Data + Intelligence

As you know, for test case design we have methods such as Decision Table, Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis and Pairwise Testing etc. But ETL testing is a little different. It mostly refers to huge volumes of data and it will apply different tools and usually against one database. To design an ETL test case, […]

There are several analytical capabilities that Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) products, whether Hyperion on-premises or Cloud EPM, have to offer. Financial reports and ad-hoc analysis in Excel are all great. However, in general EPM reporting capabilities remain restricted to whatever data you have in EPM. Are you looking to do one or more of […]

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite provides comprehensive capabilities for business intelligence, including enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, multi-dimensional OLAP, scorecards, and predictive analytics on an integrated platform. It is also a core component of Oracle Exalytics, the industry’s first engineered in-memory analytics machine designed to deliver extreme performance. A majority of healthcare providers to some extent or […]

Oracle is aggressively re-engineering all of their popular suite of products over to cloud. Among several cloud offerings that Oracle announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 is Oracle Data Integration. Many of you may already be familiar with Oracle Data Integrator. Now, the same product is re-engineered to work in the cloud with several additional capabilities to fully leverage […]

According to information technology research and advisory company Gartner, there is a market shift towards hybrid approaches to data management, as companies look to solve complex challenges with a mix of alternative and traditional deployments. Healthcare providers and health plans are asking the question, “Do we need an enterprise data warehouse, a data lake, or […]

During closing statements at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Alibaba’s Jack Ma made the following recommendations: Focus on the next 30 years where the technology invented is going to help people Focus on people less than 30 (Internet Generation) since they will dominate the world Focus on companies less than 30 employees (small business) […]

Many times, I have felt it would be good if I could have a bird’s eye view of all the components available in my project, along with details about how and where they are used. Fortunately, AEM has provided us with out-of-the-box (OOTB) components under /libs/cq/reporting/components and corresponding templates under /libs/cq/reporting/templates. We can customize/extend the OOTB […]

Money20/20, the world’s largest conference geared towards the financial services industry, brought big announcements from heavy hitters at its 2016 event. Bank of America’s head of digital banking, Michelle Moore, introduced Erica (a play on the company’s name), a digital assistant driven by artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and cognitive messaging. The technology, which can also […]

What are Late Arriving Facts? In data warehouses, dimensions are processed first and the facts are loaded later, with the assumption that all required dimension data is already available in the system and a Parent fact is already available before a child fact. But, this scenario may not always be the case because the nature […]

We were honored to announce in February that Perficient won the 2017 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Watson Solution, presented during IBM’s PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. The Beacon Awards recognize select business partners who deliver exceptional IBM-based solutions that drive business value and transform the way clients and industries do business in the cognitive era. At […]

Now that we have three different approaches to extract Oracle ERP Cloud data from OTBI, there comes the question – what’s the best practice, or which one should you recommend? Before answering the question, let’s take a look at the feature list of each approach so we can understand what they are best at. Feature List […]

MongoDB is an open-source non structured query language database that provides high performance, high availability and automatic scaling. In this blog, let’s see how to load data into MongoDB through the IBM Datastage tool by using the Java Integration stage.   Pre-Requisites: Install Eclipse tool MongoDB requires a java jar file with the below code Jar […]