This document discusses the importance and process of storyboarding when building reports and dashboards. Storyboarding involves creating mockups at different levels - high-level, common theme, and visual - to get stakeholder buy-in and iron out requirements. It recommends starting with high-level sketches to outline objectives and questions, then grouping reports by common themes before adding visualizations. The goal is to obtain quick wins, avoid missed details, and deliver products that meet expectations the first time.
Hub16: Tyco: How to drive growth and efficiency through a global sales compen...Anaplan
Tyco has 7,000 sales employees, 300 different sales plans, and 70 individuals across the globe calculating compensation on a weekly basis across disparate systems for a multitude of verticals and products. In this session, Peter Orlando will discuss how Tyco has alleviated the pain and process of sales transformation. With Anaplan, Peter has led a transition from a local to enterprise-based sales model.
QuickBase for the Outside World: Building for Field Users, Clients and VendorsQuickBase, Inc.
If your QuickBase apps don't serve workers in the field, mobile users, clients or vendors, you’re missing tremendous value, and we’ll show you how to get it. In this session, you'll learn how to integrate users outside of company headquarters to achieve seamless communication, visibility, tracking, and performance. This includes mobile and tablet users with work assignments, electronic signatures, approvals, scanning/QR codes, electronic payments, and more. Take QuickBase to the next level of power and value with these practices.
Hub16: ”Flexible” supply chain planning technology and its impact on B2B and ...Anaplan
Today, consumers expect retailers to engage and interact with them in the ways that best cater to their habits. Guy Courtin, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, has made his career defining a holistic view of B2B and B2C supply chain of goods and services. This session focuses on the touchpoints between the consumer, whether it's the individual at the B2C level or entities at the B2B level, and the commerce supply chain. As shoppers become more accustomed to multi-channel delivery, he predicts that the distinction between ”omnichannel commerce” and just plain ”commerce” will slowly erode. Hear Guy speak about the future of supply chain plannning in B2B and B2C companies, and how technology can assist in making this digital distruption a reality.
Lunar Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case Changes WebinarDrew Whitcomb
On April 20th, 2018, Salesforce is changing the functionality of its Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead products and requiring code updates. If the code updates are not made, Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead will cease to function. This webinar from Lunar, a Salesforce consultancy and SaaS products company, explains why this is a big deal, what your options are, and provides a course of action along with detailed instructions.
Watch the webinar on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SFALgYaJk_M
Hub 16: Supply chain planning excellence with ExcelitasAnaplan
A disruptive and holistic approach to forecasting and manufacturing is needed to win in local markets worldwide. Without a global system that standardizes and communicates emerging practices and behaviors across sales and manufacturing, organizations compromise agility and uptime. Learn from Amit Shah how Excelitas, a global manufacturer, is making this a reality with manufacturing excellence. Learn from real examples of how Excelitas' journey is managed with technology, and see what the company did before and what its vision is with Anaplan.
The Three Pillars of Customer Success AnalyticsLooker
Learn how customer health analysis can not only help you maintain your current customer base, but also drive increased revenue from that existing base. In this webinar, we examined how we use customized health scores internally to achieve consistently negative churn rates, and cover a few examples from our customers who do the same.
Customer Success Analysis aides growth by helping you:
Retain revenue
Acquire new Revenue
Cut operational costs
Hub16: Tyco: How to drive growth and efficiency through a global sales compen...Anaplan
Tyco has 7,000 sales employees, 300 different sales plans, and 70 individuals across the globe calculating compensation on a weekly basis across disparate systems for a multitude of verticals and products. In this session, Peter Orlando will discuss how Tyco has alleviated the pain and process of sales transformation. With Anaplan, Peter has led a transition from a local to enterprise-based sales model.
QuickBase for the Outside World: Building for Field Users, Clients and VendorsQuickBase, Inc.
If your QuickBase apps don't serve workers in the field, mobile users, clients or vendors, you’re missing tremendous value, and we’ll show you how to get it. In this session, you'll learn how to integrate users outside of company headquarters to achieve seamless communication, visibility, tracking, and performance. This includes mobile and tablet users with work assignments, electronic signatures, approvals, scanning/QR codes, electronic payments, and more. Take QuickBase to the next level of power and value with these practices.
Hub16: ”Flexible” supply chain planning technology and its impact on B2B and ...Anaplan
Today, consumers expect retailers to engage and interact with them in the ways that best cater to their habits. Guy Courtin, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, has made his career defining a holistic view of B2B and B2C supply chain of goods and services. This session focuses on the touchpoints between the consumer, whether it's the individual at the B2C level or entities at the B2B level, and the commerce supply chain. As shoppers become more accustomed to multi-channel delivery, he predicts that the distinction between ”omnichannel commerce” and just plain ”commerce” will slowly erode. Hear Guy speak about the future of supply chain plannning in B2B and B2C companies, and how technology can assist in making this digital distruption a reality.
Lunar Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case Changes WebinarDrew Whitcomb
On April 20th, 2018, Salesforce is changing the functionality of its Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead products and requiring code updates. If the code updates are not made, Web-to-Case and Web-to-Lead will cease to function. This webinar from Lunar, a Salesforce consultancy and SaaS products company, explains why this is a big deal, what your options are, and provides a course of action along with detailed instructions.
Watch the webinar on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SFALgYaJk_M
Hub 16: Supply chain planning excellence with ExcelitasAnaplan
A disruptive and holistic approach to forecasting and manufacturing is needed to win in local markets worldwide. Without a global system that standardizes and communicates emerging practices and behaviors across sales and manufacturing, organizations compromise agility and uptime. Learn from Amit Shah how Excelitas, a global manufacturer, is making this a reality with manufacturing excellence. Learn from real examples of how Excelitas' journey is managed with technology, and see what the company did before and what its vision is with Anaplan.
