KPI Partners Blog

KPI Partners Named To Inc. 5000

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Aug 21, 2012 @ 12:03 PM

KPI Partners Ranks #1480 On Inc. Magazine’s Annual Ranking Of The Fastest-Growing Companies In America

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – August 21, 2012 — KPI Partners, a a strategic data and business intelligence consultancy, today announced that the company was named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list, a compendium of the most entrepreneurial and fastest growing companies in America. This is the company’s first year appearing on the list.

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Tags: Awards, News

Configure Firefox To Be Compatible With OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Aug 08, 2012 @ 12:59 PM

by Rajesh Sakamuri

Many users of Oracle BI are being confronted with a problem after upgrading to the most recent versions of the Firefox browser.  An error message is thrown that reads, "Your browser is not supported by Oracle BI Presentation Services."

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Tags: OBIEE, Rajesh Sakamuri, Oracle BI, Blog

Why Data Matters to the CFO...

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Fri, Aug 03, 2012 @ 01:32 PM

If productive people are the most valuable asset of an organization, data is its most precious boon. Estimates show that 90% of accessible information comes from hundreds of millions of digital data elements from social networks, Internet searches, e-commerce, emails, SMS, GPS and many more. CFOs cannot afford to ignore these massive pools of information growing at a staggering pace. Simply collecting them for reporting purposes is not enough. The true value of data is its role in influencing business decisions in order to help cut costs, enhance operational efficiencies, mitigate risks and improve the bottom line.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Blog

What is Big Data?

Posted by JEREMIAH JOHNSON on Mon, Jul 30, 2012 @ 12:26 PM

There is an apocryphal story about a nuclear scientist at the Los Alamos proving grounds in the late 1940s. When informed that the Soviet Union had sent spies to infiltrate the complex and steal the secrets of the atomic bomb, he replied that the U.S. should give the Soviet Union all the data on those first atomic bomb tests. His reasoning was, of course, that the Soviets would take years to get through the data regardless what their spies told them and thus not actually build a bomb for many more years.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Case Study, Business Intelligence, Blog

Golfing To Support The Ronald McDonald House

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jul 20, 2012 @ 12:01 PM

McDonalds and KPI began a partnership in 2011 on a large business intelligence project focused on turning their data in to insight. KPI is proud to also support Ronald McDonalds House Charities.

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Tags: Charity, News, Blog

[Recording] What Exactly Is Exalytics?

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 @ 06:20 PM

On June 26th, KPI Partners hosted an educational webinar that helped us understand what Oracle's Exalytics product offering should mean to customer.  Get access to this recording from our live webcast featuring Abhinav Banerjee from KPI Partners who profiles Exadata and discusses how it fits into the Oracle 'EXA' stack of products.

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Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Oracle, Abhinav Banerjee, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Exalytics, Hyperion, Blog

Video Profiles Deployment Of Cruise Ship Analytics Using Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jun 21, 2012 @ 03:27 PM

Business Intelligence Is Being Utilized To Optimize Customer Experience At Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

SAN JOSE, CA– June 21, 2012 – Technology consultancy KPI Partners partnered with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on a customer spotlight webinar that featured a unique business intelligence solution at RCCL.  Through the use of state-of-the-art business intelligence technology, Royal Caribbean can bring together various disparate data sources to help optimize the vacation experience for travelers on all of their ships.

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Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Case Study, News, Oracle BI

Datetime Pairs in Oracle BI (OBIEE) - Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jun 14, 2012 @ 12:47 PM

by Kurt Wolff

Suppose you have a series of datetime pairs in Oracle BI... The problem is to display the differences between DATE1 and DATE2 in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

[Wrap-Up & Video] Collaborate 12: Essbase, OBIEE, and Blackjack...

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Jun 04, 2012 @ 06:17 PM

by Jeremiah Johnson

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Tags: Abhinav Banerjee, Events, Pavan Nanjundaiah, Fixed Asset Analytics, Blog

KPI Partners eBook Launch: Understanding Oracle BI Components

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 01, 2012 @ 04:51 PM

Business Intelligence Guru Releases E-Book Covering Key Principles of Oracle BI (OBIEE)

MINNEAPOLIS – June 1, 2011 – The importance of business intelligence (BI) is rising by the day. BI systems, which help organizations make better and more informed decisions, are becoming crucial for success.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, OBIEE, Mobile BI, Business Intelligence, Abhinav Banerjee, News, Oracle BI, Book