20 September 2005
Applications Tuesday: Business Insight
Last time, I was talking (blogging) about how we're already starting
to leverage Fusion Middleware technologies in our existing codelines,
and at the same time getting them ready for the next release.
For example, Enterprise 9, due out next year, will include many
real-time operational dashboards based on some exciting new Fusion
Middleware technology called “Business Activity Montoring,”
or BAM. BAM is all about tracking and correlating real time events
in your system and presenting that information to users so they can
react fast. You're going to hear a lot about Oracle BAM and operational
dashboards today, and probably in the marketplace in the weeks and
months to come.
And there is a lot to see; the operational dashboards
we can build with Oracle BAM include extremely compelling charts,
graphs, even dials and indicators that translate all the data about
business activities and processes in your organization into visuals
that tell you unmistakably what's going on in your business. We
are planning to have CRM dashboards in Enterprise 9 and a Plant
Manager's Dashboard in EnterpriseOne. I hope everyone attends the
sessions and at least sees the demos.
These real-time dashboards are part of the Superior Business Insight
theme in Fusion. I think Gartner said a while ago that being able
to see into your organization in real time was the “Holy Grail”
of IT, and that by next year, the companies leading the competition
will have gotten there because they've learned how to take
advantage of this insight. With Fusion, we're making business
insight a fundamental design point of our applications; this is
a new idea that connects our apps to our customers' success. —Cliff |
