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Oracle Data Integrator is the ETL tool that Oracle has developed to enter into the world of Business Intelligence. Taking advantage of its incredible experience in database managing, Oracle has created an ETL tool that is flexible to use, powerful and that allows the integration of data coming from another sources. Agility of use Oracle Data Integrator uses various types of graphical interfaces during all stages of data flow creation. Here is an example of…
Next Tuesday in Geneva I’m presenting Oracle In-Memory Column Store to Business Intelligence people at the Swiss BI Day After defining what is an analytic query, I show the different approaches to optimize that in Oracle, IMCS being the latest one. Here are some details about that slide.
Guillaume Meunier and I went to SharePoint Event 2015 in Paris on Saturday 30, May. This event was well organized and on time! We learned about the news features regarding SharePoint, related to B.I, SQL, governance, collaboration & Communication, Workflow and Process System. The sessions we followed are: How OneDrive Company revolutionized storing files in my business Almost all companies use the SMB file system and deployment networks on workstations to store and centralize…
In this blog, I will give you some best practices and tricks when you are loading table to generate your data. But before, I will review the different ways to load data in a QlikView or QlikSense report. 1.How to retrieve data in QlikView You have 2 different possibilities to load your data in your report: Database connector File connector a) Database connector: If your data are located in a database, you must use this…
Today, one of the most used Business Intelligence products is undoubtedly QlikView. This Swedish product is one of the best positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms matrix and has been for a number of years. To make Business Intelligence even more accessible to Business users, the Qlik Company decided to add an additional product in its range. This product should be more accessible and easier to use to create…
The review of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms has revealed a new challenger that could become one of the leader of this market: Birst – an interesting “all-in-one” BI solution. Birst is an american company based in the Silicon Valley near San Francisco. Its SaaS (Software as a Service) BI solution mixes simplicity and power. Just a little reminder before going forward: a complete Business Intelligence solution has two kind…
This posting is a tutorial for installing Master Data Services on your Windows Server 2012. Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Management product from Microsoft, code-named Bulldog. It is the rebranding of the Stratature MDM product, titled +EDM and acquired in June 2007 by Microsoft. Initially, it was integrated for the first time in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as an additional installer. But since SQL Server 2012, Master Data Services is…
I have recently read that PowerPivot and Power View are natively present in Office 2013 and especially in Excel 2013. I found this fun and decided to install the preview of Office 2013!:-D First, what are PowerPivot and Power View? PowerPivot is an add-on to Excel which is used for adding and integrating large amounts of data in Excel workbooks. More information here. Power View is a feature of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in…
