I just stumbled into a new OBIEE blog by Jeff McQuigg – it’s not really new, i think he’s in the process of moving it from IT Tool Box. Jeff is one of the top experts in OBIEE / Siebel Analytics world. I suggest you take a look – http://greatobi.wordpress.com
I received only 18 responses to the survey so far. I think I’ll wait until tomorrow to publish results. I also realized that some of the questions weren’t worded clearly – hence the confusion.
One of the most notable articles this week – Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 – Multi Hierarchy reporting article by Venkatakrishnan J where he’s using a very clever fragmentation tactic to control hierarchy and drill-down order. Very out-of-the-box!
John Minkjan has posted several interesting OBIEE findings here.
Check out this newly minted federal IT spending Dashboard – I think it’s a good starting effort, but there’re many problems with its current implementation, such as – site not working correctly in Firefox, using too much Flash (I wonder if it’s 508 compatible), confusing UI, not very detailed). On a positive side – there’re many ways to create customized feeds and export data to CSV. I’m actually wondering which new business opportunities would be created if US Government continues to open more and more federal data to public.
Stay tuned.
I’d appreciate if you could take a minute of your time and answer a few questions. I’ll try to use that input in making this site more useful and interesting for you. I’m trying to get a feel on possible improvements and enhancements. Some of the things I consider adding – a star-rating system for posts, bulletin-board / discussion board, and recommendation services. P.S. In the end of the survey it’ll ask you for Name / E-mail – Please ignore it and just click on Submit Survey. I’ll try to publish results once I get a meaningful sample.
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It’s Tuesday, and there was a big tragedy in DC that everyone knows about. I ride on Red Line every day – and now I’m starting to think that I’m not riding in front car anymore. However, it’s quite possible that I’d have been riding the same train.
Official info about BI nomination is here – http://www.oracle.com/webapps/dialogue/dlgpage.jsp?p_ext=Y&p_dlg_id=7687732&src=6642150&Act=335
Probably the most interesting category for blog’s readers is this:
Using Oracle BI EE Plus to deliver intelligence and analytics from data spanning multiple sources and applications.
The criteria’s don’t seem too difficult – I suggest you at least forward the link to your manager – supervisor.The only thing that is not clear is whether the award is for 1 person, 10 people total, or 10 teams. Please let me know if you can figure it out.
Summer was slow for many business intelligence blogers – Adrian Ward posted something a humorous albeit interesting story – “Don’t Try This At Home Kids” . John Minkjan came up with some cool scripts, such as Getting All Users and Roles from RPD
Other interesting findings – I found a post about all OBIEE and legacy products versions – http://blogs.oracle.com/bi/2009/06/ships_in_the_night.html by Darryn Hinett.
Something I just learned by an accident - Venkatakrishnan J (one of the most respected Oracle BI experts and an author of authoritative OBIEE blog http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/) joined Rittman Mead consulting. Congratulations and Best wishes for all parties involved. You can read about it here – http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/06/22/my-first-post-here-joining-rittman-mead/
Please stay safe
I decided to come up with my own list of an ideal Business Intelligence consulting company. I know this is rudimentary, however, I’ve been thinking about various factors that help to distinguish between good and bad consulting companies. Partly, my motivation to write this post is coming from a surprising number of new companies that all claim to be business intelligence experts. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not bashing all new companies – I just have a grudge against fake companies / consultants that trigger a general distrust in BI technology software suite. Here’s a list in no particular order:
Consultancy that is successful:
- has adequate financial resources to maintain payroll and fight invoice lag
- has leaders who have excellent understanding of what’s involved in successful BI projects from the points of staffing, project management, and client relations
- rewards its consultants accordingly, deals with them fairly. it’s helping to increase performance and productivity and in the long run will bring more business from satisfied customers
- it is realistic – doesn’t promise to over deliver… doesn’t underbid the project intentionally and then “blackmails” the client
- actively participates in conferences and trade shows
- has a good informational web site that it’s using to communicate to prospective clientele
Those are few things that I’ve thought about. Please feel free to add more in your comments.