Given enough data and the right algorithms, a vehicle can drive itself better than a human can. That is the collective reasoning of more than forty corporations currently funding self-driving vehicle projects. Oracle thinks it can do the same with its databases....
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3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool
Few events in history come close to matching the enormity of the Big Data explosion. According to industry research, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That's approximately 2.5 exabytes. For perspective, if every word ever spoken were quantified in...
Is Your Business “Intelligent”?
The term Business Intelligence has been around since the 1920s, but gained prominence from the 1950s onwards. The advent of data processing mainframe systems and early DBMS allowed for data to be stored, processed and reported. Interest in BI revolutionized in the...
Common Operational Reporting Questions Answered
This post outlines the different types of features that are necessary to optimize real-time reporting with minimal performance degradation. If your business relies on ERP and Cloud applications for its day-to-day functions, you've probably encountered one, if not...
What Data Visualization Should I Use?
Raw data sets that are aggregated from corporate repositories, social media channels, company website metrics and other sources all have the potential to be of great value to an organization, but they don't actually convey meaning at a glance. This is where data...
Orbit Reporting + Analytics, and Discoverer Migration
Support for Oracle Discoverer officially ended on June 30, 2017. Users still running Oracle Discoverer as their everyday operational reporting tool within Oracle E-Business Suite should consider moving to another tool before it is too late... "No new patches for...
How Can Self-Service Business Intelligence Make Your Work Day Easier?
The average business worker uses multiple applications throughout the day for productivity purposes. In fact, by mid-2014, modern enterprises used about 508 applications in their business operations. Today, that number has most likely increased due to the...
Ad Hoc Reporting: Query, Test, Communicate, Repeat
NASA started using computers to calculate orbital paths in 1962. However, John Glenn, a respected pilot from World War II, wasn’t quite sure that he trusted the computer’s numbers. After all, he was trying to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn refused...
Orbit Shortlisted for the UKOUG ISV Partner of the Year Award
Orbit has been shortlisted for the UKOUG ISV Partner of the Year Award We are pleased to announce that Orbit has been shortlisted for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2017/2018. ORBIT has been nominated for the ISV Partner of the Year category, which is awarded to...
Understanding BI’s Potential: Business Intelligence for Business Users
Researchers estimate that approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated on a daily basis. At this point in time, there is exponentially more data available to us than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Just as humankind stares into the vacuum of...
What Are the Benefits of Cloud-Based BI?
This article will discuss those benefits in detail and provide some of the main reasons why organizations are moving towards a cloud-based BI solution. Many business decision-makers have been won over by the cloud's promises of scalability, low overhead and strong...
Why You Need Self-Service Operational Reporting
The majority of an organization's day-to-day workflows are in the hands of its lines of business. It's frustrating, then, that many legacy operational reporting tools fail to provide employees the self-service reporting capabilities they need to do their jobs well....

Autonomous Databases and the Future of DBAs
Given enough data and the right algorithms, a vehicle can drive itself better than a human can. That is the collective reasoning of more than forty corporations currently funding self-driving vehicle projects. Oracle thinks it can do the same with its databases....

3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool
Few events in history come close to matching the enormity of the Big Data explosion. According to industry research, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That's approximately 2.5 exabytes. For perspective, if every word ever spoken were quantified in...

Is Your Business “Intelligent”?
The term Business Intelligence has been around since the 1920s, but gained prominence from the 1950s onwards. The advent of data processing mainframe systems and early DBMS allowed for data to be stored, processed and reported. Interest in BI revolutionized in the...

Common Operational Reporting Questions Answered
This post outlines the different types of features that are necessary to optimize real-time reporting with minimal performance degradation. If your business relies on ERP and Cloud applications for its day-to-day functions, you've probably encountered one, if not...

What Data Visualization Should I Use?
Raw data sets that are aggregated from corporate repositories, social media channels, company website metrics and other sources all have the potential to be of great value to an organization, but they don't actually convey meaning at a glance. This is where data...

Orbit Reporting + Analytics, and Discoverer Migration
Support for Oracle Discoverer officially ended on June 30, 2017. Users still running Oracle Discoverer as their everyday operational reporting tool within Oracle E-Business Suite should consider moving to another tool before it is too late... "No new patches for...

How Can Self-Service Business Intelligence Make Your Work Day Easier?
The average business worker uses multiple applications throughout the day for productivity purposes. In fact, by mid-2014, modern enterprises used about 508 applications in their business operations. Today, that number has most likely increased due to the...

Ad Hoc Reporting: Query, Test, Communicate, Repeat
NASA started using computers to calculate orbital paths in 1962. However, John Glenn, a respected pilot from World War II, wasn’t quite sure that he trusted the computer’s numbers. After all, he was trying to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn refused...

Orbit Shortlisted for the UKOUG ISV Partner of the Year Award
Orbit has been shortlisted for the UKOUG ISV Partner of the Year Award We are pleased to announce that Orbit has been shortlisted for the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2017/2018. ORBIT has been nominated for the ISV Partner of the Year category, which is awarded to...

Understanding BI’s Potential: Business Intelligence for Business Users
Researchers estimate that approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated on a daily basis. At this point in time, there is exponentially more data available to us than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Just as humankind stares into the vacuum of...

What Are the Benefits of Cloud-Based BI?
This article will discuss those benefits in detail and provide some of the main reasons why organizations are moving towards a cloud-based BI solution. Many business decision-makers have been won over by the cloud's promises of scalability, low overhead and strong...

Why You Need Self-Service Operational Reporting
The majority of an organization's day-to-day workflows are in the hands of its lines of business. It's frustrating, then, that many legacy operational reporting tools fail to provide employees the self-service reporting capabilities they need to do their jobs well....












