Top 5 Discoverer Conversion Questions
Don’t be fooled by other vendors! Many vendors in the Discoverer Conversion space take the SQL behind the Discoverer Workbooks and import to the new product. There are some real impacts to taking this route when moving from Discoverer to a supported product. If you look at this type of conversion, you might wonder how […]
The Splash Business Intelligence Experience: My First, but My 24th!

UKOUG Apps17 & Tech17 The Splash Business Intelligence Experience: My First, but My 24th! By Rishabh Miglani and Graham Spicer As per recent years EiS and SplashBI sponsored the UK Oracle User Group Apps17 Conference in Birmingham. We were also one of more than 50 exhibitors and we gave two presentations: Is Your Enterprise Reporting & […]
An Update on the Discoverer Situation

Please Note: The author, Graham Spicer, is our Sales Director, UK and as such, this blog is written in UK English.
Back in October of last year, I wrote a blog/whitepaper outlining the options, challenges and opportunities facing organisations looking to replace their Oracle Discoverer estate. During that eight-month period, Oracle has confused the situation even further, whereas their original recommendation was to replace Discoverer with OBIEE, now they are recommending multiple solutions, none of which really address the…
BI is the Epicenter of our Universe
What is the future of BI? This is a hard question to answer, as the future is already here! Technology is rapidly advancing every day, and BI is really the epicenter of our universe. Based on better data availability and analysis, many organizations and executives are expecting a 1-2% growth in the upcoming years. Gartner […]
An Open Letter to Discoverer Users…
Dear Discoverer User, As you know, Oracle has now placed Oracle Discoverer into Sustaining Support this month. Oracle defines Sustaining Support as a service which, “maximizes your investment protection by providing maintenance for as long as you use your Oracle software. Features include access to Oracle online support tools, upgrade rights, pre-existing fixes and assistance from technical […]
Discoverer Discussion: EBS Support Implications for Discoverer 11G in June 2017

This article on Oracle’s website goes over the implications of the Discoverer de support in June 2017. It has a lot of great information on what that entails, what they recommend next (OBIEE of course), and some Q&A. For those who didn’t read it though, here is the TLDR (too long, didn’t read): No new […]
Splash Business Intelligence Achieves UK G-Cloud Certification

Brighton, England and Duluth, GA. USA – May 22 2017
Bi Trends In My Experience
Lots of experts continually publish reports and predictions about the trends for Business Intelligence in the coming years. Now, I don’t profess to be an expert, but I do have experience. I have worked with BI (DSS, MIS, EIS, BI&DW, BA, etc) since 1980, initially in a development role, then moving into sales. If you look at […]
The Evolution of Business Intelligence

There is a lot of talk about Mode 1, Mode 2 and Bimodal BI So, what is BI? When I started in the 80s, despite the term BI not being invented, there were many companies that were using true BI solutions to derive business benefits. In those days, measuring the benefit was quite simple: improvement on […]
Hiring of Global Channel Sales and Business Development Expert

DULUTH, Ga. – Mar. 2, 2017