Crocus OBIEE Test Drive
Crocus is delighted to announce that its new OBIEE test drive facility is now operational at
its offices in the Leicester City Centre.
Why Test Drive?
There is an awful lot of material out
there on the Web and in the media
about BI, MI data warehousing and all
of the rest of it. It is very easy to
download papers by industry leading
analysts who will give their opinions on
which products are the best and draw
graphs showing quadrants and other
analysis to prove it.
It is also very easy to spend a lot of time in sales demos and being talked to death by sales
people who are anxious to sell you the product but who are somewhat less concerned with
how good a fit their product really is for your business.
So how can you form a properly informed decision that you can feel comfortable with. One
way is to talk to people who already use the product and take references, which we heartily
recommend, and the other is to get your hands on the system and try it out for yourself.
The test drive is effectively a mini training course in which each delegate is first taken
through a tour of the delivered analytics dashboards. They then get to build a series of
reports and then having done so will create a dashboard to which the newly created reports
will be added.
What is OBIEE?
OBIEE stands for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. It is one of the industry
leading business intelligence and data warehousing toolsets. It represents the coming
together of some of the prestigious software acquisitions that Oracle has made over the past
few years. In particular Seibel Analytics provides the framework with Informatica as the
leading ETL (Extract Transform and Load) tool in the market and finally BEA with the
Weblogic portal technology is a heady mix of toolsets.
In addition comes with a number of major unique selling points that are pertinent to the
PeopleSoft user community.
1. The system comes with pre-written analytics applications. These are suites of
reports and dashboards such as HR Analytics, Financials Analytics, Sales Analytics
etc.
2. OBIEE integrates out of the box with PeopleSoft 9.1.
3. OBIEE has ‘Actionable Insight’ that provides the facility to drill straight from a
dashboard into the transactional system to discover the source of any anomalies or
points of interest found within the dashboard.
4. OBIEE analytics and the underlying technology form a major component of the
Fusion technology stack, with analytics embedded into the Fusion product.
Therefore companies that adopt OBIEE now will have already taken a step on the
path towards fusion.
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For Further information on booking a test drive please contact us at info@crocusconsulting.com or call 0116 255 4350
What is available today?
Why use pre-built Apps?
The problem that all data warehousing projects hit is the enormity of the technical task in
front of you when you start from scratch. By providing pre-written applications the project
can focus on the data, the dashboards and the reports from the point of view of how useful
they are to the business, rather than spending so much time just making the thing work in
the first place. This represents a huge saving because it massively foreshortens the project.
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For Further information on booking a test drive please contact us at info@crocusconsulting.com or call 0116 255 4350