05.06.08
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Oracle OBIEE, Reporting at 1:50 pm by irusgroup
Interesting perspective from Shadan Malik at iDashboards on utilizing dashboards for reports vs. reporting.
A subtle yet important difference lies between reporting and a report. While reporting connotes the gathering of textual and numeric data, a report is a representation of this information. For example, with regard to a manufacturing company that gathers an array of information about its supply chain, a report would be generated as a spreadsheet encompassing data collected by the different relevant areas of the business. The process with which this data is collected and displayed is the manufacturing company’s reporting technique. The importance of this difference emerges when considering the many forms of reporting, which are currently transforming the use of reports within businesses across all sectors. More
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04.19.08
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise/Corporate Performance Management (EPM/CPM), Oracle OBIEE at 3:12 pm by irusgroup
Our OBIEE clients ask us to define business intelligence (BI) all the time. Here are some good definitions we found after a quick search.
a popularized, umbrella term used to describe a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact-based support …
www.noisebetweenstations.com/personal/essays/metadata_glossary/metadata_glossary.html
Normally describes the result of in-depth analysis of detailed business data. Includes database and application technologies, as well as analysis practices. …
it.csumb.edu/departments/data/glossary.html
Systems that provide directed background data and reporting tools to support and improve the decision-making process.
bridgefieldgroup.com/bridgefieldgroup/glos1.htm
The capability to perform in-depth analysis and possibly data mining, of detailed business data, providing real and significant information to business users. Business intelligence usually makes use of tools designed to easily access data warehouse data.
www.damacoc.org/presentations/2007_04_11_Adelman_DWGlossary.doc
The knowledge derived from analyzing an organization’s information.
planning.ucsc.edu/irps/dwh/DWHGLOSS.HTM
Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term which refers to applications and technologies which are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about their company operations. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business intelligence
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04.17.08
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Federal, Oracle OBIEE at 1:12 pm by irusgroup
Collaborate 08 was truly a great conference. We were proud to be a part of it. Click here for a copy of our well-attended presentation on business intelligence strategies for public sector entities. It also has some great ideas for commercial entities as well.
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04.15.08
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Oracle OBIEE, Packaged BI Applications at 3:56 am by irusgroup
Good article by Robert Farris of Hitachi covering the pros and cons of deploying packaged applications. Obviously we see more of the pros having implemented dozens of systems for government and commercial customers.
The Promise of Packaged Analytics
Many companies these days run their business, or at least significant areas of their business, using packaged applications configured to automate business processes across major functional areas such as finance, human resources (HR), manufacturing, supply chain management, customer service, sales, marketing, etc. These systems are good at capturing detailed transactional data about what is happening in the business. Click here for the rest of the article.
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01.04.08
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise/Corporate Performance Management (EPM/CPM), Oracle OBIEE at 3:03 pm by irusgroup
The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) had been using Microsoft Excel as its primary budgeting and planning tool. As the organization grew, the limitations of using Excel as an enterprise level budgeting and planning tool became painfully obvious, for all of the usual reasons and then some.
The Irus Group helped PBS understand the benefits and opportunities presented by moving to Oracle EPB (Enterprise Planning and Budgeting). When Oracle introduced EPB, Irus Group was one of only a dozen firms on the planet that were trained to design, develop, implement, and manage EPB. This support was critical to PBS as it was moving to an enterprise system for the first time. The enterprise nature of EPB would open up many financial management opportunities for PBS such as better reporting, easier consolidations, and more effective process management. Since this was such a high-risk endeavor for PBS and since only a handful of consulting firms were even familiar with EPB, PBS needed the Irus Group’s expertise in budgeting and planning and business intelligence to ensure that such a high-risk development effort went flawlessly.
Check out more in this case study.
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11.25.07
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise/Corporate Performance Management (EPM/CPM), Oracle OBIEE at 4:27 pm by irusgroup
Clients of ours want to know what we see in the market place and how the recent spate of business intelligence company sales will affect them. We see two main results of the acquisitions: convergence and interoperability. Our clients want to protect their technology product investments and not start from scratch. So vendors are coming up with tools and applications to help them do that. For example, in Oracle’s case, there’s a big push towards service oriented architecture (SOA). Just ping the data source to get the relevant information that you want.
The consolidation in the BI space will force all of the big players into building a big, shared common BI platform. This captures whatever you need for analysis. You can then access that information from multiple sources. Which leads to the third thing, which is BI is becoming pervasive. With BI tools, you are making decisions based on information used to make previous decisions, so low level decision making can become fairly obvious and perhaps automated which allows you to use the BI tools to make higher level decisions. Analysts are no longer bogged down by doing clerk-level tasks and can actually focus on doing analysis.
And for example, instead of looking in the past to determine your top ten customers, you can use BI to predict who the top ten customers will be in the future. When you’re doing predictive analysis, you’re moving to more sophisticated data mining, and you can now get some actionable analytics.
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10.25.07
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Federal, Oracle OBIEE at 10:20 am by irusgroup
Vijay Suri headlined a breakout session at the upcoming Oracle Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics (BIWA) Special Interest Group Summit Conference in Reston on October 2 and 3. Suri’s presentation was entitled “Strategies for Helping Federal Agencies Optimize Oracle BI Tools and Processes.” It was the only presentation at the conference that focused specifically on the business intelligence needs of Federal Government agencies. The presentation cited real examples of where business intelligence processes are in use at Federal agencies including two case studies where Irus Group consultants have significantly assisted Federal agencies in solving complex business problems using BI tools and processes. Request a copy of the presentation.
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10.09.07
Posted in Business Intelligence (BI), Federal, Oracle OBIEE at 2:40 pm by irusgroup
We look forward to attending the Oracle Federal Forum at the Ronald Reagan Building on October 11. Among the technical sessions we’re looking forward to is “Federal Financials Customer Panel” which will feature Lawrence I. Neff, Deputy CFO, at the Department of Transportation and Terry Hurst, Deputy Assistant Secretary at Department of Health & Human Services.
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08.03.07
Posted in Oracle OBIEE at 1:08 pm by irusgroup
We’re excited about the recent Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus announcement and look forward to supporting it for our clients. The Irus Group approach of looking at Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) with a financial slant benefits our clients. Our long expertise in financial processes, such as planning and budgeting helps government agencies, financial services firms, and other commercial entities get more value from their BI systems.
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