Row level security (constraining a user’s view of the data to rows which meet pre-defined criteria) is a common requirement. This post will explore this topic, using a simple schema with a single fact table and three dimension tables, built around the theme of retail sales.
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May 8th, KPI Partners broadcast a webinar which demonstrated how KPI's pre-built solution can extend Oracle BI to support analysis of educational institutions.
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Suppose you have a dashboard with three pages (tabs). Suppose further that not every user should see all three tabs. Most users will see a limited set of the tabs – some will see two, some will see only one. You want to define web groups to cover all the possible combinations. How many web groups would you have to create?
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What is Business Intelligence? Listen to a brief history of BI, where we've been, where we are now, and where we are going...
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If you have tried to develop dashboards or coherent sets of reports as an analytic application, you have had to think about how best to structure a web catalog.
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On March 6th, KPI Partners broadcast a webinar which demonstrated how organizations can dramatically improve the effectiveness of their sales people by analyzing Salesforce.com data with Oracle BI.
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Don't let the name fool you. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is no lightweight.
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Stephen Few designed the Bullet Graph as a way to display measurements vs. goals or other benchmarks. The screen shot below shows bullet charts in the column “MTD & Proj Comp MAgo” (Month to Date and Projected Expense Compared to Month Ago).
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