Five Ideas: Business Intelligence

How to improve planning and performance

This month Oracle sponsored Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit 2012, which took place February 6 and 7 in London. The summit brought together Gartner analysts and invited experts to discuss key topics including analytics, business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing and information management. There, Oracle's Paul Rodwick, vice president of product management delivered a keynote address and Oracle Cloud executives and specialists met delegates at the Oracle booth. Missed the conference but still want expert advice about planning in the current economy? Read these five ideas, plus register for a live webcast on February 14 to learn how to turn insights into real-time actions with Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile.

“The combination of Oracle and Endeca is extremely compelling in today's changing data environment. Endeca's innovative technology will allow us to integrate comprehensive unstructured data management into Oracle's engineered systems.” —Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Development

“Failing to include the impact of uncertainty and risk in your analyses can derail your financial plans, especially in times like these. To mitigate risk and maximize profits, you have to be able to incorporate variability and uncertainty into the core of your planning processes.” —Lucie Trepanier, Crystal Ball solution specialist

“While the manager of shipping might like to know that his company is profitable.. and what the stock price is... profit is an indirect output of the work he does on the job and nothing he can directly change. What we need to determine are what his drivers—his key performance indicators—are. In a perfect world, his job can be summarized in 10 KPIs that can allow him to quickly see how he’s performing and improving on his job.” —Edward Roske, Oracle ACE director and the CEO of interRel Consulting

“Pervasive EPM is where we’re heading, by supporting mobility in our solutions, by making products increasingly easy to use, and through integration of Oracle BI with Oracle EPM solutions. We’re working to develop combined solutions where the value of the data and the insights in the EPM applications are made available to a much larger community through integration with our BI product line.” —Gaurav Rewari, vice president of EPM product strategy

“The dashboard [built on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition] is allowing us to improve our performance standards and the services that we provide seniors. That’s the key. It’s an outcome-based system, which is a weakness for our industry. Oracle and the dashboard are helping us get there.” —Joel Nelson, executive vice president at Life Care Services, the nation’s leading developer and manager of senior living communities