KPI Partners Blog

Traditional vs. Agile Software Development Methodologies

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 22, 2018 @ 06:13 PM

by Indusree Mavuru

Most companies today focus on delivering quality and gaining customer satisfaction and in order to accomplish this, the challenge lies in choosing between traditional development methodologies and agile development methodologies.

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Tags: Blog, agile software development methodology, traditional vs agile, traditional software development methodology

Integration of OBIEE with an External Web Application - SAML SSO

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Jun 13, 2018 @ 11:25 AM

by Siva Kumar Mopuri

Security Implementation Benefits

This solution is beneficial in OLTP applications like Oracle EBS that are integrated with OBIEE. In such scenarios, all the responsibilities/groups from OLTP source would be forwarded to OBIEE. Instead of having all the responsibilities in OBIEE, the user has the privilege to select the required responsibilities at runtime and those would be passed to OBIEE.

Note: This blog post considers Oracle EBS as an OLTP source which is integrated with OBIEE.

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Tags: OBIEE, Blog, SSO

How to Setup Dependencies between Load Plans in Oracle Data Integrator

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Jun 11, 2018 @ 11:53 AM

by Chaithanya Kumar Taduvai

ODI developers usually deal with load plans and mismanaged dependencies between multiple-load plans are typically a cause of data corruption in the system. An ideal Informatica warehouse implementation has multiple execution processes dependent on other execution processes which run automatically without any manual intervention. Here is how we can overcome this issue using the load plan dependency feature of ODI.

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Tags: ODI, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog, ODI Load Plans

How to Setup Oracle Analytics Cloud Service

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Feb 15, 2018 @ 01:39 PM

by Dindima Mahesh Jami

This blog post is intended for those who are familiar with OBIEE or have previously worked on it. It contains step by step instructions on how to setup OACS using a trial account.

What is OACS?

Oracle Analytics Cloud Service (OACS) is a new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering comprehensive analytics capabilities at any scale, in any environment, and on any device. This was first announced on Sep 30, 2014 at Oracle OpenWorld and was officially launched on Apr 4, 2017.

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Tags: Blog, oacs, Oracle Analytics Cloud Service, Dindima Mahesh Jami

Google Data Studio - Initial Impressions

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Oct 06, 2017 @ 11:54 AM

by Rushendra Prasad

This blog post offers an insight into the features and functionalities of Google Data Studio and compares it with popular data analysis tools like Tableau, QlikView and new entrants like Power BI.

Disclaimer: This article and all features assessed are as on Sep, 2017 and subject to modifications / enhancements by Google.

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Tags: OBIEE, Rushendra Prasad, Tableau, Blog, Power BI, Google Data Studio

Oracle BI Server Connectivity with Tableau (Part 2)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jan 26, 2017 @ 11:27 AM

by Rushendra Prasad

To read part 1 of this blog post, please click here.

This blog post discusses how to integrate Oracle BI server and make use of the existing Subject Areas built on RPD in Tableau desktop workbook as Data Source.

This is applicable for 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 and later versions.

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Tags: OBIEE, Rushendra Prasad, Tableau, Oracle BI, Blog, Oracle BI Server

Oracle BI Server Connectivity with Tableau (Part 1)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jan 19, 2017 @ 12:31 PM

by Rushendra Prasad

This blog post discusses how to integrate Oracle BI server and make use of the existing Subject Areas built on RPD in Tableau desktop workbook as Data Source.

This is applicable for 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 and later versions.

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Tags: OBIEE, Rushendra Prasad, Tableau, Oracle BI, Blog, Oracle BI Server

Informatica SAP Connector Explained

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Oct 20, 2016 @ 12:10 PM

by Balaswamy Kaladi

This blog describes how to configure Informatica’s SAP NetWeaver R/3 to connect with SAP BW, extracting data directly from SAP transparent tables. It details setup steps on Informatica and BW servers, as well as what’s required from a developer’s perspective.

It’s also important to note that there are two ways to connect SAP BW from Informatica, i.e.

  1. Using Informatica’s SAP BW Connector – this extraction is driven by an Infospoke and extracts data via the Open Hub Services (OHS)
  2. Using Informatica’s SAP NetWeaver R/3 Connector – this allows data extraction directly from a SAP transparent table

This blog details the second method i.e. using Informatica's SAP NetWeaver R/3 Connector.

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Tags: Informatica SAP Connector

Data Warehousing and Analytics Using Amazon Redshift

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Oct 14, 2016 @ 01:33 PM

by Balaswamy Kaladi

In today’s world of big data, analytics, and data warehousing, data volumes continue to grow, seemingly only matched by businesses’ appetite to exploit data for commercial advantage, and do so ever more quickly.

Historically, to deal with the kind of large data volumes that are now becoming commonplace, expensive and heavyweight technologies from vendors such as Teradata, Netezza and Vertica were needed. These typically cost millions of dollars, and required hardware, software, and consulting.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Blog, AWS, Amazon Redshift

Cassandra Installation, Configuration and Multi-Data Center Clustering

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Sep 14, 2016 @ 11:39 AM

by Santoshkumar Lakkanagaon

What are the different types of Cassandra distributions available?

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Tags: Blog, Cassandra, Cassandra Installation, Multi-Data Center, Cassandra Configuration