OBIEE12c Integration with Oracle EBS Security
Integration of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle E-Business Suite provides a seamless controlled flow between the systems, allowing for drill down and drill back from key...
View ArticleData Quality Series – Part 1: Introduction
This article is the first in a series of blog posts about the topic "Data Quality". In the next couple of weeks we will go through the following subject matters: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Data...
View ArticleData Quality Series – Part 2: Data Profiling with EDQ
This is the second article in our blog series about Data Quality. In the first part of the series we introduced the main concepts of data quality. The focus of this article is to introduce Data...
View ArticleData Quality Series – Part 3: Data Standardization with EDQ
In the first post of the Data Quality Series we introduced the main concepts of data quality. In the second article we explained how Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) can help us profile our data....
View ArticleData Quality Series – Part 4: Data De-duplication with EDQ
In our previous article about Data Quality we reviewed some of EDQ´s basic cleansing and standardization capabilities. In this post, which is the last in the series, we are reviewing the basic data...
View ArticleAdvanced analytics: Tableau + Python
Tableau has released TabPy, Tableau Python Server, an API that enables Python code evaluation within Tableau. Thanks to TabPy, you can create calculated fields using Python code in Tableau 10.2. As...
View ArticleUse JavaScript to embed Tableau dashboards into SharePoint
How to use JavaScript to embed Tableau dashboards into SharePoint with automatic sizing and current date quick filter selection? As we all know, Tableau comes with its own web-based repository (Tableau...
View ArticleExtracting data from Taleo
Over the past few years we have seen companies focusing more and more on Human Resources / Human Capital activities. This is no surprise, considering that nowadays a large number of businesses depend...
View ArticleData Quality – Part 1: Data Profiling with Informatica
Welcome to the first article in the Informatica Data Quality series, where we are going to run through the basics of Informatica Analyst and the main features of Informatica Developer for data...
View ArticleData Quality with Informatica – Part 2: Data Standardization
Introduction In the previous article in this series about Data Quality we explained how we can profile our data using Informatica. We learned that the data in our example contained some columns that...
View ArticleData Quality with Informatica – Part 3: Data Deduplication
In the previous article in the series about Data Quality with Informatica we learned that Informatica has a lot of useful features to standardize data, and that it is a very user-friendly tool whilst...
View ArticleTableau 10.3: Data-Driven Alerts and a smart trick for KPIs
With version 10.3, Tableau has introduced a very useful feature: Data-Driven Alerts. Now, when looking at a dashboard in Tableau Server, you can set up automatic mail notifications to a set of...
View ArticleThink Big, Think Data!
A recent publication in The Economist asserts that data has now surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable resource. In the last two years alone, the world has collected and stored more data than all...
View ArticleExtending Oracle DVD Map functionality
1. The challenge Despite Oracle Data Visualization Desktop (DVD) having now caught up with the leaders in the data visualization quadrant, there are, like in any product, still detailed...
View ArticleReal Time Business Intelligence with Azure and Power BI
Introduction The purpose of this blog article is to analyse the increasing need for real time solutions applied to BI platforms. We will first understand the context and then present a user case and...
View ArticleReal Time Business Intelligence with Oracle Technologies
Introduction In our previous blog article we discussed the necessity of real time solutions for Business Intelligence (BI) platforms and presented a user case with Microsoft Technologies (namely...
View ArticleDisplaying Geographic Data in OBIEE
Introduction - What is geographic data? The main goal of Business intelligence is to transform raw data into meaningful and useful information for the purpose of enabling more effective operational...
View ArticleClearPeaks´ Visualisation Plugin
Introduction If you’ve worked with any kind of data, you know how harrowing reading rows and rows of numbers can be. It isn’t easy to wade through all of those numbers and easily figure out what they...
View ArticleOBIEE Data API
Introduction OBIEE Data API is a REST API using Node.JS to consume OBIEE 11g web services. The REST API identifies the call from external application using OAuth. The application helps to build a...
View ArticleOBIEE Security Dashboard
Introduction As a reporting tool, OBIEE handles an organization’s critical data in the form of Reports and Dashboards. Considering the criticality of data, it is crucial to have robust security...
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