MarketSphere Continues to Expand Oracle® Leadership

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarketSphere announced today the addition of Dave Collins as a Director in their Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) practice. Collins will be a key member of the MarketSphere Oracle applications consulting team to drive knowledge and expertise in the area EPM and Business Intelligence (BI), a key component of MarketSphere’s “Creating Business Harmony,” the integration of Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), BI, and EPM solution services.

“We are focused on building our leading Oracle EPM solutions to link operational and financial content”

Dave Collins has twenty years advisory and operational experience in delivering business benefits through EPM and BI solutions. With over 15 years working with Oracle Hyperion™ technology, Collins is a recognized leader in the industry. As an avid thought leader, Collins is well known as a speaker at Oracle OpenWorld, OAUG Collaborate, ODTUG Kaleidoscope as well as lead author of Oracle Essbase & OLAP: The Guide to Oracle’s Multidimensional Solution, published by Oracle Press / McGraw Hill.

“We are focused on building our leading Oracle EPM solutions to link operational and financial content,” said Mark Sims, Partner, EPM at MarketSphere. “Dave is a proven leader and Oracle practitioner, and we are very excited to leverage his experience to help us continue our pursuit of excellence in delivering successful consulting services and technology implementations to our clients.”

Prior to joining MarketSphere, Dave was a Senior Manager in Advisory Services at Ernst & Young and Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics at Oracle Corporation.

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MarketSphere provides strategic advisory and technology experts to help their clients deliver integrated ERP, BI, and EPM solutions to optimize business performance. They help organizations create business harmony. Their solutions address a broad range of process, technology, and organizational needs within the finance, human resources, supply chain, and sales and marketing functions, with specialization in strategic business performance, technology integration, and enterprise transformation initiatives. Learn more at www.marketsphere.com.

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