The Three Pillars of Customer Success AnalyticsLooker
Learn how customer health analysis can not only help you maintain your current customer base, but also drive increased revenue from that existing base. In this webinar, we examined how we use customized health scores internally to achieve consistently negative churn rates, and cover a few examples from our customers who do the same.
Customer Success Analysis aides growth by helping you:
Retain revenue
Acquire new Revenue
Cut operational costs
The Anaplan planning cloud is for Sales, Finance, and Operations.Intellium
The planning cloud for Sales, Finance, and Operations.
---- Plan, collaborate and act—in real time ----
The Anaplan planning cloud is built on a revolutionary platform that allows you to quickly modify, extend, or build your own planning applications.
Method360’s Senior BI Consultant, Jeremy Alper, explores the process of building out executive level Tableau dashboards from beginning to end. From gathering requirements, to UI/UX design, this webinar will cover everything needed to create dashboards your executives will love! Make sure you watch this webinar on our YouTube channel.
Creating a Single Source of Truth: Leverage all of your data with powerful an...Looker
With a centralized data store, the entire spectrum of analytics is at your fingertips. Using Looker & Segment, you can collect, store and analyze everything from click-stream and event data to transactional and behavioral data in your data warehouse.
Some of the topics this webinar will include:
-The advantages of a centralized data warehouse with Segment Warehouses
-Creating a data model to get your company on the same page with Looker Blocks
-Putting it all together: Best practices for making your data accessible to your end users
To correctly portray complex data a developer must utilize modern data visualization techniques. This session describes how to create data graphics (charts) and dashboards that are concise, attractive and usable. Learn the practical design principles that apply to every data graphic you produce. Without this firsthand knowledge one can innocently construct visuals that erroneously represent data and mislead viewers. I cover Important Visual Perception Patterns to Know and the Top Common Chart Design Errors. I will also share the knowledge framework for creating effective graphical data dashboards. Apply the best design pattern every time using the "3 threes" — a convenient memory hook representing the distinctions between systems that “monitor, measure, and manage” performance metrics for “operations, tactical or strategic” purposes. Become a hero of interactive data visualization. Copious examples included.
When and Where to Embed Business IntelligenceLooker
Watch the recorded webinar at http://bit.ly/1MeX7QK
Everywhere you look, companies are using external-facing analytics to maximize the value derived from their data assets, by moving customers up the value chain, increasing stickiness, and offering a more competitive product on the marketplace.
Listen to learn about how to bring an external-facing data product to market by embedding BI software, and what that can add to your offering.
Presentation covers:
-Top uses cases for embedding business intelligence software
Case studies from different companies currently embedding BI
-Build vs buy considerations
-Evaluating ROI
Hub16: CareerBuilder: Focusing Sales and Marketing efforts using account segm...Anaplan
Lindsey Nelson, VP of Global Sales Productivity, will detail how CareerBuilder has improved account engagement across Sales and Marketing with focused customer segmentation and scoring, as well as how the company sees potential to extend its sales performance management into territory and quota planning.
Developing an Anaplan roadmap beyond P&L planning: Red Robin’s Anaplan journe...Anaplan
With over $1.15 billion in revenue, Red Robin deployed Anaplan to improve restaurant operations planning cycles. With Anaplan, Red Robin was able to improve visibility into P&L performance at over 400 restaurants, using 10 sources of data ,while increasing frequency of scorecards from once every 28 days to every week. Markus Lonnquist, Director of IT Transformation, will explain how to set up an initial successful Anaplan deployment for future expansions and walk through what's next for Red Robin with their Anaplan roadmap.
Hub16: How Pure Storage IT is driving rapid value across its business functionsAnaplan
Yousuf Khan, VP of IT at Pure Storage, shares how they rapidly implemented Anaplan to drive integrated business planning across their company, from Sales to Finance and Operations.
7 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transitioning Business Software to the CloudCallie Wagner
If you are considering moving your on-premises software systems to the cloud, there can be many benefits. But there can also be potential pitfalls.
To help you steer clear of the problems that inevitably accompany change, we’ve collected stories based on the real experiences of companies like yours. On each page of this white paper, you’ll find a cautionary tale based on hard-earned experience. Plus, tips to avoid making the same mistake.
Custom Calculations: Your business is unique — shouldn't your metrics be?Looker
Analytics is about so much more than defining high-level KPIs and building dashboards to amplify them. With a little creativity, you can create custom metrics designed to inform every member of an organization. With this knowledge of their effect on the business, everyone can optimize their impact on company-wide goals.
What you'll learn:
-Why standard KPIs may not be getting you everything you need
-Who can benefit from these new metrics (everyone!)
-How to identify key metrics and roll them out to the entire organization
-Get examples of how other companies are creating custom analytics
Join Rich Taylor, Looker’s Senior Director of Operations & Marketing (and a long time SFDC user), as he chats with Kevin Marr, Senior Looker Data Analyst. They’ll discuss the ways we, as well as our customers, use Looker to get the most out of data captured by SFDC.
Better ways to leverage your SFDC Data with Looker:
Snapshots of pipeline: Develop a clear understanding of the business, trends over time, and pipeline vs. target analysis.
Conversion Rates: view them at each step of the sales funnel, and compare them across teams, individuals, and timeframes.
Identifying trends: Project the probability of pipeline closing over time.
Rep Specific Dashboards: Compare a single rep to team and the entire sales org on multiple factors, including customer health for improved and proactive customer retention.
Hub16: Managing two distinctive workforce plans to drive growthAnaplan
ServiceSource transformed its workforce planning, financial planning, and budgeting with the right enterprise solution. Discover what ROI and operational efficiencies ServiceSource achieved via its Anaplan deployment to help turn around its business, and gain insights that you can apply in your organization.
