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Getting Familiar With Oracle's BIACM & FSM

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Apr 02, 2014 @ 08:44 AM

by Ashwin Pujari

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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Tags: Data Warehousing, ODI, Ashwin Pujari, BIACM, FSM, Oracle, Tutorial, ETL, Data Integration, Oracle BI Applications, Examining OBIA 11g, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog

Oracle BI Mobile App Now Available For Android

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Mar 26, 2014 @ 11:02 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

Whew.. The wait is over.

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

Accessing Informatica Web Services from 3rd Party Apps

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Mar 24, 2014 @ 12:25 PM

by Sagar MV

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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Tags: Sagar MV, Web Services, Oracle, Informatica, Tutorial, Data Integration, Blog

Avoid OBIEE RPD Deployment Mistakes By Using AdminTool.exe

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Feb 24, 2014 @ 06:36 PM

by Ron Cruz

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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Tags: OBIEE, Ron Cruz, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Blog

[Recording] Oracle VP Provides An Update On Engineered Systems

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Feb 14, 2014 @ 09:28 AM

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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Tags: Adam Driver, Gurbeena Sahi, Jeremiah Johnson, Exalytics

Analyzing Asset Maintenance in a Down Economy

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Feb 13, 2014 @ 11:26 AM

by Will Hutchinson

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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Tags: Endeca, Service Analytics, Enterprise Asset Management, Capital Assets, Oracle, Oracle BI Applications, William Hutchinson, Fixed Asset Analytics, Blog

4-Step Social Media Analytics Project Life Cycle w/ Endeca

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 @ 02:03 PM
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Tags: Training, Marketing Analytics, Tutorial, Social Media Analytics, data analytics lifecycle, business analytics, business data analytics, business intelligence and data analytics, data intelligence

Chart of Accounts Hierarchy - Ragged & Skipped Oracle BI Apps Solutions

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jan 23, 2014 @ 02:43 PM

by Ravi Hoskote

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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Tags: Data Warehousing, OBIEE, Oracle E-Business Suite, Ravi Hoskote, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

Improving Revenue & Satisfaction With Social Media Analytics

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Jan 15, 2014 @ 10:49 AM

by Madan Thota

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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Tags: Pre-Built Solutions, Endeca, Unstructured Data, Madan Thota, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Video, Data Integration, Oracle BI, Blog

Is Data Quality The Biggest Threat To Obamacare?

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Dec 27, 2013 @ 11:26 AM

by Jeremiah Johnson

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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Tags: Data Warehousing, Vision Workshop, Data Quality, Big Data, Government, Jeremiah Johnson, Data Integration, Blog