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Oracle Essbase - Not Just for Financial Analytics
Oracle Essbase is not just for financial analytics anymore. By expanding its use beyond the Finance department, one will begin to see the true value of this flexible and functional tool. This paper shows how one can use an existing sales analysis cube as a foundation for an inventory analysis cube.
89 days ago by Business Intelligence Consulting GroupGrocery Retailer Uses Business Intelligence to Strengthen Supplier Negotiations
Grocery retailer Waitrose needed a more efficient business intelligence solution to support buyers' daily decisions. It designed a solution based on Microsoft technologies, which pulls reporting and analysis into one place. Buyers can quickly access crucial trading figures and supplier data for use in negotiations, helping the retailer to boost sales and profits.
103 days ago by MicrosoftFarmaceuticos Maypo S.A. de C.V. Improves Data Analysis and Information Services to Client Labs
Farmaceuticos Maypo S.A. de C.V. wanted to consolidate internal information and information of affiliated laboratories to provide a total view of data, and accelerate availability of reliable, up-to-date internal and external information and reduce manual procedures and human errors in the data extraction and reporting process. The challenge was to improve the company's ability to produce actionable reports for management as well as the laboratories and health organizations that it serves.
141 days ago by OracleBroadridge Recovers Lost Revenue and Helps Prevent Future Loss With Payment Recovery Solution
Since 2007, Broadridge, formerly a subsidiary of ADP, has provided a range of complete brokerage processing solutions for both retail and institutional firms around the globe. Broadridge wanted to recover lost funds due to overpayment, duplicate payments and erroneous payments. Broadridge analyzed supplier transaction database to find financial recovery opportunities and identified outstanding credits and issues that led to payment errors.
141 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)EMC Corporation Delivers Reports in Minutes With Unified Data Warehouse and Analytics Tools
EMC Corporation wanted to consolidate disparate data sources to reduce total cost of ownership, improve efficiency, and sharpen decision making and provide diverse users with insight into data on various topics, from sales metrics and customer information to Human Resources (HR) and financial figures. The challenge was to grow market share against other high-end storage competitors by leveraging data on customers and markets, and by improving customer service. EMC Corporation implemented a unified data warehouse with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database 11g, eliminating four legacy data warehouses and numerous overlapping business and analytics applications and improved accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting by eliminating 13 shadow business applications.
202 days ago by Oracle5 Ways to Reduce IT Audit Tax
Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. Combine the two in a risk and compliance scenario and you have the onerous "audit tax," a figurative term used to describe the expenses a company incurs when deploying resources and manpower to satisfy the burgeoning set of internal and external compliance and audit mandates. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the audit tax burden. This whitepaper outlines five methods organizations should consider to streamline their compliance efforts and thereby reduce their audit tax.
208 days ago by LumensionData Quality Considerations for a Master Data Management Structure
Companies acquiring companies. Human Resources sharing information with Finance. Businesses spanning multiple countries. What do all of these scenarios have in common? The sharing of data. What is the critical need shared by all of these scenarios? Data management. Master Data Management, to be exact. In today's business environment, mergers and acquisitions, data sharing, and global market presence are commonplace. To be successful, companies must not only gain control of, but must drastically improve their customer data. Read this whitepaper to learn more about implementing an enterprise-wide Master Data Management solutions.
210 days ago by Pitney BowesCustomer Data Quality Platform from Pitney Bowes Business Insight - a Butler Group Technology Audit report
Pitney Bowes Customer Data Quality Platform (CDQP) is a domain-specific customer data quality management system that enables tasks such as integration, cleansing, matching, profiling, monitoring, and enriching the data with location and demographic information. For most B2C companies, accurate customer data and a single consolidated view of the customer is crucial for targeted outreach programs, efficient decision making, and also regulatory compliance for certain sectors such as banking. Read this Butler Group report to find out how your organisation could benefit from a data quality solution
210 days ago by Pitney BowesHARDI INTERNATIONAL A/S Optimizes Operational Efficiency With Enhanced Analytical Tools
HARDI INTERNATIONAL wanted to enable follow-up on key figures such as the degree of coverage of products and geographical areas, purchasing, warehousing, production effectiveness, and compliance with delivery targets and standardize data to create a common platform on which to make decisions. The challenge was to provide quick template options for the budget process to simplify forecasting and budgeting and simplify the production of consolidated accounts with multiple currencies. HARDI INTERNATIONAL implemented Oracle's Hyperion Essbase & Enterprise Analytics to generate precise data and a consolidated view of the entire business through effective and rapid analyses of areas such as the contribution margin of products and geographical areas.
233 days ago by OracleUGA Digital Sharpens Its Display Offerings With Embedded Database
UGA Digital's content delivery networks are useful for managing digital photo frames and other displays. However, UGA Digital needed to provide data mining capabilities to collect data on user behavior. They needed a method to understand consumer behavior with digital signs with the same accuracy it is understood on the internet. UGA Digital turned to Oracle Berkeley DB embedded database to provide the capability to mine data relating to how consumers interact with digital photo frames and digital signs.
233 days ago by Oracle
