Oracle DRM Blog

I have been busy on several projects and will be doing some catch up on blogging really soon. Having said that, the DRM tools section on this web site had been upgraded. I can’t tell you how many hours I have saved using this over the past few weeks. So just to let you know, [...]

The MDM Institute has posted a page about Oracle Hyperion DRM 9.3. Here’s what they say about the strengths:

Analytical MDM for sharing dimensions, hierarchies, & reporting
Operational MDM (Ledger Hub) for cost centres, legal entities, etc.
Mature product (due to Razza acquisition)
Hierarchy management
Robust business rules engine Intuitive change mgmt suitable for business users
Strength in both [...]

Master data management is a booming area of specialization in recent years. In the beginning this maybe more of an IT domain, where professionals deal only with metadata. But over time, the one that yields true benefits are actually from the business, and it has huge implications for Business Intelligence.

In the old days, Master Data Management are much smaller in scope. It’s often just a bunch of scripts doing data quality checks or hierarchy management. Unfortunately the problem got bigger because of the complexity of businesses and the massive volume of data that are hard to mine. Imagine doing a dashboard of the top [...]