Interview with Toby Potter from DataSift – Social Data and Business Intelligence

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 by

With the BI Forum fast approaching, Toby Potter from DataSift agreed to an interview for the blog, to discuss social data, it’s value and how it can be combined with other business intelligence.  Toby will be one of the guest speakers at the BI Forum in Brighton sharing more details and experiences in this growing [...]

The Changing World of Business Intelligence

Friday, March 1st, 2013 by

Over the last 18 months we have seen a huge amount of changes in the world of Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics. Everyone wants to talk about Big Data, however doesn’t know where to start in a corporate world, Oracle bought Endeca, which is a reporting/information discovery tool, Cloud delivered services are moving closer and [...]

Basket Analysis in the Oracle Database

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 by

Last time I gave a taster of my forthcoming Collaborate 12 talk on techniques beyond the traditional “slice and dice” that we know so well. I wrote mainly about the ways in which we can perform statistical analysis on our data either through SQL or by using R. This time I am going to talk [...]

Interview with Kevin McGinley, BI Content Lead for Kscope 12

Sunday, January 29th, 2012 by

Recently, I sat down (virtually) with Kevin McGinley of Accenture to discuss the upcoming ODTUG Kscope 12. I was on the content selection committee, and immediately recognized how lucky ODTUG was to have Kevin coordinating this process. We had tough choices to make around content — this is always the case, as I’ve participated in [...]

Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: ETL Iteration

Friday, January 27th, 2012 by

This is the fourth entry in my series on Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE. To see all the previous posts, check the introductory posting which I have updated with all the entries in the series. In the last post, I describe what I call the Model-Driven iteration, where we take thin requirements from the [...]

Website Design & Build: tymedia.co.uk