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Under The Hood Of The New Oracle BI Apps

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Tue, May 14, 2013 @ 08:18 AM

What's New And What's Improved In The New Version Of Oracle BI Applications...

Oracle just released a new version of Oracle BI Applications (11.1.1.7.1 also known as 11g PS1) and as the top partner for Oracle BI Applications (we can prove it - we've won the awards), we thought we'd take a look under the hood to highlight the enhancements.

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Financial Analytics, Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft Campus Solutions, Project Analytics, Essbase, Real-Time Supply Chain and Inventory Analytics, Informatica, Jeremiah Johnson, HR Analytics, Oracle BI Applications, Real-Time Financial Analytics, Procurement & Spend Analytics, Examining OBIA 11g, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Fixed Asset Analytics, GoldenGate, Indirect Spend Planning, Supply Chain and Order Management, Blog

New Oracle BI Apps Release Features New Pre-Built Content And Enhanced Architecture

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, May 10, 2013 @ 02:12 PM

Newark, California – May 10, 2013 -- KPI Partners, the 2012 Oracle Specialized Partner of the Year for BI Applications, today announced it's support of the new release of Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7.1 (also known as 11g PS1).  

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Sid Goel, OBIEE, Financial Analytics, Oracle E-Business Suite, Project Analytics, Oracle, News, HR Analytics, Oracle BI Applications, ERP, Peoplesoft, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle GoldenGate

The ALL-NEW Oracle BI Apps... now with ODI (11.1.1.7.1)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, May 09, 2013 @ 09:25 AM

by Shiva Molabanti

The new Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7.1 has been completely re-architected to leverage the power of ODI with its E-L-T (Extract-Load-Transfer) architecture and has new out-of-the-box tools to increase the productivity and lower down the total cost of ownership (TCO). The Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 has significantly expanded with new analytical contents.

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Tags: Shiva Molabanti, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI Applications, Examining OBIA 11g, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle GoldenGate, Blog

Changing the OBIEE Repository Password from the Command Line

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 01, 2013 @ 03:21 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

In OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 there is new BI Server utility called obieerpdpwdchg to change the RPD password from command line.

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Tags: OBIEE, Shiva Molabanti, Oracle, Oracle BI, Blog

SmartView: An Intelligent Addition To Hyperion & OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 @ 03:30 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

OBIEE and SmartView integration – A Great Oracle BI / MS-Office Add-in

Oracle Hyperion SmartView for Office Integration.

SmartView is much more powerful than its well-known predecessor, the Hyperion Excel Add-In. It not only connects to Essbase, Hyperion Planning, and now to Oracle BI EE. The Smart View 11.1.2.2 Add-in replaces the Oracle BI Office Add-in as the primary Office application for Oracle BI Foundation. For benefit of the users, both are still available with OBI 11.1.1.7.

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Tags: OBIEE, Shiva Molabanti, MS Office, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Oracle EPM, MS Excel, SmartView, Oracle BI, Hyperion, Blog

[Recording] Extending Oracle BI for Real-Time Analytics

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Apr 12, 2013 @ 11:54 AM

Organizations do not have the ability to wait for a data refresh during critical business times like the financial close process & the management of an enterprise's supply chain.  The innovators at KPI Partners have extended the Oracle BI Applications to support real-time analytics.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Webinar, Sid Goel, OBIEE, Financial Analytics, Pre-Built Solutions, Oracle E-Business Suite, Real-Time BI, Bruce Wroughton, Oracle Discoverer, Real-Time Supply Chain and Inventory Analytics, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Kumar Krishnaswamy, Real-Time Financial Analytics, Exalytics, Fixed Asset Analytics, Blog

Converting Hyperion IR (Brio) to OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 02:36 PM

by Sridhar Kasthuri

Converting Hyperion Interactive Reporting (Brio) to OBIEE

What is Hyperion Interactive Reporting (Brio)?

Interactive Reporting was originally developed by Brio Software and distributed under several names including Brio Query, Explorer, Insight and finally Intelligence. In 2003 Hyperion acquired Brio and the product became part of the Hyperion Performance Suite. The Brio software adds an intuitive user interface that supports query, reporting, and alerting capabilities that were lacking in earlier versions of the Hyperion Performance Suite.

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Tags: OBIEE, Migrations, Oracle EPM, Sridhar Kasthuri, Brio, Interactive Reporting, Hyperion, Blog

Historical Data Conversion After An ERP Upgrade [Oracle BI Apps]

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Mar 29, 2013 @ 10:35 AM

by Puneet Aggarwal

Historical Data Conversion: Implementing Oracle BI Applications after an ERP upgrade

Many companies embark into the deployment of Oracle BI Applications soon after they go live with a new or upgraded ERP system.  A successful BI Apps deployment can bring in numerous benefits – the most notable is the data driven decision making in the organization. However, the success of the project depends a lot on having a good understanding of the challenges that are endemic to such BI deployments. These challenges require business decisions that must be made at the onset of the project to avoid the situation of over-promising and under-delivering.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, OBIEE, Oracle E-Business Suite, Puneet Aggarwal, Oracle BI Applications, ERP, Peoplesoft, Blog

Supporting Position Management using HR Analytics

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Mar 27, 2013 @ 03:43 PM

by Ramesh Ponaganti

What is PeopleSoft Position Management?

Position Management is functionality that is part of the PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System (HRMS). The system is in place in order to track positions, do trend analysis and provide information about the workforce. PeopleSoft users can use 'Full', 'Partial' or 'No Position Management'.

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Tags: Oracle E-Business Suite, Ramesh Ponaganti, HR Analytics, Oracle BI Applications, ERP, Human Resource Analytics, Peoplesoft, Blog

What Exactly is Business Intelligence?

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Fri, Mar 22, 2013 @ 03:13 PM

In the past when automation and digitization were still unknown, who would have ever thought of smart machines, intelligent companies and business intelligence? Business decisions were then mostly based on individual experiences and intuition. As technology advanced, computing led the way for companies to access massive data in less time and use them to make important business decisions. By the mid 1980s, business intelligence began to take its roots.

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Tags: Business Intelligence, Jeremiah Johnson, Blog