by Kurt Wolff
Linear regression is a statistical technique for drawing a line through a set of data points that “best fits” the data. It is a useful and standard technique for quantifying trends.
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The experts at KPI Partners have completed a marathon schedule of webinars from the end of October through December. In the event you missed an event, a recording from each of the webinars have been posted to the KPI Partners webinar archive.
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KPI Partners extends limited time offer to enroll in any training course at 50% off.
New York, NY – December 21, 2011 -- KPI Partners today announced the launch of a new campaign offering 50% off course fees for any scheduled 2012 Oracle BI training course through KPI University, the company's center for education and training.
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by Kurt Wolff
One of the questions that comes up over and over again is how to show all periods in a query when facts don’t exist for all periods or how to show all products when facts don’t exist for all products.
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by Kurt Wolff
[Note: the following discussion is based on OBIEE version 10.1.3.4.0 and Oracle XE version 10G, both running on Windows. The behavior of other versions of OBIEE could be different.]
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by Kurt Wolff
Here’s a not uncommon scenario. You are designing a dashboard page with a report such as sales by customer. To show sales by customer, you design a report containing the CustomerName column so that facts are grouped by customer. You provide a multi-select prompt to allow the user to select which customer data to view. But you also want to provide the ability to view the data for all customers as a total, without grouping by customer.
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KPI Partners has developed a pre-built analytic application specifically designed for manufacturing and costing processes.
Minneapolis, Minnesota – November 17, 2011 -- KPI Partners today announced the introduction of Manufacturing Analytics for Oracle BI, a solution developed for use with the Oracle Business Intelligence platform and the Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing modules. KPI’s Manufacturing Analytics enable any organization to monitor and analyze the manufacturing processes and costing details that exist within an organization.
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by Kurt Wolff
Here is a technique for enabling the user to set join columns with a dashboard prompt.
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by Kurt Wolff
The Ago() “time series function” can be used to show data for a previous time period, as long as the previous time period corresponds to a level that has been defined in the period hierarchy. A typical period hierarchy containing day, month, quarter, and year levels would allow you to use the Ago function to construct measures showing data for day ago, month ago, quarter ago, year ago (or N days ago, N months ago, etc.).
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by Kurt Wolff
Someone asked a question on a “Siebel Analytics” email group a few days ago that I thought was worth discussing briefly here. The question posed was how to put a date prompt on a dashboard and return data for that date and the next 30 days. The solution could not involve presentation or report variables, since these were introduced only in a later version of Siebel Analytics that the person who posed the question did not have.
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