Technology Blueprints & Strategy with Gary Crisci

Over the years, this blog has evolved alongside my career. When I first started writing, my focus was on Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) —a space where I spent many years optimizing financial systems and driving reporting and analytics strategies. Some of those posts are still relevant today and continue to get views, which speaks to the lasting impact of those topics. Later, as I explored blockchain , I launched a separate blog to document my work in that space. While that proof of concept was valuable, my career path ultimately led me toward Enterprise Transformation and Architecture —where I’ve spent the last several years helping organizations modernize, optimize, and align technology with business strategy. Now, as I transition from GE and focus on my next chapter, I’ve taken the time to clean up and consolidate my blog. Rather than removing past content, I’ve brought everything together under one roof. This blog will now be the home for my insights on digital transforma...

An overview of Oracle Analytics Cloud and how it can be leveraged to report on blockchain activity Introduction Welcome to Part 3, of my three part series, on Oracle Blockchain platform. Hopefully by now you have read Part 1 and Part 2 . If you haven't, I recommend checking them out. In this post I'm going to talk about Oracle Analytic Cloud (OAC), which is a fantastic data visualization and analytics tool. While this use case is tied to the work I did with Oracle's Blockchain platform, this tutorial can be applied broadly, it is not only relevant to Blockchain. In fact, if you read Part 2 in this series then you already know about the Rich History Database and you understand that we will actually be building our visualizations on top of Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), not the Blockchain itself. Setting up a connection to Oracle Analytics Let's jump right in to the tutorial and set up a data connection from Oracle Analytics to our Rich History Database. I'm goi...