Data & Analytics Blogs

Top 5 Takeaways from Datacon Seattle

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…

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Making Finance Functions More Efficient with AI-Powered Chat

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,…

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Lessons Learned after 20 Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) Implementations

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…

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Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence – An Overview

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…

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Azure Functions – Development and Deployment

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…

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Top 5 Key Takeaways for Data and Analytics from CloudWorld 2024

CloudWorld is an event I look forward to every year.  This year the conference was extremely well attended and there was a massive amount of interest in Data, Analytics, and AI (e.g., 9000 people registered for the Oracle Data Intelligence Keynote session!)  Oracle continues to innovate and build out its Data Intelligence Platform – emphasizing…

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Top 5 Questions Customers Ask About Fusion Data Intelligence

Here at Apps Associates, we have implemented Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence numerous times and have worked and are working with many other clients who are evaluating Fusion Data Intelligence.  We are often asked questions about Fusion Data Intelligence and we thought it would be helpful to document the Top 5 questions we get from our…

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Transform Your Business with a Modern Data Foundation for Growth

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, data is the lifeblood of innovation and growth. We live in an increasingly cloud-based and data-driven economy. To stay competitive, businesses need to modernize their data foundations, particularly their ERP systems. According to IDC, 85% of IT decision-makers plan to increase their cloud investments to enable real-time, contextualized decision-making and…

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Building a Strong Data and Analytics Strategy

Welcome to another installment of our series “What to consider before migrating from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)” If you have been following along, you’ll know this series is all about what to do to prepare before making a move from EBS to a cloud offering, like OCI or Oracle Fusion. In this installment, we’re covering…

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How to connect Amazon Redshift to Oracle

Part 3 of 3 in the series How to Develop Analytics Leveraging Data in Multiple Cloud Platforms This is part three of a three-part blog series describing how to develop analytics leveraging data in multiple cloud platforms. In part one, we covered the basis of multi-cloud analytics structure and how to use Oracle Analytics Cloud…

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