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.