Delivering data and analytics to your customers should be straightforward. The Looker Data Platform allows for easy access to data through a robust API and embeddable charts, tables and dashboards.
Learn how Looker can help you:
- Embed charts, tables and dashboards into applications
- Use the Looker API to deliver data to applications, including Slack
- Build a customer portal to deliver more value to your customers
- Design the above with version control through Git, along with clustering and multi-server setup as needed
Hub16: Taking global compensation to the next level at IntelAnaplan
Intel has a transformational plan underway for its HR processes—and global compensation using Anaplan is just one part of that plan. Hear why the Intel compensation team selected Anaplan and where they want to go next in their transformation journey.
Three Most Common Realizations that it's Time to Upgrade Your Business SoftwareSolution Systems, Inc.
This presentation will discuss the three most common reasons small and medium sized businesses upgrade their existing business software and how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials solves them.
My Presentation as Speaker in Google Cloud Platform Big Data Summit in Google Venice Office, talking about how we utilize Google Big Query and other Big Data stack in BlueCava
A website owner's first localization initiative is often a nightmare. Fortunately, most of that pain can be avoided by planning and following best practices for web development and content generation. This presentation walks through what to look out for in preparing a website for localization.
Data Discovery and BI - Is there Really a Difference?Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with John O'Brien and Birst
Live Webcast Dec. 3, 2013
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=7869542&rKey=1f6574abc879ca42
While the disciplines of business intelligence and discovery certainly overlap, there are key distinctions between the two, both in terms of design point and user interface. While traditionally it is believed different architectures are required to address these differing analytic needs, is that really the case? Or is discovery simply another key capability within an overall BI platform?
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst John O'Brien of Radiant Advisors as he outlines best practices for enabling high-quality business intelligence and discovery, and the architectural capabilities to enable both. He'll be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst who will tout his company's cloud BI platform. In particular, Peters will demonstrate how the Birst architecture was especially designed for enterprise-caliber BI and argue for a more inclusive future BI architecture.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information
Data. It keeps coming up time and time again. On our social media feeds, in our client conversations, and has of course been the driver behind never-before-seen tools like ChatGPT.
But how can you do more with the data your organisation has and produces? What is data engineering and big data, and how can you enable data-driven decision-making within your organisation?
Hear from Nabi Rezvani—Lead Data Engineer—and Gaurav Thadani—Lead Software Engineer at DiUS on the latest trends, use cases and real-life examples of how our clients are using data and analytics to improve their decision making, customer experiences and business operations.
Also joining us are Jonathan Gomez—Head of Data Platforms at Wesfarmers OneDigital OnePass—and John Sullivan—CEO at ChargeFox—on their own [big and small] data journeys, along with the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Watch the presentation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ccghOfcdGN8
The Anaplan planning cloud is for Sales, Finance, and Operations.Intellium
The planning cloud for Sales, Finance, and Operations.
---- Plan, collaborate and act—in real time ----
The Anaplan planning cloud is built on a revolutionary platform that allows you to quickly modify, extend, or build your own planning applications.
Method360’s Senior BI Consultant, Jeremy Alper, explores the process of building out executive level Tableau dashboards from beginning to end. From gathering requirements, to UI/UX design, this webinar will cover everything needed to create dashboards your executives will love! Make sure you watch this webinar on our YouTube channel.
Creating a Single Source of Truth: Leverage all of your data with powerful an...Looker
With a centralized data store, the entire spectrum of analytics is at your fingertips. Using Looker & Segment, you can collect, store and analyze everything from click-stream and event data to transactional and behavioral data in your data warehouse.
Some of the topics this webinar will include:
-The advantages of a centralized data warehouse with Segment Warehouses
-Creating a data model to get your company on the same page with Looker Blocks
-Putting it all together: Best practices for making your data accessible to your end users
To correctly portray complex data a developer must utilize modern data visualization techniques. This session describes how to create data graphics (charts) and dashboards that are concise, attractive and usable. Learn the practical design principles that apply to every data graphic you produce. Without this firsthand knowledge one can innocently construct visuals that erroneously represent data and mislead viewers. I cover Important Visual Perception Patterns to Know and the Top Common Chart Design Errors. I will also share the knowledge framework for creating effective graphical data dashboards. Apply the best design pattern every time using the "3 threes" — a convenient memory hook representing the distinctions between systems that “monitor, measure, and manage” performance metrics for “operations, tactical or strategic” purposes. Become a hero of interactive data visualization. Copious examples included.
When and Where to Embed Business IntelligenceLooker
Watch the recorded webinar at http://bit.ly/1MeX7QK
Everywhere you look, companies are using external-facing analytics to maximize the value derived from their data assets, by moving customers up the value chain, increasing stickiness, and offering a more competitive product on the marketplace.
Listen to learn about how to bring an external-facing data product to market by embedding BI software, and what that can add to your offering.
Presentation covers:
-Top uses cases for embedding business intelligence software
Case studies from different companies currently embedding BI
-Build vs buy considerations
-Evaluating ROI
Hub16: CareerBuilder: Focusing Sales and Marketing efforts using account segm...Anaplan
Lindsey Nelson, VP of Global Sales Productivity, will detail how CareerBuilder has improved account engagement across Sales and Marketing with focused customer segmentation and scoring, as well as how the company sees potential to extend its sales performance management into territory and quota planning.
