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Understanding AI Engineering: Data, Infrastructure, and Best Practices

Understanding AI Engineering Understanding AI Engineering: Data, Infrastructure, and Best Practices Artificial Intelligence is a vast world—and so is the ecosystem that supports it behind the scenes. AI Engineering itself is a broad discipline with many perspectives, but in this article, I want to focus on three foundational aspects: The primary requirement for AI systems to work: data High-level infrastructure options that support AI Some practical best practices observed in enterprise environments Today, AI has become an integral part of our day-to-day operations. From conversational models to productivity assistants, we interact with AI through tools and platforms such as GPT-based systems, Copilots, Gemini, and many others. While using these tools, a natural question arises: ...

Personalization vs. Customization in Oracle Fusion — A Practitioner’s Perspective

Over the years of working across Oracle EBS, Fusion Applications, and Oracle Cloud PaaS, one of the most common (and often misunderstood) discussions I ve had with clients revolves around a simple question:  " Should we personalize or customize our Oracle Fusion environment?" This question might sound minor, but it often defines the long-term stability, scalability, and upgrade-readiness of your entire Oracle landscape. Let s dive deep into understanding what these terms actually mean not just from a documentation standpoint, but from an implementation practitioner s lens.  Personalization - "Tuning the App for Better Usability" What It Really Means ? Personalization refers to the kind of changes end users or functional administrators can do to make the system more intuitive for themselves without writing code or deploying anything externally. Think of it as adjusting your workspace rather than rebuilding the office.  Common Examples  Hiding or showing fields on a ...

The Rising Age of Data Analysis: From Insight to Intelligence

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Over the past decade, data has evolved from being a byproduct of digital operations to becoming the very foundation of decision-making. What was once a practice of “looking back” to understand performance has now become a strategic discipline that shapes what comes next. We’re living in the rising age of data analysis , and the shift isn’t just technological—it’s cultural, organizational, and deeply transformative. The Changing Landscape: From Reports to Real-Time Intelligence Not long ago, organizations relied on static reports and dashboards to make quarterly decisions. Today, data analysis is happening in real-time, embedded in every workflow, product, and service. The velocity, variety, and volume of data have exploded, and so have the expectations from business leaders. This shift is visible in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms , where we’ve seen a steady migration of players toward AI-infused solutions. Platforms like Microsoft Power...

Jira Issue Workflow Configuration

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Jira Workflow : A Jira workflow is a set of statuses, transitions & triggers that an issue moves through during its lifecycle, and typically represents a process within your organization. Workflows can be associated with particular projects and, optionally, specific issue types by using a workflow scheme. Workflow can be defined for Story, Task, Bug, Sub-task & epic seperaltely or as a common based on subscription model opted by a user/organization. It is also referred as "issue workflows" in Jira. Atlassian articel can referred here . In order to configure a workflow user should first be aware of configured Jira process i.e. is it a company managed or team managed project setting in Jira while initial configuration was done. Note : Project once configured cannot be modified/migrated from team manager to company manager and vice-versa. Below is the pictorial representation of how a user can identify if the project is company manager or team managed. Detaile...

Customizations: Oracle SaaS vs PaaS

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  It has always been a questions from customer, on what's the customization extent of SaaS and where one should approach PaaS services in Oracle universe. After working into this domain for 3+ years and having multiple iterations into multiple projects and tons of pre-sales in past few years this has brought me a good level of clarity to the extent where customers are happy to know the point when they should switch to PaaS. Understanding and practicing industry best practice should always be best practice for an organization as that helps to manage that for long run. As best systems are those which requires minimal of manual efforts to maintain. SaaS Customizations Page composer OTBI reports Custom Workflow - BPM Page Composer: For certain applications one can use Page Composer to configure application page components, such as page content and layout for other users.Here are the changes one can make using this tool: Add, move, delete, show, and hide fields ...

Scrum, Art & The Analyst

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As the title says it's not just about analysis or scrum but it also has art in it. I been thinking to write on this topic for pretty long time, but as the saying goes "There's a right time to do the right thing" and nothing suits better then the time where am elevating a step in my career. In my experience of working into multiple hats as Scrum master, Business Analayst, Consultant, Customer success and most importantly a project advisor, I have learned a cocept practice in scrum as well as art a very hard way. i.e. Learn, Unlearn and relearn, the concept states you learn a skill with time that evolves in market so you have to step back un-learn the concept but hold onto logic and re-learn the latest evolution in market. Art goes the same way as no art is same, you can copy a art but it cannot be exact similar to the original one, so says the artist. So, as an analyst i have evolved from .Net, Java to Oracle solutions in my career and I still keep learning my way...

Adapting a Agile way of life.

There a quote by an anonymous author, "A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well". We all are driven by our psychological mindset. And our psychological mindset is a collection of our observations during our upbringing, this is one of the reasons why everyone behaves differently. But have you ever thought we as a human have an ability to change our mindset just by changing our perspective to things and learning new methods to achieve peace and goals in life. Similarly, is the project and it's team members everyone has their own way's and methods of doing the task and we can never have everyone on same page from day one. So a Scrum master, Project Manager, Business Analyst role being a change managers is to drive this behavioral challenges and keep the team streamlines to project goals and to resolve any disputes amongst the team not by escalating it but just by observation and by driving them to anew direction of mi...