Dreamforce 2016 – Post One
As I’m headed into another Dreamforce event I plan to keep you updated on the happenings this week. As usual,…
Battling Data Silos: 3 Tips to Finance and Operations Integration
Finance is often flying half blind. Finance is often flying half blind. Charged with tasks such as budgeting, planning, forecasting,…
What’s the Difference Between Business Intelligence (BI) and EPM?
One of my colleagues recently asked if I could write a blog post describing the difference between business intelligence (BI)…
Teradata Takes On Cloud and Developers with Big Data & Analytics
Teradata recently held its annual Partners conference, at which gather several thousand customers and partners from around the world. This…
The Start-ups Guide to IT: Where to Invest your Money for Business Technology
As a startup, it’s important to make smart investments with your capital in order to maximize the return and have…
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…