Developing an Anaplan roadmap beyond P&L planning: Red Robin’s Anaplan journe...Anaplan
With over $1.15 billion in revenue, Red Robin deployed Anaplan to improve restaurant operations planning cycles. With Anaplan, Red Robin was able to improve visibility into P&L performance at over 400 restaurants, using 10 sources of data ,while increasing frequency of scorecards from once every 28 days to every week. Markus Lonnquist, Director of IT Transformation, will explain how to set up an initial successful Anaplan deployment for future expansions and walk through what's next for Red Robin with their Anaplan roadmap.
Hub16: How Pure Storage IT is driving rapid value across its business functionsAnaplan
Yousuf Khan, VP of IT at Pure Storage, shares how they rapidly implemented Anaplan to drive integrated business planning across their company, from Sales to Finance and Operations.
7 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transitioning Business Software to the CloudCallie Wagner
If you are considering moving your on-premises software systems to the cloud, there can be many benefits. But there can also be potential pitfalls.
To help you steer clear of the problems that inevitably accompany change, we’ve collected stories based on the real experiences of companies like yours. On each page of this white paper, you’ll find a cautionary tale based on hard-earned experience. Plus, tips to avoid making the same mistake.
Custom Calculations: Your business is unique — shouldn't your metrics be?Looker
Analytics is about so much more than defining high-level KPIs and building dashboards to amplify them. With a little creativity, you can create custom metrics designed to inform every member of an organization. With this knowledge of their effect on the business, everyone can optimize their impact on company-wide goals.
What you'll learn:
-Why standard KPIs may not be getting you everything you need
-Who can benefit from these new metrics (everyone!)
-How to identify key metrics and roll them out to the entire organization
-Get examples of how other companies are creating custom analytics
Join Rich Taylor, Looker’s Senior Director of Operations & Marketing (and a long time SFDC user), as he chats with Kevin Marr, Senior Looker Data Analyst. They’ll discuss the ways we, as well as our customers, use Looker to get the most out of data captured by SFDC.
Better ways to leverage your SFDC Data with Looker:
Snapshots of pipeline: Develop a clear understanding of the business, trends over time, and pipeline vs. target analysis.
Conversion Rates: view them at each step of the sales funnel, and compare them across teams, individuals, and timeframes.
Identifying trends: Project the probability of pipeline closing over time.
Rep Specific Dashboards: Compare a single rep to team and the entire sales org on multiple factors, including customer health for improved and proactive customer retention.
Hub16: Managing two distinctive workforce plans to drive growthAnaplan
ServiceSource transformed its workforce planning, financial planning, and budgeting with the right enterprise solution. Discover what ROI and operational efficiencies ServiceSource achieved via its Anaplan deployment to help turn around its business, and gain insights that you can apply in your organization.
Delivering data and analytics to your customers should be straightforward. The Looker Data Platform allows for easy access to data through a robust API and embeddable charts, tables and dashboards.
Learn how Looker can help you:
- Embed charts, tables and dashboards into applications
- Use the Looker API to deliver data to applications, including Slack
- Build a customer portal to deliver more value to your customers
- Design the above with version control through Git, along with clustering and multi-server setup as needed
Hub16: Taking global compensation to the next level at IntelAnaplan
Intel has a transformational plan underway for its HR processes—and global compensation using Anaplan is just one part of that plan. Hear why the Intel compensation team selected Anaplan and where they want to go next in their transformation journey.
Three Most Common Realizations that it's Time to Upgrade Your Business SoftwareSolution Systems, Inc.
This presentation will discuss the three most common reasons small and medium sized businesses upgrade their existing business software and how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials solves them.
My Presentation as Speaker in Google Cloud Platform Big Data Summit in Google Venice Office, talking about how we utilize Google Big Query and other Big Data stack in BlueCava
A website owner's first localization initiative is often a nightmare. Fortunately, most of that pain can be avoided by planning and following best practices for web development and content generation. This presentation walks through what to look out for in preparing a website for localization.
Data Discovery and BI - Is there Really a Difference?Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with John O'Brien and Birst
Live Webcast Dec. 3, 2013
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=7869542&rKey=1f6574abc879ca42
While the disciplines of business intelligence and discovery certainly overlap, there are key distinctions between the two, both in terms of design point and user interface. While traditionally it is believed different architectures are required to address these differing analytic needs, is that really the case? Or is discovery simply another key capability within an overall BI platform?
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst John O'Brien of Radiant Advisors as he outlines best practices for enabling high-quality business intelligence and discovery, and the architectural capabilities to enable both. He'll be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst who will tout his company's cloud BI platform. In particular, Peters will demonstrate how the Birst architecture was especially designed for enterprise-caliber BI and argue for a more inclusive future BI architecture.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information
Data. It keeps coming up time and time again. On our social media feeds, in our client conversations, and has of course been the driver behind never-before-seen tools like ChatGPT.
But how can you do more with the data your organisation has and produces? What is data engineering and big data, and how can you enable data-driven decision-making within your organisation?
Hear from Nabi Rezvani—Lead Data Engineer—and Gaurav Thadani—Lead Software Engineer at DiUS on the latest trends, use cases and real-life examples of how our clients are using data and analytics to improve their decision making, customer experiences and business operations.
Also joining us are Jonathan Gomez—Head of Data Platforms at Wesfarmers OneDigital OnePass—and John Sullivan—CEO at ChargeFox—on their own [big and small] data journeys, along with the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Watch the presentation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ccghOfcdGN8
Integrating Advanced Analytics with Autodesk SolutionsRich Hanapole
Learn how to integrate analytics software with Autodesk products to improve project visibility and communicate progress, issues and accomplishments to project stakeholders.
This class highlights proven approaches to design and integrate analytics into a project and demonstrates how stakeholders have the ability to view charts and trends including the ability to drill down into project data to identify challenge areas and apply corrective actions to improve the likelihood of a successful project outcome.
