KPI Partners Blog

Examining Progressive's HR Analytics Scorecard Solution Using Oracle BI Applications

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Nov 12, 2012 @ 04:08 PM

Business Intelligence Is Linking People, Strategy, And Performance At Progressive Insurance

SAN JOSE, CA– November 2, 2012 – Technology consultancy KPI Partners partnered with Progressive Casualty Insurance Company on a customer spotlight webinar that featured a unique business intelligence solution for HR.  Progressive is building state-of-the-art human resource scorecard solutions to optimize the capabilities for managing approximately 25,000 employees and 450 office locations.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Webinar, Case Study, Business Intelligence, News, HR Analytics, Oracle BI Applications

Endeca Brings Enhanced BI Capabilities to Oracle

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Thu, Nov 08, 2012 @ 12:01 AM

When Oracle chose to enter an acquisition agreement with Endeca back in October of 2011, most industry experts agreed that this deal would further help to enhance the BI capabilities of Oracle. However, no one could have predicted the impact the deal has made roughly one year later. Oracle made its claim in the BI industry with its implementation of OBIEE or Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. OBIEE helped to cause a dramatic shift over to self-service Business Intelligence. With Endeca now on board, Oracle is rapidly transforming what was once considered classic BI usage and bringing on new types of unstructured data, with factors such as text files and management of social media.

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Tags: OBIEE, Endeca, Jeremiah Johnson, Oracle BI, Blog

How Is Big Data Changing Education?

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Tue, Nov 06, 2012 @ 10:42 PM

Well, it was bound to happen. After all, since we live in an age in which meeting the love of your life is now as likely to be accomplished by how accurately you've completed an online dating questionnaire as anything else, is it really surprising that the same principle has begun to be used to determine educational outcomes too?

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Blog

The Manual Deployment of an OBIEE 11G Repository

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Nov 05, 2012 @ 04:01 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

In general, the recommended approach for uploading the metadata repository is to use the Repository tab of the Deployment page. But you might encounter specific situations in which you must upload the repository using a different approach. For example, the size of the repository file can be too large for Fusion Middleware Control to handle, or you might be working in a development environment and have unique needs.

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Tags: OBIEE, Shiva Molabanti, Oracle BI, Blog

Former Oracle AVP Keith Carnish Joins KPI Partners

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Oct 19, 2012 @ 12:46 PM

San Jose, CA -- October 19, 2012 -- KPI Partners, a strategic consulting and systems implementation consultancy in the area of business intelligence and enterprise performance management, today announced Keith Carnish as the new Vice President of Sales.

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Tags: Oracle, News

Photos from KPI's "Vegas Night On The Bay" Appreciation Event at OpenWorld

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Oct 16, 2012 @ 12:39 AM
KPI's "Vegas Night On The Bay" Appreciation Event & Happy Hour at Oracle OpenWorld

Late Sunday September 30th, all clients, partners, prospects, and friends were invited to join us for good times, good music, casino games, complimentary cocktails, and appetizers aboard the 100 foot luxury yacht. We transformed this yacht into a vegas-themed party spot for one special night.

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Tags: Oracle OpenWorld, Events

[Recording] Drive Valuable Insight From Diverse And Unstructured Data With Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Oct 15, 2012 @ 03:34 PM

September 25th, KPI Partners hosted an educational webinar that showed us there is significant growth of unstructured data being created by consumers and businesses alike, however unstructured forms of data that can be found in sources such as email, social networks and even health records can make it more difficult to organize, manage and analyze the data. 



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Tags: Webinar, Sid Goel, Endeca, Case Study

Who Is KPI Partners? - We Transform Data Into Insight [Video]

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Thu, Oct 04, 2012 @ 11:03 AM

So, your global enterprise has collected some data...  How do you start to make sense of all this raw data?

As part of a recent award win, we were asked to generate a short video that could be used as part of the various award ceremonies.   The objective was to capture, in less than a minute, the essence of KPI Partners... basically an extended elevator pitch with cool visuals.

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Tags: Oracle OpenWorld, Awards, Blog

KPI Wins Prestigious Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 @ 03:00 PM

Oracle Recognizes KPI’s Expertise in Delivering Specialized Solutions

San Francisco, CA -- September 30, 2012 –-Oracle today awarded KPI Partners with its 2012 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in Business Intelligence Applications. KPI Partners was also the 2011 recipient of the award, formerly known as the Oracle North America Titan Award.

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Tags: OBIEE, Kusal Swarnakar, Oracle OpenWorld, Awards, Oracle, Business Intelligence, News, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications

KPI Partners eBook Launch: The Project Analytics Framework

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Sep 04, 2012 @ 10:40 PM

KPI Partners Launches E-Book On Project-Based Decision Support Systems

BOSTON, MA – September 4, 2012 – There is a saying that if it cannot be measured, it cannot be managed. Traditionally, projects have used schedules and budgets to monitor progress. This only provides part of the answer. It does not address other variables.

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Tags: Sid Goel, Case Study, Project Analytics, News, Oracle BI, Book