Lately, the Business Intelligence discipline has been discussed in great depth. With SAP leading the way amongst giants like Oracle, SAS and IBM, when it comes to the BI mobile market, the Business Intelligence niche has experienced vast improvements in a short amount of time. If anyone has considered quitting their Oracle Business Intelligence training classes and moving on to the more recent S AP BI offerings, you better hold your horses. Based on the numbers so far, Oracle is focusing on a strong campaign with their software for business intelligence.
Business Intelligence in a Cloud
With Cloud technology being the speculative future of IT infrastructure, Oracle has an edge due to it's advancement in that arena. Recently, Oracle launched a new data center in Australia to cater to its Australian clients. Amongst Australian Oracle users, a strong preference is being recorded for the Cloud approach. Why not? Of course cloud computing is preferred, because it takes a lot of the burden of the in-house IT staff.
Analytics Set to Boom
Really, metrics are an over-lapping solution with BI. Analytical reporting is the concrete foundation of BI. The Analytics extension has yet to be fully adopted, mainly due to companies not wanting to rely on it for major decisions. Slowly, with enough time to understand the power of analytics, businesses are starting to come around. This is the reason why experts believe that analytics is set to receive a major boost in 2013 with more companies expected to start using analytics more aggressively.
Mobile BI
Mobile device usage for business purposes has been on the rise with Apple's iPad leading the gadgets race. So, it is no surprise that Mobile BI has been getting a lot of attention going along with that. Interestingly, Oracle has slipped behind SAP in the mobile arena. SAP has created a solution for mobile far superior to Oracle's efforts thus far. However, Oracle and other major players are competing with SAP as Mobile BI will be extensively adopted and implemented in 2013.
Business Intelligence in a Cloud
With Cloud technology being the speculative future of IT infrastructure, Oracle has an edge due to it's advancement in that arena. Recently, Oracle launched a new data center in Australia to cater to its Australian clients. Amongst Australian Oracle users, a strong preference is being recorded for the Cloud approach. Why not? Of course cloud computing is preferred, because it takes a lot of the burden of the in-house IT staff.
Analytics Set to Boom
Really, metrics are an over-lapping solution with BI. Analytical reporting is the concrete foundation of BI. The Analytics extension has yet to be fully adopted, mainly due to companies not wanting to rely on it for major decisions. Slowly, with enough time to understand the power of analytics, businesses are starting to come around. This is the reason why experts believe that analytics is set to receive a major boost in 2013 with more companies expected to start using analytics more aggressively.
Mobile BI
Mobile device usage for business purposes has been on the rise with Apple's iPad leading the gadgets race. So, it is no surprise that Mobile BI has been getting a lot of attention going along with that. Interestingly, Oracle has slipped behind SAP in the mobile arena. SAP has created a solution for mobile far superior to Oracle's efforts thus far. However, Oracle and other major players are competing with SAP as Mobile BI will be extensively adopted and implemented in 2013.
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