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Testing Presentation from the 2013 BIWA Summit
I thought I’d post my presentation on QA (testing) that I delivered this week at the BIWA Summit near Oracle HQ in California. The preso is based off of the recent QA posts I did, with a bit more silly...
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OBI’s Nested Aggregation > Ralph Kimball
Ok so I put a provocative title on this post for a reason. This post will explore why some of Kimball’s concepts may be out dated when newer query generation or database capabilities are taken into...
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KPI Partners Blog
I wanted to mention my company KPI Partners’ blog site at www.kpipartners.com/blog. Several of my collegues post articles there on a variety of topics in their expertise, plus its used as a vehicle...
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BI Apps / Performance Layer Preso
This is my presentation from last week’s Rittman-Mead BI Forum in Atlanta. Incidentally it happens to be the same topic (similar slides) to the KPI Partners webinar from April and what I gave in...
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The Single Most Important Thing to Know About the OBI RPD
Over my OBI career I’ve had to review dozens of customer and consultant developed RPDs as part of either a formalized health check engagement or simply a developer code review. Frequently the customer...
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2 Presentations @ Oracle Open World next week
I have two speaking slots next week at OOW in San Francisco – If you are there come by and see me – I don’t want to bring my suit up there for nothing! The first one is the preso I’ve been giving this...
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HR Analytics at Wells Fargo – Project that won KPI Partners the Specialized...
I’m very pleased to announce that the project I bled and sweated over for nearly a whole year has won KPI Partners the coveted Oracle Excellence Award for North American Specialized Partner of the Year...
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Bad BI Form
If you read Stephen Few’s work on BI Dashboards and visualization, you’ll recall that he says charts that rely on people to compare areas are not well suited to humans as we have trouble making the...
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Build Your Own Time Hierarchy
Every single BI system has a time/date/period/calendar hierarchy in it. If you use the BI Apps, it actually comes with 2 different tables for this purpose alone, along with a ton of OOB capability....
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Minimalist Design for the Criteria Tab
The picture above is an example of minimalist design. It features an uncluttered and simplistic visual scheme that is almost relaxing to the eye and mind. Optional or unnecessary elements are removed....
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