Entries from Rob Reynolds' BI & EPM Blog tagged with 'BI'

Management Excellence at Openworld

If you would like to learn more about achieving Management Excellence while at Oracle OpenWorld, I will be hosting 2 sessions on the topic. The first will overview our Management Excellence Accelerator offering and the major areas of focus when...

Accelerating the Journey to Management Excellence

Today’s economy requires companies to be smarter and make faster decisions that ever. Doing this requires complete visibility across your enterprise so that you can make the right decisions to attract/retain customers, grow their business, and minimize their costs. Oracle...

New Issue of the Journal of Management Excellence is out!

The latest issue of Oracle's Journal of Management Excellence is now available for download at this link. Previous versions are also available at http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/resource-library-whitepapers.html. This quarter's issue is focused on building trust and how trust is important in achieving management...

Data Quality: Data Correction Strategies

Continuing the data quality conversation from my previous posts on effectiveness verses accuracy  and defining accuracy thresholds here is a technique for categorizing various types of data quality issues and developing a strategy for corrections. If the effectiveness mindset is established,...

Evaluating I/O Performance for Large Data Warehouses

One topic that we often encounter when talking with customers is I/O performance of large scale data warehouses and our recommended methodology for performance improvement when there is a serious I/O bottleneck. Effective utilization of the I/O infrastructure capacity is...

Discoverer Migration to OBIEE

One of the questions that we are often asked when meeting with customers is the effort involved in migrating Discoverer reports to OBIEE. Since OBIEE is a metadata driven tool, the real complexities lie with the migration of your current...

Finding the new OBIEE Sample Application

In case you were not aware, the recently shipped 10.1.3.4 release of OBIEE includes a sample set of data, metadata, reports & dashboards that represent best practice for OBIEE metadata, report & dashboard development. There are some really good example...

Data Quality - Defining Accuracy Thresholds

As discussed in my previous post, sometimes data doesn’t necessarily have to be 100% accurate to be effective or actionable. So if there are thresholds to when information is “good enough” for decision making, how do we determine them? The...

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