by Chris Frost | Sep 20, 2019 | Business Intelligence
In Fall 2018, I taught a Salesforce / Oracle internship class at Texas A&M-Commerce. For three years, we worked with the Computer Science and Business Analytics departments on this partnership but this was the first to use Salesforce. After a selective admission...
by Chris Frost | Oct 16, 2018 | Business Intelligence
Over the weekend, we held our second hack-a-thon at Texas A&M-Commerce. This semester, we have been working with the Computer Science and Business Analytics departments to expose graduate students to Salesforce administration and reporting. This session, the emphasis shifted from custom fields and data elements over to data imports and exports. It was great to see young people so enthusiastic about learning and experimenting with Salesforce.
by cfrost | Nov 21, 2013 | Business Intelligence
As promised, I am posting slides of my Business Intelligence on a Budget presentation from last week’s Texas Community College Technology Forum. I wanted to thank the people who stayed to hear me demonstrate some of our various tools and go over our lessons...
by Chris Frost | Nov 8, 2013 | Oracle
This past Tuesday, I heard Aaron Cornfeld kick off Oracle Day. Aaron is the VP of Solution Specialists at Oracle and he works predominately with Oracle’s Public Cloud. He led off looking at innovation and ways to put innovation in practice. Everyone is looking...
by Chris Frost | Nov 8, 2013 | Oracle
The second keynote speaker at Dallas’ Oracle Day was Syamal Bandyopadhyay. He is the Database Deployment Architect at Verizon Wireless and has worked in IT for more than 25 years. Syamal is also active in the IOUG Exadata SIG and talked about how Verizon...
by Chris Frost | Nov 8, 2013 | Oracle
In his mid-morning, Gilles Ramone spoke about the challenges that companies face in engaging customers online. He started by talking about three trends that we face -mobility, social media, and consumerization. With consumerization, Gilles argued that the balance as...
by Chris Frost | Oct 29, 2013 | Oracle
At DOUG’s October database forum, Carlos Carballo, principal sales consultant for Oracle, presented highlights from Oracle Open World 2013. During his hour long talk, he focused on four topics: In-Memory Option In-Memory Column Store Oracle M6 Big Memory Machine...
by cfrost | Oct 29, 2013 | Luminis
We’ve been gearing up for our Luminis 5.1 upgrade, so I was interested in this morning’s update on Luminis. This morning’s webinar was hosted by Alan Hansen, VP of Product Management, and Cordell Bourne, Product Owner for Luminis. Even though it...
by Chris Frost | Sep 18, 2013 | Project Management
Just finished a great presentation by Chip Eichelberger at the PMI Virtual Seminar. He is a motivation speaker and has his own site – GetSwitchedOn.com. Below are some observations that I wanted to share from his presentation. To get switched on, you have to...
by Chris Frost | Aug 28, 2013 | Business Intelligence
I’m excited to announce that my presentation proposal called Business Intelligence on a Budget was approved for this year’s Texas Community College Technical Conference. The event is sponsored by the Center for Digital Education and more details are...
