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Blog: Shawn RogersFebruary 21, 2008Business Intelligence for the Masses - 8 Million users and growingIs it me or shouldn't every city have a business intelligence and performance management system like the one just rolled out in New York? The new Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR) system powered by Oracle and designed to give every citizen insight into 40 agencies and 100's of KPI's is a very cool idea. Any citizen logged into the system can quickly have a dashboard view of just about any city agencies performance. If your interested in street cleaning, potholes or the trend this past year on firefighter response time its all at your fingertips. The performance indicators provide insight into critical agency measures and performance comparisons over time. It's graphical and very easy to use. So does this mean that the 8.2 million residents of New York are part of the worlds most pervasive Performance Management system? I'm not sure but I really wish my city offered this type of insight. Did you know that murder is down 18% in New York this year? The citizens of NY do.
Here a couple interesting links to the story. Mayor Bloomberg Unveils Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR) Frank Buytendijk Blog at Oracle Tags: Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Oracle, Citywide Performance Reporting January 29, 2008Equinix tackles growth and alignment needs with Oracle
Todd Elsberg of Equinix talks about how Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise platform is applied to address the growth, scalability and customer on-boarding processes that are mission critical to a company growing at 41% year over year. A 16 week success story for one of the largest network neutral data centers companies in the world. Download the interview here:
January 16, 2008Zero to BI in less than 100 Days
A great interview from OracleWorld show. Tim Fleming, Ingersoll Rand - Wei Wu, Dyna-BI Systems, Inc talk about the importance of fast execution, setting expectations and bringing stronger Business Intelligence to an 11 Billion dollar company with 50 global customer centers and 22 plants. Download the interview here:
July 11, 2007Oracle releases 11gOracle announced the launch of Database 11g this morning in New York. The new offering has 400 features and 36,000 person-months of development according to Oracle. The list of enhancements is huge I've listed a few below, visit the Oracle site for more details. Real Application Testing Helps Reduce Time, Risk and Cost of Change Oracle continues its grip on the market according to Gartner they own 47.1% April 24, 2007Hyperion Solutions 2007 - John Kopcke Interview
Interview with Hyperion CTO, John Kopcke. Technorati Tags: Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Hyperion, John Kopcke March 1, 2007Oracle and Hyperion - ContinuedOk, so the cats out of the bag. Now what? Are we seeing the beginning of a major consolidation phase in the business intelligence markets. As most of you know it has been listed as the top technology priority by most major corporations so if there was ever a time to build your solutions portfolio I would guess its now. Will the biggest IT players in the marketplace be able to stay on the sidelines or does Oracle's move force everyones' hand? Who will buy who next? IBM buys Cognos? Will the consolidation make players like Kalido and SAS even stronger as companies with heterogenous environments find the markets solutions less open? Lots of questions, this should be an interesting time for the business intelligence arena. UPDATE: Read Colin White's Coverage Tags: Oracle, Hyperion, Business Intelligence, IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, HP, Business Objects, Cognos, SAS, Kalido
Oracle to Buy HyperionWell the rumors have circulated for longer than any of us can remember but it appears that it is finally true. Oracle is buying Hyperion, CNN is reporting that the deal is worth over 3 Billion dollars. Hyperion (Charts) shares closed on Wednesday at $42.84, giving the company a market value of about $2.53 billion based on reported shares outstanding. Oracle (Charts) shares closed at $16.43. Oracle will pay $52 a share in cash for each Hyperion share, which represents a 21 percent premium over Wednesday's closing price. Shares rose by virtually the same amount in early electronic trading. This is sure to send ripples of concern through the market and will more than likely force the hands of other companies rumored to be looking at business intelligence acquisitions. Others covering the story: Tag: Oracle, Hyperion, Merger, Business Intelligence January 31, 2007Gartner Business Intelligence Summit UK
Andreas Bitterer kicked things off yesterday and shared his latest research: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07. The leaders quadrant continues to contain Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Oracle and SAS. New comer to the report is Spotfire who was included due to it's "innovative analysis capabilities and positioning".
