Žiga Vaupot's Blog

About Watchlists In this post, I will introduce a powerful usability feature in Oracle Analytics called Watchlists. Watchlists provide users with a convenient way to monitor and interact with their most important visualizations directly from the home page, without needing to open full reports or workbooks. This feature helps users stay informed with live data updates at a glance and improves productivity by reducing the time spent searching for frequently used content. Users often rely on a specific set of reports or analyses in their daily work. Oracle Analytics allows users to mark these reports or analyses as favorites, which places them in the Favorite Workbooks section on the Oracle Analytics Home Page for quick access. Watchlists take this concept further by enabling users to add individual visualizations from their workbooks to a dedicated section on the home page, allowing them to review key insights immediately. Watchlists were initially introduced in Oracle Analytic...

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...