EPM Conversations

We’re all wired to see patterns We live in patterns:  seasonal, political, historical, and even atomic.  Many live a life blithely unaware of them, which is to their disadvantage, for understanding those patterns is key to what makes us human, drives culture and society, and informs economics.  We happy few in the performance management world figuratively live and die by the patterns in data.  If...

Data, data everywhere, and none of it in the right place or in the right format Performance cannot be managed (see what I did there?) without data.  And yet data –because it is in the wrong format , because it is in the wrong place, because it is poorly defined, because we don’t have the ability or the resources or the time to transform it into what our systems need – is ever a challenge.  Data is...

From Enterprise administrator to CEO, from market disruptor to Magic Quadrant visionary We at EPM (or should that be CPM?) Conversations are – unsurprisingly – pleased beyond belief to have OneStream Software CEO Tom Shea as our very special guest.  We think you'll be pleased as well. OneStream is in the moment and of the future. How did that happen? Who made that happen? What is its genesis?...

Not EPM, not CPM, but analytics of a marketing kind This podcast is dipping its collective and metaphorical toe outside of the warm and cozy confines of performance management with a conversation with a guest whose job, passion, and personal interest is understanding the relationship of human behavior with business through the lens of marketing analytics. Join us, won’t you, on this fascinating co...

Hah!  EPM doesn’t get a lot of polymaths, does it.  Yet Mike is exactly one of those. A polymath is, “a person of great and varied learning” although Mike is too modest to agree with that description.  If you but listen to this conversation, you (and he) will see that it is a fair characterization. But wait, there’s more In addition to Yr. Obt. Svt. , this conversation also has Natalie Delemar as...

Different? You want different? Music? Humor? Freestyle Rapping? Maybe something related to EPM? Maybe.  Actually, yes, quite a bit really.  You read that right: EPM Conversations has a number of firsts in this podcast: A conversation with the artist and performer Chris Turner. A freestyle rap about EPM. Really. We have the best and simultaneously the only rap on this subject extant. I look forward...

What could be better than the Three EPM Conversations Cohosts? What whole number is greater than three?  Four, totes obvs.  And here we are, with Yr. Obt. Svt. , Celvin Kattookaran, Tim German, and now John Booth . John and I did the very first EPM-in-the-cloud presentation at Kscope11:  EPM 11.1.2.something-or-other running on AWS.  John did all of the heavy lifting and I did…something.  No matte...

One out of three ain’t bad We were lucky enough to land Abhi Nerurkar , one of the three co-founders of EPMware , a software company specializing in Master Data Management (MDM) and Workflow, for our very first vendor conversation. A note: we didn’t speak with Abhi’s partners, Tony Kiratsous and Deven Shah , as we’re simply not set up/not experienced enough to manage a six way conversation. We hav...

Second part of Episode 2. Here is the agenda 00:45 - 06:40 The Changing State of the EPM (Vendor) Market 06:40 - 17:20 What’s the technical profile of people getting into the various EPM tools now? Developers, Administrators and Groovy. 17:20 - 22:32 Why has Oracle incorporated so much customizability via Groovy? History of Groovy in Oracle EPM. 22:32 - 34:25 How long will Essbase stay the Engine...

Intro and outro For once your author aka Yr. Obt. Svt. is keeping it short and sweet. Enjoy it, as its brevity may be akin to Halley’s Comet and happen again in 2061. Natalie Delemar, Essbase Lady, Madame President (emerita) of ODTUG, dynamic personality, and friend to all of us in the EPM space (but especially to me), is our guest. There was so much history, so much interest, so much conversation...

Introduction We (Tim, Celvin, and Yr. Obt. Svt. ) are thrilled to announce our new endeavor:  EPM Conversations.  If you’ve made it to this page you are about to experience the joy that is the three of us – and many more of our fellows in the EPM/CPM world. What What is EPM Conversations?  It’s a forum for you to hear your peers as they discuss why, what, and how they exist and thrive in our littl...