by Shane Gibson | Apr 4, 2014 | Optimal Company
I have been to a few conferences and presentations this year. A big part of my role is to look to the future to see what is new in the world of Business Intelligence and what it could mean for our customers. So attending these (along with lots of research and...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 21, 2014 | Analytics
When I was working in Presales at Oracle, doing penance by trying to sell Oracle Applications, I got my butt constantly whopped by Peoplesoft. Why? Sex Sells! Yes they had a few features we didn’t (date effective GL hierarchies were a killer), but we had...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 14, 2014 | Amazon Web Services, CloudBI
As I read this blog post on an interesting idea around how to get help up-skilling on the the cloud providers (AWS etc) i reflected on the rate of change we are seeing in the software market and what that means to administrators that are responsible for managing this...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 4, 2014 | Optimal Company
Its a very interesting time for the contractor market in Wellington this year, a number of major changes by Government last year, coupled with some some other factors has made the market tight for contractors and my view is it will get tighter as we head into 2014. So...
by Shane Gibson | Feb 26, 2014 | Analytics
It’s that time of year again when Gartner publish their BI related magic quadrants and the vendors all blog. tweet and email the good news of where they sit. This year Gartner released a new quadrant, focussed on Advanced Analytics vendors. Here it is: ...
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