The 3 Steps to a Successful Statement of WorkMBO Partners
This presentation overviews why you need a good statement of work, provides writing tips and strategy and gives you a checklist to ensure your bases are covered. All of these things can help you win business.
Find more resources for independent professionals at www2.mbopartners.com/ic-resources
Back to Basics: How to Modernize Reports and DashboardsInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor and Brent Winsor of IBM Business Analytics
Live Webcast on January 28, 2014
Watch the archive at https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=ee08df639ddeb02dc586ad9bd9d8dfd7
Everyone needs BI reports and dashboards, but not everyone wants the same information. It’s no wonder, then, that self-service has taken such a prominent role in today’s organizations. Business users need their key data, but they should also be able to drill down to get transactional details and more. Incorporating other analytical capabilities – such as predictive modeling and visualization – can be the next step in providing valuable insight and speed to decisioning.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains why traditional BI needs a makeover. He will be briefed by Brent Winsor of IBM Business Analytics, who will tout his company’s forward-looking approach to business intelligence, which includes integrating interactive visualizations and predictive capabilities with traditional BI tools.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Ente...Inside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Wayne Eckerson and Birst
Live Webcast on March 4, 2014
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=573944bdf3e01bfb977fa9f3d1d623c2
At the Tipping Point: Considerations for Cloud BI in a Multi-platform BI Enterprise - Mar. 4
The Briefing Room with Wayne Eckerson and Birst
Cloud BI, once a novelty, is now going mainstream. More and more organizations are adopting Cloud BI and folding it in their BI strategy. Learn what considerations are necessary to determine if Cloud BI should be part of your multi-platform BI architecture.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Wayne Eckerson as he explains what to consider when choosing cloud-based solutions. He will be briefed by Brad Peters of Birst, who will tout his company’s enterprise-caliber cloud BI platform. Peters will describe how the coexistence of cloud applications and traditional environments can provide the kind of agility and flexibility that can lead to faster time to value.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
Smarter Analytics: Supporting the Enterprise with AutomationInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Barry Devlin and WhereScape
Live Webcast on June 10, 2014
Watch the archive:
https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=5230c31ab287778c73b56002bc2c51a
The data warehouse is intended to support analysis by making the right data available to the right people in a timely fashion. But conditions change all the time, and when data doesn’t keep up with the business, analysts quickly turn to workarounds. This leads to ungoverned and largely un-managed side projects, which trade short-term wins for long-term trouble. One way to keep everyone happy is by creating an integrated environment that pulls data from all sources, and is capable of automating both the model development and delivery of analyst-ready data.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear data warehousing pioneer and Analyst Barry Devlin as he explains the critical components of a successful data warehouse environment, and how traditional approaches must be augmented to keep up with the times. He’ll be briefed by WhereScape CEO Michael Whitehead, who will showcase his company’s data warehousing automation solutions. He’ll discuss how a fast, well-managed and automated infrastructure is the key to empowering faster, smarter, repeatable decision making.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
Case Study: Lessons from Newell Rubbermaid's SAP HANA Proof of ConceptSAPinsider Events
View this session from Reporting & Analytics 2014. Coming to Las Vegas in November! www.reporting2015.com
In this session, Newell Rubbermaid guides you through the key elements that comprised its SAP HANA business case and proof of concept, including an emphasis on process improvement. Learn firsthand how Newell Rubbermaid:
· Identified which business processes were most likely to realize significant improvement as a result of utilizing SAP HANA
· Established a “current state” baseline and demonstrated a “projected state” that could be realized through the use of SAP HANA
· Determined which SAP BI tools to use based on specific reporting scenarios and end user requirements
Navigating the Workday Analytics and Reporting EcosystemWorkday, Inc.
Learn how to maximize the reporting and analytics capability in Workday for finance and HR teams. This slide deck dives into the functionality of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday People Analytics.
Thinklayer help enterprises in optimizing business operations with Business Analytics and Software Solutions and take smarter decisions with data. Our Mission is to reduce operational cost, increase efficiency and build solutions which helps our clients to take better and smarter decisions. Our promise as a BI Company is to build value into every project while delivering professional expertise.
A Wall Street Journal article reveals "A lot of valuable information is wasted in companies because employees don't describe or understand information in the same way across the organization. ... words such as 'profit,' 'overhead' and 'attrition' can mean different things in different departments, units and regions."
Join us for an educational webinar discussing how to prevent "metric confusion", accelerate deployment of enterprise information systems, and increase focus on analyzing and decision making instead of collecting, debating and reworking numbers.
Business in the Driver’s Seat – An Improved Model for IntegrationInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and WhereScape
Live Webcast on September 30, 2014
Watch the archive:
https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=bfff40f7c9645fc398770ea11152b148
The fueling of information systems will always require some effort, but a confluence of innovations is fundamentally changing how quickly and accurately it can be done. Gone are long cycle times for development. Today, organizations can embrace a more rapid and collaborative approach for building analytical applications and data warehouses. The key is to have business experts working hand-in-hand with data professionals as the solutions take shape, thus expediting the speed to valuable insights.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains the changing nature of information design. He’ll be briefed by WhereScape President Mark Budzinski, who will discuss his company’s data warehouse automation solutions and how they enable collaborative development. He will share use cases that illustrate show aligning business and IT, organizations can enable faster and more agile data warehouse development.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
A visible architecture is a physical model of a software system created by architecture teams using Duplo® bricks, with strings representing data flows. Visible architectures enable teams to collaboratively understand the “as-is” architecture and make better choices on the “to-be” architecture. We use Visible Architectures and frameworks like Speed Boat and Prune the Product Tree to help teams succeed. This deck outlines a step-by-step process for how to create a visible architecture.
