http://www.infopurple.com Free articles, tutorials, forums, Oracle Apps, BI and Dashboards Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:52:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OBIEE Interview Questions and Answers FAQ These questions are related to what previously known as Siebel Analytics is now known as OBIEE i.e Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. " Define repository in terms of Siebel Analyticso Repository stores the Meta data information. Siebel repository is a file system ,extension of the repository ... http://www.infopurple.com/obiee-interview-questions-and-answers-faq-2 OBIEE_Interview Questions and Answers FAQ These questions are related to what previously known as Siebel Analytics is now known as OBIEE i.e Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. " Define repository in terms of Siebel Analyticso Repository stores the Meta data information. Siebel repository is a file system ,extension of the repository file. ... http://www.infopurple.com/obiee-interview-questions-and-answers-faq   Tags: OBIEE Interview Question and Answers FAQ http://www.infopurple.com/obiee-interview-question-and-answers-faq Hi Again !! I had been away from Blogging since a while ,I mean really long long time. My Blog title is BI Training,yes coming up with short and quick bites ( I call it BI-Bites :-) )of info into the BI World related to OBIEE and Oracle BI Apps.I want to ... http://www.infopurple.com/oracle-business-intelligence-training Data Conversion for Oracle Applications This topic is shared to provide an overview of Data Conversion for Oracle ERP. Approach used for Data Conversion 1. Conversion Data Mapping ( map to specify the data of legacy system --> data of oracle ERP system )The data mapping process provides detailed lists of the data ... http://www.infopurple.com/data-conversion-for-oracle-applications I hope this will help the BI practiser to evaluate the tools used at different process and the available tools. Types of business intelligence toolsThe general categories of business intelligence tools are: 1.Spreadsheets[1] Lotus 1-2-3 Microsoft Excel Apple Numbers OpenOffice.org more 2.Reporting and querying software - are tools that extract, sort, ... http://www.infopurple.com/types-of-business-intelligence-tools ERP tables - WF (Work Flow) brief ( and important :-) ) details of WorkFlow tables. lets first learn some definations. A process activity is a modelled workflow process, which can be included as an activity in other processes to represent a sub–process. A notification activity sends a message to a performer. A functions activity performs ... http://www.infopurple.com/erp-tables-wf-work-flow Why Build a Data Warehouse? For decades, companies have been spending millions of $$$’s on systems to streamline and automate the execution of the business plan. Over time, these systems have become more and more integrated within a companies operations and between business partners. However, due to the granularity ... http://www.infopurple.com/why-build-a-data-warehouse Business Intelligence Overview True value of Business Inteligence comes from recognizing and harnessing the power of technology to help change the way you do business. After all – unless there are real decisions made with the information provided by a data warehouse, all you have is a data warehouse, ... http://www.infopurple.com/the-business-intelligence-life-cycle Four Tips for Better Business Intelligence in 2008 Avalanches of data and the need for better decisions mean it's time to take BI to the next level. 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Overall, business intelligence is an IT success story: Our most recent IT ... http://www.infopurple.com/how-valuable-is-business-intelligence-to-the-enterprise BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION continued from here << "We were a very different university about one year ago," says Keith Werosh, registrar at the National University of Health Sciences (Ill.). He is referring to the operation pre-BI. NUHS installed BI from Business Objects a year ago. "Prior to having this system, we ... http://www.infopurple.com/business-intelligence-in-action Business Intelligence A new technology can analyze data at amazing speeds. So why is higher ed slow to adopt? Listen to higher ed futurists and you'll be convinced that business intelligence is the wave of the future. It is the next "it" thing that will connect every part of the enterprise. ... http://www.infopurple.com/business-intelligence What is the Difference Between Querying and Browsing Data? 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