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Evaluating the Cloud for Your Data Warehouse

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Sep 02, 2016 @ 12:13 PM

by Ron Cruz

Thinking of moving to a cloud based data warehouse platform? Here’s what you need to evaluate and learn how to do it.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Cloud, Ron Cruz, Blog

The Grammar of Business Intelligence

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Jul 29, 2015 @ 03:30 PM

by Ron Cruz

Business Intelligence has changed. There are new disruptive technologies, the cloud, and a paradigm shift that is putting more power into the hands of users instead of IT. More competition has allowed companies that have never had a chance to get into business intelligence to enter into the world of BI. Competition has also lead to more functionality to make true the promise of Business Intelligence. 

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Tags: KPI Cloud Analytics, Ron Cruz, Retail, Business Intelligence, Blog, data information, visualization, Data Architecture

Leveraging Executive Sponsorship For A 360° Analytical View Of The Customer

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Sep 15, 2014 @ 02:21 PM

by Ron Cruz

One of the challenges facing our clients is a disjointed landscape for their customer-facing business intelligence tools.  This doesn’t happen in finance as everyone knows where the end product goes (CFO), nor does it happen much in product development.  When it comes to customer analytics, many companies struggle with disjointed systems and difficulty getting the data they want.  The sentence of, “I think we have that data….somewhere,”  is often uttered at companies that have these issues.

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Tags: Salesforce.com Analytics, Ron Cruz, Marketing Analytics, Customer 360 Analytics, Business Intelligence, Retail BI, Delivery Leadership, Blog

Data Discovery Is Not Business Intelligence

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 14, 2014 @ 11:33 AM

by Ron Cruz

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Tags: Unstructured Data, Ron Cruz, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, ETL, Blog

Avoid OBIEE RPD Deployment Mistakes By Using AdminTool.exe

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Feb 24, 2014 @ 06:36 PM

by Ron Cruz

Using Admintool.exe To Prepare An OBIEE RPD for Deployment

I know that for many business intelligence implementation teams the extent of preparing an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) repository for deployment is putting the repository (RPD) out on a network share.  This past week I was reminded how important it is to check and prepare your RPD properly for deployment.  I’ve seen clients that have failed to check/prepare their RPD for deployment fall victim to issues such as:

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Tags: OBIEE, Ron Cruz, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Blog