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KPI Partners Releases Manufacturing Analytics for Oracle BI & E-Business Suite

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Nov 17, 2011 @ 07:00 AM

KPI Partners has developed a pre-built analytic application specifically designed for manufacturing and costing processes.

Minneapolis, Minnesota – November 17, 2011 -- KPI Partners today announced the introduction of Manufacturing Analytics for Oracle BI, a solution developed for use with the Oracle Business Intelligence platform and the Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing modules. KPI’s Manufacturing Analytics enable any organization to monitor and analyze the manufacturing processes and costing details that exist within an organization.

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Tags: News, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Manufacturing Analytics, ERP

Setting OBIEE Join Columns With Request Variables

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 @ 11:01 AM

by Kurt Wolff

Here is a technique for enabling the user to set join columns with a dashboard prompt.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

Comparing Arbitrary Time Periods in OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Nov 10, 2011 @ 11:07 AM

by Kurt Wolff

The Ago() “time series function” can be used to show data for a  previous time period, as long as the previous time period corresponds to a level that has been defined in the period hierarchy. A typical period hierarchy containing day, month, quarter, and year levels would allow you to use the Ago function to construct measures showing data for day ago, month ago, quarter ago, year ago (or N days ago, N months ago, etc.).

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

Need Selected Date + 30 Days Data - Siebel Analytics/OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Nov 08, 2011 @ 11:05 AM

by Kurt Wolff

Someone asked a question on a “Siebel Analytics” email group a few days ago that I thought was worth discussing briefly here. The question posed was how to put a date prompt on a dashboard and return data for that date and the next 30 days. The solution could not involve presentation or report variables, since these were introduced only in a later version of Siebel Analytics that the person who posed the question did not have.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog

3 Part Recording From The Webinar Featuring McDonalds

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 @ 11:25 AM

Last week we had the privilege of working with Oracle and McDonalds to deliver some educational content around Oracle BI Financial Analytics.   The main focus was on best practices and how to help other users focus on best practice metrics, reducing TCO (total cost of ownership), improving performace, and intergration with other enterprise systems.

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Tags: Webinar, Mobile BI, Events, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

Photos from the 2011 Oracle Titan Award Gala

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 @ 04:59 PM

 

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Tags: Oracle OpenWorld, Awards, Oracle, Events, Oracle BI, Blog

KPI Partners Wins 2011 Oracle Titan Award for Business Intelligence

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Oct 03, 2011 @ 07:30 AM

Award Winning Business Intelligence Applications Solution Realized an ROI of $500 Thousand In The First Week

ORACLE OPENWORLD, San Francisco, CA – October 3, 2011 – KPI Partners, a member of the Oracle® PartnerNetwork, is honored to be selected as Oracle’s 2011 recipient of the North America Titan Award in the ‘Business Intelligence Application Solution’ category. The awards are presented on Tuesday, October 4th during the Oracle North America Partner & Titan Award Gala held at San Francisco’s City Hall.

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Tags: Oracle OpenWorld, News, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications

KPI Partners Releases Depot Repair Analytics for Oracle BI

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Sun, Oct 02, 2011 @ 03:33 PM

KPI Partners has developed a pre-built analytic application specifically designed for standard repair processes.

San Francisco, California – October 2, 2011 -- KPI Partners today announced the introduction of Depot Repair Analytics for Oracle Business Intelligence, a solution developed for use with the Oracle Business Intelligence platform and the Oracle E-Business Suite Depot Repair module. KPI’s Depot Repair Analytics enable any organization to monitor and report on repair processes throughout the entire life cycle. Key analytical areas include Repair Orders, Estimates, and Shipping & Billing.

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Tags: Depot Repair Analytics, Vikas Agrawal, News, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications

Installing and Configuring BI Composer for Oracle BI EE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Sep 30, 2011 @ 03:10 PM

By Harisha Pattela

To install and configure BI Composer for Oracle BI EE, use the following steps as a guide:

Step 1

Extend a Web Logic Server domain & to install BI Composer runtime implementation shared libraries:

    1. Stop the Web Logic Server.
    2. Launch the Configuration Wizard.
    3. Select Extend an existing Weblogic domain, and then click Next.
    4. Select the domain folder (for example, <mw_home>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain), and then click Next.

 

 

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Tags: Harisha Pattela, Oracle BI, Blog

What To Do When OBIEE Fact Tables Do Not Join to All Dimension Tables?

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Sep 28, 2011 @ 10:16 PM

By Kurt Wolff

When I read the questions people ask about data modeling on OBIEE forums, one that seems to come up frequently is what to do when you have fact tables that do not join to all dimension tables.

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Tags: Kurt Wolff, Oracle BI, Blog