This presentation is for Analytic and Business Intelligence leads as well as IT leads who manage analytics. In addition, existing Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytic Customers will find it valuable to understand how they can leverage their existing investments along with Oracle Analytics Cloud.
Building a 360 Degree View of Your Customers on BICSPerficient, Inc.
Why there is a need for Customer 360 and what the proposed cloud based solution is. We cover the stages of strategic marketing and how Oracle BI can help.
I gave this presentation at the Advanced Architecture Conference, Bill Inmon, 2011 in Evergreen, Colorado. This presentation covers a new breed of data warehousing called Operational Data Warehousing. These are the next steps in business intelligence towards self-service BI and enabling users to do more with their enterprise data warehouse solution. Specifically, it talks about how the Data Vault model fits in to this picture.
If you would like to use the slides, please e-mail me first, I'd be happy to discuss it with you.
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This presentation will discuss the stories of 3 companies that span different industries; what challenges they faced and how cloud analytics solved for them; what technologies were implemented to solve the challenges; and how they were able to benefit from their new cloud analytics environments.
The objectives of this session include:
• Detail and explain the key benefits and advantages of moving BI and analytics workloads to the cloud, and why companies shouldn’t wait any longer to make their move.
• Compare the different analytics cloud options companies have, and the pros and cons of each.
• Describe some of the challenges companies may face when moving their analytics to the cloud, and what they need to prepare for.
• Provide the case studies of three companies, what issues they were solving for, what technologies they implemented and why, and how they benefited from their new solutions.
• Learn what to look for one considering a partner and trusted advisor to assist with an analytics cloud migration.
Accelerate SQL Server Migration to the AWS Cloud Datavail
In today’s marketplace, moving to the public Cloud is a familiar and consistent trend within the SQL Server community.
But which cloud provider do you choose? After all there are different AWS instances each with their own distinctive features. Migrations to the cloud are only going to gain greater momentum as organizations grapple with their on-premises alternatives.
Recent cloud breaches may have some organizations hesitant to take the leap and move to the cloud, however market-leading cloud providers are making every attempt in adhering to compliance guidelines while boosting their security framework and reliability offerings. They are also becoming more competitive by managing their cost more effectively.
For both homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations, planning plays a critical role in moving to the cloud. Preparing a checklist and asking the right questions to stakeholders lays the groundwork in this planning. There are different methods to migrate databases from on-premises to the AWS cloud.
This webinar is in partnership with PASS, download the recording to learn more about:
Reasons to go to the cloud
SQL Server on AWS EC2 vs. AWS RDS
SQL Server high availability (HA) & disaster recovery (DR)
SQL Server migration methodology
DBAs role in the cloud
MOUS 2020 - Hyperion 11.2 vs. Cloud: Should I Stay or Should I Go?Datavail
Oracle has announced the 11.2 release of the Oracle Hyperion EPM on-premises suite, tentatively scheduled for Q1 2019. The impending release represents a decision point for many on-premises customers: Should I invest in upgrading to 11.2, or is this the right time to move to the cloud?
The presentation will cover:
• On-premise infrastructure impacts
• Hyperion/Oracle EPM 11.2.x.x. vs. Cloud
• Understanding Oracle’s Cloud strategy
• Alternative cloud migration approaches
We will share the most important considerations when making this decision and share some of our related real-world experience.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Seven Robust Features to Put in Action finalDatavail
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) brings your Oracle deployments together in a single management, monitoring, and automation dashboard. Oracle developed this solution, so it offers deep integration with many of its technologies. The ease of integration, coupled with the support of both on-premise and cloud-based Oracle databases, allows it to fit into many enterprise infrastructures. Oracle Enterprise Manager can also monitor and manage non-Oracle databases, making it a cost-effective and central tool to manage IT environments with a mix of database platforms.
The single point of control is appealing for complex enterprise infrastructures, especially when they’re heavily invested in Oracle technologies. Out-of-the-box monitoring and reporting templates cover many common use cases, and simplifies the configuration of management automation for databases, applications, and more.
Watch the webinar to see a brief history of OEM and a deep dive into seven robust features organizations should consider implementing:
Lessons from Migrating Oracle Databases to Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora Datavail
Learn and leverage database migration best practices from moving off commercial Oracle databases to Amazon RDS or Aurora. We’ll cover common pitfalls, issues, the biggest differences between the engines, migration best practices, and how some of our customers have completed these migrations.
EPM 11.2: Lessons Learned and 2021 PreparednessDatavail
As we all know, EPM 11.2 is here!
But…it was released too late in 2019 for most organizations to budget an on-premises EPM upgrade for Fiscal 2020. However, the end of support for 11.1.2.4 is also looming in 2021. If you’re staying on-premises, an upgrade to 11.2 should go live no later than December 2021 (earlier if subject to SOX controls).
Rather than waiting for the next budget cycle to roll around, this webinar will show attendees how to prepare for an upgrade this year without spending significant time and capital. We’ll also share what we’ve learned while upgrading to 11.2, and what you can expect post-install.
Optimizing Oracle Databases & Applications Gives Fast Food Giant Major GainsDatavail
A leader in the fast-food industry began experiencing issues with database performance and financial close processes that were having major effects on the business. By implementing optimization techniques, re-architecting systems, migrating to the cloud, and properly distributing server load, this fast-food giant was able to:
Cut server lag from 24 hours to five minutes during even the most active periods
Decrease time to implement global changes to menus from one week to overnight
Speed their financial close time frame
Significantly reduce the frequency of crashes and downtime
And more!
Watch this webinar to learn HOW this was achieved with our 5S performance tuning methodology, so you can do the same in your own environment.
As an Oracle DBA manager, you have a lot to keep up with—new technologies, certifications, cloud migrations, upgrades, etc. Learn how to help your team stay ahead of technology shifts by following a few easy steps.
