Our Big Data Team, here at M&S, packed up their bags and headed to San Francisco last week for the 2015 Oracle Business Intelligence Warehousing and Analytics Summit. Some of the major topics discussed included: Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Advanced Analytics. The Internet of Things (IoT) is at the peak of Gartner’s Hype Cycle. It is becoming increasingly talked about and there are predictions of billions and billions of sensors by 2020. But what exactly is IoT? IoT involves embedded computing devices interconnected with existing internet infrastructure, such as, wearables and connected cars. Why the hype right … Read More
Is Oracle’s Vision Corp Guilty of Gender Inequality? An OBIEE Analysis to Investigate Reports
Allegations of Vision Corporation’s activity in gender salary discrimination is something that Oracle’s Vision Corp takes very seriously and have been generous enough to open up all of their information for independent analysis by the public. We will begin an investigation of their full time employee’s salary information to see if the allegations of gender salary discrimination are prevalent in this corporation. We will be using OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 to investigate. The first thing we will look at is a generated table and pie chart that calculates the number of employees by their gender. We can see that there is a … Read More
AWS Opens Frankfurt Region
Amazon Web Services has announced the opening of the Frankfurt region, which is the second region in the European Union after Ireland. Two availability zones (AZs) are offered and Amazon reported that the Frankfurt region operates carbon-free, just as the US West (Oregon) and GovCloud regions do. The Frankfurt region supports a large number of AWS services and a full listing of services available from all AWS regions is available in Amazon’s Products and Services by Region page. While on the Products and Services by Region page, one may notice that there are also 3 Frankfurt AWS Edge locations, of particular … Read More
Preview of the Salesforce.com Summer ’14 Release
The Summer ’14 release brings new features that help any business become a Customer company. There have been enhancements to: The Salesforce Mobile App for Admins Analytics Sales Cloud Service Cloud Salesforce for Outlook Data.com Communities Desk.com ExactTarget Marketing Cloud Chatter Summer ’14 Detailed Feature List explains each of the new features in detail. This feature list was released by salesforce.com in July ’14. Below is a preview of some of the key features of this release.
Benefits of adopting the Salesforce1 Platform
Below is an infographic by Salesforce about some of the benefits experienced by organizations (based on an IDC survey of Salesforce customers) that have built business apps on the Salesforce1 Platform.
Updates from the Salesforce1 World Tour Event
M&S attended the Salesforce1 World Tour Event in Anaheim, CA on July 15, 2014. We experienced a lot of excitement within the User Community including Customers, Vendors, Developers around the Salesforce1 Platform. In an era of hyper-connection – billions of people and things and devices are connecting faster than ever, but behind every technology, behind every act, behind every device is the single most important element of all – a CUSTOMER, billions of them each armed with the ability to make choices and decisions at super fast speed – this is an era of INTERNET of CUSTOMERS. In this era, … Read More
What is Project Management?
A Project is a temporary endeavor with a definitive beginning and an end. Project Management is the application of knowledge, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. Each project must go through the following phases – Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring and Controlling Closing 1. The Initiating Phase The Initiating Phase involves creation and formal approval of the Project Charter. All project stakeholders are identified in this phase. High-level risks, assumptions and constraints are identified and documented in the Project Charter. 2. The Planning Phase The Planning Phase involves creation of the detailed Project Management Plan. … Read More
Salesforce1 Glimpse
The next big thing to come to the Salesforce.com platform is Salesforce1. Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store for the next release: Salesforce1 is focusing on mobile driven development, allowing for 10 times as many APIs for apps. Beginning in March, the Chatter App will become the main interface users interact with while working in Salesforce.com. App development is going to be more flexible, including a Private App Exchange where developers can manage private applications. Admins will also have the capability to manage and distribute apps from the mobile platform. They can create apps that are business process oriented; … Read More