Žiga Vaupot's Blog

About Watchlists In this short post, I am discussing a very nice usability feature in Oracle Analytics called the Watchlist . Users at their everyday's work frequently use a specific and limited number of reports or analyses. Oracle Analytics lets users to mark these reports or analyses as favorites, which means these analyses will be displayed in the Favorite Workbooks section of Oracle Analytics Home Page , hence enabling users with fast and easy access to their favorite analyses. Another way of presenting frequently used content, available in the latest release of Oracle Analytics , is the Watchlists. This idea has already been introduced in Day by Day mobile application, and same functionality is available in Oracle Analytics Mobile app. The idea is to give users ability to run analyses and review results of selected visualizations, like visualization cards , in user's home page without actually opening any of them. Users are not require to review analyses if they ...

Gartner has published its  Magic Quadrants for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms  (Gartner, 2023) report for 2023, on April 5th.  As usually, it presents how various analytics and BI vendors position regarding the completeness of their vision and ability to execute. It is considered as “the go-to resource” when evaluating and comparing these technologies. In this post, I am trying to look at Oracle’s position and explain why Oracle is placed where it is placed - in Visionaries quadrant. Of course, everything from here on, is my personal view and experience. Personally, as I said, I am mostly interested in Oracle’s position which is (if I recall correctly) in Visionaries quadrant for the 3rd straight year in the row. It seems that Oracle with its Oracle Analytics Cloud has the strongest completeness of vision among all Visionaries, and in general only Microsoft seems stronger in this respect. But on the other hand side, there is quite a crowd of vendors in Vi...