Delivered by DBA Managers with 15+ years of hands-on technical experience, this presentation provides proven methods these experts used to help their direct reports advance their skill sets and careers. Walk away with actionable steps you can use to elevate your DBA team’s expertise.
Upcoming Extended Support Deadlines & What They Mean for YouDatavail
Extended Support deadlines are drawing near for the technology undergirding on-premises Oracle® EPM/Hyperion systems.
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn about vendor Extended Support deadlines for Java, Oracle JRockit, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Linux, and Oracle EPM 11.1.2.4 and prior and how they will affect your EPM/Hyperion applications. While some of these dates are a few years away, others are not and may surprise you.
Also, learn about implications of either an upgrade vs. moving to the Cloud if your system is subject to Sarbanes-Oxley or similar change audit controls. If your Oracle EPM system is subject to these controls, take note of ways to avoid being red-flagged in a future year’s SOX audit.
Are you are interested in running SQL on Linux, but don’t know how to get started? In this presentation, we’ll share the software and hardware you need to get started. We’ll also cover these steps:
- Installing and configuring VirtualBox, Ubuntu Server, PUTTY, SQL Server 2019 on Ubuntu.
- Review the basic administration steps such as start and stop the SQL Server services on Linux
- Backup and restore a database on Linux and checking CPU usage, disk i/o, and disk space.
By the end of the presentation, you will have the required knowledge to setup your own lab and continue your journey on further learning of SQL on Linux.
Reduce Cost by Tuning Queries on Azure DBaaSDatavail
Poorly written queries on on-premise servers slow down the server performance.But in the case of Azure SQL database, those queries not only degrade the application performance but also cost money. When you tune queries in Azure SQL Database, you may benefit from reducing resource demands as your application might run at a lower compute size and then eventually you can reduce cost.
In any given SQL Server instance, there are likely 8 to 10 queries or stored procedures that are responsible for 80 to 90 percent of the server load. If you can identify these problem queries and tune them, you can make a significant impact on the overall performance of your database. This presentation will explain some simple techniques of tuning the queries and will demonstrate before and after performance differences.
MOUS 2019 - Keeping Pace with Change: Prepare for Tomorrow & Advance Your Car...Datavail
There’s a lot to keep up with in the IT industry and especially as a DBA manager.
Oracle expert, Steve Thompson takes on the topic of advance your career while keeping pace with change.
Download the presentation to learn more about:
How to embrace changes
Determining your direction
How to focus on value and avoid distractions
Expanding skills
Mastering the cloud
Essbase On-Prem to Oracle Analytics Cloud - How, When, and WhyDatavail
In this presentation, you will get insight into the benefits of upgrading vs. moving to the cloud, scenarios and case studies from our recent years of experience, and how moving to the cloud might affect your budgeting, software updates & patches, existing investments, licensing costs, and more.
Is "Free" Good Enough for Your MySQL Environment?Datavail
MySQL can be the perfect answer for fast-growing, highly-performant and geographically-distributed database environments, but in order to function as a business-critical system with immediate response times, the ubiquitous database server needs a little help.
That’s where Continuent and Datavail come in. Combined, these two companies, which specialize in making MySQL and other databases perform continuously, have helped hundreds of enterprise, mid-market and start-up companies alike, including many in the data-dependent SaaS, e-commerce, financial services and gaming industries.
In addition, we’ll dive into why ‘managed’ database-as-a-service solutions, may not be quite as self-managing as people would like to believe. You’ll hear several case studies on how clients are effectively utilizing Continuent Tungsten software and Datavail services to optimize their MySQL environments.
Critical Preflight Checks for Your EPM ApplicationsDatavail
The environment which houses your business critical EPM applications is complex.
Maybe as complex as the cockpit of an aircraft. Just as a pilot might not be able to build or fix everything on their plane, you might be using applications but not know how to build or fix everything that’s being used. This shouldn’t stop you from doing a pre-flight check to ensure that all your Hyperion systems are running properly and set for you and your end users.
Let’s talk about some different strategies to achieve this and give you the confidence in your systems so that you can know when things are running well—or more importantly, when they need attention before takeoff.
In this presentation, we will do assess the on-premises environment and determining what workloads and databases are ready to make the move and what can you do to improve their Azure readiness while reducing downtime during the migration. Planning and assessment plays a critical role in moving to the cloud. We would see wide range of resources and tools to get an assessment completed with ease while identifying workload dependencies with practical tips and tricks focusing on sizing and costs. And finally, we’ll assess the SQL instances and identify their readiness for Azure as well.
Essbase On-Prem to Oracle Analytics Cloud - How, When, and WhyDatavail
In this presentation, you will get insight into the benefits of upgrading vs. moving to the cloud, scenarios and case studies from our recent years of experience, and how moving to the cloud might affect your budgeting, software updates & patches, existing investments, licensing costs, and more.
In this presentation, we’ll explore the Accidental DBA. Oracle DBA Team Lead and expert, Steve Thompson’s presentation from Kscope19 takes on the different ways to lead an Accidental DBA.
The presentation explores:
What is an Accidental DBA, and what scenarios create an Accidental DBA?
Why it’s important to evaluate skill gaps, risks and benefits and plan for them.
Why companies should invest in the training.
Managing an EPM platform is not for the faint of heart – and going at it without a plan can leave you frustrated, nervous, and accountable if trouble strikes. But how do you prepare?
This presentation helps you get all of your EPM planning in one place with an EPM Punch List. We’ll talk through all the areas you should be concerned about to keep your Hyperion and Oracle EPM applications running smoothly, and give you solid, actionable strategies so that you are prepared for the worst.
