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Implementing Complex Real-Time Analysis by Leveraging Oracle BI Applications

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Dec 13, 2013 @ 01:45 PM

by Puneet Aggarwal

Many customers have real-time reporting requirements that are analytic in nature. Essentially, they have a real-time report as a starting point for a more detailed real-time analysis which can go a few levels deep. Shown below is a generic example of one such requirement for Account Analysis.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Oracle E-Business Suite, Real-Time BI, Training, Real-Time Supply Chain and Inventory Analytics, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Puneet Aggarwal, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Real-Time Financial Analytics, Blog

[Recording] Premier Support for Oracle Discoverer is Ending in June 2014

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Nov 14, 2013 @ 04:12 PM

Premier support for Oracle Discoverer is ending in June 2014 and if you're feeling the pressure to migrate to another solution, you're not alone. Moving to Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle BI Applications, Oracle's newest flagship platform for business intelligence and decision support, is a decision facing many Discoverer customers.

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Tags: Webinar, OBIEE, Pre-Built Solutions, Oracle Discoverer, Malini Saxena, Migrations, Real-Time Supply Chain and Inventory Analytics, Business Intelligence, Jeremiah Johnson, Events, Oracle BI Applications, Kumar Krishnaswamy, Real-Time Financial Analytics, Blog

Installing The Oracle BI Mobile App Designer

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Oct 29, 2013 @ 08:37 AM

by Shiva Molabanti

Prerequisites:

  • OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 (If your version of Oracle BI EE is not 11.1.1.7.1, download Patch 16556157: OBIEE BUNDLE PATCH 11.1.1.7.1 from My Oracle Support).
  • To support Oracle BI Mobile App Designer with Oracle BI Web Catalog, Apply OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 MLR Patch 17004920.
  • Download Oracle BI Mobile App Designer Patch 17220944 from My Oracle Support.

Installation Steps:

  1. Stop All OBIEE 11G services (Weblogic Admin Server, Managed Server and OPMN services).
  2. Apply OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 MLR Patch 17004920 using OPatch Utility.
  3. Apply Oracle BI Mobile App designer Patch 17220944 using OPatch Utility.
  4. Deploy the Oracle BI Mobile App Designer (MAD) manually using Weblogic Configuration Assistant as shown below.
  5. Open Command prompt window and Navigate to: <MW_HOME>\Oracle_BI1\common\bin
  6. Run "config.bat" to start the WebLogic Configuration Assistant Tool.

On welcome screen, select ‘"Extend an existing WebLogic domain" and click "Next."

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Tags: OBIEE, Mobile BI, Shiva Molabanti, Oracle BI Mobile App Designer, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Blog

[Video] Oracle PartnerNetwork Live w/ Guest KPI Partners

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Sep 25, 2013 @ 12:28 PM

Kusal Swarnakar, Co-Founder of KPI Partners, visits with Joel Borellis, Group Vice President of Partner Enablement at Oracle, on the set of Oracle PartnerNetwork Live during Oracle OpenWorld 2013.

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Tags: Kusal Swarnakar, Oracle OpenWorld, Case Study, Press, Joel Borellis, Business Intelligence, Video, Events, Oracle BI Applications, ERP, Blog

Oracle OPN Partner Exchange Keynote featuring KPI Partners: Technology, Middleware, and BI

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Mon, Sep 23, 2013 @ 10:23 AM

KPI was offered the unique opportunity to be a featured guest as part of the first keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld. The audience included several thousand partners, customers, media members, and industry analysts. KPI is one of over 5,000 Oracle partners around the globe, so we were very appreciative of the invitation to participate.

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Tags: Kusal Swarnakar, Oracle OpenWorld, Case Study, Awards, Press, Oracle PartnerNetwork, Vision Workshop, EPM, Joel Borellis, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Video, News, Hyperion, Blog

Choosing the Correct ETL Tool For Oracle BI

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, Aug 20, 2013 @ 12:02 PM

by Sridhar Kasthuri

A key component to any Business Intelligence (BI) Architecture is the Extract, Translate and Load (ETL) process. The ETL process is typically scheduled on a daily basis and is capable of data movement from legacy systems into a data warehouse. It is also used to facilitate the work of the database administrators who connect different branches of databases as well as integrate or change the existing databases.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Oracle, Informatica, Business Intelligence, Sridhar Kasthuri, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Examining OBIA 11g, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog

NYPD Analytics: Fighting Crime With A Business Intelligence Dashboard

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Wed, Aug 14, 2013 @ 08:39 AM

by Jaime Seagraves

The New York Police Department has developed what they are calling a hi-tech analytical dashboard tool that collects crime and event data around the city. This Domain Awareness System, known as “The Dashboard,” is helping the NYPD combat crime and terror on the streets.

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Tags: Real-Time BI, Case Study, Unstructured Data, Business Intelligence, Video, Jaime Seagraves, Blog

OBIA 11g Domain Load to Business Analytics Warehouse

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Thu, Jul 11, 2013 @ 02:05 PM

by Veera Reddy Ramidi

This blog introduces and explains the detailed step by step process for executing the Domain Load to Business Analytics Warehouse. Here, we are illustrating for the Student information Analytics data using the new OBIA 11g which is supported only for PeopleSoft 9.0 Campus Solutions. This blog can be used similarly for any other Analytics using OBIA 11g.

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Tags: Student Information Analytics, Data Warehousing, OBIEE, Veera Reddy Ramidi, Oracle, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI, Oracle BI Applications, Examining OBIA 11g, Blog

Performance Tuning Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Fri, Jun 28, 2013 @ 10:40 PM

by Sharath Venkataranga

The most common question faced by any ETL developer or a Data Warehouse project implementer is always related to performance. Whatever the tool may be, and however fast the job may be running, the end user will always desire something which is a little faster and quicker.

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Tags: Data Warehousing, Training, Sharath Venkataranga, Business Intelligence, Tutorial, Oracle BI Applications, Examining OBIA 11g, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Blog

Multi-Source Session Variables in OBIEE

Posted by KPI Partners News Team on Tue, May 21, 2013 @ 01:44 PM

by Shiva Molabanti

Version 11.1.1.7.0 of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Supports Multiple-Source Session Variables

In addition to supporting regular session variables that are populated from one data source, Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.7.0 also supports session variables that can be populated from multiple data sources. These multi-source session variables can be used in logical queries or in repository data filters and contain the union of values from the different data sources. There is no restriction on the number of values that the multi-source session variable can hold. To create a multi-source session variable, you first create row-wise initialization blocks for each source.

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Tags: OBIEE, Shiva Molabanti, Business Intelligence, Oracle BI, Blog