What’s New in Finance Transformation? EPM, Cloud, Big Data and More
The worlds of Finance and EPM are rapidly changing. Finance teams are shifting their focus from counting and scorekeeping to…
3 Steps to Improving Agility in Financial Budgeting and Planning
Financial agility is becoming a necessity in the business world, as the world of business continues to evolve and become…
6 Things IT Executives Need to Know About Cloud-Based EPM
Enterprise performance management (EPM) processes – such as budgeting, planning, financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis – are clearly owned and…
Database Corner: Beginner’s Guide to MySQL Storage Engines
When a database is created, one often overlooked but critical factor in performance is the storage engine (particularly as the…
8 Ways to Fine-tune your SQL Queries (for production databases)
In organizations that operate without a data warehouse or separate analytical database for reporting, the only source of the latest…
A Deep Dive in Big Data
Like many catch phrases, the concept of “Big Data” comes with multiple definitions. From the GIS viewpoint, big data describes…
A Recipe for Cooking with the Hadoop Ecosystem
It’s part of my job to cover the ecosystem of Hadoop, the open source big data technology, but sometimes it…
How listening to our cars will improve the driving experience
Smart technology is already being used in cars, but we're just at the very beginning. It’s a given that Over-the-Air …
The Growing Fear of Excel and Why It’s Finally Nearing Extinction
For the past 30 years, Excel has been integral to businesses everywhere.It's become the foundation of countless business processes, aiding…