Microsoft's Alex Payne spoke in a session yesterday to a standing room only audience as he presented the importance of pervasive business intelligence. An interesting point was discussed during the session concerning pricing. The bottom line being that low cost or "cheap pricing" doesn't always mean that a product isn't enterprise quality or feature rich. Alex drove the point home by unveiling the new pricing options available and it caused a few gasps in the room. In short, enterprise ready business intelligence at extremely aggressive pricing has officially arrived. Several people left the room in a rush after the slide went up, its possible not everyone in the space is pleased with the new pricing? I hope to have more on the Microsoft piece today. October 25, 2006Oracle Open World - Linux and Redhat and Oracle, Oh My!
He discussed why Linux made best sense as an operating system to support grids, open source, standards based plus it wasn’t owned by that company in Redmond. The open source side of Linux allowed Oracle to tweak the code and deliver the operating system they needed. They have played a leading role in Linux development and community building. Version upgrades and bug fixes are what Ellison feels is slowing the adoption of Linux the need to wait or patch isn’t something enterprise customers are comfortable with. The other issue is ownership of the Linux code and intellectual property concerns of customers. Then Ellison rolled out the big news. Unbreakable Linux 2.0 For the next 90 days you can test drive it and see how it works. All prices are cut in half during this period. This is huge news! Oracle will also indemnify you from any lawsuit concerning the usage of Linux code. This program actually puts Oracle in the position to be the default leader in the Linux community. It will have true impact on many companies. Obviously the folks at RedHat can’t be happy but what about the ripple effect for operating systems, can you say Microsoft? How will they be able to respond to the power of an open source community that updates and bug fixes at the speed of light coupled with the power of a company the size of Oracle supporting it. Oracle has just found the backdoor to the market and will become a huge thorn in the side of Microsoft. Dell is on board for their PowerEdge servers, Intel is also on board, Hewlett Packard will support the new program, as well as AMD, EMC, BMC, Network Appliance, AutoDesk, and Mercury. Technorati Tags: Oracle Open World, Business Intelligence, Larry Ellison, Linux Oracle Open World - Larry Ellison Keynote
Hosted by NASDAQ CEO Robert Greifield, the event celebrated the 20th anniversary of Oracle on the NASDAQ. A $100 dollar investment 20 years ago would now be worth $600,000... not a bad return on your investment. Technorati Tags: Oracle Open World, Business Intelligence, Larry Ellison October 24, 2006Oracle Open World - Web 2.0
This type of integration really takes a solid step forward in helping knowledge workers make business intelligence information actionable. It utilizes AJAX, has Instant messaging, VoIP, mobile services, discussion forums, Wiki services and blogs all designed to enable users to take business intelligence to the next level as a team and to identify goals, tasks and deadlines. Congratulations to Oracle for addressing Web 2.0 in the business intelligence space.
Oracle Open World - News
Oracle Open World - R.L. Polk & Co.
