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2 Options For Data Security in Tableau

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 03:09 PM

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

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

Who Are Your Customers?

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, May 20, 2014 @ 03:43 PM

by Sid Goel

Do you really know what’s going on inside your business?

Or are you just looking at sets of spreadsheets?  Of course, recording data in spreadsheets is the natural starting point but it doesn’t take long before it is too time-consuming, potentially inaccurate and misleading, particularly in the reconciliation of data for reporting purposes.

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Tags: Sid Goel, Business Intelligence, MS Excel, Blog

Data Discovery Is Not Business Intelligence

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, May 14, 2014 @ 11:33 AM

by Ron Cruz

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Tags: Unstructured Data, Ron Cruz, Data Discovery, Business Intelligence, ETL, Blog

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

Tableau Subscriptions - A Quick Start Guide

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, May 01, 2014 @ 12:46 PM

by Imtiyaz Basha

Learn How To Configure, Monitor, and Subscribe To Reports, Views and Workbooks Inside Tableau.

Tableau Subscriptions

The Subscriptions feature is considered to be one among the most important features in Tableau's interactive data visualization product.  It is by far the easiest way to ensure that you review the most critical and valuable information on a regular basis. The information is shared via email once you have subscribed to a dashboard. The subscription feature is available from Tableau version 8.0 onwards.

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Tags: Imtiyaz Basha, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Tableau, 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

Enterprise Management Reporting Best Practices

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Apr 15, 2014 @ 10:43 AM

by Myles Gilsenan

With many technology options available and the degree of complexity involved in the related business processes, it can be difficult to define an efficient architecture for enterprise management reporting across the organization.  This article outlines some best practices for enterprise management reporting.

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Tags: Financial Analytics, EPM, Data Quality, Business Intelligence, Myles Gilsenan, Performance Management, Blog