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While the AI marketing hype rages on, companies are under pressure to get value out of their AI initiatives. Chatbots are fun, but where is the ROI for a business? Leadership is being tasked with developing and executing an AI strategy, but many companies treat that as wholly separate from their data strategy – which...

Artificial Intelligence presents a uniquely difficult dilemma for today’s executives – CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, COOs, and Boards alike. On the one hand, there is no shortage of studies, articles, and industry research showing that the vast majority of AI initiatives fail to produce meaningful return on investment. Depending on the source, estimates range from 70%...

Last week I attended Oracle AI World in Las Vegas (Oct 13–16). Until just a couple of months ago, the event was still called CloudWorld, but the new name proved fitting—the conference truly lived up to its AI focus. It perhaps can be said that Oracle was late to the Cloud game (although paradoxically this...

We’ve all heard it before: AI is only as good as the data it runs on. It’s taken almost as an article of faith in technology circles. But as AI continues to spread across industries and use cases—from predictive models to generative assistants to agentic workflows—the natural follow-up question is: what does “good data” actually...

Organizations across industries are grappling with an unprecedented challenge: transforming vast amounts of scattered data into actionable business intelligence. The pressure to become truly data-driven has never been more intense, yet many companies find themselves stuck with slow, siloed reporting systems that fail to deliver the insights needed for competitive advantage. A structured reporting and...

As a Director in the Data and Analytics practice at Apps Associates, I’m always looking for opportunities to learn about the newest technologies and strategies available for our customers. As an eight-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP, I was fortunate enough to lead a full-day workshop and a few breakout sessions at Datacon in Seattle, WA...

Finance teams are often tasked with making quick decisions, managing tight deadlines, and responding to a steady stream of data requests. Whether it’s preparing for a close, supporting an audit, or addressing vendor and customer inquiries, the demand for timely, accurate information is constant. Yet accessing the right data often requires navigating complex source systems,...

Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI – formerly Fusion Analytics Warehouse) is a set of prebuilt analytic applications covering Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, and Customer Experience. FDI works hand in glove with Oracle Fusion Applications to extract data into an Oracle data warehouse and provides prebuilt metrics, KPIs, reports, and dashboards. The...

Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI), previously known as Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) is a prepackaged solution from Oracle that enables you to analyze your Oracle Applications Cloud data and generate visualizations and reports and complements Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI). While OTBI is used for operational reporting, FDI enables Historical, Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive, Perspective and...

Using Visual Studio Code Editor Azure Functions is a service that allows you to run code in the cloud without having to manage servers, infrastructure, or scaling. You can write functions in various languages, such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, and more, and trigger them by events like HTTP requests, or schedules. Azure Functions handles...