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Using WITH in Physical Tables ("Opaque Views")

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, May 24, 2024 @ 02:15 AM

by Kurt Wolff

Common practice is to use derived tables (sometimes referred to as “inline views”) when creating a physical layer “Select” table.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

Evaluate With Date Functions in OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, May 24, 2024 @ 01:56 AM

by Kurt Wolff

If you’re not concerned about database portability – for example, you use Oracle and that’s that, forever – then the evaluate function in OBIEE can be useful. However, using the evaluate function can be tricky, and the documentation could be better.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

Manual performance optimization in Denodo – Most relevant and most used techniques

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Aug 24, 2020 @ 07:46 AM

by Manju Das

Manual performance optimization in Denodo – Most relevant and most used techniques

We are going to discuss how to optimize the Denodo query to make the most of the optimization in the Denodo platform. Below are the most powerful query optimization techniques that we can apply in Denodo platform manually which will increase the performance significantly.

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Tags: Blog, Manju Das, Denodo, Most relevant and most used techniques, Manual performance optimization in Denodo, Denodo platform, query optimizer, data virtualization tools, performance tuning in sql, denodo data virtualization

Migrating To AWS Aurora? Things to Consider!

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Apr 17, 2019 @ 12:45 PM

by Mohit Mathur

Not 100% convinced of migrating to AWS Aurora? – READ ME 

According to latest reports released in February 2019 by leading market research companies, 94% of respondents now leverage cloud technologies. Public cloud adoption is at 91 percent and private cloud adoption is at 72 percent, according to Right scale – A Cloud Management Company.

According to the survey done by Gartner in last quarter of 2018:

  • Organizations of all sizes are moving to cloud solutions, such as core financial applications, for transactional systems of record.
  • Cloud momentum is consistently higher across financial business applications year over year.
  • Business analytics and enterprise business applications continue as top investment initiatives for senior financial executives.
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Tags: Migrations, Blog, AWS, Amazon Aurora, Mohit Mathur, Migrating To AWS Aurora

Advantages of using Redshift Spectrum

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Apr 08, 2019 @ 09:42 AM

by Sristi Raj

With the advent of cloud data warehouse and analytics tools, concepts like data lake, in-place querying, schema on read and data mashup have become a critical and integral part of an organization’s analytics capabilities. Consequently, new tools and features like AWS Redshift spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive etc. are now playing a game changing role for data analysts to explore and mine data and get value out of existing data assets lying unused within the organization. Although, with so many options to choose from, it becomes utterly necessary to understand the subtle differences between each of them and advantages of each, to select the right tool of choice for a particular use case. With this blog, we will explore some capabilities of Redshift spectrum and advantages of using it in some of the use cases, while keeping the comparison and differences between different tool of choice to a separate blog post.

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Tags: Blog, Sristi Raj, Advantages of using Redshift Spectrum, AWS Redshift

Dynamic Selection of Measures in Power BI

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Aug 24, 2018 @ 02:48 PM

by Ranjeet Mandal

Dynamic Selection of Measures in Power BI

This is the second post in KPI's Power BI blog series. In this blog, we will discuss the dynamic selection of measures in Power BIYou can read the other posts in the series here:

  1. Visual Interactivity in a Power BI Report
  2. Security and Collaboration in Power BI
  3. What is PowerShell and Connect to Power BI Service
  4. Dataset refresh and other dataset operations from PowerShell

Have you ever needed to use slicers in Power BI to choose a measure to be displayed in your charts? We know that the default functionality of Power BI slicers is to allow us to choose from the available dimension or measure values. But what about the ability to choose which measure to be displayed?

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Tags: Blog, Power BI, Power BI Blog Series, Ranjeet Mandal, Dynamic Selection

Traditional vs. Agile Software Development Methodologies

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 22, 2018 @ 06:13 PM

by Indusree Mavuru

Most companies today focus on delivering quality and gaining customer satisfaction and in order to accomplish this, the challenge lies in choosing between traditional development methodologies and agile development methodologies.

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Tags: Blog, agile software development methodology, traditional vs agile, traditional software development methodology

Integration of OBIEE with an External Web Application - SAML SSO

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Jun 13, 2018 @ 11:25 AM

by Siva Kumar Mopuri

Security Implementation Benefits

This solution is beneficial in OLTP applications like Oracle EBS that are integrated with OBIEE. In such scenarios, all the responsibilities/groups from OLTP source would be forwarded to OBIEE. Instead of having all the responsibilities in OBIEE, the user has the privilege to select the required responsibilities at runtime and those would be passed to OBIEE.

Note: This blog post considers Oracle EBS as an OLTP source which is integrated with OBIEE.

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Tags: OBIEE, Blog, SSO

How to Setup Dependencies between Load Plans in Oracle Data Integrator

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Jun 11, 2018 @ 11:53 AM

by Chaithanya Kumar Taduvai

ODI developers usually deal with load plans and mismanaged dependencies between multiple-load plans are typically a cause of data corruption in the system. An ideal Informatica warehouse implementation has multiple execution processes dependent on other execution processes which run automatically without any manual intervention. Here is how we can overcome this issue using the load plan dependency feature of ODI.

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Tags: ODI, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog, ODI Load Plans

How to Setup Oracle Analytics Cloud Service

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Feb 15, 2018 @ 01:39 PM

by Dindima Mahesh Jami

This blog post is intended for those who are familiar with OBIEE or have previously worked on it. It contains step by step instructions on how to setup OACS using a trial account.

What is OACS?

Oracle Analytics Cloud Service (OACS) is a new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering comprehensive analytics capabilities at any scale, in any environment, and on any device. This was first announced on Sep 30, 2014 at Oracle OpenWorld and was officially launched on Apr 4, 2017.

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Tags: Blog, oacs, Oracle Analytics Cloud Service, Dindima Mahesh Jami