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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Business Intelligence in a Cloud

By Jeff Sanders


Lately, the Business Intelligence discipline has been discussed in great depth. With SAP at the helm of the BI mobile demand, and other mega corporations such as IBM, Oracle and SAS playing catch-up, the Business Intelligence niche has experienced vast improvements in a short amount of time. If anyone has considered quitting their Oracle Business Intel training course programs and focusing on the newer S AP BI offerings, you better hold your horses. The BI trends for 2013 suggest that Oracle will still be a force to reckon with in that sector.

Business Intelligence in a Cloud

Cloud technology is said to be the future of IT and Oracle is one of the top players in the Cloud industry. Just recently, Oracle opened it's data center in Australia, due to the high bandwidth usage of it's customer-base there. Cloud serving is by far the most preferred amongst the Australian companies there, based on feedback given. Why not? Of course cloud computing is preferred, because it takes a lot of the burden of the in-house IT staff.

Analytics Set to Boom

Metric reporting is a natural extension to BI. Analytical reporting is the concrete foundation of BI. It has yet to become very popular, probably because companies are slow to trust their most important decisions solely on that. Slowly but surely, companies are coming around to the idea, due to difference quality stat-tracking can have. Based on this, experts are confident to see a large increase in analytics usage throughout 2013.

Mobile BI

Mobile device usage for business purposes has been on the rise with Apple's iPad leading the gadgets race. So, it is no surprise that Mobile BI has been getting a lot of attention going along with that. Oracle has fallen behind SAP in this industry. SAP has created a solution for mobile far superior to Oracle's efforts thus far. That is changing, with Oracle getting pressure from other players as well, and the continued adoption and integration of mobile BI in 2013.




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