hour. That may sound like a feat in and of itself, but the company also keeps records associated with those transactions.

Tags: Unstructured Data, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Jeremiah Johnson, Blog