Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 11 of the hardware and software to be able to do what I want to do With the cloud you eliminate a lot of that on premises work You dont have to procure and upgrade your hardware on an ongoing basis and you dont have to install software if you dont want to With Oracle Cloud for example Oracle provides the computing and storage platform as a service all you need to do is use it Because you dont have to worry about a lot of hardware considerations in the cloud you dont have to plan configure and purchase for peak capacity a capacity you need infrequently maybe only a couple of days a week or month And that makes a huge difference in terms of forward planning cost management and maintenance Oracle Magazine How are business analytics technologies and processes integrating and addressing todays data volumes and data variety Hagerty Data integration has largely been the province of data integration specialists who aggregate manipulate and model data But were seeing a change were seeing that integrating data is not necessarily only an IT task its also a business analyst task There are data preparation capabilities within the Oracle analytics software and services that do data preparation and a business analyst can use that technology to get information from different sources and meld it together rather than having to go through an IT process to make that happen IT professionals still manage the regular integration of big sources of data but the business analyst can now pull things together on the fly and mix and merge data to support a specific analytic need Historically when people think of business analytics or business intelligence they tend to think of structured data such as their data warehouse This information is well known and well trusted but over the last few years there has been an explosion of different sources of data Were seeing that integrating data is not necessarily only an IT task its also a business analyst task
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