Customer Success: Cook County Upgrades Its Enterprise ERP
It’s always nice to see conventional wisdom proved wrong. The general rule of thumb is that an IT project heading into its fifth year is doomed to failure. But recently Cook County Illinois announced the successful completion of a mammoth ERP project – one that was...
AGILE, ADAPTIVE, ACTIONABLE: The 3As of insights-driven business transformation
The COO of a fast-growing luxury brand is sifting through sales data from 800+ locations all over the world. The business leader – who has spent over 40 years in the luxury segment – has had a front-row seat to the advent of using data and business intelligence to...
Migrating from OBIEE Because Adobe Flash is not Supported Anymore? Check Out Orbit Analytics for its Visualization and Self-Service Capabilities
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g users have yet another reason to look for other options since Adobe discontinued support for Flash player from December 31, 2020. Adobe also blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player starting January...
25 Years of Business Intelligence
The book Cyclopedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes, published in 1865, describes how a banker named Sir Henry Furnese actively gathered information to base his business decisions on and beat the competition. In the early 20th century, Henry Ford is believed to...
Planning to migrate from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud? 7 reasons why you should consider Orbit
Are You Considering Migrating from OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)? 7 reasons why other OBIEE customers chose Orbit Analytics. If you are using Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), it is a matter of time before you consider migrating to an alternative platform...
Self-Service Financial Reporting and Analysis with Orbit GL Sense
Financial reporting is critical for any business, but traditional reporting methods often involve manual data extraction, complex ERP queries, and heavy IT dependency. As finance teams struggle with time-consuming processes, organizations increasingly turn to...
The Growing Popularity of DataOps
With a 175-zettabyte wave looming on the horizon for organizations in 2025, DataOps is one way they can keep from drowning in data. DataOps has the potential to revolutionize the manner in which organizations gain insights from their analytics processes. For...
Top 4 Data-Related Careers
The position of data scientist has been a top job in the U.S. for four years running, according to Glassdoor. By 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the demand for data science skills will drive a 27.9 percent rise in employment. In the wake of the...
Four Falsehoods about Operational Reporting
Your organization needs to equip its employees to meet the challenges of the next decade. That may require abandoning a few preconceived ideas about reporting and analytics. Here are four of the most common misunderstandings about operational reporting. Falsehood #1:...
Does Leadership Understand the Value of Data Governance?
When experts write about starting out with data governance, the phrase “low-hanging fruit” tends to appear somewhere in the discussion. The underlying assumption is that leadership and staff won’t support data governance initiatives without some tangible assurance of...
What is Poor Quality Data Costing Your Organization?
From startups to mega-corporations, retail to healthcare, data is a fundamental part of the business model. But in the rush to become data-informed, are organizations failing to consider the costs of bad data quality? Quality data is a mission-critical requirement....
Oracle Cloud Financial Reporting and Excel: A Great Combination
Today, difficulties accessing cloud data and a dearth of familiar tools in applications like Oracle Cloud Financials is hampering Oracle financial reporting and the day-to-day productivity of finance users who depend on cloud financials for close, statements, and...
