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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Campus Analytics, Peoplesoft Campus Solutions, Business Intelligence, Education, University of California-Berkeley, Naresh Meda, Banner, Blog
by Sid Goel
This week I have been in attendance at Oracle Open World where my focus has been on the Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) track. The presentations have revolved around 2 primary themes: Cloud and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).
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Tags: Sid Goel, Cloud Services, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI Applications, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog
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Tags: Data Warehousing, TDWI, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Darren Chilton, Blog
by Avinash Mohan
Exploring the different ways Tableau connects to data and whether dimensional modeling is necessary when using Tableau’s architecture.
Architecture
Tableau has two primary ways to connect to data sources and work with them as shown in this simplified architecture diagram shown below .
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Tags: Data Warehousing, Real-Time BI, Cache, Avinash Mohan, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, Tableau, Data Integration, Book, Blog
by Prashanth Ashwathram
Making a business intelligence (BI) project successful is a daunting task in itself not just because of the complexity and tools involved, but because it requires cooperation from different functional groups, multiple source systems, and gaining user acceptance from groups of users that are often resistant to change.
The challenges add on further when the BI projects are planned to be executed in an onshore-offshore model. There are obviously many positives and benefits from this approach which can make this model a highly successful provided we follow some of the best practices.
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Tags: Prashanth Ashwathram, Offshore, Business Intelligence, Delivery Leadership, Blog
by Ron Cruz
One of the challenges facing our clients is a disjointed landscape for their customer-facing business intelligence tools. This doesn’t happen in finance as everyone knows where the end product goes (CFO), nor does it happen much in product development. When it comes to customer analytics, many companies struggle with disjointed systems and difficulty getting the data they want. The sentence of, “I think we have that data….somewhere,” is often uttered at companies that have these issues.
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Tags: Salesforce.com Analytics, Ron Cruz, Marketing Analytics, Customer 360 Analytics, Business Intelligence, Retail BI, Delivery Leadership, Blog
by Madan Thota
Endeca Information Discovery (EID) is a data discovery tool that helps business analysts to rapidly explore relevant data. If you are already using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and wish to reuse the BI data models from Endeca Information Discovery, here are the options. The primary difference between both tools is that one is used for pre-defined analytics while the other is used for having a conversation with your data (analytics vs information discovery). The overall goal for both approaches is to get the most value out of the data available.
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Tags: OBIEE, Endeca, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Blog
by Kumar Krishnaswamy
A quick Google search for “Tableau Data Security” returns a link to a Tableau knowledge base article for User Filters and Row Level Security. The knowledge base article clearly lays out the options available for implementing data security – defined as the ability to control what data a user sees. The goal here is to not regurgitate that content, but to examine each of the two data security options laid out by Tableau and determine how they fit various use cases in the enterprise context.
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Tags: Security, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, Tableau, Kumar Krishnaswamy, Blog
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
by Rohith Devegowda
Enabling auditing and monitoring capabilities for reporting is crucial for IT management and governance regardless if it’s enterprise level or department level deployment. In OBIEE 11g, Oracle added more data to audit and monitor, including more BI Publisher specific information. This article describes the steps for Enabling Usage Tracking for BI Publisher and how to visualize usage tracking data.
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