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Who in the IT Organization Owns Office 365?

Learn how to effectively roadmap based on internal requirements as well as the strengths, weaknesses and maturity levels of the Office 365 suite of offerings.

Building a Data Foundation Pillar #1: Define Your Data Strategy

A data strategy is a list of high-level objectives and priorities for your enterprise data assets. Learn how to start building one in this blog post.

Getting the Most Out of Your Essbase Cubes

In this article, we’ll discuss how you can optimize your use of Essbase cubes, using our recent work as an example.

Read Replicas for MySQL and Maria DB on AWS RDS

Read Replicas may or may not get stored in the same region as the source DB instance in AWS. Read Replicas are supported by several database engines.

Essbase Cloud vs. On-Premise: What’s the Difference?

The decision between Essbase cloud and on-premise may not be a clear-cut one. In this article, we’ll discuss the differences between Essbase Cloud and on-premise.

SQL Server on AWS: You Had Questions, Jeff Has Answers!

SQL Server & AWS expert Jeff Duncan follows up from his PASS webinar with attendee questions.

Oracle 19c Solves Emerging Trends Tests

Your data is what sets you apart from the competition. Find out how Oracle19c is keeping up with business trends in this new blog post.

EPM 11.2 – More Than a Cupful of Java

If you’ve downloaded Java SE8 and want to replace the content of your pre-existing Java folders with the newer one, this post will show you how.

Oracle 19c Manages Emerging Data Types

The launch of Oracle Database 19c, helps companies make sense of both the vast quantity of the data it collects every day, and the complexity of that information.

AWS IAM to Authenticate Against RDS Instances & Aurora Clusters

Authenticate your RDS instance or Aurora cluster without a password using AWS IAM. It works for PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on RDS.

January 2020 Oracle Critical Patch Update Affects EPM 11.2

So you’ve spun up Hyperion/Oracle EPM 11.2.0.0. And now… it is time to patch! I haven’t come across a comprehensive patching guide for EPM 11.2 yet, so here’s my attempt to create one.

Get Reports On-Demand with Data Consolidation

For a global sports entertainment organization data consolidation made it possible to run reports on-demand, without lengthy delays with MySQL and AWS EC2.