Let’s say you’re a business analyst who’s been commissioned to create the specs for a portfolio performance report.  Your task is to combine information from the back office database, the middle office trading application and a spreadsheet the portfolio manager has maintained since Excel was introduced. While it could be done with the current toolset, [...] Read More

What would happen if a major retailer that you’ve been doing business with for 10 years suddenly had no record of your purchases?  Imagine if the VIN on your car didn’t show up in your car manufacturer’s records?  What happens when you go online to place an order and the site is down? Are you [...] Read More

Oracle Exalytics is a high-performance, in-memory analytics machine that is extremely efficient in running analytics and business intelligence applications. It consists of a powerful hardware (40 CPUs and 1 TB of RAM) as well as Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) product suite with several in-memory optimizations not available in standard OBIEE installation such as TimesTen. The [...] Read More