KPI Partners Blog

Free OBIEE Cache Purge/Seed Utility

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Aug 20, 2014 @ 02:10 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

To see reports with the most up-to-date data from the latest extract-transform-load (ETL) process, we typically purge the Oracle BI Server Cache using a common job called, "Cache Purge."

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Tags: OBIEE, Pre-Built Solutions, Shiva Molabanti, Cache, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, ETL, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

Tableau: Trusted Authentication & Integration with OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Jun 04, 2014 @ 10:11 AM
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Tags: OBIEE, Imtiyaz Basha, Data Discovery, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Tableau, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

KPI Partners Achieves Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialization for Education and Research

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 21, 2014 @ 11:22 AM

San Jose, CA – May 21, 2014.  KPI Partners, a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Education and Research.

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Campus Analytics, OBIEE, Oracle E-Business Suite, Kusal Swarnakar, Peoplesoft Campus Solutions, Press, Oracle PartnerNetwork, Public Sector, Oracle, Education, University of California-Berkeley, News, Banner, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, HEUG, Peoplesoft

OBIEE & Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 07, 2014 @ 11:10 AM

by Suman Busireddy

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g provides multi-dimensional navigation/analysis support.  This multi-dimensional feature is supported for almost any data source including Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SASS).  For Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008/2012, we need to make an initial configuration before getting started with OBIEE.

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Tags: OBIEE, Microsoft, Suman Reddy, SQL Server, XML, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Blog

How To Merge My Old BI Environment With My New Oracle BI Apps Environment

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Apr 18, 2014 @ 12:56 PM

by Ravi Hoskote

How can I create and maintain a single environment for existing BI content and new Oracle BI Apps content?

The popularity of the Oracle BI Applications (OBIA) is growing, thanks to the millions of customers who have experienced and appreciated the value it can deliver.  But a common question still remains unanswered - "What do I do with my existing business intelligence content?"   Most wish to avoid having separate environments for Oracle BI Applications and their other, non-OBIA, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and third-party BI content.

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Tags: OBIEE, Migrations, Ravi Hoskote, Packaged ERP Analytics, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog

What Is Cache?... 5 Steps to Automatically Purge Cache in Oracle BI

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Apr 16, 2014 @ 01:02 PM

by Raviteja Mamillapalli

What is Cache?

Analytics systems reduce database calls by creating a ‘Cache’ of data on the same machine as the Analytics engine.  Caching has a small cost in terms of disk space to store and a small number of I/O transactions on the server, but this cost is easily outweighed by the improvement in response time.

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Tags: OBIEE, Cache, DAC, Raviteja Mamillapalli, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, 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

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

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