Highlights from the Oracle keynote at the Southern New England User Group (SNUG)
Many who live in New England cite autumn as their favorite season. The changing fall foliage is truly exquisite. On the other hand, the major storm that whipped through the region on October 29th causing widespread damage and power outages was, shall we say, unexpected. What wasn’t unexpected was that [...]
Oracle Fusion Applications are here, now and the future
If you are an organization that runs any type of ERP solution for your backend systems you have probably heard of Oracle Fusion. Hearing about fusion is the easy part, but gaining an understanding of the technology and setting the direction for you own organization is the tricky part. The [...]

Reverse Auctions with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing Module
Reverse auctions have been enabled in recent years with the advent of the internet and web enabled procurement applications. Reverse Auctions are auctions in which the buyer posts requirements online and invites suppliers to compete for their business. This has the effect of driving down the price. These types of [...]
Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Fusion and Supplier Relationship Management Sessions
It was an informative and fun week at Oracle OpenWorld! I attended 14 sessions at the conference and presented one. The majority of sessions I attended addressed PeopleSoft 9.1 and 9.2 Supplier Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management and Fusion SRM and SCM. One of the most exciting features, in [...]

Information Governance and Big Data
Does Information Governance include Big Data? I believe we should include Big Data in Information Governance, after all one of the major issues we try to solve with Information Governance is data volume and I consider Big Data solutions to be yet another tool in the arsenal of Information Governance. [...]
What is Guardium you ask?
Guardium is to compliance and audit what a Cup is to Coffee. It is the perfect container to combine and maintain the ever-growing need to protect and monitor the sensitive data and transactions within an organization. Guardium provides Real-time Database security and monitoring. It is a very robust solution that [...]
Tis the Season to be Organized the Data Management Way.
Tis the season to be organized. This time of year brings many thoughts about getting organized and putting things in their proper place. All year at BTRG, we help our clients to get a handle on the information they have within their organization. The steps to proper data management have [...]
Why it is so much better to secure your data BEFORE there is a problem
As the Data Management Practice Director for BTRG, I deal with Data Governance challenges and solutions for our customers on a daily basis. I’ve been a consultant for over 15 years and I’ve seen the impacts of politics on many corporations as they struggle to solve problems. Today I’d like [...]

The New Bottom Line
I can’t say it better. Click on the “Play Video” link. What is your new Bottom Line? http://www.peoplearethenewbottomline.com/ Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the [...]
And talk we did
Last month I blogged about all the places we would be talking about Workday in October and how BTRG’s “real experts” are assisting Workday in changing the landscape for enterprise [...]
Let’s talk Workday
I am excited to announce that the BTRG Workday Practice will be on the road for two key events in October. First, we are Sponsoring the HR Technology Conference in [...]