ODTUG Kscope has two new reasons for being the best conference in the Oracle community. This year, Red Pill Analytics Co-founder and CEO Stewart Bryson was recognized for his accomplishments twice — with the Innovation Award, and the Best Speaker Award in the Big Data & Data Warehousing Track. These kudos added to a week […]
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Do your summer plans include Orlando and Kscope18? Ours do! We are excited to be part of the amazing lineup at the Swan and Dolphin in Orlando, FL on June 10–14. We know it’s tough to decide which sessions to attend but make sure to add these Red Pill Analytics’ sessions to your schedule builder. Let
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Red Pill Analytics is looking forward to placing some bets in Las Vegas for Collaborate18 on April 22–26, 2018. We are honored to be joining the amazing lineup of presentations and panels filled with the latest tips and information about various Oracle topics. Along with presenting Red Pill Analytics likes to take an active role
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Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Industry Events, Oracle, Red Pill NewsMy last few blog posts have discussed how data failure happens, and how we can change failure into success (with a little economic thinking). Continuing with that train of thought, in this post I’ll be discussing how we can better implement analytic solutions by challenging the convention of requirements gathering. Don’t “Gather Requirements”. Hunt for
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Analytics, Business Intelligence, IT ManagementI had just gotten out of a discovery meeting with a client when she said “I’m sure we’re the worst you’ve seen”. The goal of the meeting was to better understand the process they were using, the data source, and how they were consuming that data. Turns out that data was entered into Share Point
Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is generally available (GA) today, and I’m excited to be included in this OAC blog hop welcome wagon. So I’m slumming it with a bunch of Essbase professionals, as you can see from the list of contributing authors below. It’s fascinating to see just how stoked the Essbase community is for
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Analytics, BICS, Business Intelligence, Cloud, OBIEE, Oracle BICS, Oracle DVAs I’ve been discussing in my last few blogs, it’s possible to start using OBIEE for analytics, rather than the standard operational reporting and BI that is commonplace. Data science has been quite the buzz the last few years, and no doubt about it, data scientists can bring great value and understanding to an organization,
I think it’s fair to say that I like models. Whether manifested with Legos, metadata, or economic indicators, I love seeing how inputs can affect outputs. So, when I discovered the forecast capabilities in the R suite, I couldn’t wait to give it a go. Never Tell Me the Odds! Many of the companies I have
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Analytics, Data Science, Forecasting, Machine Learning, OBIEERecently I had a couple of interesting situations pop up in OBIEE 11g regarding dates. No not the edible kind, but the calendar kind. Specifically where it involves fact measures that are valid for a period of time beyond what the date id(s) on the rows in the table allow. The first scenario I will
I know it sounds like I am writing about 1980s technology, and I am, but the fact remains that Excel is still a widely used tool in the business world. Besides, what else would you put your data dumps into? Often Excel reports get used for management reporting, which comes with a number of issues.
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