A few days ago when I was browsing some information categorized in data mining and machine learning, I heard that Google had released a large dataset called Wikilinks Corpus which contains 40 million mentions over 3 million entities. What does mention and entity mean here? Apple is also rumored to be working on a new, […]
Kent Jiang
Currently I was working in Perficient China GDC located in Hangzhou as a Lead Technical Consultant. I have been with 8 years experience in IT industry across Java, CRM and BI technologies. My interested tech area includes business analytic s, project planning, MDM, quality assurance etc
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An Error Handling Approach in Datastage Project
In year of 2012 I was involved in a datastage ETL project to load data from external flat files, as well as Oracle CRM data source into Teradata data warehouse. Comparing to other ETL appliances, IBM Datastage offers much flexible stages, components to accommodate each type of data feed business requirement. I would like to […]
Teradata Temporal Feature in Data Warehouse Design
If you have read books or articles written by Ralph Kimball, you should know about basic components and process to complete a dimensional modeling for enterprise data warehouse (EDW). When an architect is designing on DW, he would have to think about the slowly change dimension (SCD) approach that will best suit the business need […]
Tips of Executing an Oracle BI Project in Multi-Shore Team
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — By Leo Tolstoy
SAP Rapid Marts VS Oracle BI Application
In the previous weeks, I participated a webinar of SAP data warehouse solution called SAP Rapid Marts. This product & solution is not as popular as other SAP products such as business warehouse (BW), Business Objects (BO) etc. But now it is being adopted and deployed to more small or medium size company. SAP marketing […]
Siebel Analytics Overview and Practicing
It is aware that Siebel is the top 1 software in customer relationship management in either vertical or horizon industry. As an important part of business intelligence, Siebel analytics was usually marketed along with Siebel industry application to install in many organizations as a whole application set. In late 2005, Oracle acquired Siebel application and […]
Motivation in an Agile Team
Motivation is an important personal skill to inspire individuals to reach a goal or diminish some kind of feelings like pain. Moreover, it may be beneficial to have a good motivation skill throughout your life. The interesting image (left) shows an impossible thing–an ant is holding up a length of wood which is several times it’s […]
A Silver Bullet for Big Data: Hadoop Family
In previous post I talked over basic concepts, business values, some situation and facts of big data application. Actually in current IT world, the big data related technologies and products were being developed and practiced dramatically. There will be a pretty long list in which how many companies and organizations have been involved in this […]
Journey of CDC Configuration in Oracle Data Warehouse Admin Console
In most cases and requirements, the developers just need to make change in existing code repository of Informatica as well as DAC objects. However, when the requirement is brand new and there is no OOTB entity found, a new set of codes should be developed and DAC execution plan need to be setup. CDC stands […]
Big Data, Big Deal?
If we look back in recent years, the dominating words that represent technical trends are around “Cloud Computing” and “Big Data” in the IT world. More and more firms have planned strategically for big data as it is beyond a pure technical term and is gaining business impact. Per research published by Gartner, big data […]
Expanding BI Horizons through Round-Table-Discussion in GDC
Business analytic is hot in the trends (more people should know about the term of business intelligence or enterprise performance management)! GDC has a BI CoE(Center of Expertise) which is a group of engineers working and researching dedicatedly in the area of data discovery, data warehousing and data visualization etc. Every year we get new […]