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Mike Hallett

Partner Development for Business Analytics

  • Mike Hallett leads Oracle's partner business development across EMEA for Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management (BI & EPM).  At Oracle for over 20 years, Mike has worked mainly in direct sales, and sales management in the commercial sector of the UK.  Prior to Oracle, Mike started out as a freelance programmer, moving into IT sales in 1983.  This included six years in Sydney, Australia and working for Burroughs, McDonnell Douglas, and Ingres.  Mike has a BSc in Business Administration from the City University, London.

    Mike Hallett leads Oracle's partner business development across EMEA for Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management (BI & EPM).  At Oracle for over 20 years, Mike has worked mainly in direct sales, and sales management in the commercial sector of the UK.  Prior to Oracle, Mike started out as a freelance programmer, moving into IT sales in 1983.  This included six years in Sydney, Australia and working for Burroughs, McDonnell Douglas, and Ingres.  Mike has a BSc in Business Administration from the City University, London.

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Recent Posts by Mike Hallett

Improved 2018 Free Trials of Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)

This note updates my last article @ Free Trials of Oracle Analytics on Laptops and on Cloud. New for 2018 is the arrival of greatly increased free trial capacity for OAC.  The “burn rate” on all Oracle “free trial” PaaS and IaaS cloud services has been reduced, with for example, OAC trials at $0.10 per hour giving our customers and partners a month of Analytics and Big Data cloud service access to trial these services. “Free Oracle Cloud Promotion” The Free Oracle Cloud...

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) v 17.4.5 Update

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) has recently been updated to v17.4.5 release to improve on: Broadening Your Insights  Make more sense of more information:  Conversational interfaces, powered by natural language and search, so you can ask your data real-world questions Compelling data storytelling to make it easier for more people to understand what’s important in your data, as well as social sharing for easy amplification Better broadcast communication with pixel-perfect reporting...

BI, EPM & Big Data in Focus December 2017

Research: 6 Out of 10 Customers Wouldn’t Buy SAP Again Customers SINOIF Supports and Expands Business with Oracle Financial and EPM Cloud Birminham City Uni Embarks on an Ambitious Strategic Plan with Oracle EPM Cloud Boise State Makes Students Successful Using Oracle BI Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Wed 13 Dec - Sales and Marketing planning integrated with PBCS - Register now Wed 17 Jan - Advice to HFM partners on moving HFM customers on to FCCS - Register now Enterprise...

Partner Training on Oracle EPM Cloud 15-17 Jan 2018

We invite you to join us at any of these three deep-dive implementation training events in-class with hands-on workshops, at no fee for EMEA OPN Partners: 1-Day Deep Dive – PCMCS – 15 January 2018 1.5-Day Deep Dive – TRCS – 16-17 January 2018 Half-Day Deep Dive – EPRCS – 17 January 2018 NOTE: places are limited and so you need to await confirmation that your registration has been accepted. EMEA 1-Day Deep Dive, Hands-on Partner Training for Profitability and Cost Management Cloud a...

EPM Connect in Oracle Cloud

A cool capability was recently added to the EPM SaaS Cloud applications, letting a user neatly navigate across modules for integrated business flows. See @ About Connecting EPM Cloud Subscriptions and Overview Video Once administrators set up the connections, users who have access across EPM Cloud subscriptions can navigate across them from a single access point with one login. Also, artefacts such as forms, dashboards, and so on, from across subscriptions can be co-mingled...

EDMCS is new “DRM in the Cloud”

Join us for this EPM Cloud webcast series to advise our partners of the new product release of “DRM in the Cloud”, the new Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service: Enterprise Dimension Data Management in the Cloud Part 1 – Sales Overview - December 20, 2017 Part 2 – Functional Overview - January 11, 2018 Enterprise Data Management Cloud: Part 1 – Sales Overview Presenter: Rahul Kamath December 20, 2017 @ 8:00 AM US Pacific Time (60 Minutes) / 4.0 pm UK / 5.0 pm CET Register...

Partners can Resell Universal Credits for OACS and Big Data

For easy adoption and ramp up of usage, partners should find the PAYG and minimum Universal Credits ($1k per month) options a great way to attract clients to start up an initial pilot project for Analytic Cloud (OACS), and then increase commitment to a larger on-going UC contract once a client is convinced of the business value and project’s success.  Of course, any customer who already has a Universal Credits contract can easily try OACS or Big Data Cloud within that;...

Free Trials of Oracle Analytics on Laptops and on Cloud

It is very easy and free with Oracle for BI to setup a Free Trial of Analytics, either on your Laptops and/or on our public Cloud for both yourselves as an OPN Partner and for your clients’ proof of concept work.  … possible alternatives: Laptop install @ Intelligent Analytics in Data Visualization Desktop V4 (12.2.4.0.0) Free 30 day multi-user cloud trial of BICS or DVCS ( click the “Try It” button at top right). NOTE: Select the “Try It” button for a no-fuss 30-day trial…. Not...

BI, EPM & Big Data in Focus November 2017

You must Watch this 2-minute Video >>>>> Lloyds Bank Chooses Oracle Cloud to Transform Finance Customers NHS BSA Innovates with Data and Analytics in Oracle Cloud Adani Ports Transforms IT with Machine Learning & AI Payscout Counting On VR To Boost International Ecommerce From Spreadsheets To Data Science: Cummins Revs Up Its Talent Engine Ancar Ivanhoe Enhances Its Complex Budgeting with Oracle EPM Cloud Aspen Pharmacare in South Africa Achieves Global First in Tax Transparency...