Analytics Advantage

As a part Oracle Analytics’ initiative to help companies develop an analytics-driven culture, we are talking to a series of industry experts on some of the trends, challenges and the solution for it. In this episode, we talk with Barbara Cimmino, Head of Corporate Social responsibility at Yamamay, an Italy-based producer and distributor of beautiful, sustainably produced apparel. Barbara discusses Yamamay's vision of sustainability at the forefront of their business goals and how they are reaching their objectives with Oracle Analytics. 

In Episode # 6 of the People Analytics Advantage series, your host, Chitra Shastri, will be conversing with Trevor Broman HR Director of Technology and Analytics, Arconic, about his analytics journey and his choice of Fusion Analytics (or FAW) as a success factor. People Analytics can be the strategic catalyst to drive higher performance and profitability for an organization. It has evolved to a stage where people leaders can self-serve and start their own journey with analytics with less reliance on IT. How to use People Analytics to your advantage? How to create a diverse, inclusive and equitable environment? How to offer the employee experience that makes your high performers choose to work with you? Find out more about Arconic’s people to profit journey in this episode with Trevor Broman and Manisha Gupta.

In Episode 5 of The People Analytics Advantage series, we are having an in-depth discussion about Learning Anaytics. In today’s economy, learning has become the focal point of hiring discussions because it signals that the employer values their people and is actively investing in their success. So has Learning Analytics. With more and more people leaders and Chief Learning Officers opting for a data-driven approach, Learning Analytics is becoming a much-needed requirement especially if it can link learning content to employees’ skill, performance, and goals, paving for a more thoughtful and analytic-driven career mobility. Find out more in this podcast hosted by Chitra Shastri along with Oracle’s very own Manisha Gupta VP Product, HCM Analytics.

In Episode 3 of The People Analytics Advantage series, we are focusing exclusively on Diversity and Inclusion or D&I. D&I is not just a standalone program. It’s a framework that needs to be plugged into every facet of your HCM application including talent acquisition and management, absences, compensation and payroll and so forth. and weaved into analytics, thus providing a solid foundation for your organization’s HR strategy and execution. Find out more in this podcast hosted by Chitra Shastri with Oracle’s Manisha Gupta and Synlait’s Andrew Dennan.

Episode 2 of The People Analytics Advantage series is all about Relationship Intelligence. We learnt in the previous episode that People Analytics is about building, scaling, and strengthening the key facet of your organization – your people. For building the organization of the future, Relationship Intelligence is a promising technique that uses network patterns identified in emails, instant messages, and other enterprise collaboration data, to allow leaders to see quickly what networks are in place and identify the connectors, experts to solve for collaboration and innovation. Find out more in this episode from BigTinCan’s Manish Goel along with Oracle's Manisha Gupta and host, Chitra Shastri, as he shares his expert thoughts about Relationship Intelligence, and how Relationship Quotient (RQ) is one of the feathers in the cap along with Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Emotional Quotient (EQ) for a people leader.

The hospitality industry has gone through a lot of change in the past few years. A lot of data is being collected via multiple channels, but how can they use this data be used for better decision-making. Find out in this podcast by Oracle's Divya Malik and Josh Anderson.

This podcast focuses on the current complex market environment for consumer goods, including key issues, trends and how a data analytics solution can help provide the insight that’s needed to help accelerate and improve decision-making.

Imagine if machine learning (ML) was accessible to anybody who needed to make decisions based on truths, delivered by numbers. The difficulty up until now has been that many ML technologies require special skills or tools to do this. Oracle's Barry Mostert and Nick Engelhardt discuss how to empower clickers to coders with ML capabilities.

Manufacturers are facing significant challenges in the supply chain today. Having the right data can help provide the insight that’s required to get visibility into key issues, and accelerate and improve decision making. Listen to this discussion between Oracle’s Jake Krakauer, John Barcus and Ash Bajpai.

In this session, best-selling author and keynote speaker Bernard Marr is joined by Rich Clayton, Vice President Product Strategy, Oracle Analytics, to discuss the current analytics landscape, and the importance of the analytics revolution in retail as well as why data and evidence based decision-making is necessary.

How can you drive an analytics-driven business operation? One important element is to solve the challenges of the last mile of analytics. Organizations must also ensure that the technology, people, process, and data architecture dimensions of an analytics-driven strategy are aligned. Listen to this second podcast conversation with Forrester Wave author Boris Evelson and Jose Villacis, Head of Oracle Analytics Product Marketing, in this second podcast of a two-part series.

While businesses are collecting large amounts of data, they also continue to have a lot of data silos either by buying or building separate analytical applications. A cross-functional enterprise-grade analytics solution provides businesses with a single version of the truth and enables them to gain a competitive edge. Listen to this conversation with Forrester Wave author Boris Evelson and Jose Villacis, Head of Oracle Analytics Product Marketing, in this first podcast of a two-part series.

We recently had the opportunity to learn how the State of Maine leveraged Oracle Analytics cloud to make critical data available to business decision-makers across the state. We met with Controller Douglas Cotnoir, Natalie Bragan, Senior Financial Analyst, State of Maine, and Mitch Boynton, the Corrections Service Center deputy director. Listen to the podcast.

In this third and final episode Bryan Ball, Aberdeen Research talks with Oracle Global Industry Advisor Jeff Dewing on how open source platforms can benefit companies by providing centralized foundational data to enable optimal business decision-making in a more efficient manner, especially in the case of warehouse management.

Welcome to episode 2 in our 3 part series on Retail Analytics. In this episode we listen to Aberdeen's Bryan Ball discuss with Oracle Principal Industry Architect Guru Sulibhavi how an open platform provides retail, and CPG firms with the insights that they need to manage their activities both in the front office, and back office in a truly data-driven fashion.

Listen to Kyle Hofer-Mora, Director of Business Analytics Graduate Programs at the California Polytechnic State University, as he walks through how educating graduate students in analytics is making an impact in higher education and in business.