Innovation + Product Development

I remembered Minjun Wang once posted an article introducing the Rho mobile, which is an HTML5 application development platform built to meet the needs of the next generation of business mobility using Ruby and Rails. Well, today I’m going to introduce another tool to develop multi-platform mobile applications – Titanium, based on Javascript. Unlike Phone […]

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 […]

Everybody knows the estimation for tasks, but many folks are confused on the metric of the estimation.

Business Objects has a CMS repository which stores all information about reports and universes. Since the data is stored in a binary format in database, then we could not query directly to get all these information.

In B.E Aerospace project, we have to deal with lots of complicated SmartView Reports (SmartView is a plugin on Excel for Hyperion which is a BI suite of Oracle). And it would be a great advantage if you are familiar with the various Excel functions and how to make good use of them. Now I […]

Introduction The Java programs run on a Java virtual machine (JVM). This means that compiled programs are represented using a hardware- and operating system-independent binary format, typically (but not necessarily) stored in a file, known as the class file format. In particular, a Java program isn’t a single executable file, but instead is composed of […]

In business intelligence, big data is always transformed by ETL workflows with all kinds of transformation rules. How to verify the transformation rules are right or not on the ETL workflow, especially for the big data distributed in multi platform databases? Apparently, we couldn’t do it with our naked eyes. Toad for Data Analysts (following Toad […]

Recently, I read a blog which is talking about the differences between CMMI and Agile. I want to share with you. In that blog, it said there are 7 distinct differences: 1. Focus Quoting from the Blog CMMI focuses on the development of organization. The purpose of CMMI is getting benefits from the organizational optimization. […]

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 […]

SharePoint logs are very useful for performance analysis, troubleshooting and monitoring compliance with service level agreements. The Unified Logging System (ULS) is responsible for keeping an eye on SharePoint and generating the logs. It reports the events to three different locations: SharePoint trace logs, Windows Event log and SharePoint logging database. All this three kinds […]

A variable defined in a parameter file cannot be used in a post-session command alone. It must be used along with other session properties like Output file directory or Source file directory for it to be used in the post-session command. Example Consider a variable $OutputFileRepSybase that is defined as /home/test in the parameter file. If this variable is used in a post-session command alone, as […]

In Siebel, sometimes it’s difficult to know when context for background workflows is running. It’s not always obvious. I found the truth of the context for background workflow running from an email time zone issue. Let’s start with the issue first. One day, I found an issue in the Siebel outbound email date type time zone, the date data in Siebel UI is GMT+7, but […]