Dashboards, Applications & Business Intelligence

Data Conversion for Oracle Applications

This topic is shared to provide an overview of Data Conversion for Oracle ERP.Approach used for Data Conversion with details on each and every steps as below find here

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1. Conversion Data Mapping
2. Download Programs
3. ASCII Flat File
4. Upload Program
5. Interface
Interface Table
Creation of Interface Table
6. Translation Programs
7. Interface Programs
8. Application Production Table
9. Testing
10. Write and Perform Conversion Execution Plan

AIM (Application Implementation Method )

Posted on June 30th, 2008 by admin

AIM (Application Implementation Method )
Every Oracle apps consultant will be and should be aware of the documents related to his/her work profile depending if they are Functional or Technical consultant.
Business Process Architecture (BP)
BP.010 Define Business and Process Strategy
BP.020 Catalog and Analyze Potential Changes
BP.030 Determine Data Gathering Requirements
BP.040 Develop Current Process Model
BP.050 Review Leading Practices
BP.060 Develop […]

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When is a Data Warehouse Appliance not a Data Warehouse Appliance?

When is a Data Warehouse Appliance not a Data Warehouse Appliance?
Data warehouse appliances are so-called because they are used for storing and managing the data associated with data warehousing projects. Strictly speaking though these products should be called database appliances, or simply data appliances, because they support only the database processing component of a data […]

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by admin

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION
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“We were a very different university about one year ago,” says Keith Werosh, registrar at the National University of Health Sciences (Ill.). He is referring to the operation pre-BI. NUHS installed BI from Business Objects a year ago. “Prior to having this system, we were departmentalized. Information was kept […]

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This short Article shows the basic Installation steps in installing OBIEE on your windows PC.
Pre-requisite
Computer with Windows (Home Basic) ,RAM 2GB, HDD approx 80 GB
JDK 1.5 installed and JAVA_HOME created.
Download the OBIEE setup from the www.Oracle.OTN.com. After downloading, I recommend to unplug the internet (turn off wireless internet or unplug the LAN wire )from […]

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How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?

How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?
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Finding 1
The BI Learning Curve Has Just Begun
Business intelligence use grows considerably as companies gain experience with this technology. Nearly 90 percent of our respondents use BI, and most others will probably start doing so in the next two years. Still, there are relatively few BI […]

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Business Intelligence and On-Demand: The Perfect Marriage?
Both established vendors and upstarts now offer BI applications as on-demand services. And more customers are saying yes to faster deployment times, less onerous IT demands and speedier access to reporting data.

Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he switched to an on-demand business intelligence reporting application, and he remembers the frustration all too easily.

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Four Tips for Better Business Intelligence in 2008
Avalanches of data and the need for better decisions mean it’s time to take BI to the next level. Aberdeen offers ways to make achieving that next level easier.

Companies want more actionable data, and they want more users to have it. But extending the use of business intelligence throughout the organization remains a challenge. One reason: Lack of BI and IT skill sets continue to plague companies interested in taking BI to the next level, …… read more at http://www.infopurple.com/four-tips-for-better-business-intelligence-in-2008

The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary

The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary
I have collected and compiled this from a very nice website.Some of the terms are relating to Microsoft’s tool (Microsoft’s Analysis Services ) but that can be generalised to other non-microsoft tools also.
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Agent
An application that searches the data and sends an alert when a particular pattern is found.
 
Aggregations
Information […]

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