Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 10 Organizations demand significant capabilities from their business analytics tools From enabling business users to create self service data visualizations and reports to moving technology to the cloud and adding support for unstructured information users are driving business analytics to do more Oracle Magazine caught up with John Hagerty vice president of product management for business analytics at Oracle to talk about the state of business analytics how the cloud is changing business analytics operations current data integration challenges and more Oracle Magazine What is the state of business analytics today Hagerty Business analytics has largely been about on premises enterprise reporting where a very well trained group of people largely in IT would establish an environment model all the data and then produce a whole series of dashboards and reports that get distributed to the masses And while that is where business analytics has been it is now being augmented with self service business analytics With self service analytics individuals business users can do their own analyses do their own visualizations and do their own projections This self service business analytics model has really become a focus for a lot of enterprises While more and more business analytics capabilities have been deployed within the enterprise and targeted toward different types of users most of those deployments have been on premises But now business analytics is increasingly headed toward the cloud for a couple of reasons number one for business agility and number two to work with data that is already located in the cloud Organizations are putting analytics in the cloud alongside that data and mixing both on premises and cloud data to do the types of analysis they need to do Oracle Magazine How is cloud changing the technology and operations of business analytics Hagerty With all the business analytics technology on premises it was a responsibility of the organization to procure the hardware deploy the hardware configure the hardware implement the software on the hardware and then maintain the environments So a lot of the work around business analytics was also part of IT operations and focused on answering the question How do I manage and configure all
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