Oracle Looks at EPM Trends

Oracle Looks at EPM Trends

No branch of business operations has been more thoroughly transformed by the computer age than finance, the original “data-driven” business discipline. Successive technology revolutions have given rise to Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions...
Ignore Bad Data… Sort Of

Ignore Bad Data… Sort Of

In George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm there is a well-known quote that sums up the issues tackled in the book: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. In terms of data, this is a truism: all data is equal, but some data...
Data May Not Lie – But Liars Can

Data May Not Lie – But Liars Can

Figures don’t lie,  the old saying, but liars can figure. Put another way, even accurate and honest-in-itself data can be presented in misleading ways to support a less-than-honest result. To protect against data-rich lies, we must learn to understand the...
Peeling the Onion of Ransomware

Peeling the Onion of Ransomware

Ransomware attacks on computers are increasing, and they can have devastating consequences. Just look at the heart-breaking story of 17-year-old Joseph Edwards, an autistic college student who killed himself after being on the receiving end of a ransomware email...
Data Governance for Big Data

Data Governance for Big Data

How many times have you read an article about data quality that uses the phrase “garbage in, garbage out”? It is almost a cliché, but when it comes to big data, there is no other phrase that better sums up the challenges faced by organizations that want to...