Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

I didn’t get a lot of sleep past night – maybe 4 hours . And as I am on to my third cup of coffee this morning , I had a short twitter conversation on the ever green topic of strategy and execution . I couldn’t help post a few random thoughts I did learnContinue reading “Execution Rules, Strategy Drools !”

Dennis Howlett posted this today and was the first thing I read today morning. http://diginomica.com/2013/09/25/user-experience-trumps-technical-excellence-gartner-bi-reports/ He and I also had a quick google hangout on this topic – and I thought I might as well add a few comments here. First – Customer Experience and Technology Excellence should not be looked up on as mutuallyContinue reading “Customer Experience vs Technology Excellence in BI”

My introduction to SQL was learning Oracle 8.x around 1996 or 97. And since that time, I have heard about Larry Ellison. Interestingly – that is around the first time I heard of Hasso Plattner too . Till then I only knew of 5 IBM engineers being the founders of SAP. I have deep respectContinue reading “ORACLE 12.c – A Good First Step, But A Database Could And Should Be So Much More”