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Look Smarter Than You Are: Oracle OpenWorld vs. Collaborate vs. Kaleidoscope
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February 7, 2008. Oracle OpenWorld vs. Collaborate vs. Kaleidoscope. In response to my blog entry on February 6th. Robert posed an interesting question:. If you could only go to one conference (and pretend that you don't get an iPod at any of them :) ), which would you go to? First of all, the iPod comment is in response to a post I made during OpenWorld. For being such a decent guy, Oracle decided to reward me with the coolest device ever created (well, as of today), an iPod Touch. Just yesterday (appar...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: September 2014
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September 28, 2014. Oracle Exalytics X4-4 - Bigger, Better, Stronger. Same price as the X3-4. But with more power. The big announcement about it is today at OpenWorld (it would be awesome if they mentioned it during the Intel keynote tonight), but the Exalytics X4-4 is actually available now. Its the same price as the X3-4. 4 Intel Xeon E7-8895v2 processors running at 2.8 - 3.6 GHz. 8 - 60 cores (capacity on demand, more on this in a second). 2 TB of RAM. 24 TB of PCI flash. Cool Tell me more. Managing ...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: February 2013
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February 6, 2013. StarAnalytics Bought by IBM. On February 1, it was announced. One of our favorite software companies in the world) is being bought by IBM ( not. One of our favorite software companies in the world) for an undisclosed amount. Star, founded in 2004, made two excellent products ( Star Integration Server. And Star Command Center. And IBM's strategy, at the moment, is to continue the two products under IBM's Business Analytics Software group. It seems that being able to extract and control O...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: November 2011
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November 27, 2011. Blogs - EPM, Hyperion, and Essbase. Since I started this blog a few years ago, many blogs have sprung up that have excellent information. I'm sure I don't know about all of them, so I'd like your help in linking to the great Oracle EPM, Hyperion, and Essbase blogs I may be missing. Have a look at the scroll on the right (if you're reading this through RSS, go to http:/ looksmarter.blogspot.com/. Calc Script Class on December 8. To register, send an e-mail to Danielle White. The very fi...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: My Friend, Mike Riley, Has Cancer
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December 16, 2013. My Friend, Mike Riley, Has Cancer. I found out this summer that one of my best friends - one of the entire Hyperion community's best friends - has cancer. This is his story. But first, a mea culpa:. In 2008, I Was An Idiot. Back in early 2008, I wrote a blog entry. Comparing Collaborate, Kaleidoscope, and OpenWorld. In this entry. Now which one would I attend if I could only go to one? Because we're hoping that COLLABORATE becomes the successor to the Solutions conference. Solution...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: July 2013
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July 16, 2013. Exalytics - Version X3-4 is Here. That the Exalytics X3-4 was nearly available (the first clue was when it hit the engineered system price list. Back on June 4). It was talked about at-length during the Kscope13 Sunday Developer's Symposium and. it's finally here. Doubling from 1 terabyte to 2 terabytes. This will help everything on the box but those of us running Essbase now have even more RAM to use for making RAM drives. X3-4 supports OBIEE 11.1.1.7, Endeca 3.0, Essbase ...The upgrade k...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: November 2015
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November 27, 2015. Learn About Hyperion and Oracle BI. 5 Minutes at a Time. Since early 2015, we've been trying to figure out how to help educate more people around the world on Oracle BI and Oracle EPM. Back in 2006, interRel. Launched a webcast series. That started out once every two weeks and then rapidly progressed to 2-3 times per week. We presented over 125 webcasts. Last year to 5,000 people from our customers, prospective customers, Oracle employees, and our competitors. We've been trying to inno...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: May 2016
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May 23, 2016. 7 Signs Your EPM is Lagging Behind Your Competition. Regardless of industry, regardless of size, regardless of duration, all companies have similar issues in their financial analysis, planning, and consolidation areas. From building budgets to financial reporting, how can CFOs, VPs of Finance, Directors of FP&A and Controllers tell if their FP&A teams are falling behind their competitors? Strategy is planned verbally or in spreadsheets. Coming up with a strategic plan? If you spend all of y...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: Learn About Hyperion & Oracle BI... 5 Minutes at a Time
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November 27, 2015. Learn About Hyperion and Oracle BI. 5 Minutes at a Time. Since early 2015, we've been trying to figure out how to help educate more people around the world on Oracle BI and Oracle EPM. Back in 2006, interRel. Launched a webcast series. That started out once every two weeks and then rapidly progressed to 2-3 times per week. We presented over 125 webcasts. Last year to 5,000 people from our customers, prospective customers, Oracle employees, and our competitors. We've been trying to inno...
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Look Smarter Than You Are: October 2013
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October 30, 2013. Competitors, Welcome to Our Webcasts. I was happy to be a part of Oracle's EPM Showcase yesterday in New York City. It was a half-day event (plus a happy hour) that had Oracle giving a keynote followed by two 90-minute breakout session timeslots (with two sessions happening concurrently). I was speaking during the first timeslot on Hyperion DRM (Data Relationship Management) along with Nikki from Verizon and Erin Lineberry from interRel. And it made me ask what I could be doing better.