Oracle Looks at BI Trends

Oracle Looks at BI Trends

Mobile is taking over the Business Intelligence (BI) world. So is the cloud. And Big Data, especially “unstructured” Big Data, is just beginning to revolutionize the ways that enterprises conduct their strategic planning. Those are a few headline results...
Oracle Looks at EPM Trends

Oracle Looks at EPM Trends

No branch of business operations has been more thoroughly transformed by the computer age than finance, the original “data-driven” business discipline. Successive technology revolutions have given rise to Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions...
Data May Not Lie – But Liars Can

Data May Not Lie – But Liars Can

Figures don’t lie,  the old saying, but liars can figure. Put another way, even accurate and honest-in-itself data can be presented in misleading ways to support a less-than-honest result. To protect against data-rich lies, we must learn to understand the...
Data Governance for Big Data

Data Governance for Big Data

How many times have you read an article about data quality that uses the phrase “garbage in, garbage out”? It is almost a cliché, but when it comes to big data, there is no other phrase that better sums up the challenges faced by organizations that want to...
Stop Drowning the Chief Data Officer

Stop Drowning the Chief Data Officer

For businesses in many industries, the role of chief data officer is something new. But it is a position that is becoming increasingly central to the way that businesses are run. Despite their importance to future success, many companies fail terribly in their...
Don’t Neglect Data Relevance

Don’t Neglect Data Relevance

It is okay to have incomplete or inaccurate data in your system. That’s a statement that would make many business executives shudder. But in a sense it is true – a focus on accuracy and completeness without also looking at relevance can result in very unhelpful...