I spoke with Doug Miller, Database Director at R.L. Polk, he's a very passionate customer of Oracle's and has done some great things with the technology. The company has been delivering automotive market information to the industry for over 75 years so they have seen it all from a technology growth standpoint. While business needs drove Polk to find new ways to solve problems they were able to do the project partially because of the aggressive ways Oracle is now addressing licencing and product bundling. In short they needed to spread 5 terabytes across a grid to provide support for customer facing delivery and other applications and have found a whole new level of flexibility that now allows their systems to run at much faster speeds and provided them a platform to support an SOA architecture Doug was a blast to chat with and I highly recommend reading the case study linked here. Technorati Tags: Oracle Open World, Business Intelligence,R.L. Polk Oracle Open World - News
Oracle Open World - Pitney Bowes
Technorati Tags: Oracle Open World, Business Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Oracle Open World - Overview
The San Francisco Chronicle ran the following on it's first page this morning: Technorati Tags: Oracle Open World, Business Intelligence January 30, 2006I Pity the Fool.....If you use Oracle this post is a must read. A very interesting piece regarding Oracle's “Half Way to Fusion” announcement in San Francisco this past week. The story/article stars members of the Oracle executive team in a rerun of the A-Team. The piece stars: Its a pretty funny piece, give it a read. January 11, 2006I love you man...No man I love YOUIts always nice to see people getting along. And I for one am glad to see that Larry (Ellison) and Scott (McNealy) are still buddies. I guess mutual hate and loathing of Microsoft and IBM can be the basis for a business partnership. I'm not too sure which company will get the most out of the deal, Oracle has agreed to keep JAVA for another 10 years and Sun is bundling Oracle on all of its mid and large scale boxes provided that the end user buys a years worth of support from Oracle. Here's a fun quote from the recent announcement: Scott McNealy: “We’ve got to get this out of the way: Are you buying Sun?” Ellison retorted that McNealy would have to read about it in the newspapers first, because “Oracle likes to do everything hostilely.” Interesting things are sure to come from these two companies. November 7, 2005Oracle is Free!Oracle announced last week that it intends to offer a free version of its database by the end of 2005. They released a beta version called Oracle Database 10G Express Edition. This is seen as a move by Oracle to start capturing the lower end of the marketplace. The beta runs on Windows (32-bit) and Linux. The product is initially aimed at developers, software vendors, educators, and students. The product could also help fend off a potential challenge from MySQL. The company is not a big threat to Oracle today but its software improves with each new release, said Andy Hayler, founder and chief strategist with Kalido, which makes data warehousing and master data management products for Oracle and other databases. MySQL has recently made upgrades in an effort to make the product more attractive to enterprise level clients. Get your copy by following this link. September 21, 2005Oracle Open World ExpoThe expo at the show features over 300 companies. Traffic is heavy but the trade show "swag" is nothing special. I am looking forward to the customer appreciation party tonight it features, 80's band Berlin, Bow Wow Wow, Fountains of Wayne, and Counting Crows. Should be a lot of fun.
Share your toysMy mother always said if you invite your friends over you have to share your toys. It appears that Larry Ellison was told the same things by his parents. Oracle invited all of us to the show and Larry is sharing one of his favorite toys. Even though its over 75 feet long I think we will have to take turns.
Feeling lazy at Oracle WorldHave you ever been to a huge conference, walked miles through the Expo, attended classes and finally felt the need to curl up and take a nap? Oracle has you covered meet the "Fat Boys" Oracles answer to relaxation.
Just to be fair, I should mention that if you see someone here that you know they are watching educational material while snoozing.
September 20, 2005Whats on Larry Ellison's iPod?Ever wonder what Mr. Ellison is listening to while he sails and flys planes? Here is what Scott McNealy thought might be on it.
September 12, 2005Oracle to Buy SiebelCNet News (and others) are reporting that Oracle has offered to purchase Siebel for $5.8 Billion. Oracle executives said the mega-deal is intended as a "major beachhead" against archrival SAP, which is the world's largest business-applications seller. Oracle plans to continue product support for Siebel's CRM technology for a number of years and use the company as a "centerpiece" in those efforts. "Siebel will be the centerpiece of our CRM strategy going forward," Ellison said. "We will continue to sell PeopleSoft CRM, Oracle CRM, but Siebel will be the centerpiece."
Siebel has been struggling financially in recent years, as it has become clear that customers are switching to companies that can offer a soup-to-nuts integrated suite, rather than a specialized application, said Tom Siebel, founder and chairman of Siebel and a former Oracle executive under Ellison. |
Following the NASDAQ closing Larry Ellison took the stage and talked about his vision of the future and the importance of the grid architecture. He discussed why grids are faster than mainframes, lower in cost, delivered high performance and scalability. If you mis-estimate on a mainframe your in trouble Grids will allow expansion at a lower cost. It’s capacity on demand. It is also a fault tolerant environment and even the best server will experience down time. Oracle has been promoting various versions of grids or clusters for years, now they are delivering 128 machine grids on Linux. 
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