Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g : Getting familiar With Oracle's Business Intelligence Applications Configuration Manager (BIACM) & Functional Set-Up Manager (FSM)
Once the BIAPPS installation is completed, the newly introduced web-based JAVA applications, BI Configuration Manager (BIACM) and Functional Set-up Manager (FSM), are available for administrators to complete the set-up related tasks. As it is a new product, the first thing that most do is, run through the oracle documentation, discuss with experts and fellow colleagues, take part in Oracle webinars etc. After that, we still land up with a long list of new terminologies and jargon.
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Have you ever needed to access Informatica services from a third party application such as Salesforce.com or another Cloud/Non-Cloud application but were unable to do so? By configuring web services in the Informatica Power Center, it is possible to access Informatica services from a third party application.
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Using Admintool.exe To Prepare An OBIEE RPD for Deployment
I know that for many business intelligence implementation teams the extent of preparing an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) repository for deployment is putting the repository (RPD) out on a network share. This past week I was reminded how important it is to check and prepare your RPD properly for deployment. I’ve seen clients that have failed to check/prepare their RPD for deployment fall victim to issues such as:
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A recent study by Harvard Business Review cited that top performing organizations use analytics five times more than low performers. However, the vision of delivering fast, interactive, insightful analytics has remained elusive for most organizations.
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Since 2008, we have experienced a recession with a slow recovery. Organizations have deferred capital spending in order to conserve cash.
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Chart of Accounts Hierarchy
Chart of Accounts Hierarchy (COA) is a structure that is used to classify and group accounts for financial reporting purposes. All transactions can be done at the Account Level (lowest), and higher levels are for roll-ups for reporting purposes.
The diagram below shows a Chart of Accounts Hierarchy of Company X:
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Social Media Analytics is a new concept within the business intelligence space. Research has identified that mining through social data helps organizations to improve their customer satisfaction and company revenues. One in every four people in the world uses social media for communication, interaction, and maintaining relationships with other people. This valuable information is all passed through internet protocol.
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The enrollment system must interact with integrated data from a wide range of federal and state hosted data sources.
With the political problems hovering around the launch of The Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") now seemingly left behind, the biggest threat to the Affordable Care Act is now a technical one. Initial problems involving massive traffic surges leading to website unavailability were unfortunate but hardly unexpected. Many other high-demand services such as Twitter have experienced similar issues in their infancy. Far more worrying are the continuing data problems which, if left unchecked, could see people left without insurance.
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