Why NBC Universal Migrated to MongoDB AtlasDatavail
NBCUniversal, a worldwide mass media corporation, was looking for a more affordable and easier way to manage their database solution that hosts their extensive online digital assets. With Datavail’s assistance, NBCUniversal made the move from MongoDB 3.6 to MongoDB Atlas on AWS.
In this presentation, learn how making this move enabled the entertainment titan to reduce overhead and labor costs associated with managing its database environment.
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
StarCompliance is a leading firm specializing in the recovery of stolen cryptocurrency. Our comprehensive services are designed to assist individuals and organizations in navigating the complex process of fraud reporting, investigation, and fund recovery. We combine cutting-edge technology with expert legal support to provide a robust solution for victims of crypto theft.
Our Services Include:
Reporting to Tracking Authorities:
We immediately notify all relevant centralized exchanges (CEX), decentralized exchanges (DEX), and wallet providers about the stolen cryptocurrency. This ensures that the stolen assets are flagged as scam transactions, making it impossible for the thief to use them.
Assistance with Filing Police Reports:
We guide you through the process of filing a valid police report. Our support team provides detailed instructions on which police department to contact and helps you complete the necessary paperwork within the critical 72-hour window.
Launching the Refund Process:
Our team of experienced lawyers can initiate lawsuits on your behalf and represent you in various jurisdictions around the world. They work diligently to recover your stolen funds and ensure that justice is served.
At StarCompliance, we understand the urgency and stress involved in dealing with cryptocurrency theft. Our dedicated team works quickly and efficiently to provide you with the support and expertise needed to recover your assets. Trust us to be your partner in navigating the complexities of the crypto world and safeguarding your investments.
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
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“That was not what I was thinking at all!”
Have you ever had someone say that to
you after you took the time to gather what
you thought were solid requirements and
then built an entire dashboard or report?
Attend this session to learn a proven
method to build your reports and
dashboards from the ground up, and shed
the proper light into the requirements-
gathering tunnel. Utilizing this method,
you will be able to:
Abstract
Obtain quick wins with your clients by
showing a mockup of the end product as a
method to get key personnel on board
Iron out the key details that should not be
overlooked or missed
Adapt the different styles of storyboarding to
get the most from your planning sessions
Deliver clear, concise reports and
dashboards that meet expectations the first
time
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Bill Anderson, Senior Manager
Almost a decade of technology implementation and team
management experience
Primarily focused on Oracle Business Analytics and Data
Warehousing
Proven ability to integrate disparate heterogeneous data
sources using a number of Oracle analytical reporting platforms
Led multiple projects developing moderate to complex solutions
Course instructor for Datavail’s training courses.
Competition BBQ Pitmaster
Presenter
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Kurt Mayer, Analytics Senior Consultant
30 years analytics & reporting, business intelligence, and data
integration experience
15 years in the Oracle EPM/BI space
Has held diverse positions in a wide range of industries
including in retail, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing
Specializes in the design and delivery of data integration and
modeling solutions
Expertise in Hyperion EPM, Planning, and OBIEE projects
Enjoys “wind therapy” riding his Harley around SE Texas.
Presenter
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Storyboarding?
Storyboarding is used in many different
business scenarios as a method of ascertaining
what a project deliverable could look like and
pinpointing the materials and inputs required for
delivery. A storyboard translates suggestions
made during the hypothesis development
process into a story - like a puzzle that helps
form a bigger picture as the smaller pieces are
placed together.
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Understanding
your Audience
The biggest key to storyboarding is
understanding your audience.
What are they expecting to get out of this?
Will this make you/their life easier? And
which process will make it so
Remove the Black box and give them
something to look at before the end result
Getting the questions you need answered in
a more hands on way.
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The Big Questions
Some of the Big Questions you are
trying to answer:
What is the end result look like?
Does it fit together and how does it Flow?
Do we need to start over? Or can we
Repurpose?
Does this really get you what you need?
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Phases of Storyboarding
High-Level (Strategic Vision)
Common-Theme
Visual
*Note there are in between items as well but these
have been the 3 main focuses of most companies
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High Level - House
Where on the lot does the house go?
Which way is the house facing?
Do you want a basement?
How many rooms or Square footage?
Overall flow of the house?
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High Level Storyboarding
Start by outlining specific objectives and
questions, then divide key specific objectives
and questions into smaller parts in a logical
format.
High-level storyboarding can get the wheels
turning and the thought process moving
quickly as the structure of the report is
created
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Find out the Foundation
Report 1
Report 2
Report 3
Report 1
Report 3
Report 1 Report 1
Report 2
Report 3
Finance HR Operations Procurement
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Common Theme - House
What rooms normally go with each
other? (i.e. Kitchen & Dining Room)
You aren’t going to put a nursery in
the basement if your master bedroom
is on the 2nd floor.
Make it make sense
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Once the reports are defined it's time to group them together and revisit the
high-level outline that was created during the previous phase to see if it still
makes sense
Sticky Note Exercise
Common Theme Storyboarding
Finance Operations Manufacturing Procurement Logistics
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Visual - House
What Furniture/appliances are going in each
room?
Does it work together?
Is there a better place for it or a better design
to go with?
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Visual Storyboarding
What doesn't work?
What needs to be modified?
What additions might enhance the report?
Is there anything missing?
Are there gaps that might confuse the
viewer?
Is there a better way to arrange the report?
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Summary
Build the house that best suits you
Every storyboard is different
Make your life easier by
understanding your audience
Drive more value through questions
Find quick wins to keep clients happy
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Who is here at Kscope for the very first time?
How many people are OBIEE folk?
How many EPM Hyperion Planning?
How many Apex people?
Who actually dressed up for the Welcome Happy Hour?
Kurt
Return this picture to its original size so we can see that he’s arranging stickies