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A Quick Start Guide for Oracle Endeca Commerce

Posted by Mitul Patel on Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 13:50 Web Experience Management Endeca, Faceted Search, Guided Navigation, Information Discovery, Knowledge Discovery, Oracle Endeca Commerce, Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

Overview

As a consultant  working with Oracle products (first WebCenter Interaction Portal and now WebCenter Sites) the buzz words often abound and new strategic acquisitions regularly muddy Oracle's software offering waters from the perspective of developers, development managers and software strategists.  In this blog, I'll briefly talk about Endeca's offerings and then take a deeper dive into Endeca Guided search by describing what it is, some of the moving parts, and finally walking through an installation of Endeca in a...

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Analyzing the word Analytics in an ever-increasing Analytical world

Posted by Mitul Patel on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 21:00 Uncategorized Analytics, CRISP-DM, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Web Analytics

As you can tell from the preposterous article title, I take exception to the use, overuse, and misuse of the word Analytics. From the day the first person uttered this word, the word has taken on a life of its own. Analytics at a basic level simply means to distill data so that some information/knowledge can be gleamed in the hopes of making better informed decisions in the business arena or any other for that matter. Early Analytics came in the form of a simple spreadsheet tool such as excel and was a means to do decision , what-if or scenario analysis. Spreadsheets can be used to perform...

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