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Higher Education Analytics: Key Star Schemas for Institutional Research

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Sep 12, 2014 @ 01:40 PM

by Parul Singh

The need for robust reporting and a structured enterprise data warehouse for educational institutions is becoming a necessity.  This type of modern architecture empowers academic institutions with best-in-class reporting and analytic capabilities to increase faculty, staff and student productivity; streamline operations and institutional advancement; and ensure student success.

There are a few key star schemas that can aid universities and their stakeholders to make informed decisions and deliver a better student experience:

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Campus Analytics, Data Warehousing, Higher Education BI, Business Intelligence, Education, Banner

Seamless Reporting With Endeca & OBIEE: Make Them Work Together

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Sep 08, 2014 @ 10:38 AM

by Madan Thota

Endeca Information Discovery (EID) is a data discovery tool that helps business analysts to rapidly explore relevant data.  If you are already using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and wish to reuse the BI data models from Endeca Information Discovery, here are the options.  The primary difference between both tools is that one is used for pre-defined analytics while the other is used for having a conversation with your data (analytics vs information discovery).  The overall goal for both approaches is to get the most value out of the data available.   

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Tags: OBIEE, Endeca, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Blog

2 Options For Data Security in Tableau

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 03:09 PM

by Kumar Krishnaswamy

A quick Google search for “Tableau Data Security” returns a link to a Tableau knowledge base article for User Filters and Row Level Security.  The knowledge base article clearly lays out the options available for implementing data security – defined as the ability to control what data a user sees.  The goal here is to not regurgitate that content, but to examine each of the two data security options laid out by Tableau and determine how they fit various use cases in the enterprise context.

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Tags: Security, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, Tableau, Kumar Krishnaswamy, Blog

13 Key Metrics for Measuring Student Enrollment

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Aug 29, 2014 @ 12:47 AM

by Manohar Rana

Student Curriculum Analytics provides the critical information required to analyze, support, communicate and plan a university curriculum effectively.  The insight provided by this analysis can help different departments focus on the courses that require more attention, understand their student's enrollments patterns, and evaluate instructional staffing requirements.

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Tags: Manohar Rana, Education

Free OBIEE Cache Purge/Seed Utility

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Aug 20, 2014 @ 02:10 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

To see reports with the most up-to-date data from the latest extract-transform-load (ETL) process, we typically purge the Oracle BI Server Cache using a common job called, "Cache Purge."

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Tags: OBIEE, Pre-Built Solutions, Shiva Molabanti, Cache, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, ETL, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

Enabling Usage Tracking for BI Publisher in OBIEE 11g

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Aug 05, 2014 @ 01:12 PM

by Rohith Devegowda

Enabling auditing and monitoring capabilities for reporting is crucial for IT management and governance regardless if it’s enterprise level or department level deployment.  In OBIEE 11g, Oracle added more data to audit and monitor, including more BI Publisher specific information.  This article describes the steps for Enabling Usage Tracking for BI Publisher and how to visualize usage tracking data.

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Tags: OBIEE, BI Publisher, Rohith Devegowda, Blog

Tableau: Trusted Authentication & Integration with OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Jun 04, 2014 @ 10:11 AM
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Tags: OBIEE, Imtiyaz Basha, Data Discovery, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Tableau, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

KPI Partners Achieves Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialization for Education and Research

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 21, 2014 @ 11:22 AM

San Jose, CA – May 21, 2014.  KPI Partners, a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Education and Research.

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Campus Analytics, OBIEE, Oracle E-Business Suite, Kusal Swarnakar, Peoplesoft Campus Solutions, Press, Oracle PartnerNetwork, Public Sector, Oracle, Education, University of California-Berkeley, News, Banner, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, HEUG, Peoplesoft

Who Are Your Customers?

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, May 20, 2014 @ 03:43 PM

by Sid Goel

Do you really know what’s going on inside your business?

Or are you just looking at sets of spreadsheets?  Of course, recording data in spreadsheets is the natural starting point but it doesn’t take long before it is too time-consuming, potentially inaccurate and misleading, particularly in the reconciliation of data for reporting purposes.

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Tags: Sid Goel, Business Intelligence, MS Excel, Blog

Data Discovery Is Not Business Intelligence

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 14, 2014 @ 11:33 AM

by Ron Cruz

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Tags: Unstructured Data, Ron Cruz, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, ETL, Blog