Excited for Dreamforce 2015
We had a chance to catch up with M&S Consulting Managing Partner, Ashok Aggarwal, for a few minutes to ask about Dreamforce 2015. M&S has been growing our Salesforce practice significantly over the past few years working on multiple Salesforce implementations. As someone who has been implementing CRM solutions with Salesforce since 2000 (over 15 years!), Ashok has been excited about enterprise adoption of Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform for two big reasons: Enterprises stand to gain huge ROI from implementing Salesforce, especially as a development platform of choice for critical business processes M&S is uniquely positioned to help enterprises … Read More
Industrial IoT and Machine Learning Webinar
Making Wind Energy Cost Competitive, sponsored by the Independent Oracle Users Group This is a case study of the Fluitec Wind system that M&S Director of Data Science, Bob Liekar, lead and will be presenting on Wednesday, May 13, 12:45pm–2:00pm EDT. About The Webinar The Fluitec Wind Tribo-Analytics system is a production application that utilizes multiple Big Data disciplines. This case study presents a real-world application of Big Data and IoT (Internet of Things). The techniques and algorithms can be applied to many other industries. From Fluitec: “Wind turbines are expensive to operate. They are remote and distributed with highly … Read More
New Sharing Controls for Google Drive
Security in almost always on the mind of businesses today, but so is collaboration and efficiency. Those three things collide in the cloud and now Google for Work has addressed some of these concerns with their new sharing settings for Google Drive. Check out the video below and visit the Google for Work Blog for more information. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdVVukQJWdA[/youtube]
Valentine’s Day Word Cloud using Oracle’s Distribution of R
We hope you had a great Valentine’s Weekend! Whether you did or not, we knew people on twitter were talking about the big day so we thought we’d do some analysis. Check out how we made this word cloud using Oracle’s Distribution of R to pull Valentine’s Day tweets from Twitter. Once you have Oracle’s Distribution of R running, you must first install the necessary packages. > install.packages(c(“devtools”, “rjson”, “bit64”, “httr”))> install.packages(c(“devtools”, “rjson”, “bit64”, “httr”)) > install_github("twitteR", username="geoffjentry")> install_github("twitteR", username="geoffjentry") Then, you must load the correct libraries. > library(devtools) > library(tm) > library(wordcloud) > library(twitteR)> library(devtools) > library(tm) > library(wordcloud) > … Read More
What is Oracle Fusion Middleware?
This post is the answer by a Partner at M&S, Ashok Aggarwal, to a question posted on Quora.com. It answers some of the questions that we commonly hear, so we thought we would post it here as well. We hope it helps. I have been working with Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM), and the offerings from Oracle within OFM since before Oracle branded it all Oracle Fusion Middleware (which was indeed before both the Sun and BEA acquisitions). And I anticipate I will continue to work with it all even after the name has changed. (I already often drop the word … Read More
Presidential State of the Union Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis is a hot technology in marketing. This analysis parses comments and feedback left on corporate and social media sites and attempts to discern the tone or attitude expressed by the commenter. For example, reviews and comments about a company’s product such as “I love these shoes” represent a strong positive statement about how the customer feels about that product. The challenge is that the comments are just free-form text in English which computers traditionally had a hard time deciphering. M&S Big Data thought it would be interesting to apply this sentiment analysis to our Presidents. As a start … Read More
Oracle Portal 10g SSL Problem
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